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@IMALlama @fediverse Is this bad? Seems like this lets the “best” community rise to the top, for whatever definition of “best” the community chooses. Otherwise you start interfering with freedoms and setting a judge to decide what communities “should” be

@Riverside @world Do you also think election meddling by Russia in Ukraine, Georgia, Hungary, and other central European states is a conspiracy theory?

@nonentity @technology I think the problem with your framing is it implies that humans are not also “explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincter(s)”. We weren’t exactly living in a perfect world prior to AI, and all AI does is regurgitate what humans created. AI isn’t really changing the character of anything - and in several domains I’d argue it’s improving the baseline (coding for one).

@Evade5415 @nostupidquestions We should rename Kansas to Ur-Kansas. You know, to avoid confusion.

@fmtx @world Give it time, we don’t know much yet. I still got some money on “just as horrible”.

@rwrwefwef @world I don’t think it was criminal. Pretty sure the Nazis passed laws that made the Holocaust legal in Nazi Germany.

@eceforge @technology I never understood why we don’t just call it “lying”. I mean, I understand why AI companies don’t call it that, but that’s what it is and I don’t think we’re helping ourselves by using a euphemism

@GaMEChld @selfhosted I kinda got this running and I’m here to tell you - unless you’re willing to babysit it through the constant changes and updates and dependency hell that creates, you might be better off just paying for api use at something like https://fal.ai/

@yabbadabaddon @technology Unfortunately this is no longer the case. While China 10-20 years ago definitely bootstrapped itself with corporate espionage and reverse engineering, so did every country including the United States. The China of today produces its own fundamental research at a rate comparable to the US, and given the structural failures of our educational system, will exceed the US over the next 5 years.

Not recognizing that and making excuses is the sign of a country in decline.

@frisbird @world This analysis doesn’t even consider Putin. You built this entire framework without even mentioning the impact of the strong hand ruler of Russia for the past quarter century. That seems like a choice.

@sartalon @technology Yeah, I have a lot more trust in the reputation that Ars has built over a decade of solid reliable tech journalism than I do in a random matplotlib maintainer - I’ve interacted with maintainers before. They’re not wrong about agents, but not sure how that’s any different from any human doing the same.

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