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@ hansolo @lemmy.today

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  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • You mean commercial LLMs.

    AI as a term includes machine learning systems that go back decades.

  • What NSFW Social media websites/ services that still exist today?

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  • When I asked a similar question about old forum websites a while back, someone mentioned the Somethingaweful forum as still being active.

    There's probably a ton of NSFW sites with forums that are barely active.

  • From a conversation with a neighborhood friend. :)

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  • Do the shirts also come back?

    Not like the swingers, I mean I don't want to pay for a shirt that goes away.

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  • What a great point you make: know your threat model, know your environment, act accordingly.

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  • The _nomap suffix prevents Apple devices from automatically mapping a WiFi connection.

    Did ya even read the article?

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  • Apple and Google are to blame. Don't blame the unaware for the sins of the unethical.

    Plus, don't blame me, I hide my SSID and it ends in the magic _nomap that prevents this stupid shit. So wardriving is not exactly a major problem for the informed.

  • How to differentiate between a AGI and an LLM that has read every book in existence?

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  • Your premise is a bit flawed here, and I appreciate where you're coming from with this.

    I would say it's probably true that no human has read every book written by humans. And while reading about those experiences are insightful, any person of any intelligence can go through a full and rich life with lots of introspection and cosmic-level thought without ever reading about how other people experience the same things. If two young kids are abandoned on an island and grow up there into adults, and have the entirety of human knowledge available to them, is that the only way they would be able to experience love or sadness or envy or joy? Of course not. With or without books makes no difference.

    Knowledge is not intelligence in this sense. An LLM is no more able to understand the data it's trained on than Excel understands the numbers in a spreadsheet. If I ask an LLM to interpret Moby Dick for me, it will pick the statistically most likely words to be next to each other based on all the reviews of Moby Dick it's trained on. If you take an LLM and train it on books with no critiques of books, it would just summarize the book because it doesn't know what a critique looks like to try and put the words in the right order.

    Also, AGI is not well-defined, but emotions are no where in the equation. AGI is about human or better intelligence at cognitive tasks, like math, writing, etc. It's basically taking several narrow AI systems specialized on one task each and combining them in a single system. AGI is not "the singularity" or whatever. It's a commercially viable system that makes money for wealthy people.

  • What super powers when used together create an infinite glitch?

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  • If the mutants would just wear black turtle necks and pitch this around Silicon Valley, they would be billionaires instantly.

  • I tried to delete my CivitAI account under GDPR. The system failed me - because no one cares

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  • The GDPR isn't universal. It applies to EU and EEA residents only, it's an EU regulation. Ukraine isn't in either. Don't take it personally, doesn't apply to me either. Wish it did.

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    Does this really work?

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  • If you're posting this somewhere that anyone else can see it, then it's going to get scraped. There no corner of the internet where you can post stuff and expect it to just sit there. People scrape Patreon, people scrape FB and IG, which require logins and can limit who sees what. People scrape the fediverse. Short of a Whatsapp or Signal group with like 10 people, it's going to get scraped.

    I suggest you find a balance with what you want to share and who is going to see it. Ask yourself why others want to see what you share, and why you feel they want to see it, then understand you have to take the risk of loss of privacy with anything you post. As others have said, if you don't want it online, then it should never be typed in the first place.

  • I tried to delete my CivitAI account under GDPR. The system failed me - because no one cares

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  • You're correct that no one cares about 1) users, 2) the GDPR, 3) the prospect of €5 million fines 10 years from now under the GDPR. If there's any way around that, such as you not being physically in the EU when sending this email, or the company not being based in the EU, then it's an excuse for everyone not to care. Truthfully, the Irish DPC is correct - you and this company are not subject to EU laws any more than had the President of Mexico sending this email. GDPR will not help you until you cross the border into Poland to send the email.

    In case it helps, I went through the list of US data brokers, one by one removing my spouse and me from their lists. A lot of time it came down to the same thing, blast emailing [email protected] and making the request. 2-6 weeks later, I might get a response. Many required going back over and over to jump through hoops. I still have no guarantee the data is deleted, and in many cases it's not deleted but just "not published."

    This is why all users, all people online who care about privacy, must maintain proactive defense of their data. There are no data police to lock up the bad guys. Once your data is gone its gone for good. It must be protected before it's lost, not after.

  • Should I start a blog?

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  • Do it for your own motivations. Thoughts you want to share with the ether are fine things. If the audience is what validates you, consider maybe a narrow focus forum that is a community of like-mined people.

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  • Functionally, no. It's like the no tracker request in browsers - only the stupid ones would honor that.

  • Made a shirt to commemorate the passing of Dick Cheney

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  • This is lovely

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

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  • This is a wonderful idea.

    Off hand, I would agree with understanding file navigation. I would suggest you make a sort of capture the flag treasure hunt. First round, find the file. Second round, move the file. Third round, rename the file.

    Installing and uninstalling apps, including looking at reviews online to see what app is best for drawing, for example. Say the challenge is you can only install 2 apps and can only keep one.

    Hour to add and delete bookmarks from the browser.

    Good luck with this!

  • If your lifes goal was to make life better for as many people as possible how would you go about achieving it, assuming you could get start-up capital for your project?

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  • We all have those genes to some degree. In a non-obsessive level, it's a survival tactic. Please do not alter my genome without my consent.

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • Ugh. Fuck those people. That should be a crime.

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • Can you not just log in on a mobile browser in desktop only mode?

  • What open source project is the most exciting for you right now?

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  • Absolutely, fully agree here. An Open Source widely applicable phone OS would benefit millions of people. Possibly billions.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    What are some active online communities that are entirely oldschool forums?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    hansolo @lemmy.today

    Counter Proposal for Privacy Flag