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The voting system is, essentially, crowdsourced moderation. Once a community is too large for the moderator team to handle every single post and comment, votes can pick up the slack. Downvotes probably shouldn’t be active until a certain community size.

We are products of our material conditions, yeah, there’s no inherent evilness - it’s a learned behavior.

Which is why I support reeducation and rehabilitation for these hungry ghosts. 👍

Oh I’m not saying they’re like, a different species of human or anything. This is just what being rich does to people.

They never experience that period where they have to settle for less. They always get more, and so they always want more. It’s the way their brains have been trained to expect rewards. Someone like me, who is happy using older stuff and waiting for the prices to come down, has been trained to live this way. Someone like them, who always wants the best and most expensive, was also trained to live that way. They become hungry ghosts because of their lifestyles.

Normal people don’t desire more at all times. They’ll be happy for a while before setting their eyes on the next goal.

These hungry ghosts, though, never experience that period of contentment. That moment of happiness where they achieve what they want and can rest never comes, not even for a second. As soon as they get what they want they already want more. In fact, it’s probably more accurate to say they don’t even have goals. They only want more.

No, actually, normal people can settle. That doesn’t mean they don’t treat themselves “once in a while” or sometimes crave something special or set new goals when they complete one, but they don’t need more more more all the time. They can have periods of contentment. I know I do.

But there are some people who always want more. They never are satisfied, not even for a second. As soon as they get something they want they’re already bored with it and want the next best thing. It’s a hedonic treadmill that gets faster and faster, they’re never happy.

There is no end game. They’re hungry ghosts.

They just want an ever increasing “more”

I don’t like watching videos.

I bet they did the math

Did they? Because it seems like everyone else is in a hype bubble and doesn’t give a shit about how much this costs or how much money it makes.

Does it make them money? Or is this a bubble?

I think stable diffusion is cool. 🤷‍♀️

And that’s fine.

But it’s also censorship.

It certainly doesn’t have more. Hexbear came from r/chapotraphouse being banned, after all.

But hexbear has 4.4 million comments, whereas .world has 4 million comments. By not federating, they’ve effectively removed more comments from their member’s feeds than .world has ever had on its own servers. That’s pretty huge.

I didn’t say the censorship is problematic? In fact, I completely support it.

I’m just pointing out that defederation functions as censorship. Lemmy.world refused to federate with hexbear.net and that was when I moved to lemmy.ml - the power of the fediverse is that I was able to move to a different instance and I can interact with both communities. They engaged in censorship that I didn’t like, so I moved. It works!

Defederation is censorship. It’s part of the platform.

Don’t get me wrong, I support defederating from shitty instances, but it’s still a censor deciding what members see.

Your job isn’t loyal to you, why should you be loyal to your job?

DeepSeek is really interesting! Leave it to China to solve some of AIs biggest problems - if we can have these models without needing football fields of compute powered by nuclear plants then it would totally change my perspective on the industry. As it is they’re just too wasteful to justify their utility, but if DeepSeek just leapfrogged that problem then I have no complaints.

I have heard that these LLMs are really good as coding assistants, so good point. I shouldn’t dismiss that. I don’t think they’re good at music, and really the art isn’t that good either, but I’m sure people without artistic training like being able to make images and songs. Not sure it’s worth the cost, since it’s all built on plagiarism and so massively wasteful.

As for web searches, really? I don’t think they’re trustworthy. They can, and do, make shit up. No, that’s not the same as the boomerism of saying “anyone can edit Wikipedia so you can’t trust it” because Wikipedia has quality control. LLMs don’t. There’s literally nothing stopping it from spitting out lies and so it’s up to the user to double check whatever the LLM spits out, which means I might as well just search through results myself. And if you don’t always double check, it will bite you in the ass eventually. Good luck with that.

If it wasn’t for the web being an absolute social media shithole with no moderation resulting in AI slop being pasted all over the place, AI would genuinely be the greatest tech revolution I’ve seen since the iphone.

If it wasn’t for the web being a monetized SEO algo shithole we could still just search the web! AI summarization is only “useful” in the sense that the search engines have destroyed themselves in their search for profitability, google is garbage now and we don’t need to build acres of compute powered by nuclear reactors to fix the problem.

So really, the problems that are causing AI slop to pollute search results are the same problems that made search engines so bad over the past ten years.

If we demonetized and de-enshitified the search engines by nationalizing google I don’t think AI result summaries would be useful at all.

I will

NEVER

log off!

For who? Who is going to crash massively? Google? Microsoft? Amazon? Are you are expecting these massively diversified trillion dollar companies to fail due to AI?

Open AI is going to implode after it goes for-profit. As for the others they’ll weather the storm, they have enough diversity in their assets to handle the AI bubble popping, but there will be big tech layoffs and lots of assets will get sold off to private equity.

You click on them and it takes you to the source, could you maybe try it for 5 seconds and then get back to me before you just make stuff up?

So what’s the point?

This feels like I’m having a conversation with a boomer talking about wikipedia.

Rude. Wikipedia is, at least, peer reviewed by wikipedia editors. Chatbots don’t have that. They will just make shit up and you have to manually double check their sources yourself. At that point, why are you even using AI? It saved you no time or effort.

This feels like having a conversation with someone inside a hype bubble. If Wikipedia already exists, what purpose does AI fulfill? It’s just a more expensive, more energy intensive way to do the exact same thing. There’s no profitability case. It’s useful, but it isn’t more useful than the much cheaper and much less energy/resource intensive alternatives. So, what’s the point?

Yeah, it’s always best to check the original sources and not just believe everything you read on the internet, no different than clicking on results in google and getting a page full of misinformation which people are doing every minute of every hour of every day, and don’t even get me started on social media.

Okay, but then, why is AI useful? If you’re going to look at sources anyway, what’s the point? You’re just using a massive amount of energy and compute for something that can be done much more efficiently.

The only useful product I’ve seen come out of this is hype bubble is text-to-image models. Being able to tell a bot to generate an image is really interesting and useful for people without skills in creating or editing their own images. That’s an actual use case that could maybe justify the amount of resources being poured into it, it could maybe even be profitable.

The rest? It’s wasteful and it won’t last.

The US believed that communists invented mind control because POWs kept coming back as sympathizers.