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unwarlikeExtortion

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  • An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification

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  • Hope he dies true to his ideals: From a heart attack right next to an AED machine, which promptly refused to operate because he wasn't able to verify his age.

  • AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

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  • An AI can easily start nuclear war, as can a human.

    The only thing preventing a nuclear disaster are all the institutional measures limiting its accessiblity.

    If you gave a single human (or a single AI) access to a magic no-strings-attached 'Send a Nuke' button, either the human/AI is the second coming of Jesus Christ, or a nuke will befall some unlucky portion of the population sooner or later. Bonus points if people can talk to the AI or if access to the button is hereditary.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • license terms

    In most places ownership laws make those licences unenforceable - not in the legal sense, but practically - hard to lock you out of a DVD.

    Great option for those still politically opposed to pirating stuff.

  • TIL You can leagally drop your baby off at the fire station in all 50 states

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  • The US is simply where the highest number of highly outspoken anglophones reside.

    There, fixed

  • Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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  • Well the situation explained is a glaring oversight assuming the average Windows user's opsec common sense, but I'm amazed Notepad isn't auto-running every single linked file automatically during parsing

  • Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

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  • Get something that does not work being forced down your throat.

    Honestly, it's not just that.

    Digital services have this terrible trend to get downgraded because some designer decides something like

    Well, having 10 buttons is too much, we should have only 4 buttons. We should also make the UI 5x more clumsy (although they'd call it 'beginner-friendly')

    Ai is very similar, except it's an exec throwing tantrums to slap AI onto something, which wastes company resources and makes the product either more or a lot more worse than before.

  • Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

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  • More like "We are throwing cartloads of money at technology at the expense of actually meaningful improvements. Oh, and shedding jobs as well. Gotta make the lines go up. Oh, and we don't care at all for the environment, and this technology just so happens to be terrible af towards it. Oh, and don't expect getting a new ram stick in the next 2 years at the very least"

  • Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

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  • Big brain just has that lovely Gen Z punch, although it's an adjective from what I gather, so

    Big Brain Thought Leader?

  • Canadian man in ICE custody says he thought agents were only focusing on ‘criminals and murderers’

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  • this is about a foreign national

    He also has a US green card, so that should've made ICE fuck right off.

    Although, any people who have a very large right not to be deported using up ICE resources is a good thing as they can fight against the charges easier It also makes their family and friends more likely not to blindly suck up trumpaganda.

  • ultra casual

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  • Love how all of the ones labeled as "tie" have a bowtie, yet the only one with an "actual" tie is not a "tie" one

  • Relieving oneself over the edge of the ship

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  • It isn't.

    It would only become gay if the buddy offered to be shat on, but that can't happen on the ship.

    Why?

    If the ship has no functioning toilets (otherwise why shit like this), chances are it never even had a working shower.

    The higher-ups would be livid.

    Truly a anti-gay ship.

  • I think Lemmy in general is very against AI. I'm rather new here, is it like a fediverse group thing or is this even based on reality?

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  • Yeah, Lemmy is a bit over-the-top anti-AI, but most of it is based in reality.

    There are a bunch of problems with AI. And they outbnumer any good ones by a mile.

    The main cause of that fact is the entire AI bubble.

    AI wastes a fuckton of energy. Of course, this energy isn't free: communities pay. Electricity demand goes up, and so does price. Then, most electricity isn't green. And on top of that, the rise in demand causes more electricity peaks, which almost exclusively get "fixed" through fossil fuel-based methods.

    From another angle, AI disrupts markets. And not in a good way. Companies dump millions into AI while neglecting their employees (who get laid off because AI "can replace" them), and their customers as well (since instead of doing useful stuff for consumers they pump out AI-branded bullshit no one wants or needs).

    Then, big AI companies spit in the face of copyright and have the audacity to turn around and claim copyright on their models' outputs. If inputs are free game, so are the outputs. Copyright is a very vague, misunderstood and misused term, and no argument I've heard claiming feeding stuff into AI is fair use was grounded in reality.

    That all veing said, AI is here to stay. I've been thinking long and hard about similar fundamental changes to how human society functions, and I think i found one. Photography.

    Way back when, you had to do things painstakibgly by hand. Drawing, copying books by hand, etc.

    Then the printing press came. Revolutionary? Sure. But not as revolutionary as photography. Instead of writing by hand, you had to typeset by hand before printing. This made the process scalable, but it was still painstaking work.

    But photography is a different matter. You just have to make (or buy) a camera and other required supplies (film, developing media, etc), and then you merely have to set up the camera, take the photo, develop the film, and make the photo.

    Even in the early days of photography, while these processes took some time, it wasn't painstaking. To take a photo, you set up the camera, and wait. To develop film, you dunk the film into a chemical bath, and wait. To transfer the image onto paper - a similar ordeal. Set, forget.

    Photography fundamentally changed how the entirety of society works. Painters complained and lost jobs and livelihoods - like the "jobs stolen" by AI. Instead of drawing stuff, which required a lot of skill, taking a photo is much simpler (abd faster).

    Yesterday, instead of having to paint stuff, you'd take a photo. Today, instead of taking a photo, you ask AI.

    On the copyright front, the paralels are obvious: Taking a photo of a book is fair use. But photocopying a book isn't. The problem with AI is that it does some transformations to the original, so it's obfuscated inside the model. But the obfuscation can be undone, as AI often happily spits out certain inputs verbatim when asked. Take a photo of a page - okay. Photocopy the entire book? Not okay.

    The situation is the same when we look at artwork instead of books. Taking a photo of an artwork in a museum is okay. Scanning an artwork (duplicating it verbatim) - isn't. Same for movies. A frame is probably gonna be okay. The entire movie - won't.

    Going by the closest analogue, there is absolutely no justification to indiscriminately feed everything and anything into AI, for indiscriminately photocopying and vervatim copying the same material is clearly protected.

  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • Isn't that what 'Woke' always was?

    A magic word with a shapeshifting definition, mostly for the nazis to throw at things and people they don't like.

  • Which new Chinese cars would you consider buying here in Canada?

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  • This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like

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  • So... File in Europe?

    Although, that will surely bring in less profits.

  • This goes all the way to the top

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  • That only increases the barrier for entry into the market, but doesn't make it impossible to counterfeit.

    The only time such a scheme would work is if the cost of counterfeiting the tags is higher than the cost of turning a counterfeit operation into a legitimate one.

    And even then, it'd be better to use hologram seals on packaging or embedded into the cheese crust instead of "edible RFID". Most crusts aren't even edible so it seems more like a gimmick than anything else.

    So: more sinister explanations acrually hold more weight here.

  • Republican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons

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  • Not even unjust or corrupt.

    It's for cases where judicial guidelines are too hard, requiring a conviction which doesn't make sense.

    It's for (uncontroversial) amnesty when the law is slower than the executive and not retroactive. So stuff like non-violent drug convictions.

    It's for adding another chance at parole when the parole board's main concern is something that shouldn't be their focus.

  • This goes all the way to the top

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  • Am I the only one who doesn't see how this is supposed to guard against couterfeits?

  • Tune a fish

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  • The opposite of "cow steak"