“i have nothing to hide”

“ok. give me your SS#, DOB, and your mother’s maiden name”

“haywaaaaiiiittaminute”

lol i got that one too. because i’m old

i don’t get it…but i also don’t care

“qt 3.14” i finally got it… i guess at least the kids now have some math…

the reasons for trying to figure out how to go completely off-grid keep growing by the minute

bloatligarchs will still ensure a world in which their wealth/ownership is perpetually increasing. right now that’s going on through robbing the taxpayer. they buy holdings in defense/military conglomerates, the government calls it a matter of “national security,” throws billions of (our) dollars at said industries, invades countries, and prices for those stocks skyrocket

yes, your kids may die, but that’s a sacrifice they fucking nut over making

https://www.icij.org/investigations/windfalls-war/us-contractors-reap-windfalls-post-war-reconstruction-0/

i honestly can’t say what would happen in a world where any work being done is done by AI/robots–i can only guarantee you that the people at the top will do whatever it takes to stay that way, and not let anyone else in the club

i want to know at what point in a con man’s career of conning people does he start to actually sincerely believe his own bullshit

i think it’s much more likely we’ll be back in the stone age long before 100-200 years from now. IF we haven’t extincted ourselves by then

“no one ever has to work thanks to AI” sounds like a lovely hypothetical, but even if one takes this thought experiment seriously, the obvious answer to “who gets to eat” is the same as it’s always been: the owner class. for everyone else: NMFP, i got mine, fuck you, same as it’s always been

the idea that oligarchs will give up one molecule of their ownership of everything is even more absurd than the idea that AI will ever replace all human labor

LOL yea, let’s ask the fucking cocaine dealer if cocaine is addictive

jfc here we go again…

can’t wait to see how lemmy thinks this guy is literally satan

i mean no one sees any of this getting any better any time soon. overkill? possibly. but it’s one thing to not have to worry about for a while

edit: if it makes you feel any better, i usually build a new computer every 5-7 years, but this time i upgraded early, last january, 2025 expecting tariffs to make supply shitty-- i had no idea AI would be screwing up everything the way it has. definitely glad i made that decision, even though i went way over budget–i should be set PC-wise for quite a while

holy shit i thought i was going super prepared with a 24tb

me neither. if you think you might need more storage over the next 2 years, now’s the time to get it

if you need HDD, i never had a problem with seagate, though it’s been years since i bought one

“We are reinforcing our editorial standards following this incident.”

how? where did the failure happen, and what specific steps are they taking to stop that? what are the consequences for the human being(s) responsible for the AI slop?

when you wreck trust, then it’s your problem to re-earn that trust. your one-sentence subtitle promising “i’ll never do it again” doesn’t fix this and increase trust, it makes the shit even worse

the clip didn’t make me want to watch the remake. looks like generic cozy anime characters peppered with AI art

more of this please (spoiler: original ghost in the shell epic final fight scene) (NSFW: cyborg nipples)

true. for what it’s worth i’ve been mocking, ridiculing, and shitting on not just AI but all the tech shit for some years now

might change with the whims of the government or when leadership changes.

i don’t think so. once freedoms are gone, they tend to stay gone. see: patriot act–even obama AND biden signed off on renewing it

the ad money is just extra. as long as AI can serve as a mass surveillance tool for the government, they have nothing to worry about money-wise