But there are entire countries who don’t seem to get the whole ‘acting together for the betterment of humanity’ thing,

I would describe it as ‘indoctrinated by Big Oil’, heh… It is awful.

Also: it’s not even like you’re gaining anything from constantly using AI or LLMs. Just fleeting dopamine hits while your brain cells wither. Of all the habits one could try to reduce, or be mindful of, to literally save lives and countries, anybody who honestly thinks generative AI is more important is very addicted. Also also: it’s just so shit.

The majority of text ingestion/token generation is consumed by other machines for stuff like coding assistants or corporate data processing, and this includes image ingestion. I dunno what fraction is image/video generation is, but I suspect it’s not high, as there’s really no point outside of cheap spam.

You are not wrong, and corpo AI is shit for plenty of reasons (including being needlessly power hungry when it doesn’t have to be), but I’m not relenting that this is a ‘small fish’ issue to pursue in reference to the massive waste in so many other parts of the US.

Big Oil and such delight in such distractions because it draws attention away from their more profitable and harmful sectors they’d rather people forget about.

I’ll make my own LLVM, with blackjack and hookers.

MSN is a repost of this: https://hip-hopvibe.com/news/delta-state-student-demartravion-trey-reed-found-hanging/

Newsweek’s coverage seems authentic, yes. It’s not like a comprehensive conspiracy or anything, and it is plausibly a suicide.

“Worse” only being “less engagement in the next quarter.”

AI mods are probably pretty good in that respect. Random bans don’t really matter, they can stick to the party line, and letting a bit more controversial or ragebait disinformation through is a plus. In the short term.

This is so on point and perfect. Like, ‘shamelessly abuse my mod privledges and pin if I was a mod’ perfect.

Backed, not owned though, and not alone:

https://slaterides.com/slate-auto-investors/

I view it as a net positive if Amazon wants them for EV delivery. A substantial guaranteed commercial customer is huge, and Slate isn’t exactly into dystopian tracking electronics or anything.

His trail’s probably a long way away, isn’t it?

My sentiment is the same.

To be blunt, Lemmy is a terrible place to ask.

Is it this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rncUo1Pnqio

Close enough to double take, but I don’t think its the person they caught.

Kirk’s job was literally to argue like this though, so it might be somewhere else.

It’s a loyalty test, yes.

It does plug directly into the phone! It literally just lives on my headphone cable, and it’s so light the 3.5mm cable is the basically same as with it off or on.

I suppose the only downside is if other using your phone want to plug in, and they happen to not have the dongle. Or if you want it for an older car maybe.

Hear me out.

Get a Fiio KA5 (or similar).

• It’s negligibly tiny.

• It’s cheap.

• It works between smartphones. You can keep it a decade+.

• Now your headphones work with anything.

• Sound clarity/noise floor/volume level is better than any phone.

• Better sound quality from your PC. Or TV. Or anything.

• Now your choice of phone isn’t so restricted, so you can find a deeply discounted one.

What’s the downside? I get some dongles being annoying, like the Apple ports meme, but this tiny thing has caused me precisely zero inconvenience and brought me tons of convenience.

If you want to look at it another way, if you assume every single square inch of silicon from TSMC is Nvidia server accelerators/AMD EPYCs, every single one running AI at full tilt 24/7/365…

Added up, it’s not that much power, or water.

That’s unrealistic, of course, but that’s literally the physical cap of what humanity can produce at the moment.

I’m not sure what you’re referencing. Imagegen models are not much different, especially now that they’re going transformers/MoE. Video gen models are chunky indeed, but more rarely used, and they’re usually much smaller parameter counts.

Basically anything else machine learning is an order of magnitude less energy, at least.

Yeah, that is so perfect.

Imagine a sedan or hatchback. It would be light as a feather (in terms of curb weight) and still feel spacious being so ‘clean’ inside.

The sad thing is ‘smartphone on wheels’ is a slur.

Smartphones don’t have to be soulless and uniform and enshittified and subscription based and completely inaccessible and straight up anti-consumer/designed to fail, but here we are.

I really hope Slate takes off though (and they make a nimble hatchback for their next chassis). It feels like the antithesis of all this.

+1 for immutable in general.

Yeah, that’s problematic, heh.

To be fair, I do wish more privacy-friendly browsers took DDG mobile’s approach, namely torch all sites but make it really easy to (and prompt you to) whitelist frequently used ones.

You can permanently disable the chatbot in full DDG search. Click the little gear.

It does make me wonder what API they use. I thought it was huggingface (which would be less bad), but they don’t say it explicitly.

The idea is to “poison” LLM training data, though I would strongly argue it does precisely nothing but strain human brains.

Even with zero data preprocessing, the LLM is going to ‘interpret’ the meaning anyway, just like they can translate training on Chinese characters to English meaning.