I love this personally. The admins had a vision for the future that was not based in any form of reality, but rather the same wealth extraction tactics that have collapsed so many other services.

Anyone who remembers the Digg exodus, there are reflections of that in reddit’s stittastic new policies.

Just more proof that enshittification isn’t a slow erosion of quality over time but rather direct actions taken by a profit-seeking leadership.

If you go back now and look in older technically complex threads it is a wasteland of [Deleted] and various account scrubber script Lorem Ipsum as a good chunk of decent contributors have left and burned their accounts.

Good.

Looking forward to the day that they don’t prop up google anymore.

How long before a self-owned AI company that does every administrative job better than humans because it trained on human behavior for 100 years?

What do you think an entity like that would be capable of?

Your distinction is mostly philosophical. Legally corporations have more protections than people.

I’m probably one of the most anti-corporate people you’ll meet today, I don’t even think publicly traded companies should exist.

You really are a rancid fuck, aren’t you?

If an artist falls in love with drawing and learns to draw from Jack Kirby’s work and at the beginning even imitates his style, does he owe Jack Kirby royalties for every drawing he does as he ‘learned’ on Jack’s copyrighted art?

Now that it exists how do you propose we make it not exist?

Even if we outlaw it Russia and China won’t and without the tools to fight back against it the web is basically done as anything but a propaganda platform

I don’t know if you noticed this but some really big companies with high stock valuations are only existing because investors poured tons of capital into them to subsidize the service.

Uber could not do taxis cheaper than existing if they didn’t have years of free cash to artificially lower prices.

We are in the beginning of late state capitalism, profitable companies go under due to private capital firms and absolute ponzi frauds get their faces on time magazine.

Enjoy the collapse.

We are allowed to have nuance, nothing is inherently good or bad. A knife can wound or make dinner.

Trying to reduce nuance lessens the public discourse, do not be tempted by lowest common denominator memery.

Whether anyone likes it or not LLMs are here and even if we strictly regulate them there will be organizations and governments that do not.

WHAT WE SHOULD be focusing on is how to prevent low effort AI content from just basically overtaking the web.

We are already mostly there.

Serious Question: When an artist learns to draw by looking at the drawings of the masters, and practicing the techniques they pioneered, are the art students respecting the intellectual property rights of those masters?

Are not all of that student’s work derivative of an education based on other people’s work who will never see compensation for that student’s use?

This is not actually true at all, you could train very good LLMs on public domain only info, especially science oriented ones.

But what people want is a chatbot that can call on current events, and that is where the cost comes in.

I admit that Mint is the distro I got the furthest with, several weeks in I just stopped being able to do full screen 3d. I spent a month and a half on forums trying to figure it out including 2 clean installs and couldn’t get anywhere.

I even did board level diagnostics on my video card.

Just gave up and went back to windows, never had an issue there and still don’t.

I’ll use linux for remote servers or fun little house gadgets, but as much as I hate windows, (and I hate windows with the seething glowing magma aged bitterness of someone who has had to support it since WIndows 3.11.

I would LOVE to ditch it, especially now, but until I can get a clean install to doing what I need to do in under a day, I can’t advocate linux.

Not me, this will lead to malware installed in the brain.

You think popups are bad now?

Wait till you get them in your dreams.

I have tried to switch my daily driver to linux for more than 15 years now, Linux desktop just isn’t ready.

Full disclosure: I am an IT admin with near 3 decades of experience, including administrating linux servers, so this isn’t a skill gap.

I spent two decades of my youth volunteering for local candidate’s campaigns.

Now I’m old and tired and you can spend the time if you like.

And even if you were to actually get it before your rep, it’s likely that neither they or anyone on their staff is tech savvy enough to understand it.

We are ruled by a generation raised when the highest form of tech in ones house was MAYBE a color tv and it shows.

Its funny but every authoritarian regime kind of thinks the same thing not long before rough music starts.

Well it is better in the cases of actually innocent people getting convicted as it can later be overturned but there are some monsters that really shouldn’t be allowed to stain the earth with their existence that we have zero doubt as to their guilt.

This is one facet how authoritarian behavior is unsustainable.

You can only punish victims for so long before those victims pick up a rock and bash their abusers heads in.

Unfortunately it can sometimes take centuries to get to that point.

Some would argue they were early pioneers of it, basically became a daughter killing factory after the 1child policy.

It’s not ‘insanely paranoid’ when it is correct.

Even the really big boys have shit security and almost no one invests in it.

I was called ‘insanely paranoid’ for not wanting any IoT things in my house even though I am an IT guy.

I told them ‘I don’t want IoT things in my house BECAUSE I’m an IT guy and know what I’m talking about.’

They ignored me of course, even companies that paid for my opinion and services.

And some paid the price, but funny enough that didn’t stop them from insecure practices, it just made them choose another brand of insecure IoT devices to replace the old.