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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Yes it is.

    If it’s not, that has to do with you becoming an explicit target of 3-lettter agencies beforehand. Look, it’s legally risky and expensive to collect data from people, evaluate it and draw conclusions. You can become a big enough target for those agencies to reason that it’s worth it, but you gotta work really hard to get there.

    In fact, the most likely thing for any given random person is either getting caught up in phishing attacks or getting chased by a PI at the mercy of family or a former partner that is holding grudges.

    What I’m saying is yes, there’s a tiny chance that it’s not safe but if it really was dangerous for you to speak, you would probably already know.

    Famously at Edward Snowden’s first interview the NSA was tapping him and he was chased around right up until they lost jurisdiction and so every TSA checkpoint became dangerous for him. But everyone who thinks they are just as endangered as Edward Snowden is most likely just paranoid.





  • I wish your opinion was shared more.

    I do music production. I’ve seen what AI can do, and for making a simple master of one of my demos AI is great. But everyone who has been there knows that the fun of making music comes from uniqueness. AI can’t do that, it can only riff on things known in its dataset.

    I’m not worried at all, because this means the boring commercial music becomes less impressive, and unique and elaborate music becomes even more valuable. I’m cool with that; nothing of value is lost.

    I get why people are freaked out, but most of the tangible issues come from greedy managers with a pinch of dunning-kruger, trying to replace workers. And that’s got almost nothing to do with AI and everything to do with assholes. There will be consequences, but people have to stick out this short-term chaos. And that’s the only thing I have empathy for in this.

    Well that and unlicensed training because governments can’t get their shit together to enforce ethical guidelines for AI training & data collection practices.





  • If you mean the case where he raised presidential immunity against seditious conspiracy charges?

    The reason he was granted this is because in his capacity of president, basically the courts are supposed to cut him some slack if he does some accidental criming; you see, if the president does it, it’s usually necessary to perform his duties and if you stop him you are preventing him from getting any work done. That’s basically what the supreme Court ruled. It’s a bit like when cops raise qualified immunity. It’s supposed to insulate them from personal grievances so they are able perform their duties. Only that the presidential immunity is way worse for us, because a cop can raise it and then prosecution has the burden to prove there was a rule and the cop knew it. But in this case it’s worse because the president just has to say it was in his presidential capacity and that’s it iirc.

    So back to your question: can you do so too? No. You are not a president, you don’t have presidential immunity.





  • Bunch of reasons, few people have pointed out in other comments already, including:

    • text =/= dialogue
    • LLMs train on the average guy, not good actors or only well done plays
    • AI models are statistical approximations of patterns that emulate behavior of the real world. It’s gonna take shortcuts wherever it can
    • maybe there’s specific tricks for positive or systems prompts that will improve quality in your case / on you model
    • the model you are using could be bad for the task
    • some of the points you are making strike me as personal preference; they could just as well apply to non-AI written series

    Those are some things that play into why it feels like it’s awful at it. Some of it perception, some of it is true.







  • I agree some questions feel forced, even rhetorical. I have a hard time believing it’s AI. I think it’s either a bunch of alt accounts from one guy who needs help winning arguments or a bunch of people roaming around in very weird social circles.

    But yeah, there’s days Lemmy feels like a breath fresh air, and then it feels like someone is playing shenanigans in multiple communities for a few hours.


  • That’s an extremely specific scenario and I would bet money on it not happening quite as you describe.

    What if people become more AI literate and generally understand it’s uses and misuses better? What if the dating and social connection landscape changes and some other platform makes things way easier or changes the way we connect? What if people become so lonely they revert back to prostitution?

    There’s a million more scenarios and no one really knows what the future looks like, so I think it’s very likely that your scenario does not come true at all.