I thought I’d read somewhere that in Germany, the regional governments do most of the heavy lifting in terms of legislation, with a very limited federal government

The federal government in Germany certainly has more legislative power (in comparison to state governments) than that of the US.

The thing about Germany is that in Germany, there are many areas where federal laws are enforced by state executive branches, which isn’t really a thing in the US.

Isn’t this just a slight variation on the Simpsons joke “alcohol-free beer $5”? 😁🍺

It’s probably going to be even harder to prevent here because due to federation it’s very easy to open multiple accounts across instances and no instance admin has full user data of accounts on other instances…

But it also provides the opportunity to move to instances (and their communities) where the problem is well-managed, if any exist.

wait wait wait reddit is against AI bots? news to me… https://documentingourdecline.substack.com/p/ai-bots-appeared-after-reddit-partnered

(Why exactly would anyone believe that face ID verification can stop AI bots? Have they seen how well generative AI can generate videos of humans?)

We could also use the term “age declaration”.

It’s not by itself an outrageous feature (what does that even mean, outrageous feature). What is outrageous is that governments around the world are starting to think they have the authority to compel this.

I hoped that the answer to this would be in the post body, but no, no opportunity for me to learn about something new. 😕

https://xkcd.com/810/ was oddly prophetic

Kids likely don’t frequent forums like Lenny.

“Kids” being people of what age? Because I started regularly posting to web forums at the age of 10 and if Lemmy had existed then, I might very well have joined it.

Either we quickly find a way to undo the damage government regulation has done to it in the last ~10 years, or we lose all the good it could do for society forever because the coming generations won’t know what they’re missing. :(

Neither in Judaism nor Christianity are the Ten Commandments the only religious rules that exist.

Part of it is an instinct. All mammals, including humans, have evolved to be at least somewhat competent at raising offspring because those that weren’t had an obvious evolutionary disadvantage. Think of how other animals do it; if they can do that, why wouldn’t you?

But it’s a skill like any other, you can read books or watch videos or attend courses about it, or you can ask people who’ve successfully done it before (such as your parents).

I tried them when I was in the Netherlands (at more than ten years older than you are) and they made me feel bad and vomit most times I tried. I have no intention of trying them again, but YMMV.

Smoking weed meanwhile didn’t cause any such symptoms. Would recommend doing that instead.

Not all of it does? The medicine I take most often is ibuprofen pills (when I get headaches), which tastes completely neutral, neither good nor bad.

They can be. Google Fonts is a good source for freely licensed fonts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces

I like the JetBrains IDEs too from a purely practical perspective, but I would still rather use FOSS VSCodium than a nonfree JetBrains IDE. Those that are FOSS are a different story.

I don’t hate Microsoft, I hate nonfree software. I happily use free software developed by Microsoft, eg VSCodium.

I think someone highly confused about the UI.

whoever employs LLM

incumbent upon the handler to assume liabillity

I agree. If you make any kind of real-world decision based on the output of AI, you should be liable for it as if you’d made that decision yourself.

But I remember reading some news stories about cases where people (often minors) chatted with chatbots and managed to get those chatbots into states where the chatbots encouraged that the users harm themselves (in some cases even commit suicide?). As tragic as that is, I don’t see how it’s morally right to hold the AI companies responsible for that unless it can be shown they did this on purpose. All the AI did in such cases was what it was advertised and understood to do: generate plausible-sounding text based on user input. Those are the cases I’m talking about.

I don’t, not in general.

There are good and bad uses of AI. For example I used AI to generate my profile picture here on Lemmy (would you have noticed?). In general the creation of art is one of the best uses of AI I can think of; it doesn’t have serious consequences if it goes wrong, and it can easily be reviewed by a human whether it looks as it should.

But using AI to make actually meaningful business decisions without any human review at all? Using AI for customer service? Any company that does that deserves VERY negative consequences.

I don’t agree with talking points like “AI companies should be required to pay copyright holders of their training data” or “AI is bad because of the environmental impact” or “AI is bad because of RAM prices” or “AI companies should be legally responsible for any mistakes the AI makes (such as libel or encouraging users’ suicide)” or such things; I think all of these are nonsense.

I believe in general that AI gets too much attention in the media. It’s really not that impactful.

It’s just the normal way of doing things I grew up with, only much later in life did I find out that this isn’t normal in all cultures.