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ageedizzle

@ ageedizzle @piefed.ca

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  • ChatGPT will now predict your age based on how you interact with it

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  • I recommend duck.ai as an alternative way of accessing ChatGTP. Is not a perfect solution but it’s better than accessing it straight from the OpenAI website

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Yeah. In my experience upvotes/downvotes often have very little to do with the actual quality of a comment and more to do with how much it conforms with the current political zeitgeist of whatever community you're participating in. The converse of this is that low quality comments telling people who disagree to go F themselves may also get upvotes. 

  • Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story

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  • Stuff like this makes me very sympathetic to lemmy instances that disable downvotes

  • Infinite Regress and the Question of Where Observation Really Begins

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  • I see. Thanks for clarifying that. Could you send me a link to the paper?

  • Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

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  • Brave gives higher quality search results than DDG but its not as good at niche queries. If you’re looking for something very specific then use DDG. But if your query is about a really broad, general topic then Brave will probably give you better results.

  • Where do you get reliable information nowadays?

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  • Yeah, forum posts are becoming really useful again. A few years ago whenever someone posted a question to a forum you could often find the same snarky remark in the comments: 'just google it'. There was even a website created to add to the snark (let me google that for you). And there was some truth to that comment. Usually you could find the answer pretty easily with a quick search.

    But that's not the case anymore. With AI slop, search engines are getting less and less helpful. Slop has polluted our search results just like plastic has polluted our oceans. It's at the point now where search engines are almost useless for large subsets of common queries. So we are slowly returning to a pre-search engine era. In this new, post-search engine era, forum posts provide a very useful way of providing information. Long live the forum.

  • What can I do with my old-but-functional android smartphone?

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  • That's true. And it can be fun to mess around with ChatGTP 2. Sometimes its unpredictability can be entertaining

  • it's been a week

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  • Interesting. It would also make sense that going full FOSS might lead to less social media use indirectly, since most social media apps would require micro-G

  • Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying

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  • Yeah. I actually think your comment was very insightful, thank you

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    How to find communication on the Internet when bots cannot be distinguished from real people?

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  • I knew it

  • What can I do with my old-but-functional android smartphone?

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  • run your own AI model

    What AI model could you run locally on a decade old phone though? Probably nothing too sophisticated. It would have to be like ChatGTP 2 or something which doesn’t do a great job of holding a conversation 

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    How to find communication on the Internet when bots cannot be distinguished from real people?

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  • I've tested my local AI and it's almost indistinguishable from humans in communication style

    Why are AIs like ChatGTP so easy to spot then? Is it just the fine tuning? 

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    How to find communication on the Internet when bots cannot be distinguished from real people?

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  • Please don’t reply to this comment 

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    How to find communication on the Internet when bots cannot be distinguished from real people?

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  • What so you mean by ‘webs of trust’? Can you elaborate? 

  • Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying

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  • Have you even read the article were discussing? 

  • Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying

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  • Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying

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  • We already have a very dysfunctional healthcare system. It's a real concern that people might turn to MAID because they cannot access healthcare. The article linked above cites at least one example of this. I think this concern is even greater with mental health cases, since our mental healthcare system is even more dysfunctional. Why are we offering MAID for people with mental health issues when we can barely offer proper healthcare for people with mental health issues? That's a legitimate concern. If you want to frame that concern as me being as a nosey person who wants people to live in suffering then you can, but that's not a very productive way to hold this conversation.

  • Canada sidesteps UN scrutiny over assisted dying

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  • It is quite literally assisted suicide though 

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  • Yes. In addition to the environmental costs there is the very real financial costs. Th cost of building and maintaining our roads is causing municipal debt to skyrocket across North America, which results in reduced services elsewhere, like cuts to community centres or schools. Theres a very good book on this topic called You’ll Pay For This which I recommend to anyone interested in city politics