Oh, that is flipping cool 😳 Too bad the idea about lining traces from one tile to the next didn’t pan out. That had a very nice, intuitive modularity to it!

Yeah, I’m not completely ready to surrender the internet to bots yet (evidently, seeing where we’re having this convo).

I’d love a how-to on doing the exact opposite, making a website resistant to extraction.

And the mentioned garbage chewing search engines aren’t helping…

That particular type of idiot indeed! 😄

This brings us to the price of RAM.

That gave me a good chuckle 😄

Thanks for wading through the Roko nonsense, and even constructing a counter thesis. Time well spent(?)

But, but, but… Altman and the other “AI” hawkers said their Tamagotchi are, like, sentient and stuff! /s

Just build it out the window and wait for the waters to rise. Biblically correct method 👍

Is there an echo in here?

Thanks. I must have Saturday morning brain!

Archived version?

Edit: asking in part because Wired always gives me the “you’re out of free articles!” message, but also this link throws a 403 at the mo.

Absolutely. The first person to be deceived is the sucker using it.

It’ll still only be a parrot.

I submitted “slop feeding”. It’s nothing to do with vibes, it’s not even coding. You’re just feeding prompts to the slop machine.

If that catches on, you heard it here first 🤣

I was never worried about “AI” being destructive or taking jobs; it’s not about the efficiency of the technology. If that were the case, nobody would have anything to worry about. No amount of computing power can get these overrated Clippys to do an actual person’s job.

The problem is the decision makers who buy the hype, and the power they wield over other people’s lives. “AI” doesn’t have to be able to replace human labour for thousands to be out of a job to it. All it takes to do that is a handful of CEOs believing that “AI” can save them money.

So no, I do not think this has anything to do with “the speed of AI”. It’s about pennypinching employers being suckered by the “AI” hype. But workers get sacked either way.

I wanted to say that this is a specifically US perspective, but European welfare states are really catching up (ie, “down”) in a big way.

If the work that’s required to keep our civilization humming has just been reduced by AI then we’ve freed up a ton of human resources to work towards making humanity even better.

Uh-huh. Except those human resources aren’t “freed up”, they’re now unemployed. Unless somehow the profits from “AI” flow from the super rich into a UBI (hint: the money never flow from the super rich) that’s not an improvement for humanity as a whole.

I completely agree with all your points. Well, I’ve been going back to analog music, vinyl and CDs, and I don’t think the timing is coincidental.

We are hardwired to come up with solutions to things; it satisfies us immensely because we get an endorphin rush. We don’t get that from prompting a bot* to do what we used to do. Some people may get it from having the “AI” make things they couldn’t on their own — but I bet they aren’t capable of estimating the quality of the generated work in comparison to something manually created.

There are two things missing with “AI”: the sense of craft on the maker’s end, and an understanding of the same craft on the user’s (or prompter’s) end. In the end it’s a lack of a human touch.

* had to go back and edit this from “not”, because the one thing we could use “AI” for, spell check, is apparently the one thing that isn’t being upgraded.

I put out a similar question a few months ago. For me, it’s getting an old multiuser blog off Wordpress.

I had a lot of good feedback that I’m still trying to collate, so I recommend you pour over the responses and crossposts for the full picture. As others have said here, though — despite the steep learning curve, Hubzilla looks really interesting.

Great to read a CEO explain workers how this is really a terrific opportunity that they only need to “adapt” to. Ie., work harder for a smaller wage to make up for the competition with fully “AI” generated development.

I mean, it’s just heartwarming how this boss entirely fails to empathise with employees’ real concerns, and spews transparent bullshit to cover for the fact that there is no palpable difference between “AI” and shrinking budgets. Both will eventually cost jobs.

I can’t quite believe that… that Disney has let go of the artists who brought the Marvel Universe to life through their genius and […] the people who invented these characters

This is literally the history of Marvel Comics, though. Way before Disney or “AI”, they treated their creators like shit. Look up Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.

This latest iteration of business as usual does show just what the purpose of “AI” is. Cutting costs, eliminating pesky labour, churning out progressively worse versions of past work at lower production outlay.

At some point “AI” is going to put enough people out of work, not just in the entertainment industry but really across the board, that nobody will be able to afford a trip to the cinema. Let’s see where the blame falls then.