Like, I’m talking about having a downloads folder full of junk because they don’t know that that’s where downloads end up.

Funny enough, at work I’ll often re-download a file if I need it because it’s faster to go to my bookmark, load the page, download the file, and then click on it in my browser’s recent downloads. Windows search is sooooooo absurdly slow.

The tech savvy reputation comes from millenials. We ARE tech savvy.

I would classify speculation as a form of grift. Someone gets left holding the bag.

The majority of every field is fraudsters? Seriously?

Sure but typically that’s a small part of the field. With AI it’s a majority, that’s the difference.

3D has been a thing every 15 years or so

Most of the entire AI economy isn’t even research. It’s just grift. Slapping a label on ChatGPT and saying you’re an AI company. It’s hustlers trying to make a quick buck from easy venture capital money.

No shit

Kill a person, that’s a tragedy. Kill a hundred thousand people, they make you king.

Steal $10, you go to jail. Steal $10 billion, they make you Senator.

If you do crime big enough, it becomes good.

Which, in a fun bit of meta, is a decent description of artificial “intelligence” too.

Maybe the real ChatGPT was the children we tested along the way

I realize I’m jumping back and forth between sides here, but that’s because it’s a complex problem and I haven’t made my mind up. But that said, to return to the previous point…if you need a court order to ban every spammer and troll, you’ll drown in spam and propaganda. The legal system can’t keep up.

Prosecution implies a trial before punishment. Censorship is immediate punishment based solely on the judgment of the authorities. That’s not a minor difference.

That’s…actually a pretty reasonable take. Fuck Musk, but you’ve convinced me that government censorship is just a bad thing in general and that should apply to Musk as much as anyone else.

I do think there’s a counter argument to be made that the resources involved in setting up fake accounts to spread bullshit are trivial compared to the resources required to track down and prosecute account owners for crimes, so in a practical sense banning accounts is possibly the only thing one can do (especially if the account owners are foreign). If you give lies the same freedom as truth, you tend to end up with 10 lies for every truth.

New renewable energy installations.

Research into vaccines.

Malaria distribution.

Higher education endowments.

Heck, just paying the salaries of people working in those fields. Sure, spending money stimulates the economy so I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s totally wasted, it’s definitely being put to a much better use than just sitting in someone’s bank account. But it could be put to a lot better uses. The software engineers could be developing a new program for balancing energy loads, or managing the maintenance of wind turbine fields. The hardware engineers could be optimizing a better autoclave or building a machine that automatically dispenses medicine when fed a script. The PMs could be managing a team distributing aid in Ukraine or designing a new blood drive initiative. Jobs that have positive societal impact, instead of - at best - neutral societal impact.

Call me when Elon is arrested lol

If you block them, it amplifies them. Now you can no longer call them out.

Imo it’s wasted in the sense that the money could have gone towards much better uses.

Which is not unique to AI, it’s just about the level of money involved.

Do you fuck your mother with that mouth?

Cool story bro

The French Activist was using ProtonMail e-mail for bad usages

I don’t trust ANYONE to decide on my behalf what a “bad usage” is.