MysticKetchup

1. This is way too brief and lacks any actual evidence for its argument
2. It doesn’t touch on the main argument of AI bubble forecasters: that AI costs a massive amount of money to develop and run but does not make nearly enough money to recoup that investment. And people don’t seem to be interested enough in AI to actually pay for it, especially given that the actual price will be very high

Wow yet another example of forcing AI into something that the AI just makes worse. Must be a day that ends in Y

1. This article likes to repeat itself a lot
2. Is this article actually about how the author didn’t like The Gilded Age?
3. Only showing critic reviews and not showing user reviews seems like less of an issue than the article presents, given that a quick glance at Rotten Tomatoes shows that critic and user scores tend to be pretty similar but critic scores are lower 9 times out of 10

What if the 2030s change the approach and use AI to teach everybody how to program?

What does AI (already known to be an unreliable bullshitting machine) provide to students that existing tutorials, videos and teachers do not already?

Also the companies investing in AI are not trying to teach their workers to be better, they’re trying to make more profit by replacing workers or artificially increasing their outputs. Teaching people to program is not what they care about

As a young child who didn’t yet know what Barbasol was, I was still a little disappointed to find out that the can was not, in fact, filled with delicious whipped cream

It’s funny that they can never give actual concrete reasons to use it, just “it’s the future” or “you’re gonna get left behind” but they never back those up

He has previously suggested that Greta Thunberg could be the Antichrist, but her name is not thought to have come up at the talks so far.

So the billionaire building autonomous weapons and spying technology used for genocide who also injects the blood of young men to rejuvenate himself is here to warn us about the dangers of young climate activist trying to deliver food to starving Palestinians?

It’s sad that we’re at a point where people will actually listen to him and think he is anything other than a terrible person

There’s also no way to really tell what the “cost” of generative AI is on creative fields, or any way to determine who gets what money. There aren’t going to be enough grants to cover every small, independent artist whose work is buried beneath mountains of AI slop

And like, the obvious issue is who is going to enforce this? Pretty much every government has been cozying up with the billionaire tech bros that run AI companies and will fight tooth and nail against any legislation like this proposal

In addition to what others have said, SmartTube has options to remove them on Android TV devices

Seems like a normal, sane and totally not-biased source

If anything this is an overly optimistic representation of consumerism given that they limit work to 8 hours and encourage 8 hours of play

Yeah this screams “Let’s use AI for the sake of using AI”. If they wanted simpler summaries on complex topics they could just start an initiative to have them added by editors instead of using a wasteful, inaccurate hype machine

They want cultists though. Easier to exploit

Oh it’s undoubtedly going to fail, but it should milk enough money out of their users to keep them going while their investors cash out

Except it seems like every time a major area ceases water fluoridation the caries immediately increases compared to nearby areas. Until we see some hard benefits from removing fluoride from water that exceeds the benefits of fluoridation there’s no point in giving in to the fearmongering of conspiracy theorists

1. One moderator from fosstodon is not 100% aligned to the prevailing ideology on Fedi.

For clarity’s sake, the views the mod expressed were:

• Calling criticism of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and transfer to Louisiana “yellow journalism” for using the phrase “disappeared”
• Defending the striking down of a school privacy policy that requires teachers get consent from LGBTQ+ kids before outing them to their parents
• Removing posts about surveillance of LGBTQ+ people in r/privacy for contradictory or unexplained reasons

3. The mob went on to presume that someone that is not 100% aligned to their prevailing ideology is unfit to be considered human - let alone a moderator - so they went after the admins.

Is all criticism now a “mob” just because they don’t want people with anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ+ views to have the power to censor others?

4. The admins claimed to have reviewed said mod actions, didn’t find anything out of the ordinary, but still got rid of them.

From what I saw, the admins actually said that they were fine with keeping him on the moderation team and the mod deleted their own accounts

6. Less-principled users of fosstodon are now just leaving the instance, for fear of being associated with them.

Are they? The most I saw was that people were considering leaving because other instances were going to start blocking Fosstodon

What is with the concealing and downplaying of the mod’s views and then exaggerating the “outrage” of the “mob”? Yes the Fediverse can be drama-prone but most of the fanning of the flames seems to be coming from the people complaining about Fedi users genuine criticisms of the mods/admins on Fosstodon

I don’t think it’s unreasonable to remove mod privileges for these kinds of views if you’re trying to run an inclusive space. There’s supported suspicion that they’ve used their mod powers to censor information on minorities already, just because they haven’t done it yet on this platform doesn’t mean you let them lie in wait to do it. Makes me worry that Fosstodon admins don’t see any issues keeping someone like that around

Would this get the same kind of backlash had the mod been kicked out for tankie views?

I’m sure they’re less interested about buying Chrome than they are about buying Chrome’s market share

Wish this AI bubble would burst already