Next step is to make sure only the workers are shareholders.

It’s getting more and more absurd.

“We can’t think of a good use for this parasite outside of our industry.”

Unfortunately, that’s their only job, to make the number go up.

It’s being shoved down everyone’s throats for the same reasons it was shoved down everyone’s throats 6 years ago… they need to train this shit so they can replace everyone.

It has the economics of a bubble, is making or computing extremely expensive and in most cases degrades my experience. Obviously they are running into a wall.

This screams fraud more than anything to me. It feels more like Enron than pets.com but maybe it’s a bubble. I won’t argue with you there. The rest of this statement, I agree with.

They will however not lead to AGI.

I’m not confident about that. How are you confident about that? I’m also not saying you’re wrong… but I don’t think you know this.

And we’re not even talking about how there are people in jail for a fraction of the piracy these companies committed out that they used peoples private data to train these models. Based on how IP law is wielded against people we should get a payout for every single time an LLM is queried.

Fully agree with you.

I’m going to express a perspective that goes against a lot of the Lemmy hive-mind, so I’m sure I’ll be downvoted, but here goes anyway cause I don’t give no fucks about downvotes…

When I first heard about LLMs (around 2021 I think), I was pretty neutral on it. “Meh, sounds like some annoying bullshit to piss off customers and attempt to take call-center jobs away. Probably going to flop…” was the perspective I had around the time of my first introduction.

Around 2022 or 2023, the place I was working at the time started heavily pushing people to use it. I was a Cloud Engineer at the time. There wasn’t a lot of justification as to “why” we should be using it, other than, “it’ll make things easier.” Because of my org pushing large numbers of engineers and developers into using something without demonstrating an actual benefit, or reason why it will help immediately caused my brain to signal red flags and become suspicious of it. My neutrality shifted into an ANTI-AI sentiment.

By the end of 2023 (or so), I was pretty vehemently against AI. I don’t need to articulate on that too much, we all know the reasons why. Towards the end of last year, I found myself in a weird spot of starting a business and didn’t know wtf I was doing, at all. That was the first time that I had a good experience with using Claude. It guided me through the process of creating an LLC, and a bunch of other bullshit that’s associated with that. I’ve had a few good experiences with it for the past few months… it’s a lot better than it was.

At this point, I’ve come to the conclusion that a large problem with AI was what happened in (what I’m calling) the early days (2020-2021), of pushing people to adopt some bullshit that was wholly unsubstantiated, and quite frankly sucked. The expectation for a “boom” was greatly miscalculated, and it still fucking is.

If companies were starting to push people to use it for the first time in 2025, I think we’d be having a much different conversation about AI / LLMs in 2026. I think it has some viable uses, and it does some of the technical aspects of my role substantially faster than I can do them. However, my concerns around the economic, environmental, and political implications of AI still have me maintaining a perspective that it’s more trouble than it’s worth. In short, “AI isn’t all bad on it’s own… the system we’re trying to add AI to is already fucked and AI is making it worse.”

I’m generally supportive of removing AI from artistic endeavors, but also wildly unfamiliar with bandcamp. I’m looking at it for the first time right now. Does it work like Deezer / Tidal or one of the streaming services where I can listen to things from my phone, or is it more of a website that you use to discover unsigned / smaller acts by clicking through a bunch of things and listening?

You’re proving my comment made yesterday about a large chunk of Lemmy users being barely literate.

Grow organically or die

Bezos isn’t a visionary, he’s a recationary. His opinions are worth less than the toilet paper I use to wipe my asshole with. Ya’ll need to get off Lex Luthor’s nutbag.

What time zone?

Fair perspective. I don’t think you’re wrong, but I don’t think of the car guys and the arch people as similar.

As a non-car guy, I’ve never had a car guy try to be smug with me about an engine he built.

I first heard of Arch in 2013. It was something talked about at work as being a bit of a pain in the ass to get going, but once it was running, “kinda nice.” That didn’t interest me at the time. It still doesn’t. I didn’t want to do extra work to make my work computer functional. I borderline hate these fucking things.

I only “heard” one person bragging that they used Arch, but that was in 2017 or 2018 on a Discord thing for a game I was playing at the time. I haven’t “heard” anyone brag about it since then, but I’ve read maybe 4-5 comments since 2018 where the writer was coming off like they were proud of themselves because they use Arch.

It’s weird as fuck.

Are you talking about a Chromebook?

Aside from that… I remember when I had my very first help desk job in 2008, Dell was shipping Latitude laptops with Linux for $90 less than the laptops that shipped with Windows… which is what a lot of places did that already paid for their own licensing direct from MS.

I’m not sure what prompted it, but I recently decided to try Opera. It’s not too bad, but I haven’t researched anything about it either. I’ll be spending more time looking it to it i suppose.

Concur.

This is amazing.

I have one of these. I’ve been using it for 2 years, but I only use it to clean my ears. It does a great job. You can see your own ear drum. That’s the stop point. Don’t clean beyond that.

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Concur about the lack of black and white. Interestingly enough, a major portion of your list of evils are things that I consider good. Addictive drugs are bad… everything else has a helpful, practical use, but could also be bad if used by a bad person.