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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI trainingEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

    No, it wouldn’t.

    I think search engines didn’t work with it;

    No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

    Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

    So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

    But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Someone's gotta say itEnglish
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    2 days ago

    You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

    There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

    To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

    Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

    https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

    Very few of those green states are for electricity

    And if you just meant:

    Non profit = good

    Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

    And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies insteadEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Good luck…

    Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

    There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

    The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

    Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.