No, no no. Actually the bosses knew exactly what they were doing. We all told them it was a bubble, a giant waste of time and money, but they needed an excuse to bonus themselves so they took it.
Never let lying corporate bosses and their reporters pretend this was a surprise or accidental. They let themselves get swindled and passed the cost onto their employees and customers, because that’s their MO.
Right. The phenomenon of bullshit jobs. If nobody cares what is written, why not automate it away? Meh.
I think you’re buying snake oil, my friend. What is “AI”? Statistical tools have been used in security auditing for decades.
The people riding the AI bubble want you to think things are magically different right now, but we won’t know that until we can get some solid data over the next year or five to do a proper comparison.
Trump’s pardons are an interesting thing. The more he pardons people now, the less leverage he has in the future, and he needs to hold onto that power for as long as he can. Cuz basically, he’s about to get fucked. The Epstein Files will be coming back into focus, and everyone who already was pardoned now has to testify under oath about everything when Congress calls them in for questioning. And if Trump doesn’t have allies (i.e., people who owe him shit), then he’ll be toasty in short order.
Also, it’s hard to pardon someone effectively if you can’t figure out what crimes they committed. Who was actually employed by DOGE? What authority did they actually have? The DoJ lawyers refuse to explain that, because it would expose them to liability. So, because the legal landscape is ambiguous (from the DoJ’s perspective and intent), the pardons themselves are likely to miss large swaths of criminal activity.
If Sam believes that, will he replace himself with AI and retire already? Pretty please? … It’s so easy to catch the ultra-rich in their lies; they simply can’t be bothered to speak believably.
It’s a great experiment. You mean it may not scale up, which is a different thing entirely.
What does “enshittification” mean? How is it caused?
Basically, it can happen when one company (or a few companies) dominates a market, so they can gradually make shit worse for everyone, trying to make just a bit more money.
Federation is the solution. As long as there are many servers, run by different owners and administrators, any single server can only fuck itself over.
That is why the open source community likes protocols, interoperability, APIs, and federation. No single software package, or server, should control the entire market. Single-point failure means brittle architecture, whether through accident or intent.
Is it common? How would we know? By investigating.
Come on, quit thinking abstractly and use reality as a test. Trump has been looking for those fake voters for a decade. A decade! He didn’t find any… Why is that? Not because of your master plan, my friend. But because voter fraud is just not happening on a measurable scale… Or, to put it differently, are you smarter than state election officials and the DoJ? And even if one of you is, scale that up. How many people are as magical as you?
This is almost correct. In reality, rich people inside Google got richer. That was their sole goal. That is all they wanted.
Because look, we all told everyone that the AI bubble was in fact a bubble, and that Google was destroying its own search engine, which of course would hurt them later. On the one hand, you could argue they didn’t believe us. But I think they didn’t hedge their bets because they didn’t care either way.
Fuck the company’s future if you can get rich now, am I right? Never underestimate human greed.
And this is why you don’t turn to Bluesky. If they’ll censor this, they’ll censor anything.
Lol this is why you don’t seriously invest in crypto, folks.
Nobody cares about Reddit these days. The bots took it over years ago. Like so many things, there was a time when it mattered.
Compared to what? That’s the entire point, isn’t it?
I think that woman doesn’t know who everybody is. It’s awkward when people don’t think about the words they’re saying.
This is simpler than you think. AI is a bubble. It is a giant bubble.
Many people, including many government workers, are getting rich right now by riding the bubble. They and their funders have zero interest in worrying about what will happen when it bursts.
(Also, AI is vaporware. It can’t replace workers in huge numbers. So nobody serious is actually worried about that… Of course there are some occupations that have shifted, but far fewer than you would expect.)
I don’t know about it being an average Democrat. There really aren’t that many average Democrats that I know of. Not anymore.
This is a title that’s factually true, but in reality highly deceptive. The AI companies are riding bubbles and the prices they decide don’t reflect the actual cost of anything. That’s what a bubble is. So the title should read that the AI companies are gouging some of their customers because they can.
I think it’s simpler than that. I think the AI snake oil sales people realized that corporate executives want to give themselves bonuses. And if you propose this magical technology, that’s going to change everything, they can pretend for several years but it’s actually going to change everything, and pay themselves a lot of money in the meantime.
It’s greedy people relying on other greedy people so that some of them can get richer.
Why should the argument source matter? Because the whole point of social media is for people to communicate with other people. We want to share ideas with each other.
If all you can do is copy/paste, you’re a failure. If you were in school, you’d fail for plagiarism. You’re wasting electricity and wasting our time. Sorry.
Or, if all you want to do is share someone else’s idea, just put a URL to the place where they said it. Don’t pretend it’s your contribution when it’s not.
That’s because you’re not thinking about everyone else. The question is what message you’re sending to the listeners.
If you choose a word (like “retard”) which is discriminatory, you’re showing your hate for the minority group, and not just for the other person. And that has an effect on the community at large. Maybe they don’t want to be surrounded by bigots. Maybe they think that’s shit.
So, if you’re gonna have a flame war, pick negative and non-discriminatory words like “jerk” or “fuckface”. Or don’t, and get banned or blocked, if the mod feels like it. Either way.