neutrinodisaster

Piece of pizza ✅ Acceptable Slice of pizza ✅ Acceptable Piece of paper ✅ Acceptable Slice of paper ❓Data Not Found Today I accidentally changed that. I will forever call it a slice of paper. Quake upon my idiolect!

@mikerspencer@mastodon.scot @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net And me waiting all the way for Unviginticember the 5th...

@MarcRnt@sueden.social @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Since @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net has made it very clear that they don't push AI in their browser, I don't think that's it

@anildash I feel like this is useful as it provides the scaffolding for how we can clearly articulate the problem with current "AI" as contrasted with more helpful uses of machine learning. The "AI" we dislike is an inhuman *other* from us, with closed data, a black box algorithm, and a goal of replacing our human joys of creating, research, and communicating with others -- it is an imposter pretending to be human, but really just an idol of capital. This, meanwhile, is a clever use of math and data to fill a specific hole *in* those pursuits, really a "tool" (even though that's overused by proAI") used for creative purposes. That's what separates the machine learning for photo sorting, subject selecting in photo editing, and all those useful features, from the ghastly, over-pushed, soulless machine learning that pushes out slop and dehumanizes our very creations, pursuits, and lives. I think if we realize those ethical grounds and differences, we can probably convince so much more people to really care about why we should stop using AI -- because there will always be those who say that hallucinations will be lessened, or we can de-corporatize it, and they may be right -- but what won't naturally change are the ethical, unhuman problems in the process and function of "AI" that we all know and understand.

@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social You've talked about it being incitement to genocide, and I know that this administration has exhibited so much genocidal rhetoric towards trans folx already, but I feel like this may just be garden-variety transphobic government actions against opposition? They said they explicitly want to neutralize trans political groups, and while that is transphobic and authoritarian, I feel like a better comparison is to COINTELPRO's efforts to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" (In the words of J. Edgar Hoover) feminist, communist, and antiracist groups, which I've never heard classified as genocidal threats.

@aj Sydney -- Not the capital Melbourne -- Not the capital Perth -- Capital of Western Australia? Hobart -- I think it's in Tasmania? Canberra -- Yay, the real capital!

@MostlyHarmless Sadly, the specific species of bear on the flag -- the California grizzly -- is extinct. One taxidermized individual named Monarch is preserved in the California Academy of Sciences in a flag-like backdrop -- Monarch is thought to be the bear that the current model of the flag is derived from.

@angiebaby "Do you really wanna be like them, do you really wanna be another trend"...

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social "They can do shapes now. One time I saw a cowboy hat."