I yell it, wave, and leave. I ain’t waiting around.

I still have some of my original NES game booklets, including the one for Link. I kept them in a plastic bag so they’re all mint! I keep the Doom 64 booklet in my office space for fun.

It’s only Chinese surveillance and censorship when you don’t use an open source fork of DeepSeek, which is not possible with OpenAI or any of the other US-based big names. There’s already versions of DS that remove the telemetry and censorship. So it becomes a moot point for one and an unsolvable problem for the others.

Edit: I can’t find one that mentions removal or blocking of telemetry, but this one removes the censorship mechanism. Point still stands. Your data is out there with whoever your AI provider is. It’s part of why I don’t use AI for anything sensitive or important.

All AI does this. It just becomes more obvious that this is tired old anti-China propaganda because we don’t see similar articles for OpenAI and other US-based AI tools.

The difference is that OpenAI is closed-source so you never know what it’s actually doing, and DeepSeek being open source means the data being sent can be seen, and the mechanisms can be removed.

I saved them from a landfill! They smell kinda weird though.

I take it as more of an observation and use it to be more mindful of what I buy, the services I use, etc. The reality is that we don’t know what happens behind the scenes with so much of this stuff, but we can still be conscious of it and use it as an opportunity to reduce clutter in our lives.

Agreed. If I haphazardly ditched services based on the opinions of tech folks, I’d be reduced to using a pair of cans attached with string and nothing else.

Yeah, I think (hope?) we will find that his opinion is not echoed among them.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, and that applies to tech. I pay for Proton and this is disappointing af but not shocking. Corporations and wannabe billionaires always fold to fascism.

Gonna start looking around at alternative email services to consider but I use my Proton email everywhere, so switching away is going to suck.

How to say you don’t understand gender without outright saying it.

I broke my wrist at the start of 2023 and the bill to me after insurance was $6k lol. I saw the bill the doctor submitted to insurance and it was $40k. The ambulance bill came in separately at around $800.

Artists are legitimately upset because their work is being sucked into a vacuum to train AI without them being compensated or credited. If this was to train a tool that would become a publicly-accessible and free utility to anyone that wanted to use it for non-profit purposes, that would be an easier pill to swallow, but that’s not the case. It’s instead being used for profit by companies that didn’t actually create anything. Whether the artist is “good” or not is subjective.

Copilot being forced into Windows is only one side of it. The other issue was their Recall feature that uses AI. These things are optional now and can be disabled through third party tools and settings, but how long until they’re no longer optional, or they make opting out so convoluted that third party tools and instructions have to change constantly?

The other side of it that I haven’t mentioned is the insane power usage. It’s so high that OpenAI can’t even accurately estimate how much capital they need just to run a business that is already not profitable. It’s the largest amount of funding any startup has ever had to ask for. So in the wake of climate change, AI is a blow torch in a bone dry forest.

An example of AI adversely affecting everyone, even non-users: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-appliances/

For a field that is not profitable, it requires more capital than anything that has come before it: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/27/openai-needs-more-capital-than-wed-imagined-moves-to-for-profit.html

AI returns are dismal: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/so-far-ai-hasnt-been-profitable-for-big-tech/

It’s a multi-faceted complaint and doesn’t simply end at the user-facing experience. It’s a waste of capital, a huge weight on an already suffering environment, and it’s entirely out of the hands of the working class. It’s far too expensive for anyone outside of billionaires to run. And all of that for what? Summarizing articles? Making silly imagery and making artists and authors even poorer?

It’s the equivalent of sucking up entire lakes that have been around for thousands of years, all to fill some pools people use maybe once a year.

Edit: here is a new fresh level of AI hell for you. Edit 2: better link for the Meta AI story.

• It’s in DuckDuckGo
• It’s in Google search
• It pops up on tons of websites as a chat bot
• It’s crowbarred into Windows now
• It’s Apple Intelligence which is baked into iOS 18 (disabling it gave me 20-25% of my battery back)
• It’s in Arc browser (easily disabled)

If you’re able to avoid it altogether and not be forced to constantly disable it everywhere, I commend whatever you’re doing. I see it scattered everywhere and I consider myself a niche user that runs their own Lemmy instance and doesn’t actively use any of the big social networks.

People are complaining because it’s permeating everything while offering little to no value to the end user. The massive divide has arrived where the value to the shareholders is all that matters, and the tech companies doing it aren’t even remotely thinking about the user experience or benefit. I’ve been a dev in tech for 18+ years and I’ve never seen the field this desperate and stagnant when it comes to good ideas.

There’s also the fact that it’s being used to replace artists and it’s basically a massive plagiarism machine. OpenAI tried to claim that their AI is the equivalent of a learning human, but actual learning humans aren’t trying to convert every single thought and interaction into billions of dollars worth of profit for corporations.

Thom Yorke? Does he suck now?? :(

I love the Crunchwrap so idk why we haven’t been buying this already. #TBTips

We usually just order at the window but I’m gonna try the box next time.

We’ve managed to get our order down to ~$17-20 for 2 people. 2 cheesy bean and rice burritos, 2 tostadas, 2 soft taco supremes.

I agree with that. The bedroom scene felt like it never ended.

I ended up looking into it and came across an artist that drew up one of the interstitial cards themselves to demonstrate what a single hour of an artist’s time can accomplish.

I just watched this recently and didn’t know it had AI slop in it. Boooooo.