cnnrduncan

joined 1 year ago
[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Wow what a shock, religious people using it as an excuse for their bigotry? Who could have ever guessed that this could happen!

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sure thing, here ya go!

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Adding on to your comment, I read a really interesting study recently that suggests that interacting with AI engages the social parts of our brains but does not provide the same stimuli/feedback as interacting with a real person leading to increased loneliness and thus increased alcohol abuse and insomnia.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's the beauty of federation! If you don't like the team that runs one Lemmy instance, you can just find a different instance to use.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I honestly can't see any of my older family members ever using an AI chatbot, let alone finding it a somewhat passable supplement for lack of human interaction.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on where you live!

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Personally I wouldn't have a major problem with unobtrusive simple banner ads that are not at all personalised like what we had 15+ years ago, though I really prefer to just not see ads at all nowadays.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Not my cup of tea personally but that'd definitely be better for the creators and likely better for the customers too!

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

Yep! The idea behind federation is that there are a bunch of smaller instances that can all talk to each other rather than one big central authority like with Facebook or Reddit!