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Surprise? I've never known any crowd more susceptible to scams and snake oil than audiophiles...

What's their motivation? "Protecting the children" from pictures of boobs? Doubtful. Instead, I think the AI companies are looking for ways to more easily distinguish human-made "content" from bot-made content, in order to decrease the amount of generative slop that ends up being fed back into their training data.

"literacy" -> marketing

Plot twist: he's a gynecologist

That makes him a tough guy!

Well... The people who own and control the surveillance can still kidnap to their heart's content.

It's certainly frustrating watching people make the same mistake over and over.

Tasted like it came out of the wrong hole.

I hate AI because it's been built of the forced exploitation of untold millions of artists and creative laborers, without even so much as consent, let alone compensation...

Workplace theater comes to the shitter.

If it's come to the point where even he's admitting that they'll "remain high", then we can probably expect them to double or something.

I don’t disagree that we need more positive and high quality hobby content. Sure. But personally I’m so sick of dudes complaining about “political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling”, whatever half of that banal nonsense is even supposed to mean… In fact, I’d go as far to say that people who whine about everything being “political” is a bright fucking red flag to me. My immediate assumption upon reading that is “this person is a Trump supporter who voted for this exact shit to happen because they want it to happen, and they don’t want to be confronted by the fact that other people don’t.” I know exactly what kind of people don’t want to hear about “politics” anymore now that Trump is elected, trampling our institutions, and fucking everything up. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, right?

But even that isn't really enough..we need laws on training data.

I kind of disagree. How can you be certain a person in is a certain age without determining who that person is? The local AI concept is flawed, as is anything that relies on trusting the user. If you want to be certain that someone is over 18 at some point you need a government ID or birth certificate, and at that point you know a hell of a lot more about them than their age. This is identity verification.

Yeah. I've been trying not to worry to much about social issues that are far behind my control. Too much of that is just anxiety-inducing for me. The main function of a democratic republic is to elect leaders who are supposed to worry about solving problems so that we, as individuals, dont have to and can instead focus on doing other things. The sad truth is that we all have so little faith in the people who are in charge that we take it upon ourselves to try to figure out the answers to society's privilege, but for what? Even if we think we have the answer, we don't exactly have the means to enact it when we aren't anywhere near the levers of power. If we really want to make policy, we have to get more politically involved and maybe even run for office. Everything short of that is just venting or an intellectual exercise.

"Open weights" isn't worth a shit either. If you don't have the access to training data or the computational power to bake it into a model, you are beholden to somebody's (or rather, some corporation's) binary blob. We're talking about the difference between freeware and FOSS effectively. Not that it matters because all of thin generative AI stuff is for talentless tech bro chuds in the first place...

Anyone got any "I did that!!" stickers with Trump's dumb face on them?

I do hate unregulated capitalism. But that's not the only problem, even people in the non-profit space, as well as the supposed "communists" of the CCP in China are using and abusing machine learning techniques for the purposes of surveillance, oppression and exploitation. It's not the technology's fault, obviously. But at that point this becomes a bullshit "guns don't kill people, people kill people" argument.

Slopfest 2026. Pretty gross all around, including by Valve.

Most people who talk to ChatGPT are delusional, they just aren't usually this self-aware.

I was hoping to have servers be more public, so visible on the master server list and able to be joined by random people. (I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. lol)

Some ideologies are not really compatible with being a decent person. Fiscal conservatism can at least be somewhat justified (even if I fundamentally disagree with it), but I would argue that much of social conservatism boils down to taking away people's basic human rights and personal liberty.

Oh NOW you care about stealing intellectual property! Fuck off. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, AI assholes.

Trump says too much in general.

Yeah, that sort of thing. I should say that I'm finally having some luck with using wireguard, so I'm making progress. Got a few rounds of Counter-Strike in with a friend about an hour ago!