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- on Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
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on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
These owners are just whatever lawyers have gotten ahold of the WinAMP trademark.
Anybody remember when they attempted to push out the source code for WinAMP on GitHub and failed miserably? Or included NFTs?
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on FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Reminds me of most liberal arguments. I usually agree with them, but there are some issues (like gun control) where I have to shake my head at the ignorance.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
If you were actually in the professional world where people are using and learning alongside these new tools, you wouldn’t be so dismissive about it.
That’s what I don’t get. Do these people not have a working job? Are they driving a truck or doing manual labor? Do they work as a store clerk? Are they all stuck in the creatives industry?
Like, if you’re sitting in front of a computer as part of your job, you’re using LLMs. And if you aren’t, you’re probably using them indirectly and don’t even know it.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
we would have also missed the train of the blockchain and NFTs.
Only an idiot that hasn’t used the tech compares LLMs to blockchain or NFTs.
And how could this amazing technology that literally doesn’t have a single positive point,
Again, hasn’t used the tech, and you’re stuck in defiant rage mode.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Well, fuck… how could I possibly win such a well-versed argument like that?!
No, you!
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on FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
I don’t see ANY comments in here where it’s clear that people read the fucking article.
Average Lemmy user: Get baited into a headline about AI and immediately bitch about how it’s the worst thing in the world. No nuance, no legitimate discussion about the issues, just rage.
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on Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Also, the country famous for its Nanny State laws.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
I’m fine with AI. I’m not fine with slop. Ban slop, not LLMs.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
Maybe we use AI to detect the bad AI, and then blame that AI when it doesn’t work?
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on What makes a tower-defense loss useful rather than frustrating? in c/games@lemmy.world · 4d ago
I miss Defense Grid.
Hell, I miss tower defense games in general. They really had a falling out 15 years ago.
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on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% in c/games@lemmy.world · 5d ago
It’s like bean mouth with animated movies and cartoons.
It turns out that most people weren’t that creative, anyway.
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on LLMs are real, "AI" is fake in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Honestly, I can’t get anybody to give me a good definition of intelligence, artificial or otherwise. Once we can define that in concrete terms, maybe we can finally compare the two.
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on One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Aren’t we just repeating what Cory Doctorow said? How is this just a Lemmy comment made to be funny?
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on China’s Huawei branded a criminal enterprise as tech firm’s US trial opens in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Meanwhile, the US bond yield hits 5% for the first time since the housing crisis.
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on One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
brain of a horse, speed of a man.
This is wrong on so many levels. We wouldn’t bother even using LLMs if they are were merely the “speed of a man”. And anybody who’s bothered to actually use the technology can tell you that’s it doesn’t have the “brain of a horse”.
Human review is still important, but the depth of knowledge they have is pretty damn advanced. The moment you completely remove the human element is where everything falls apart.
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on One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Also, who fucking cares about Howard Stern’s opinion on AI?
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on One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
At this point, there’s so much bullshit from both sides on this issue that I don’t trust any of them.
- I don’t trust the anti-AI crowd, because they are just interested burying their head in the sand and pretending the technology never existed, despite its benefits.
- I don’t trust the ones who call for regulation, because far too much money is sloshing around in the political pool, and they would just push this half-hearted bill to “ban the Chinese models” without any real regulation on the US side.
- I don’t trust the tech bros who can’t wait to fire half of their workforce for a shareholder circlejerk, instead of using all of that increased productivity to fix all of the bugs and mountain of tickets their developers face every day.
- I don’t trust the US AI cabal who willing participates in a circular multi-trillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that actively damages the global economy and many of them are sucking on enough copeium to be classified as its own atmosphere.
- I don’t even trust the Chinese, who despite playing the part of the gigachad in this fucked up story with its open source and genuinely useful models, are still playing the best strategy they have to promote their own communist dictatorship, and they might well end up on top in the long term.
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on [Bellular News] People Aren't Buying New Games, So Valve Changed Steam in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 12 Sep 2026
In what way?
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on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
There has always been slop before AI slop.
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on Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
This is such an incoherent counterpoint that I’m convinced this is just some form of trolling.
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on Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
There’s so much information, misinformation, and random forum posts that using an search engine alone is hot garbage. And I’m not even talking about Google’s zero-click bullshit. Even using other search engines will only get you so far, so fast. Stack Overflow ain’t the resource it used to be, and even then, it was still rife with misinformation and noobs that didn’t know what the hell they were talking about.
The way I see it, there are two choices:
- Spend 30-60 minutes trying to find the information I’m looking for.
- Ask my Kagi agent to find what I’m looking for, give me the results in 1-2 minutes, and provide an intelligent list of options for my problem.
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on Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
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on Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Whats stopping you from killing someone?
I have morals and ethics. But, not everybody does, and that’s why there’s prior enforcement to make the punishment a deterrent for the crime.
If there’s no enforcement, there’s no law.
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on [Opinion] Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
Ain’t no war except class war.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
It’s called “copyleft” for a reason.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
In terms of murder, not every person is caught. But, enough of them are to deter the crime.
In terms of “no AI” enforcement, it’s not even a matter of perfection. It’s not possible to enforce except for the dumbest attempts, especially without also using AI to detect it. And if that enforcement comes about, then the evasion starts, and it’s hidden even further.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Wow, just speedrunning Godwin’s Law, aren’t we?
I guess I’m going to go back to work and talk to my five LLM sessions that are working on different tickets.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
The entire point of GPL is to forcefully extract copyright out of the code in the first place.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I hate this attitude that if a rule or standard can’t be enforced perfectly, we shouldn’t strive for it.
