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@akareilly@hachyderm.io
@akareilly the license is the bare minimum. But not all (free) software has to be "good", it can just be a hobby project not intended to be usable by everyone without modification
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@scalzi@mastodon.social
@scalzi "He sees this as a temporary problem for AI providers, though, as agentic AI becomes more entrenched in daily people's lives, it'll become harder to switch, as the bots should eventually have all your shopping preferences, aspirations, and emotional profile mapped out —perhaps even better than yourself."
I really don't understand how these people can just openly state that all this is just a scam to get all your data and use it to modify your behavior so you do whatever the fuck they want, buy the "right" products, vote for the right candidates, etc., and they simply get away with it. Why doesn't every journalist interviewing such an "expert" immediately pounce on that and seriously question their premises? This is a fucked up "utopia" they are envisioning. And they write about it as if it was the most normal commonsense thing in the world and they are so smart for seeing this kind of future.
#surveillancecapitalism #surveillance #capitalism #fuckai #noai #utopia
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@lokeloski@mastodon.social
@lokeloski@mastodon.social and CEOs think it can replace everything. I wonder why...
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@oberstenzian@mastodon.social
@oberstenzian @OccuWorld a conservative proposal:
>$1 million: 4%
>$2 million: 40%
>$3 million: 100%
maybe not ideal but good enough (but tbh 4% is ridiculously low)
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@mathieubaiget@piaille.fr
@mathieubaiget@piaille.fr @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange but are all those plugins really worth it? Is it really necessary to use them or are there better alternatives that respect the privacy of people visiting your website? How much more money do you actually make by using google analytics or other services?
If you use all kinds of services that collect data then it might not be that simple, but that's not a problem with the GDPR but with those services/plugins.
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@mathieubaiget@piaille.fr
@mathieubaiget@piaille.fr @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange it's simple really, if you don't need cookies because you don't need to track people, then you don't need a banner. If people can login to your site you might need a cookie to keep them logged in, but that's "legitimate purpose" (not exactly sure if you need a banner in this case, I wouldn't think so). And that's about every use of cookies that's not some surveillance capitalist bullshit IMO.
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@hosford42@techhub.social
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender sure I can look it up too so no worries, that was just in case you know particularly good examples
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@eruwero@ieji.de
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender learning about BS early is great, no matter what it's called, I agree with you on that. What I was referring to is when stuff that is not actually BS, but you might think it is (because it doesn't sound plausible or you don't like it or whatever) is still claimed to be "AI". That also happens without AI, but it makes it easier to argue (to yourself or others) because it's so easy to create text or images or videos that seem very realistic
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@hosford42@techhub.social
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender ok yeah, I read some of that too. If you have some good examples, feel free to share them :). The reports on people "falling in love" with "AI" are so crazy IMO, there seems to be no critical thinking involved and the presentation by journalists really plays into "AI" companies claims that their shit is actually intelligent. (I don't blame people for getting emotionally attached btw, "AI" is designed for that more or less)
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@eruwero@ieji.de
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender also, I think calling general BS "AI" is really a sign of how normalized "AI" is, and kind of reinforces that (even if the connotation in this case is negative). This is not meant to criticize the children of course :)
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@hosford42@techhub.social
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender wrt the second paragraph: I think they are kind of two sides of the same coin. Being overly credulous and accepting AI slop that fits your worldview and at the same time rejecting stuff that doesn't fit your worldview and claim it's just AI, whether or not that's true. I think "AI" is really dangerous when it comes to reinforcing bias. This is independent of the example of the OP though.
I don't quite get what you mean with the last part
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@hosford42@techhub.social
@hosford42 @detritus @jmcclure @Daojoan @emilymbender I also think it's problematic. Sure LLMs produce incredible amounts of bullshit but if everything that doesn't fit in your worldview becomes just "AI", that's really dangerous. And in this case it could be about bird meat, which is actually dinosaur meat, and that fact could spark the children's curiosity if it was taken seriously.
The point is AI makes it easy to dismiss basically anything because some things it produces can seem very real
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