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Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, halting aircraft production
  • From what I've heard, Boeing weapons that don't get built are even safer!

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    Boeing workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, halting aircraft production
  • Would this endanger national security? I was going to say so, but I'm not sure about the details.

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  • www.wheresyoured.at How Does OpenAI Survive?

    Throughout the last year I’ve written in detail about the rot in tech — the spuriousness of charlatans looking to accumulate money and power, the desperation of the most powerful executives to maintain control and rapacious growth, and the speciousness of the latest hype cycle — but at the end of

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    America's #1 Cult
  • Unless you shoot them first. Edit: please don't shoot anyone. This is not a call for violence

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    It's best to judge people by their actions more than their words, but on social media, you only see people's words.
  • And the reason things are so bleak is because most people only have words to go off of, rather than actions.

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    It's best to judge people by their actions more than their words, but on social media, you only see people's words.
  • Showing up to a protest is also an action. So is smashing someone's car. Do you think you can feed the hungry purely by posting thoughts on social media?

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    53 states
  • I don't care. The United States has been the main perpetrator of countless war crimes across the world. It has been born out of slavery, its land is built on the Natives that were once thriving, it has forced territories under its laws without representation, it has been an apartheid state with white people ruling over colored people, it has installed countless dictatorships to protect its economic interests, its "democracy" is a sham and the Netherlands did it first, it is chiefly responsible for crimes against peace and humanity in Vietnam and Iraq, its citizens are subject to total surveillance while many of them have a lack of water, food, and shelter, its government is bribed constantly by price-gouging corporations, it will gladly use military equipment on its own citizens, and it has strived against democratic elections that are inconvenient. The United States ought to be split up into all of its independent states so the world may be free of its tyranny.

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  • I know this sounds pretentious (which is quite ironic), but this is something I've noticed about the internet. You never read about what someone does, only what they say. You hear politicians claim that they'll fix the economy, or celebrities make speeches about what they feel like, or what "message" a fictional movie has being discussed over and over, but none of that matters, because it's all saying and no doing!

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    Context: "cisgender" will get you banned on X
  • Oh fuck, I forgot

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    Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet
  • I can't wait to type out all this stuff! DOPG Nd;oGNB [AJNGO[RFOHG[APFNH]GJSsahlitnolbn;'s

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    Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills
  • I blame the attempt to make devices user-friendly. Convenience kills skill.

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    Please stop the bus of life, I want to get off
  • I hate it, but it's preferable to Anarcho-Capitalism.

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  • I made this myself on GIMP with some wallpaper

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    Jesus what a burn
  • It wasn't a burn, it was just the obvious truth.

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    Trump and Vance have no plan to fix one of America's biggest crises
  • Yeah, Drumpf is too old for office and can't understand how money works imo. It's not even the Dictatorship On Day One deal. Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte could, at least, solve a great many of their people's problems. Drumpf and Vance aren't even doing that. It's a bit exhausting having almost every U.S. politician cramming into the D-Party, but after this whole fiasco, it'll split up.

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    Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself
  • Nah, just fucking draw it you cowards.

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    The stuff I see on social media makes me angry, and Kamala is not a perfect candidate
  • Who the fuck is disliking? This is it. We need to apply the pressure after Drumpf is taken care of.

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    The stuff I see on social media makes me angry, and Kamala is not a perfect candidate
  • I'm not looking for the People's Democratic Equitocracy, I'm looking to save the United States from its own folly. It's just one nation. All the U.S. has to do is stop the arms shipments.

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    The stuff I see on social media makes me angry, and Kamala is not a perfect candidate
  • Look, I will tick the Kamala box. I do indeed believe that Trump is a bad candidate and will oppress many people. But I don't want people to feel like this shit is normal. Back in the late 1970's to the 1990's, nobody would have thought that both parties would end up supporting the same genocide, with one being a little less pumped. Or maybe even the 2000's, when the War on Terror was thought to be conducted humanely. We have lived in an imperfect world before, along with millions of people, and politicians self-selecting for ambition and ego, and there was nobody calling to wipe an ethnicity off the face of the Earth. I'm not surprised at the Dem party, I'm surprised that there are fascists in the White House and I'm supposed to just accept it as a normal part of democracy. Well, I won't! Both parties in the United States supporting a genocide requires voting to solve, but it's purely abnormal! I'm not wanting a world any better than a world we used to have, one where the United States did not conduct ethnic cleansing!

