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  • More Liability Will Make AI Chatbots Worse At Preventing Suicide

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  • I think we're probably in agreement. What I was trying to say was that for all the (many) issues in the medical system, we have places in society where risk is studied and managed. We can do the same with AI, there just doesn't seem to be any will on the part of the political class to actually tackle complex problems right now, and we really need that will to regulate because the free market sure as fuck isn't going to regulate itself.

  • More Liability Will Make AI Chatbots Worse At Preventing Suicide

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  • If this were a physical object that, ha ha, occasionally convinced people to commit suicide or murder, or spiral off into other delusions, it’d be off the shelves in a heartbeat

    I want to gently push back on this. There are medications that can cause psychological symptoms and suicidal ideation as side effects and they're still prescribed. They are, however, controlled, people who take them have to be informed of the side effects, and they're managed by a trained physician. I absolutely think LLMs need to be more tightly regulated, and we need to have a much better idea of how they work and how to deploy them safely and in contexts where they are actually useful and won't cause harm. But we do manage known risks with other products.

  • The Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets

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  • North America has a bunch of different types of receptacles as well, but they're a little better regulated and configured so there's not much chance of mixing them up. Lots of houses here have both 120V and 250V circuits, but the receptacles are normally completely different so there's no risk of mixing them up, I think. Amperage, however, is a little more wild west from what I can tell - you have have anywhere from 15 to 60 amp circuits and, as far as I can tell, there's no way to tell from the receptacle what you're plugging into or the load it can take unless you check the breaker box (and have a house where the circuits make sense - older houses often have things like lights or receptacles wired into circuits that don't really make sense for them). This is all in my very limited, very lay understanding so somebody who knows better will probably come along with better info.

    ETA: The situation in Brazil sounds rough - generally from my experience in the us, if your plug fits in the receptacle, it's probably fine. Worst case scenario (most of the time) is the overload a circuit and flip a breaker/blow a fuse, but there are lots of older houses that are definitely not up to current code.

  • Technology @beehaw.org
    TheRtRevKaiser @beehaw.org

    The Digital Museum of Plugs and Sockets

    www.plugsocketmuseum.nl /Overview.html

  • Should we use the "anti woke" steam curators to buy games?

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  • OP, I'm assuming you mean should we buy games that are on these curator's lists as being "too woke" just to spite them? I think folks are a little confused about what your question/argument is, here. Also the typo in the title isn't helping.

  • ArsTechnica's response to the AI generated "quotations"

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  • For the most part, the comments I have removed on this thread have been removed for violating Beehaw's only rule: Be(e) Nice.

    I have zero problem with people criticizing this journalist. I do have a problem with users attacking one another or using misogynist language (it's possible in that case there's a cultural disconnect. I'm from the US, where "cunt" is a pretty serious gendered insult. I know it's not considered as big of a deal in other english speaking places, but frankly I've been getting enough reports on this thread that I'm getting a bit sick of dealing with it in general)

  • Sincere question: why play long video games?

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  • So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

    You literally did, though?

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • Hey, I appreciate your response. I totally get the anger, and I can see lots of possible ways that this wave of age verification policies could bite folks in the ass. Thanks for being reasonable, I hope you have a great day.

  • Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs

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  • I'm trying to be as charitable as possible, but I'd like you to provide a source for this assertion that Sakhnini has some connection to Israeli intelligence or the Israeli government besides being from Israel, otherwise your comments will be removed.

  • (Meta) What about technology satire or funny pieces?

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  • I'm not speaking for the whole Technology mod team here, just off the cuff. I think a satire piece (if clearly labeled preferably) would be completely fine. Personally I'd also be good with funny articles or other types of writing about tech, god knows this sub could use some levity. I don't think we would probably be okay with posting tech related memes, though. It's possible that if the community was really interested we could do a weekly sticky for memes or other lower-effort content, though.

    Again, I'm just spitballing here, I haven't checked it with any of the other mods.

  • First finished hand-embroidered patch

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  • Thank you!

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    Trump raped a minor

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  • Look, I think Trump probably did rape minors. I think he was probably involved in trafficking. But this isn't really evidence. It's hearsay, at best. It's an anonymous complaint filed via an open FBI telephone tipline in 2016. From what I've seen, all manner of wild stuff gets reported to those tip lines. There's absolutely no way of knowing if there's any truth to this other than the fact that we all have a gut feeling - and have seen lots of circumstantial evidence - that Trump was involved in this kind of stuff. It doesn't do any good to go around acting like it's proof of anything, though.

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    “The editorial class is the managerial class now, and has spent decades mentoring young reporters to not ask questions, to not push back, to believe that a big, strong, powerful company CEO would

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  • I think folks are struggling with the format of this post - I'm thinking it's probably at least partially in interop issue between Mastodon and Lemmy. Folks on Lemmy are usually expecting the post itself to be a link to the article or site, with commentary in the body or in a comment.

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    “The editorial class is the managerial class now, and has spent decades mentoring young reporters to not ask questions, to not push back, to believe that a big, strong, powerful company CEO would

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  • The link is in the text block under the post - this is due to the fairly hacky interoperability between Mastodon and Lemmy. You can post to Lemmy instances via Mastodon but they almost always wind up looking very spammy because of the formatting and all of the hashtags.

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Unless I'm mistaken, PiHole won't block Youtube ads because they're served from the same domain as the videos.

  • First finished hand-embroidered patch

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  • Thanks! I was pretty happy with how it turned out, which is nice because there were a few points during the process where I thought it was going to look awful.

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    TheRtRevKaiser @beehaw.org

    First finished hand-embroidered patch

  • Axios reveals text of peace plan: Ukraine to relinquish its territories permanently, Russia to receive amnesty

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  • Thanks, I wasn't aware of them, and didn't find an entry on them when looking up on mediabiasfactcheck.com. I wonder if the naming is intentional or just a coincidence around the word "Truth".

  • Axios reveals text of peace plan: Ukraine to relinquish its territories permanently, Russia to receive amnesty

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  • Sorry, isn't Pravda a literal Kremlin disinfo op? I'm not sure we should be posting anything about the Ukraine war (or, frankly, anything at all) from a Russian state-owned propaganda outlet...

  • Why most polls overstate support for political violence

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  • Fantastic article. I've had similar thoughts when reading articles on that Marist poll in particular, it seemed like a much weaker statement than most of the coverage was implying.

  • An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video

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  • I think the problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs this way is that they don't have intent, so they can't have responsiblity. If this piece of software had been given the tools to actually kill someone, I think we all understand that it wouldn't be appropriate to put the LLM on trial. Instead, we need to be looking at the people who are trying to give more power to these systems and dodge responsibility for their failures. If this LLM had caused someone to be killed, then the person who tied critical systems into a black box piece of software that is poorly understood and not fit for the purpose is the one who should be on trial. That's my problem with anthropomorphizing LLMs, it shifts the blame and responsibility away from the people who are responsible for attempting to use them for their own gain, at the expense of others.

  • Politics @beehaw.org
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    The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine | The Atlantic

    www.theatlantic.com /technology/archive/2025/01/january-6-justification-machine/681215/
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