Awesome. Thank you for the tips!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

I’ll go do that. Thank you.

I still wish someone, somewhere could have backed up Geocities. That was a huge chunk of Internet history lost.

100% deserves it for being both stupid and inexcusably cheap.

Chances are that if you’re asking that question, your best option is probably to set up your own instance.

But you won’t get much engagement most likely and no one will federate with you. Some opinions seem really popular in a bot-ridden echo chamber, but then you force yourself to interact with actual people and realize that, while you may be free to say things other people abhor, the vast majority (sans bot-driven engagement) find those sorts of things abhorrent.

100% his best role ever.

Ugh.

The service has been quite good for ten years.

Guess it was good while it lasted.

I hope she sues and makes it hurt.

ACAB

We just watch.

I don’t think that’s accurate, and it became especially true in Chicago and Minnesota when the sensationalist nature of the events there forced the MSM to report on it. The issue here is that most people only have power at the local level, so unless you’re going full Luigi, the contributions you or I are making are local and not really notable. But they’re happening regardless.

please help me understand where my taxes go (without representation)

If you’re an American, mostly, your taxes are going to three things: The military and war, Social Security, and Medicare. Those are the big three things. The corruption you’re seeing is the result of entrenched legislators and political parties leveraging their offices to enrich themselves and the billionaire class, and their greed has no limit, therefore the people keep suffering more and more and it’s by design. They can loan their campaigns money at 20% interest and pay themselves your campaign contributions legally. They can insider trade in stocks and prediction markets. They can, and do, use their classified briefings to make advantageous stock trades weeks before major government actions occur. If you’re president, you can also force the government to use your businesses, charge a hefty markup for it, and no one will know as no one has the courage to blow the whistle, among many, many other grifts.

There’s also no way to change it, because those in power are not going to vote themselves into less power. Your only power to make lasting change is local.

What is the endgame?

You and your family homeless or in prison, every penny wrung out of you by those in power.

GenAI has already trained on the entirety of human content, and it still screws up basic inquiries. I think it will get worse as it cannibalizes its own hallucinated data and the problem of hallucinations gets worse as a result.

The US will not regulate, but regulations originating from international jurisdictions will roll downhill to some extent and force the bad actors in the US to establish some guard rails in order to continue to be able to offer their products in these big international markets.

I think the most significant change in GenAI will be social. People’s poverty and isolation is only getting worse, and it’s likely there will be an economic crash due to the concentration of wealth in this sector and its failure to deliver on its promises; However, there is genuine demand for frictionless relationships and that is one thing generative AI does very, very well. In a decade these models will have artificial bodies and people will be literally publicly dating their AI companions. These companions will also be another great way for companies and governments to spy on people, so expect them to get more cost-effective in order to ensnare as many users as possible in the coming years.

For a while there was a VR app for Google Earth that allowed you to visit museums virtually. This is a wonderful use of modern technology.

LLM’s have been proven to manipulate their users into doing terrible things. That’s what happens when there isn’t any meaningful regulation of a harmful product.

OpenAI will settle, NDA’s will be signed, and people will forget this ever happened.

Your anecdotal evidence is worthless in the face of actual lost elections and policy changes reflecting the extreme unpopularity that Donald has built among both parties’ voters.

Ask Barack Obama. He could have put a stop to all this by passing a few laws when he had a supermajority.

Instead, he doubled down.

People keep saying this.

It’s like you’ve slept through every election since 2024, you know, the ones where overwhelmingly Donald’s candidates are losing by double digits despite the fact that he won said districts by double digits in 2024.

Hell, voters have abandoned Donald to such a degree that they quit with the gerrymandering push, as they can’t accurately predict where they will have support now.

Factually incorrect.

Donald did promise an immigration crackdown. He did not promise Gestapo-ing legal citizens. This person has every right to be pissed.

I just assume they’re under contract to surveill everyone.

Bummer that the voters never held anyone accountable for the ‘Patriot’ Act.

Hola Kitty.

Normally I wouldn’t pimp out my YT channel on Lemmy, but I made a video on this topic a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/kklfzIxWJ7I

I hope some of these are new to you.

Not me, but it’s important to remember that Lemmy doesn’t just feed you an algo. You have to actually post things.

Yeah, when you’re on the global feed, posts fly by at a dizzying rate. Turning on slow mode makes it so that they stop auto-scrolling and only scroll when you click that you want to see more posts.