@1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world
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member since 9 Jul 2023 18:42
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- on it's time in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15h ago
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on A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
We did 30 days, 15 days, one week, and 24 hours. And still, we’d have users get locked out for not changing their password or calling us in a panic because they only saw the 24hr notif. We switched over to only requiring changes when entra saw something fishy, which definitely lowered stress levels.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago
In order to protect the children, you have to give us their juicy, delicious personal information. You see, without that scrumptious information that advertisers clamor for, how else are we to know not to show little Timmy beheading videos on our platform? For all we know, that predator is chatting with a 35 year old when they tell them that they’re really mature for their age. There really is nothing we can do if you don’t let us feed your information into the machine.
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on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
It’s going to be so funny when they build their god AI and ask it to save us and it spits out “should’ve build solar panels 30 years ago”
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on Amazon secretly circumvents community vote for massive AI data center using 45-year-old rules in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Equating a Food Distribution center with a Datacenter is villainous work
I was recently listening to a Cory Doctorow interview where he was discussing the concept of “reverse centaurs”. Essentially, if a centaur is a human who uses technology to perform a task they cannot alone, a reverse centaur is the opposite. Think amazon warehouse workers. An algorithm tells the worker where to pick up the box, and where to put it down. It does all the thinking, and the human is just a pair of hands.
One path you can take is that you have skilled professionals who have a depth of knowledge in their field, and can skillfully use an AI to enhance their work. The AI can for example, proof-read human made code and look for typos, bugs, or other possible mistakes that we all as humans occasionally make. This is a centaur situation, where the human is in the driver’s seat.
The other path is that corporations can have fewer skilled professionals in fields that were previously difficult to automate. AI allows you to fire 90% of those professionals and the ones that remain are essentially glorified amazon warehouse workers who do the bidding of the AI. They hit enter on the keyboard, they sign off on the code, and they most importantly fall on the sword when the AI fails. This is the reverse centaur situation
So while these jobs may be “safe” from AI, it’s important that we avoid the reverse-centaur path. Though with corpos’ tendency to chase profit over all else, this might be a big ask.