Considering the negative impacts LLMs have on so many facets of life today, that's kinda the problem. Running it locally only solves some of those.
Fundamentally though, I just don't want the tech involved in my life at all anymore. I don't care if it has a niche use here or not. It can just fuck off.
No AI is a nice feature; Chromium is not. For those who feel like I do, LibreWolf is a version of Firefox that appears to strip most if not all AI, and being a Firefox fork means that it's also not Chromium. It also uses more privacy-conscious settings by default.
You are aware translation services are available that are neither a local LLM nor Google-owned, yes? We had machine translation before ChatGPT existed, and I don't think that tech evaporated in a sudden fire just because a more harmful option appeared.
The appropriate option for Mozilla would've been to not include AI at all. If they really, really couldn't have swung that (they could've), then the second best option would be having all AI features set to off-by-default. Instead, we've got on-by-default. That is unambiguously a terrible idea.
This is a good way to handle the situation and an understandable and believable scenario, so I'm perfectly willing to forgive this. I'm a little less okay with an apparent "work in spite of illness" policy, however.
But still, it's a serious blunder, and it needs to be said that any repeat of this at all would be very damning. I can't forgive this level of fuckup twice. Any AI use is a risk, folks; treat it like one.
I don’t believe him.
I know the internet is full of untrustworthy charlatans, so I can't blame you, but I'm as anti-AI as they come and I do believe him. Mistakes happen, especially in the context of rushed work done while sick. Remember that a lie by a grifter and the truth from an innocent sometimes look exactly the same; effective lies are made off of what was once a truth, after all.
Just to clarify, we’re only talking about mainstream social media here, right?
Yes, most discussions of infinite scroll center around this use, and it's what this topic's focused on. I'm aware that other uses exist, but frankly I'm not terribly worried about that. Pagination is a perfectly viable alternative for most every case I can think of that infinite scroll is used in, especially when paired with a half-decent search system, so even if a clumsy blanket ban were applied I think we'd be fine.
I mean hey, by some definitions it'll work! "I didn't check/care that the AI output bullshit" is technically different!
Were it only that we didn't need to put carets on both sides of every word for one, haha! Ah well, Lemmy issue.
So, sans much context (short of a quick read on Wikipedia on the Telecommunications Act of 1996), this honestly looks like naive libertarianism, and reads like an obnoxious manifesto. Feels appropriate for the attitude of the 90s, I suppose – from what I know, there was a lot more belief in the internet as a frontier of freedom and justice, then – but it's not so fitting these days. Many of the internet's ills have spawned from an environment of shockingly little regulation, and I'd argue the all-too-common "move fast and break things" paradigm devolved into existence from that, too. Yet this appears to be rebuffing regulation writ large, in some misguided belief that the internet was perfectly fine how it was, would continue to be so forever, and that no positive government intervention was possible — rather than the reality that the internet was flawed, at risk, and that good law was possible if only a state had been willing to pursue such a thing. ^1^
Which isn't to say that a low- or even zero-regulation environment can't work. But it needs specific alternatives; you can't just not fix something. And infinite scroll is definitely a something, here. It absolutely contributes to creating an addictive environment while rarely being used for anything good. Personally, even if this letter had aged well, I don't think this would be an appropriate time to reference it.
^1.^ ^Some^ ^of^ ^which^ ^was^ ^passed^ ^in^ ^the^ ^very^ ^law^ ^this^ ^article^ ^so^ ^hates!^ ^Section^ ^230^ ^comes^ ^from^ ^the^ ^TCA!^
That's still a separate issue. Infinite scroll is scarcely ever used in a good way, and is almost always used to encourage addictive behavior; something which affects adults just as much as children. Even on the rare occasion that it isn't being implemented as an engagement tool, it still often ends up being one anyway. It's a dark pattern and little else.
As far as I'm concerned, banning infinite scroll could easily be a very good thing, and I'm in favor.
Perfectly valid to be angry about Discord's current behavior, as it's absolutely terrible. I already cancelled my Nitro over this and am actively taking steps to be prepared to leave the whole thing if needed.
Consequently, it's worth mentioning that I don't actually have any faith whatsoever in Discord's current CEO. It's just important to make sure that when we hate Israel's treatment of Palestine, we don't end up slipping into bigotry towards people just for being from the country and nothing more. Not every Israeli likes Israel's actions. Plenty of teens have chosen prison over IDF draft, for example.
With regard to that, then: I appreciate the self-awareness and de-escalation. Not easy to do, but always good to see. Thanks for that.
So, not a huge fan of posting this site in particular given that it appears to be state-run and therefore liable to lie, but this did happen. Footage of the school's state was confirmed several times and a Norwegian org said about 170 students were present at the time, which isn't counting adults, making the now-current death toll of ~165 more than plausible despite a thus-far lack of independent confirmation.