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I guess you’re completely right with that. It lowers the entry barrier. And it’s kind of self-reinforcing. And we have other unhealty dynamics with other technology as well, like social media, which also can radicalize people or get them in a downwards spiral…

Oh wow. In the old times, self-proclaimed messiahs used to do that without assistance from a chatbot. But why would you think the “truth” and path to enlightenment is hidden within a service of a big tech company?

I don’t think it boils down to nationalism, either. This is the same thing Trump does, just with Europe. But I think the world is more nuanced. And it’s fine to be allied and trade with the rest of the world.

People do this because of several reasons. Moderation policies, political alignment of the people who run the place. And because we don’t want this decentral network to be just one big central instance. Though… the same thing applies to lemmy world, which became the biggest instance after the ml one.

I don’t think it is about that. The information collection is an added bonus they happily accept and make use of. I think it’s mainly about power and money, though. They get rid of everyone who isn’t completely in line and subservient. That’s from the playbook on how to become an autocratic regime. And they’re oviously interested in the money as well. Cut off everyone and everything they don’t like. Like weak people, poor people, your grandma and children. That money can then be funneled towards other people. Guess whom. I think the power and control aspect is the original idea though. And money has power as well. So does information and data, so it’s more a combination of things.

But the way they act, I’d say they had a look at other oligarchies and corrupt regimes and wanted in, too. Saw you need to replace all the people in any color of power and replace them with your own henchmen. Then they also hate a lot of people and always wanted to take their money. The AI and data thing looks more to me like something they discovered while at it. And I don’t believe the traditional MAGA people are smart enough to have anticipated that. But naturally, information is power. And AI can be used as a mindless slave to someone. I’d say it’s worth trying to foster it instead rely on human clerks and officials. It’ll be a new form of administration. One that does away with a lot of middle-men like the corrupt government workers other regimes have to pay.

And Musk looks like he has his own motivation, which might or might not be aligned with the “grand plan” I can’t really see there is. He is (was) free to combine the useful with what’s enjoyable to him. Currently the tactics is mostly to break a lot of stuff. Doesn’t really matter how or what. So that’s what they’re doing right now. I think the struggle and in-fighting on who gets to replace what with exactly what kind of things hasn’t really started yet. It’s already there, but not the main concern as of now. So we can’t tell the exact dynamics we’re bound to see in the near future. I’d say mass surveillance plus yet more AI is likely a formula to success, though.

I think that’s roughly 440€ vs 560€ for a single person, if you want some numbers. Accomodation, heating and electricity is separate and already paid for.

If the author had looked at the quality of generative AI chatbots in 2023, it wouldn’t have come as a surprise to them that they didn’t really replace a lot of humans. Big question is: What’s going to happen today and in the near future?

That’s what I wrote. Lemmy is a software, which can be ran on servers. You’re currently on somebody else’s server. In a group that is moderated by yet different people… They gave some rules to you and you now have to choose whether you’re willing to play by their rules.

Obviously, they haven’t banned you yet, despite you saying lots of unproductive, short sentences. I’m not sure if your original question got answered here. If you’re more interested in the details of how Lemmy works, read (for example) the documentation and Wikipedia article.

I meant island in the context of, a different Lemmy instance, separated from the tone and atmosphere of the rest of the network. But yes, we have a few people from other parts of the world as well.

We get that question every few weeks. No, Lemmy isn’t a “free speech” place. We tolerate a lot of things here, but the rules are made by the individual communities and instance admins. Generally, they remove misinformation, unhealthy things, hate and such. We don’t know about any “islands” which treat things differently. Lemmy is Free Software, though. You’re welcome to launch such an instance, and you’ll be free to pass arbitrary rules in your own niche.

Sure, that’s the basic idea of targeted advertising. And it works well. Google, Meta etc are making billions that way. I believe this can be translated into AI. And as a bonus they can exploit a few more psychological effects. Like make it sond like a recommendation from a friend (your AI companion), or have it nudge you so you’ll think buying it was your idea…

Thanks for your perspective. Sure, AI is here to stay and flood the internet with slop and arbitrary (mis)information phrased like a factual wikipedia article, journalism, a genuine user review or whatever its master chose. And the negative sides of the internet have been there long before we had AI to the current extent. I think it is extremely unlikely that the internet is going to move away from being powered by advertisements, though. That’s the main business model as of today, and I think it is going to continue that way. Maybe dressed in some new clothes, but social media platforms, Google etc still need their income. I wonder how it’ll turn out for the AI companies, though. To my knowledge, they’re currently all powered by hype and investor money. And they’re going to have to find some way to make profit at some point. Whether that’s going to be ads or having their users pay properly, and not like today where the majority of people I know use the free tier.

