lib1 [comrade/them]

Family plan is fine for us. What features do they even have that are on the other plans?

I wonder why every major AI company has chosen in tandem to not do that then 🤔

Let’s assume:

1. we live in a world with 100% clean energy
2. AI produces no pollution
3. AI puts no stress on any of the electricity grids it’s plugged into

It’s still a plagiarism machine that is atrophying important cognitive skills in a big chunk of its users

Understood. Education is an absolutely vital aspect of worker liberation, which is why historical communist governments have prioritized mass literacy programs. It is unfortunate that in many cases it required a revolution and a change of ruling class for this education to be prioritized.

Fair enough! For me I think it came down to a perspective shift on the design of liberal democracies. I would love it if the owning class was forward-thinking enough to allow social democracies to function well longitudinally. It seems that the dynamic is that workers fight for protections and social safety nets and then owners slowly gut those programs and push austerity. On a long enough time scale, social democracy decays.

I used to think we could essentially protest and activism our way out of this because I viewed liberal democracy as something which was fundamentally designed to serve the people and was corrupted to serve the owning class. Now I view liberal democracies as something which was designed to serve the owning class from the start. There was a big reason land ownership was originally required to vote in the United States. Lenin says in State and Revolution:

A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, and, therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell … it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change of persons, institutions or parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic can shake it.

I think this naturally leads to questions about how to deal with the entrenchment of capitalists at a fundamental level and the answers lie in historical examples of societies which were able to do so. And all of this is made significantly more urgent by climate change.

I’m not a communist

I use it a couple times a day and always double check its output. It works decently well for what I want it to do. Programming work and our codebase has a lot of boilerplatey things

I can’t imagine the nightmare of trying to reproduce “incorrect data” and they just send you the prompt instead of the query

It’s not possible in any corporate stores purely for the fact that they use facial recognition extensively. Doesn’t matter if you can technically get away with paying cash and using a fake name. You’re being tracked the moment their cameras can see you and they have extensive profiles on people even if you’ve never used a debit card, given them an email, or given them a phone number.

Just a look of “we really doing this again?”

I can’t speak for everyone, only for myself. My opposition to AI isn’t an opposition to the disembodied, out-of-context concept of AI. It’s an opposition to the context in which AI exists and of which it’s emblematic. The form that LLMs take in our society exists because of a prioritization of profit and ownership over workers. I can go more in depth about the specifics of that that if you’d like.

We can have a discussion about the efficacy of luddites and their strategies in working class liberation. I don’t disagree that they achieved little. I just don’t think that their methods failing means we should dismiss the anger they felt or similarly the anger people feel about AI. That’s the truly analogous part. When I rail against AI on Lemmy, I’m not advocating for individuals to start breaking into a smashing up data centers. That would be just as ineffective. But that expression of anger is still valid.

Ah, okay. I mean, they weren’t doing that for its own sake. It was about the impact the looms were having on workers. I’m not just a loom hater

Is this an assumption that my problem with AI art is its environmental impact followed by an insistence that I can’t be upset about that because the clothing industry is also bad for the environment and I wear clothes? Because if so that’s hilarious

Good

I use SoFi for my checking account and am very satisfied with their services. It’s the closest I’ve gotten to reaching parity with the now-acquired-and-sunsetted Simple banking app.

She’s well represented already

For children’s media? I’m curious what a 10 is

On a scale of 1 to Demon Hunter, what are we talking?

I just looked it up. There were 2 horses who played Artax so they could film continuously while not working the horses continuously. They trained the horses for 7 weeks to be comfortable submerging themselves up to the neck in mud. Still a wild thing to do to a horse but neither of them died

I miss the old Internet so much. What we’ve gained in speech and features we’ve lost in freedom and control