    We live in a nation with the Internet, fast food wherever you go, products that arrive at your door when ordered, touchscreens, full 3D videogames, V-Tubers, the Moon Landing, nuclear reactors, and the White House lighting up in rainbow colors to support LGBT+ rights--yet when asked to stop a genocide, it's suddenly too much to ask. I would give up so much of these fleeting pleasures to protect human lives. Should I just become a lotus-eater, and neglect the outside world to "act humane"?

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    The stuff I see on social media makes me angry, and Kamala is not a perfect candidate
  • ...without Israel Iran will run roughshot over the middle east killing loads of people.

    Israel is, as of 2024, running roughshot over the middle east, killing 40,000 people.

    Then we can go back and forth, I'll ask two questions, you'll answer one of them with some bullshit.

    This sounds oddly like the debate surrounding Vietnam during the war, and comprises a lot of debate on the United States of America being the "world police". As for me, the United States has failed to be any sort of world police. There is incredible polarization in its political parties, several territories that are governed yet cannot vote, the last two presidents both lying and suffering from old age, and a well-known problem of candidates being paid off. If the U.S. cannot be run well internally, it has no business meddling with foreign affairs, which includes giving weapons and troops to Israel. Despite the cruelty of Israel, there remains a bigger problem to solve--that being an incompetent nation having an excessively high military and an interventionist outlook.

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    The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble
  • Like my second, albeit braindead, systems administrator on my shoulder

    I think the more important part is that your systems administrator is braindead. I know it's hyperbolic, but you can certainly learn coding (Link 2) and Spanish (Link 2) yourself.

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    The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates
  • I think Generative AI should just be scrapped. Nobody needs hyperrealistic photos and videos, or chatbots, or any of that shit. The main problems of the world are not technological, but legal. Too many laws are enacted for the benefit of robber-barons, and unless they are scrapped, I have no faith in my legal system.

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    “Communism bad”
  • The guitarist in the fourth panel... is that Rock Against Communism? I've never actually seen bands, especially good ones, go "Yeah, fuck Communism! Gold for the gold god!" A lot of the best concerts were like those at Woodstock, or they'd be underground punk shows, or large arenas where the singer is sick and tired of record companies. If the fourth panel were really happening, it'd probably be Bumfuck-Nowhere, U.S.A.

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  • I recieved a comment from someone telling me that one of my posts had bad definitions, and he was right. Despite the massive problems caused by AI, it's important to specify what an AI does, how it is used, for what reason, and what type of people use it. I suppose judges might already be doing this, but regardless, an AI used by one dude for personal entertainment is different than a program used by a megacorporation to replace human workers, and must be judged differently. Here, then, are some specifications. If these are still too vague, please help with them.

    a. What does the AI do?

    1. It takes in a dataset of images, specified by a prompt, and compiles them into a single image thru programming (like StaDiff, Dall-E, &c);
    2. It takes in a dataset of text, specified by a prompt, and compiles that into a single string of text (like ChatGPT, Gemini, &c);
    3. It takes in a dataset of sound samples, specified by a prompt, and compiles that into a single sound (like AIVA, MuseNet, &c).

    b. What is the AI used for?

    1. It is used for drollery (applicable to a1 and a2);
    2. It is used for pornography (a1);
    3. It is used to replace stock images (a1);
    4. It is used to write apologies (a2);
    5. It is used to write scientific papers (this actually happened. a2);
    6. It is used to replace illustration that the user would've done themselves (a1);
    7. It is used to replace illustration by a wage-laborer (a1);
    8. It is used to write physical books to print out (a2);
    9. It is used to mock and degrade persons (a1, a3);
    10. It is used to mock and degrade persons sexually (a1, a3);
    11. It is used for propaganda (a1, a2, a3).

    c. Who is using the AI?

    1. A lower-class to middle-class person;
    2. An upper-class person;
    3. A small business;
    4. A large business;
    5. An anonymous person;
    6. An organization dedicated to shifting public perception.

    This was really tough to do. I'll see if I can touch up on it myself. As of now, Lemmy cannot do lists in lists.

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    I was originally going to put this into the Log, but it might be unwelcome.

    You want a way to rattle image-generation Boosters? Most of the arguments they use can be used to defend Googling an image and putting a filter over it.

    • "All forms of media take inspiration from one another, so that means it's fine to Google another image, download it, and apply a filter to call it mine!"
    • "Artists are really privilieged, so it's morally OK to take their art and filter it!"
    • "Using filtered images I downloaded from Google for game sprites will help me finish my game faster!"
    • "I suck at drawing, so I have to resort to taking images from people who can draw and filtering them!"
    • "People saying that my filtered images aren't art are tyrannical! I deserve to have my filtered images be seen as equal to hand-drawn ones!"

