There’s inherent self-selection going on by being on Lemmy in the first place. Plenty of people are happy to just take in what the algorithm feeds to them and are unaware of how URLs work; they just click links.

What is this? “Give us another $40 billion and we can have a compelling product”? AI at this point is glorified Clippy. And Altman has already said he needs $7 trillion.

I’ve used ChatGPT in daily work, and while it does things I need it to do, it’s a timesaver, not some sort of view-the-whole-world-in-a-new-way-after-losing-one’s-virginity solution, which is what it’s been sold as since (apologies) release.

I wasn’t trying to be a dick; as things continue to spiral down, I get less tolerant of general attitudes about what one should “just do.”

Do not assure unless you have way more context. I can’t currently drive, and even if I could, I have no idea where the keys are to lock it if I leave.

I’ve actually had two Vaporessos. I had them so I could take quick hits at work. Salt nic isn’t exactly a session thing. The first one lasted all of a year, and I had pods, so I got another that lasted three months. We’re being engineered into disposables.

I’m in the unfortunate situation of mail being several days delayed and certainly not wanting strangers learning where I park. The secondary market is not something I currently have access to.

I switched from cigarettes to vaping in 2016 – after trying and failing multiple times through an eGo stage – once box mods had evolved to the point of being reliable and delivering a satisfying hit. That mod worked until 2023.

I’ve since had three fail, and you don’t want to spend $100 (when it’s not Black Friday and your mod dies, that’s the going rate at local vape shops, since I guess the margin on a single-18650 mod isn’t good enough) to be able to use your remaining $12 of juice when a disposable that lasts for a few weeks runs $20.

As such, I’ve been using disposables for several months now. I don’t like this transition given the waste and danger involved, but nicotine addiction is a bitch.

This isn’t particularly surprising and is useful context. By the 2010s, Facebook had already morphed from having any veneer of being about connecting people to a financial and political machine with outsized aspirations. To be willing to work in that environment for any length of time – especially in such a high position – inherently points to complicity.

I watched it once at my college roommate’s behest and somehow didn’t understand that it was satire, which made it something of a frustrating slog. I expect I’d like it a lot more on rewatch. He gave me all sorts of shit afterward for not understanding what the hell I was watching.

Arch … famous for being the distro friendly for Linux newcomers with a welcoming community.

Yes, I’m telling you that.

One wonders about the timing of xAI acquiring Xitter.

Deck chairs on the Titanic.

I wasn’t in the room when my ex cheated on me. She was still fucked, and so was I.

Would you like to know more?

The photographers are getting totally screwed though, as well as the make up artist and anyone else involved in a shoot.

I mean, that was the central thesis of my original response.

Brilliant strategy … move water-intensive operations from an island to a desert. Yes, you can for the most part create a closed loop, but greater Phoenix is already curtailing development on account of water sourcing. That’s at the residential level.

This all smells of theatre. Sure, one fab is up and running and a second is ramping up, but we’ve seen these sorts of claims of investment fall through in the past (Foxconn) – an additional $100 billion? Yeah, I’ll believe that when all those shovels are in the ground.

Phoenix does make sense on the level of Intel’s operations in Chandler that should in theory mean a trained workforce given Intel keeps laying people off, but unless Gelsinger was a total idiot, they didn’t shed the best and the brightest, and, in fact, TSMC’s first Arizona fab had delays in ramping production for lack of a qualified workforce.

Overall, a very well-researched story and solid read. Thanks for the link!

H&M claims in the article that they’d still pay the models prevailing wages to use their likenesses without them having to do anything, which on the surface sounds like a good deal. Further recruitment seems unnecessary when you have a stable of 30 digital twins who will never age.

And sure, a Photoshop user making slave wages can fix whatever issues the “AI” spits out up to a certain point. That’s not to say it will look as … uh … natural as airbrushed, toned pics.

I’m loving your commentary on the subject.

Having experience as a writer, editor, coder, porn producer, audio engineer and web designer does provide a unique perspective.

Altman claimed a need for $7 trillion to really get the job done. When Musk can’t cover the bill, maybe you’re just delusional.

Microsoft has sent at least $13 billion their way. And got the reviled Copilot for their troubles. They’re pulling back.

It’s completely absurd to me that as someone who didn’t even finish undergrad, the state of the emperor’s clothes is obvious, yet we’re playing this game of pretending there’s value where none exists. Nvidia is the only winner here. My guess is their shareholders are also going to get fucked without lube sometime in the near future.

Tablets obviously came to pass, but 2000 was not the correct time with the state of the art (resistive screens, anyone?). LLMs are currently here. I’d imagine we will get to the point of “AI” becoming AI, but it isn’t now. And you can’t will that into being, but at least we’re gutting research funding at the federal level to further gum up the works.

I tried out Mistral ahead of responding, going so far as to install the app. It’s uninspiring. The tech just isn’t there yet. I asked it about my job search, and it provided suggestions I’ve already been doing for years; upon providing clarification, it spat out more useless obvious things. Is the target market people who’ve never had a job before when asking such questions?

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