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Cake day: September 20th, 2023

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  • I imagine even the fk_ai crowd appreciate the non-gimmick stuff as long as it is nothing like a chatbot

    Tiny example from Gmail:

    This is all over, and it can be super useful from time to time.

    They say “f AI!” but I mean sure they don’t want better searches than were possible five years ago? If it’s not sycophantic and confabulatory etc. etc.

    Good point on intrusivity

    PS

    PS: I translated news from Iran this week using AI tools and using traditional translators. Who would advocate for the garbage traditional translation—soon as I went the “AI” route, it was suddenly possible to understand what the journalists were trying to say. That doesn’t mean I want translators to lose their jobs, it just means I know what the best available technology is and how to use it to get a job done. (And does not mean just because it translates well that I will also trust it to summarize the article for me.)





  • Hey there I didn’t complain or downvote but also declined to upvote cuz of the two little tiny words of ad hom……

    … (idea!) …

    DINGUS! Dingus would’ve saved it!

    ya dingus

    Perfect, feels very Lemmy-appropriate—gets the insult with a perfect lulz factor so even the parent commenter could’ve kinda laughed (I hope ppl can take jokes!)

    …sorry I know I’m not your mom, hope this doesn’t come across maximally prescriptive (just my 2c!)









  • Thinking for two seconds:

    MS pays Google to start enforcing some device verification thing so you can only view a good chunk of the Internet if you pass verification? (Assumes Google goes even harder making the web Chrome-focused)

    Ooh Cloudflare could be invited to the party here too. Constant CAPTCHAs if you’re not on an MS AUTHENTI-PC! device. (Think Private Access Token)

    …fill in the gaps friends 😉 you know MS has already debated all your “suggestions” anyway




  • Not even in an interesting or corrupt way. “Our engineers think it would be better to do it this way, any objections?” And then everyone talks about it.

    And this was the mental roadblock I hit trying to imagine a world without lobbyists.

    As if we could ignore every voice with some connection to a profit motive (ignoring thousands of experts), etc

    Well said!