This one hurts a little.
It is true that the Earth is round, much like it’s true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.
Nice reference
I’m so tired of carrying the weight of their stupidity and ignorance.
I don’t know if this will help, but the stupidity level is probably no worse than it’s ever been, it’s just a lot more visible now.
Most human beings have never paid much attention to the world outside of the little bubble they live in. But now that we have such a good communication network they’re able to get casual low-effort glimpses of the big world by glancing at a few memes or whatever, which they think makes them experts, and they broadcast their ignorance worldwide because they can. The ignorance was always there, just never this noticeable.
Instead, we get Dark Age 2: American Boogaloo
But AI is actually way ahead of where I thought it would be in 2025.
It’s not, really.
I played with chat bots back in the AOL messenger days. There was this “Run-A-Bot” program I used to run at home, and when I was out I could chat with it and it was surprisingly interactive and realistic.
The responses were probably hard coded to expected inputs, done the hard way… as I feel it should be.
I thought wow if a company spent years add in more and more important data by hand this will be AMAZING in just a few years.
Fast forward 20 years and the AI companies did it the most lazy way possible. Just auto feeding data scraped from the web. Yikes, all the trolls and fake info included.
This new AI is just a sentence generator, it’s almost useless. They have some twisted algorithms to spit out junk but each one is leaning towards whatever twisted views the company that made it want it to spit out.
back then the buzz word was “expert system” and later “fuzzy logic”, all kinda sorta leading down the same path LLM 's have taken today, they just didn’t have the compute power back then.
Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
When the world stops being a neoliberal hellscape
If corporate social media can be used to fuck up the world so horribly, then imagine what we can build now that we have p2p social media. Everybody is mad and should be mad. But we’re easy to manipulate. We need to adapt how humans obtain and process information, and numerous p2p apps have demonstrated limits to corporate power.
New ways to communicate and coordinate are a really big deal. We’re a tremendously productive species whose time is mostly being wasted. With what might seem like minor tweaks to our society, we can build this picture.
I’m in complete agreement. The Internet should have been amazing for democracy. Then they went and privatised it, to control the online landscape and push propaganda.
So edgy
Not even a little
Can’t change something if you don’t know about it
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