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Binturong@lemmy.cato
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Why do your own farts smell so bad in the shower?English
7·22 days agoOne could theorize that the poop particles expelled with the fart are better trapped in the moisture in the air, so as you breathe in the very humid air, and consequently your own poop particles, the sensory elements in your nose and sinus have an easier time detecting them. This is partly owing to how the moisture also makes them more likely to stick to surfaces inside your body as they travel your airways on the journey to your lungs, where your poop particles may end up. Hope this helps.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”English
15·23 days agoBoy, that company should probably fire the CEO, what with him forcing it to commit suicide.
If you’re on facebook you deserve what you get, and also are addicted to whatever abuse you perceive that as.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approvedEnglish
4·3 months agoHe’s talking about a system to eliminate, not support and elevate the poor here, mark my words. Do not give this brain-damaged, broke-dick, eternally divorced Lex Luthor anything but sentencing for crimes against humanity.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to YouEnglish
1·3 months agoCrazy how much money is flooding into something so absurd on its face. You nailed the gambling part especially, looks like they’re not even waiting for the AIs to develop to flood that junk on every available platform and visible surface. There should be laws against it honestly, gambling addiction is absolutely ruinous.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to YouEnglish
2·3 months agoNot in years, I avoid that shit like cancer, I feel physical pain when I’m sitting through ads. Can’t say I’m at all surprised.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to YouEnglish
12·3 months agoQuestion: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•If using AI generated art is theft, then why are we okay with memes using random people's digital art and photos with zero attribution?English
82·4 months ago“Not trying to defend AI art” The fuck you’re not. Just be honest about it.
My actual answer to this wall of strawmen and thready arguments is that LLMs and generative AI were trained on incomprehensibly large pools of human produced content, much of which is copyrighted, without paying anything for it; Conversely, when people make memes they are manually altering or adding to the original content and it’s an exception when there’s misappropriation becasue it’s socially enforced. AI simply merges data, there is nothing new conceptually or materially being added, just recombination. I’m not saying all memes are good, and I’m also not saying meme people who make that their life aren’t assholes sometimes either.
All of this exercise you’ve taken upon yourself is a poorly executed attempt to distract from the scale of theft AI NEEDS in order to exist, and that’s something Sam Altman, Zuckerberg, and other industry heads have openly acknowledged. If not for copyright violations it simply could not be feasible as a product, and even when there are instances of people stealing memes without attribution, that’s not the standard or a necessity for the practice. This is on top of the other peripheral issues like IMMENSE resource consumption, and destruction of human livelihoods. Even if we grant your false equivalencies with single user offenses regarding meme theft, and I personally do not, these things are not comparable, and the later certainly doesn’t justify or excuse the former.
Honestly, this is lazy and unfunny.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptionsEnglish
511·5 months agoI swear, Microsoft YEARNS to fail. Dunno who is running the show over there but they’re doing a great job of being terrible for their brand.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•We hate AI because it's everything we hateEnglish
9·6 months agoBut whatabout YOUR thoughts on bladder control???!
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•We hate AI because it's everything we hateEnglish
64·6 months agoThe reason we hate AI is cause it’s not for us. It’s developed and controlled by people who want to control us better. It is a tool to benefit capital, and capital always extracts from labour, AI only increases the efficiency of exploitation because that’s what it’s for. If we had open sourced public AI development geared toward better delivering social services and managing programs to help people as a whole, we would like it more. Also none of this LLM shit is actually AI, that’s all branding and marketing manipulation, just a reminder.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill GatesEnglish
234·6 months agoGood ol’ Gates, always around to make a quick buck of the bloodied backs of humanity. Never an advancement meant to aid us all he can’t swoop in to parasitize. That’s right Billy boy, I didn’t forget the COVID vaccine patents. Billionaires must be condemned to the rubbish bin of history.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
World News@lemmy.ml•Putin questions legality of Ukrainian governmentEnglish
38·6 months agoGet this RT trash outta here.
False equivalencies, or ‘Whatabouts’ are not a form of argument, they’re a deflection debate tactic.
What you’re calling AI is a mass marketing ponzy scheme. LLMs are not even actual AI. Beyond that issue, its development is in the hands of capital exclusively, and it will only exist to serve capital interests which come at the expense of the lower and working classes by necessity given what corporations (which are essentially unregulated in current climates) are designed to do. What you’re calling AI will only be used to hurt human lives and worsen living conditions for all of us (before you nitpick, I think enabling the 0.1% and their hoarding pathology hurts them too). I personally believe you’re already aware of that and are cynically trolling, and despite that I’m giving you the honest truth and factual reality of this subject because there is nothing good about being a techno-fetishist sociopath who thinks the answer to humanity’s problems is to make humanity itself obsolete, even if it’s ‘cool’. You clearly got the wrong fucking message from Terminator.
This is why when actual AI emerges I can only hope it’ll be in the hands of a public or collective development process and designed with an intent of progression and cooperation in mind.
Binturong@lemmy.cato
Technology@lemmy.world•Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press GazetteEnglish
16·6 months agoSo this confirms that people have a negative reaction to ads, which every actual internet user knows in their bones already. This means they ALSO are not even doing their one job of persuading people to buy shit. Of course this won’t lead to companies reducing investment for ad carrying or finding ways to make them more appealing, that costs money, instead they will use AI generators to produce WORSE ads and leverage their capital to have governments capitulate and force users to watch by banning blockers, probably VPNs too. Bill Hicks was the most correct about advertising, and remains undefeated.



I don’t think that guy is as smart as he thinks he is. Maybe it’s all the evidence that Microsoft is literally committing suicide on his watch… maybe it’s a hunch… but the suspicion it’s strong.