Oh, wow. What’s your estimate on how it’s going to turn out? Is it a vastly different thing? I mean SEO also requires quite an amount of technical knowledge about how proprietary algoritms work. Experience… You always need to be super up to date with everything. And we have a lot of snake-oil salesmen. I believe “AIO” would be a shift and some new things to learn, but not be too different or an entirely new thing?

That sounds fun, SEO so it’s also ingested by AI… Maybe I should check my spam folder to see if all the people who send me spam to optimize my homepage already picked up on that.

Yeah, I think that boils down to: Zelensky is a better negotiator than Trump. He doesn’t give in before the real negotiations even started, so he has some concessions left to make…

Sure. But we need to see pics, or it didn’t happen.

The abstract doesn’t mention them re-gaining their old capacity. It only says they shrink. And something about voltage. So I have my doubts. I mean it’s nice if my spicy pillow shrinks a bit. But what does that help if it continues to stay nearly dead? And an application in products would be hard to accomplish. At that temperature, all the plastic etc is going to melt. Maybe the solder as well.

I think it needs to work across instances, since we’re concerned wit the Fediverse and federation is one of the defining mechanics. Also when I have a look at my subscriptions, they come from a variety of instances. So I don’t think a single instance feature would be of any use for me.

Sure. And with the cosine similarity, you’d obviously need to suppress already watched videos. Obviously I watched them and the algorithm knows, but I’d like it to recommend new videos to me.

Tja. Ich glaube bis zu irgendeinem Alter konnte man im Ernstfall eingezogen werden.

Ich weiß echt nicht ob es sinnvolle Studien oder sowas zu diesem Thema gibt. Ich würde mal raten es gibt sehr viele unterschiedliche Meinungen dazu. Sowohl unter “Europiden” als auch nicht-ebendiesen.

Die Wikipedia sagt übrigens, das ist ein veralteter Begriff aus der Rassenkunde. Ich weiß ja nicht ob ich den verwenden würde. Wahrscheinlich könnte man besser einfach sagen: “Menschen, die in Deutschland von Rassismus betroffen sind”?

Ich kenne auch ehrlich gesagt wenig “Bio-Deutsche” aus meiner Filterblase, die zum Bund gegangen sind um ihr Vaterland zu verteidigen. Die Meisten aus meiner Klasse haben damals verweigert. Und die wenigen, die zur Bundeswehr gegangen sind, hatten meist andere Beweggründe. Also nicht mal die sind (waren) pro Wehrfähigkeit oder Pflicht. Und bei den aktuell 17jährigen, weiß ich ehrlich gesagt nich was die dazu denken.

Wie das mit Migrationshintergrund ist, da bin ich eh der falsche Ansprechpartner. Also ich hab da schon unterschiedliche Sachen gehört ob man mit Deutschland in so einer Form identifiziert. Oft scheint es ja sowieso schwer zu sein seinen Platz zu finden, wenn man irgendwie zwischen den Stühlen sitzt, oder aber zu spüren bekommt, dass man nicht so ganz “zur Gruppe gehört”. Aber da stecken ja sehr unterschiedliche Hintergründe und Lebenssituationen dahinter. Und ich kenne hauptsächlich die besser/gut integrierten Menschen.

Was ist genau die Frage bezüglich Wehrdienstpflicht? Ob es Rassismus in der Bundeswehr gibt? Oder wie man individuell zu dem Land steht, dass sowohl positive als auch negative Seiten hat? Ich bin nicht zu dem Verein gegangen, habe stattdessen Zivildienst gemacht. Dort gab es halbwegs Zusammenhalt. Aber das war auch in der Großstadt im Ruhrgebiet, hier ist das ja durchaus gängig nicht so 100% Deutsch auszusehen… Aber wir haben in der Zeit auch etwas Sinnvolles gemacht. Deutschland mit der Waffe verteidigen, dazu hatte ich auch keine besondere Lust.

Ich finde ja das Konzept Berufsarmee ganz akzeptabel, dann kann sich jede:r selbst aussuchen ob er oder sie da hin möchte, egal aus welcher Motivation.

Oh, wow. Should be pretty obvious that something isn’t open source, …well… unless the source is open…