i thought the guy was the oligarch and brick the fossil fuel

never thought i would even consider buying anything with i infront of the name

its steam forums are literally nothing but posts for giving invites

if something similar happens again, there might be a pattern

Imagine any other company admitting 20 billion setback, how would the investors react to it? I wonder if them admitting this is the needle starting to puncture the bubble, since i cant imagine why anyone would want to invest anything more to them and without more money being injected to their loop how will they keep it running?

annas archive is very nice

for money they totally would do it. and since the whole thing is under their control they can design it in such way you wouldnt ever know. We are the product for them, not the phones.

i’m not calling it even ai, its llm

It has its uses. Generative stuff is ok **as long as ** you keep it to yourself. Its sometimes easier to ask llm for explanation on some obscure thing / to take a look at what information on system logs could mean. Its neat gatget. Kind of on par with some kind of useful tool but too unreliable to be of real use. And even if its useful to some, the cost and looming threats are not worth getting on the bandwagon (environment, if its successfull you wont be able to afford it, if its not capabilities will be reduced greatly if not completely and its not much use for you then). And most of all, if its as successfull as they want to sell to investors; have fun being unemployed and looking for job with other couple billion people as once the rich get theirs you wont get yours.

Other people who lose their minds because of it are the problem imo, though ones that do shouldnt have been on anykind of position that matters in the first place.

c-suite gets cut of everything, they should get their cut of hunger and genocide too.

But people are still doing it

People who use facebook are fucking nuts…

i think some part of it is people themselves using word google as synonyme for search. And in general acting as if google was only search engine in existence.

ai wont definitely replace modding. Vibe"coders" wont have any idea what the llm churned up for them so they will have no idea how to keep it updated, improve it or generally do anything at all with the generated content. Maybe the llm can do something if prompted, but it will just mess things up slowly. I noticed this effect when i tried to make some scripts, the llm would slowly lose the plot as it “comes up” with its own brilliant ideas on how to do what i tell it to do, then it hungs up on those ideas further on and everything just becomes a big mess. Only way i could keep at least some sense in it was by copypasting the entire code for it on every prompt and that is not very sustainable. Maybe things have improved, havent cared to use llm much for long time now.

But there is another facet to all this, if we dont keep showing distain towards slop people who dont know better will start thinking its okay and vast majority of people really dont know better. And should that happen, it will make things worse by devaluing actual work people put in. What people think shapes the world. So there is still some danger of llm taking things from us, but at least we can still do something about it.

Just dont go rabid and blindly hate anything llm related as it will just discredit proper critics by association and actually support the slop.

users are people

corporations are not people

at least with llm one can always get some help. not necessarily good help and maybe even be misdirected by ones own misconceptions that the llm could reinforce. But with little things like what some obscure thing that is obvious to experienced users is, or how to do something not too complicated.

But i wouldnt rely on it to troubleshoot arcane problems, did that myself and later it turned out the problem was somewhere completely different i thought and it “suggested”. I think it proposed at some point the problem could be where it actually was but i was convinced it couldnt be that and i thought i had ruled it out myself earlier. Then i noticed much later that i missed something when i tested things to rule out that particular source of problem. I guess one could still use it to get information on how to gather information yourself, that might be relevant to someone who actually knows something. And it could do some analyzing on logs and other system information files to find patterns human couldnt find without a lot of expertise.

slavers need more bodies

Maybe we could take some notes from how games work, like have kind of reputation system or “credit” system. If you upload stuff people like they can indicate it in some way and you get access to more resources. Or if there are some other ways people could contribute. It would have to be designed in such way it takes a lot of effort to abuse though (since anything can be abused no matter what). Though maybe it would just create cliques or something else negative, at least if the people managing it dont have pure intentions.

But either way, since fediverse isnt corporate crap we should lean in more on creating and having a community with all the benefits that come from it, especially since its actually possible here.

Yea, stop defying and start actively opposing