As He died to make men holy
Let us die to make things cheap
You could check out another instance, for example https://feddit.online/ , which is visible without signing in.
Piefed.social used to be open for all, but I suspect it needed to be restricted due to AI scrapers. Not sure exactly what the reasoning is though.
You can find a list of instances here: https://fedidb.com/software/piefed
I just checked a random Mastodon post with no image in it but plenty of comments, one of which has an image attached. 38 KB. This thread loaded in PieFed is 12 KB. A random article at @404media@flipboard.com is 49 KB.
The internet at large is pretty fucked, but I’m pretty sure most of the sites I actually use haven’t been this small in almost two decades.
I don’t trust anything with a HQ in America any more. I guess I lack the imagination to imagine it being a good idea.
Mexico is not one place, it is many places. Yucatán has lower homicide rates than Wyoming.
I wonder where you think the cartels gets their weapons from. Mexico has strict gun laws. Or their money - it doesn’t just spawn out of nowhere. Parts of Mexico are dangerous because they are part of an illegal trade route to the US, fuelled by American weapons and American money, and that is that.
Must be easy to get confused when you can only have one thought in your head at a time, and barely even that.
Mexico’s murder rate per 100 000 is 24.9, meaning you’re on average safer in Mexico than in Newark, Memphis, Cleveland, Kansas City, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore or St. Louis.
Never mind that murders in Mexico are generally committed using American firearms, and for American money over drugs that are to be sold in America. Mexico’s problem is America. So while we wait for America to selfdestruct, I guess they might as well get to work on public health issues.
Obviously not saying that cartels are not a huge fucking problem. It’s hard to get good politicians when they murder anyone who resists them. But the cartels are in large part a product of America’s failures. Europeans are not innocent either - fuck every coke snorting upper class brat who is having their pathetic highs at the expense of a whole fucking continent.
/rant
American government: Builds concentration camps
Mexican government: Develops brand new chocolate bars
I’m happy to see there are still some governments out there who rule in the interest of the people.
Large language models and “generative AI” such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E are all just machine learning models. We do not currently have a real “AI branch” of computer science, we have a branch of machine learning that poses as AI.
No matter how good a machine gets at recognizing and predicting patterns, it will not constitute AI, as intelligence is different from pattern recognition and prediction. Even if LLMs can sometimes appear to be reasoning, they importantly are not.
five minutes later
Grok: “Heil hitler!”
Before the war, Europeans were obsessed with the Jewish question. The question was basically what to do with the jews who refuse to assimilate. The Germans came up with what they coined as the final solution to the Jewish question, which was of course the Holocaust.
Then, after the war, what do Europeans do? Do they accept that Jews can live among them as equals, even though they are different? Do we manage to leave this fucking Jewish question behind us?
Nah, we give them land where other people already live, so that they can have their own state and not bother us.
It’s just another solution to the Jewish question, and it’s rooted in the same fucked up belief that we simply cannot afford to coexist.
Israel was not founded against the Holocaust, it was founded with a basis in the same type of fucked up thinking as the Holocaust itself.
I guess this depends on things like location, soil type, and environmentally disruptive neighbours.
I grew up in a Scandinavian forest with a well, no filtering needed. Sure, after heavy rainfall the water could end up containing a few more minerals than usual, but it would never require filtering, and the house has been standing for almost 40 years now without sediments building up.
If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don’t have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.
Yeah, I just find it to be a great rule of thumb. Those who understand what they are doing will be aware that they are not dealing with AI, those who jump to label it as such are usually bullshit artists.
What’s the biggest thing you ever made? Which work are you the most proud of?
And how are you received as a Canadian in Scotland? Do they treat you alright?
Do you have midges in Canada?
Usually when I see this it’s using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.
There’s huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.
If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that’s awesome, but that’s very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.
I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like
the UNWikipedia in relation to these issues
Really works as a counterargument against anything!
Gigantic hater of all things LLM or “AI” here.
The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with “multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages” could be potentially useful.
And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that’s also a good thing.
Could I find something to hate about it? Oh yeah, most certainly! :)
There’s no real difference, content flows freely between the two platforms.
I’m writing this in piefed - does it make my comment “piefed content”, while your comment is “Lemmy content”?
The distinction makes no sense. And that’s the point - use whatever platform you prefer, enjoy the same content anywhere you go. There is no “piefed content” or “lemmy content”, only content. :)