    AI Boosters use a standard motte-and-bailey doctrine to assert the right to steal art and put it into a dataset, yet entice people to buy their generated images. When Boosters want people to invest in AI, they occupy the bailey and say that "AI is faster and better than drawing by hand". When Boosters are confronted with their ethical problems, as shown above, they retreat into the motte and complain that "it takes tons of time and work to make the AI do what I want". Remember this when you find Boosters. Or don't, since I doubt the sites where they lurk are worth your time.

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    First of all, this c has absolutely skyrocketed in the coming years. I made it in a panic. (I was worried that AI would bedazzle everyone, everyone would be onboard, and it would ruin everything forever.) Although a lot of what I feared didn't happen, I'm still glad to have made this thing.

    I don't know if this sub is going to be brigaded by Boosters like it was early on, or if they'll try some sort of cyberattack, but the reason I appointed so many moderators was because I was worried that Boosters would come in, try some bad-faith tactics, and screw over any resistance against AI.

    I now realize that having a pro-AI "camp" is misleading. Adopting any new technology must prove itself to be worth its cost. There have been patents, like Flexplay, or Tetraethyllead, that are not worth their cost. What Boosters are saying is that, if you oppose the use of Flexplay of Tetraethyllead, you are in an "anti-Flexplay" or "anti-Tetraethyllead" camp, and if you can't come up with a convincing argument against it, you should just accept the technology.

    Since it's been a while since my last log, and the c has changed, I don't think this will be brigaded.

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    www.theguardian.com Sinclair TV chairman to Trump: 'We are here to deliver your message'

    The rightwing broadcaster met Trump at the White House to pitch a potentially lucrative new product to officials

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    It's really cool seeing all this old stuff. These are still downloadable, by the way.

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    After seeing the enormous attention that has been given to this community, I'm glad to present this list of articles lost in the early years. I'm not sure if it has been purposely sabotaged, or if people just didn't like it. Some of it shows a lot of hope.

    Just like the bourgoise attempts to get a surplus value out of the proletariat without compensation, so too does the AI Prompter attempt to get a similar surplus value out of an artist. Maybe it is the same thing! The articles marked by a letter M (for Marx) will describe this process.

    Adam Savage's Issue With A.I.-Generated Art

    Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

    Law enforcement struggling to prosecute AI-generated CSAM

    (M) In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From

    AI Hype Wall of Shame

    (M) The AI Revolution is Rotten to the Core

    (M) AI Is a Lot of Work

    How much electricity does AI consume?

    (M) OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (Archived)

    Meta’s ‘set it and forget it’ AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash

    Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

    (M) AI Startups Are Suddenly In Big Trouble

    (M) Artists Sue Google Over Its AI Image Generator

    Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”

    If you have any missing articles, comment it for a second version of this post.

    P.S. If the Invidious link doesn't work, switch the instance.

    P.P.S. After searching for the best articles to include, I noticed that the pagation for Lemmy needs a "back button", tho, I'm pretty busy with other stuff.

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    futurism.com Stability AI Is Falling Apart

    Several key AI developers, who worked on Stable Diffusion, Stability AI's popular text-to-image generator, have resigned, Forbes reports.

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    gizmodo.com ChatGPT Answers Programming Questions Incorrectly 52% of the Time: Study

    To make matters worse, programmers in the study would often overlook the misinformation.

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    yewtu.be Artificial Intelligence Isn't Real

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    Video by Adam Something. Sponsor ends at 3 mins 7 secs.

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    yewtu.be Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

    🛎 If You're New Subscribe ► https://bit.ly/BtBSubscribe Part One: Tech Bros Have Built A Cult Around AI | BEHIND THE BASTARDS Robert sits down with Ify Nwadiwe to talk about the weird cult that's formed around AI, and some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley. (Adapted from his article ...

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    noyb.eu ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it

    noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA

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    theluddite.org The Luddite

    An anticapitalist tech blog. Embrace the technology that liberates us. Smash that which does not.

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    yewtu.be Adam Savage's Issue With A.I.-Generated Art

    How does Adam Savage feel about A.I. being used in filmmaking? What's something Adam never noticed about a prop until he saw it in person? What has the biggest impact on portraying emotion in a film: actor, script, score or lighting? In this live stream excerpt Adam answers these questions from Test...

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