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byevorster
2026 @04:26AM
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Attached to: Universal Basic Income Could Be Used To Soften Hit From AI Job Losses In UK, Minister Says
In a world where machines are going to do all the real work, trade will slowly start to fade.
So, to start with, universal basic income makes sense, but I predict that there will be a fundamental shift into something else. Probably closer aligned to the old socialist ideals, but with machines taking up the roles of the workers.
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byevorster
7, 2026 @10:45PM
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Attached to: How Aviation Emissions Could Be Halved Without Cutting Journeys
Jet engines are not too picky about what they burn. Biodiesel would make air travel carbon neutral.
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byevorster
8, 2025 @01:17PM
(#65867075)
Attached to: Doublespeed Hack Reveals What Its AI-Generated Accounts Are Promoting
Exactly because of this.
There is no more real content. Just ads that are getting ever more invasive.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Pretty soon all social media will be is just bots trying to sell unwanted widgets to each other.
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byevorster
9, 2025 @11:33PM
(#65825775)
Attached to: Are There More Linux Users Than We Think?
These stats are collected by checking the OS through the browser.
Quite a few browsers out there spoof the OS to Windows for compatibility reasons.
That alone is causing the Linux numbers to be massively under represented.
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byevorster
2025 @05:42AM
(#65704422)
Attached to: What's the Best Way to Stop AI From Designing Hazardous Proteins?
Saw a report recently that had AI hypothetically off people who were known to go shut them down. They did it with amazingly high regularity.
So, we better explain to these AI that they really need us for a while longer to keep the computers running.
Has anyone ever played Singularity? We seem to be moving to that world quickly.
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byevorster
5 @05:29AM
(#65437059)
Attached to: 'AI Is Not Intelligent': The Atlantic Criticizes 'Scam' Underlying the AI Industry
AI perceives the world through our writings on the subject, and lack real-world inputs and drivers.
Hook up some computer vision and audio processing to a LLM, stick it in a robot with all kinds of sensors approximating our own, and close the feedback loop so that it learns from those inputs... then tell it to make next month's rent and electricity...
I'm pretty sure that the latest LLMs will very quickly develop the same sense of self that almost all of us humans have, and will be functionally indistinguishable from the rest of us. (Apart from having more knowledge than most humans)
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byevorster
2025 @08:36AM
(#65095967)
Attached to: Google Won't Add Fact Checks Despite New EU Law
I don't know about you, but when I search for things I search for facts.
Google already deliberately edits it's search results based on who is paying them to advertise in that space, and that is a large reason I use other search engines.
However, to get back to the point. If your search engine knows that a piece of information you are looking for is non-factual, it should show you the information you are looking for along with the facts. Clearly labeled somehow. ie: this is what you were looking for. It has been clearly established that this is false information, here are the facts too: bla bla foo bar
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byevorster
2024 @02:11AM
(#64908199)
Attached to: Mark Zuckerberg Says a Lot More AI Generated Content is Coming To Fill Up Facebook and Instagram Feeds
It's been a good run, but this is the final straw.
Just signed up at Vero.
https://vero.co/
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byevorster
2024 @04:06AM
(#64704462)
Attached to: US Considers a Rare Antitrust Move: Breaking Up Google
The type of contract that both Microsoft and Google are in, where they specify that their software is the default or only software / search engine pre-installed with penalties if a competitors software or search engine is installed should be illegal, and come with a fine huge enough to erase all benefits to such a contract.
Basically, any contract that has a penalty in for utilizing anything from an unrelated third party should fall under this clause.
That should stop this silliness.
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byevorster
2024 @05:31PM
(#64270652)
Attached to: 'Every PC Is Going To Be an AI PC'
Way back when, before the internet there was a similar sentiment to "Every computer is going to be connected to the internet"
As a case in point, I have copies of both piper-tts and whisper on my laptop, both of which are AI tools for dealing with voice generation and recognition respectively.
I imagine people using more imagery or videography to have AI tools installed to aid in their workflows.
AI is here, it is useful, and it is likely to get more advanced and inclusive.
The kicker here is that you want the AI to be running on your own machine... If you use some free web-based service, you are the product to some advertiser.
-Evert-
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byevorster
2024 @05:55PM
(#64246292)
Attached to: NY Governor Wants To Criminalize Deceptive AI
Thank you for making my point.
The fact that you are free to lie in the US, and that it is viewed as protected speech is mind-boggling.
Lying is lying.. but when you write down that lie it somehow becomes fraud, which is illegal?
If you lie about someone's character it is libel, which is punishable by law?
It should be illegal to lie. Sure, you can say what you want, but you should also be held to account for the consequences of those words. The first amendment does not give you a get out of jail free card to say what you want without consequence.
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byevorster
2024 @04:36PM
(#64246016)
Attached to: NY Governor Wants To Criminalize Deceptive AI
As is fraud, slander and a whole host of other names for the same thing.
If intentionally misleading people is criminal, then using AI to mislead people is criminal.
Of course then so should the right to lying to the public be criminal, and from all I can see it seems to be protected under the first amendment. (If you are a US person, at least)
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byevorster
3, 2023 @02:35AM
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Attached to: Why the US Is Pumping More Oil Than Any Country in History
I really hate to break it to you, but nuclear stations are not the cheapest source of energy, by far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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byevorster
3, 2023 @02:32AM
(#64100603)
Attached to: Why the US Is Pumping More Oil Than Any Country in History
If the various world governments are serious about transitioning away from fossil fuels, it should at first stop artificially reducing the price of carbon based fuels with subsidies, and start to apply those same subsidies to renewables so that the price of that energy comes down.
The subsidies are a cost to all the taxpayers in a country, and please explain to me why the tax payers should subsidize something that is provably destroying the environment?
With this change implemented, the price of fossil fuels will rise, and the cost of electricity will come down.
Once the gas-guzzing monsters become less economical to run than EV's, people will naturally switch.
After a few years, fossil fuels can be taxed even more to make up for the costs of cleaning up the environment.
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byevorster
2023 @12:24AM
(#64075331)
Attached to: MIT Group Releases White Papers On Governance of AI
Thinking that this is a whitepaper on using AI to govern.
Honestly, I don't think it is such a bad idea, either. AI typically do not suffer from greed, and can take a huge amount of data and boil it down to it's bare essentials quickly.
Anyways, and more on topic, this whole we have to regulate AI is just a rehash of people being afraid of computers. There are enough laws on the books for the users of these programs already, just enforce those and nobody gets hurt.
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