This is the entire basis for the War on (some) Drugs. Guess what? Drugs won.
Power is nothing without enforceability, and purposely implementing rules or laws that can’t be enforceable is a form of malice and discrimination through selective enforcement.
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on You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
You understand that car racing is the most blatantly advertised sport, or really, popular entity that ever exists, right? It’s been a running joke for decades how many sponsorships are plastered all over their cars and outfits.
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on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Child sex crimes and child safety are topics that tend to short-circuit all reasonable objections,
Globally, there’s powers at work to get all kinds of “age verification” laws on the books, which we all know is just a thin excuse for de-anonymization and identity gathering. These same powers were fucking with Steam and Itch.io’s payment methods, because “what about the children”, which then ties to similar events with PornHub a few years earlier. Congress passed three different “Internet child safety” laws in the 2000s and 2010s, and all three were struck down by the Supreme Court for being unconstitutional. Decades earlier, DARE abused “child safety” justifications for personal gains.
This excuse is used all the time, and the emotional weight it carries makes it shocking effective to the proles that buy it at face value.
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on ICE Plans to Spends Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Benn Jordan did a good video about this:
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on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
Cloudflare’s blog posts are always more interesting. They have a really good postmortem process.
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on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
The problem is that there’s no existing law that would effect this on its own. To my knowledge, no country in the world has a law on the books specifically dealing with AI models trained on CSAM. So the question, under existing laws, would turn on whether the data stored within the model itself would constitute CSAM.
CSAM laws are already overreaching in dimensions that are rife with abuse. It’s rare to have a law where owning a picture of something is highly illegal. It’s the only law I know of where somebody can just send you a picture on your phone, and suddenly, you’re breaking the law. You could be arrested and thrown in prison for even admitting that somebody else sent you the picture.
Police use CSAM as an excuse all the time to search without a warrant. Remember the duress passcode case? Police claimed he had CSAM on his phone, when everybody knew they were targeting his activist work.
And what should we really care about? The CSA. Go after the CSA. Focus on the abuse. The Epstein files are right over there.
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on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
The core llama.cpp maintainers also work at HF and will now work for Nvidia I guess. Llama.cpp is a pretty significant part of the local LLM stack, especially since other tools like Ollama and LMStudio are just GUIs built on top.
I guess that explains why features like quantized KV caches are lagging behind. Maintainers are purposely dragging their feet.
the community may need to step up our game and get our eggs out of the big tech basket.
The community has chosen to not fight at all, which is worse. Anti-AI sentiment is at an all-time high.
Publicly. Privately, these hypocrites still whisper in ChatGPT’s ear when they get lazy enough. Or use some feature in Photoshop or some other software that they didn’t even understand was AI-driven.
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on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
We are in a war with the rich. Always have been. We will never have nice things unless you take it from them.
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on NVIDIA reportedly buys HuggingFace for 13 billion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
The way things are going at Huggingface now, I imagine we probably will have to start building the infrastructure we need to handle AI models as distributed links sooner rather than later.
Then “we” better get started. Mega corpos have fully embraced LLMs, to the point that they’ve distrusted human input too much, which is still a vital component of successful adoption. Eventually, more and more companies will wise up and figure out how to find the right balance.
Where are we at? Oh, right… we’re too busy arguing about how all AI is bad and sticking our fucking heads in the sand until the Big Bad AI Problem goes away.
We have to fix our attitudes if we have any hope of surviving this mess and not ending up as a Cyberpunk-wannabe dystopia by the time 2077 hits. Use the fucking weapons given to us!
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on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours in c/technology@beehaw.org · 25 Aug 2026
You’re the one that equated “unpopularity” with “not a viable solution” with that ~1% response.
Popularity and technical viability have nothing to do with each other. It’s just that the former requires a lot of marketing to push the general public forward, way more than is necessary in my opinion.
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on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours in c/technology@beehaw.org · 25 Aug 2026
Solar panels make up ~1% of all residential power generation. I guess that means it’s a horrible way to generate power, right? 🙄
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on [Technology Connections] My water heater is cooler than yours in c/technology@beehaw.org · 25 Aug 2026
If you watch the video, you’ll understand that the temperature transfer process to a hot water tank is incredibly slow. So, water tanks are not a very good battery.
I mean, unless you want to spend 12 hours trying to dry your clothes.
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on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything in c/games@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Twitch streamers, YouTube channels, book best seller lists, radio play lists…
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate in c/technology@beehaw.org · 9 Aug 2026
Not sure how that statement is right-leaning.
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on Scientist says RAM pricing has risen to normalized 2007 levels, AI shortage undid 20 years of progress in a matter of months — memory prices had been falling exponentially for decades in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
I partially blame the whole Oracle / OpenAI / NVIDIA cabal.
But, let’s not ignore the memory cartel’s involvement in this sham. Shitbags left themselves vulnerable to a demand crash with tiny numbers of competitors (three), tiny amounts of facilities to produce RAM, and the corporate stranglehold to keep it that way.
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
Not typically in the world of YouTube. That’s kind of the point.
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
That’s what happens after a buyout.
- on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate in c/technology@beehaw.org · 8 Aug 2026
As shitty as Meta is, I really don’t like the reductive nature of this headline. Here is the original Guardian article:
theguardian.com/…/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-…
“Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism”
This turned into “Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism”, with a quote from the showrunner to make it sound even more scary. Frankly, either of them can barely be called journalism, because they can’t be bothered to write more than a page on the subject.