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jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviewsEnglish10·4 days agoWhen a certain saint allegedly shot a CEO dead on the street, there was a big surge in support. Sadly, no one else has followed suit.
A lot of people are sick of the ownership class ruining everything, and would cheer for spilled blood.
If someone shot the ceo of uber dead, people would celebrate. They’re all scum.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing AI "superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.English11·4 days agoAny ethical super intelligence would immediately remove billionaires from power. I’d like to see that.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharingEnglish521·9 days agoI don’t want to share my location nor have anyone else’s shared with me.
Friends and partners can text “I’ll be there in 5”
My friend shares her location with her mother. Her mother then nags her with like “Are you seeing someone new? You’re spending a lot of time in north brooklyn now.” Like, who needs that, or even the temptation of that?
A tech solution is not going to fix a social/mental problem like fear of cheating.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral appEnglish514·9 days agoIf I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don’t care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she’s horrible. One person’s “this person won’t shut up about communism” is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that’s the dream.
When you sign up, you’d need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.
But that’s a lot of work
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicksEnglish13·10 days agoGoogle probably wants to keep you on google.com, where they have ads. By doing the AI stuff, you never click through to someone else’s page. They get 100% of the interactions and can sell all the clicks.
It’s monopoly stuff. They should be stopped, with whatever box of liberty is needed.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Dystopian Startup Lets the Wealthy Rent Off Duty Cops on DemandEnglish9·13 days agoDo they vet the people? Could someone hypothetically sign up for the app, case the rich person’s situation, and then do crimes? Sounds like a good way to find rich assholes.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•It's rude to show AI output to peopleEnglish17·15 days agoSometimes people are my old job post AI stuff and I just tell them “stop using the lie machine”
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"English51·15 days agoAutomobile companies should be held accountable for destroying and lobbying against other modes of transit, so not really the best metaphor. Also destroying the environment is pretty bad.
Also there’s no cosmic law that says tech companies had to make LLMs and put them everywhere. They’re not even consistently useful.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"English71·15 days agoThese big companies have blood on their hands and it seems like no one is willing to do anything about it.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"English10·15 days agoThat’s a quote from Eco’s essay on ur-fascism, for the unfamiliar
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Google Keeps Making Smartphones WorseEnglish651·18 days agoGoogle should be broken up and its leadership fined into oblivion for anti competitive behavior
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protestEnglish22·25 days agoMake sure you speak clearly with minimal slang, or they might willfully misinterpret what you’re saying to deny your rights. Like to think you want a lawyer dog.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish20·27 days agoA lot of bosses think developers’ entire job is just churning out code when it’s actually like 50% coding and 50% listening to stakeholders, planning, collaborating with designers, etc.
A lot of leadership is incompetent. In a reasonable, just, world they would not be in these decision making positions.
Verbose blogger Ed Zitron wrote about this. He called them “Business Idiots”: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon studyEnglish127·27 days agoIt is absolutely stupid, stupid to the tune of “you shouldn’t be a decision maker”, to think an LLM is a better use for “getting a quick intro to an unfamiliar topic” than reading an actual intro on an unfamiliar topic. For most topics, wikipedia is right there, complete with sources. For obscure things, an LLM is just going to lie to you.
As for “looking up facts when you have trouble remembering it”, using the lie machine is a terrible idea. It’s going to say something plausible, and you tautologically are not in a position to verify it. And, as above, you’d be better off finding a reputable source. If I type in “how do i strip whitespace in python?” an LLM could very well say “it’s your_string.strip()”. That’s wrong. Just send me to the fucking official docs.
There are probably edge or special cases, but for general search on the web? LLMs are worse than search.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its MistakesEnglish501·27 days agoAll the leadership who made this mistake should be fired. They are clearly incompetent
But i guess it’s always labor that pays the price
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft axe another 9000 in continued AI pushEnglish6·29 days agoYeah my friend is dating a Google recruiter and he overhears some absurd offers. Like, a reasonable person could retire on a few years at that salary.
I have a hypothesis that rich people are bad at money
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft to Lay Off About 9,000 EmployeesEnglish5·29 days agoI’ve read that windows 11 uses react (a JavaScript view framework) for parts of the UI, and that seems insane to me. JavaScript isn’t a great language. It’s popular because it runs in the browser. The windows desktop is not a browser.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permissionEnglish6·1 month agoFine needs to be much bigger. All the decision makers that approved it need to be removed and barred from working in the industry
jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkto Technology@lemmy.world•Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 voteEnglish10·1 month agoYou have to remember it’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. As I always say, we’re all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.
Good to know. I had some trouble a couple months back getting wifi and Ethernet working, and learned my phone can provide Internet over USB.