Here at Meta, we believe AI will build connections between people
*Footage of people connecting by dancing in a field, having a coffee, and generally doing literally anything other than use AI*
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Raid: Shadow Legends
Couldn’t block that one, could ya bub?
there’s sponsorblock for youtube, so I don’t see most of those either.
Just because you don’t see something online, doesn’t mean something online can’t see you. That’s a major worry, or at least it should be, unless you’re using today’s sponsor, Incogni…
They’re also targeting students with the ads, which tells me that it’s encouraging them to cheat.
I use uBlock Origin btw. I only see ads when my someone is watching TV or if I go to random websites in the Tor browser.
My girlfriends child is learning in school how to use chatgpt. They are heavily encouraged to use it to control their own text and whatever. She’s 8. She’s leqrning to use a tool ahe will never ever be allowed to in the future.
That is not good, especially at that age where the brain would be developing rapidly. This is the time where she really needs to use her brain to process information.
watching TV
You guys watch TV?
Yeah, it’s what you hook up your stuff too.
Oh, do you mean actual broadcast?
Mostly just older people I see watch TV.
I can write my own Grade 8 essays, thank you very much.
One time I successfully used an AI to troubleshoot a sound driver problem in Linux. It was maybe a little faster than casting about on stack exchange. I had to prompt it like 30 times though because it kept being confidently wrong. I didn’t continue to use it.
Maybe there are people out there who need something to suggest “sandwich”. You buy water from the water company because you wouldn’t have water without them. I would be embarrassed to shop from a company that claims to sell “intelligence”
I used Claude terminal and it immediately identified that i had a service that constantly sent small packets to my headset and since all packets have to use the smallest ones it was crackling sometimes due to latency
Fized that and set the minimum to a reasonable amount
It had its uses
It might be they’re not trying anymore.
All the common AI tasks that by end-users and small businesses can be done better by local software rather than through compute on a hyperscale platform. The only reason to need big AI is for large-scale projects. They’re still selling compute at a huge loss, and their profits are dwarfed by their expenses.
(Some argue the expenses are due to the massive buildout, which is reaching a capability point of diminishing returns. But even the running expenses outweigh the profits, even with government contracts.)
You know, like controlling armies of killer drones, or processing mass surveillance data to find dissidents that are an actual threat. Or doing cyber-ops on a rival nation.
I think that is why the stock market is still investing in big AI, not because we want better slop, but because they want garrison large populations and wreck rival societies.
Only a fool would think AI data centers are to help Timmy with an essay, Gertrude decide on a gift for her grandkids or Cameron the moron write a professional response at work that doesn’t sound like it was written by 6th grader…
…it’s all about mass surveillance. Always has been.
That and control. It used to be done by keeping the common folk illiterate. Now they’re crippling our ability to think entirely. Much easier that way to control the complacent, ignorant masses
There’s people still not using adblockers and they get ai generated ads about ai shoved down their throats. Why are you doing this to yourselves?
Related, but the amount of tech and/or privacy adjacent youtubers I have seen complain about ads, about what they’re doing to be less susceptible, how this or that change is TOO much, and so on if baffling. JUST USE AN ADBLOCKER. There’s always one comment pointing that out, with a derailed conversation below, but most of the comments will be “actually, if you repeatedly close then reopen a YouTube video for 10-15 times, it will not show the ad on the next open!” with a million “don’t tell, now Google is gonna patch!” replies. I wish I was joking.
If you don’t use an Adblocker, get one, NOW. It takes 30s. If you think “it’s not that bad”, install it anyways and give it a try for a week. Disable it. See if it’s really “not that bad”, lmao.
Install them on your parents’ devices. Your grandparents’. Siblings. Friends.
I was using my mom’s computer the other day and I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t seeing any ads on her browser. Then I remembered that I had installed uBlock origin for her. I love when past me does current me a solid. I’ve also told her that she can go on Faceborg if she wants but I will not help her with it in any way (I can’t since I haven’t been on it since 2008). She tells people I “refuse to let her use it” which is not strictly accurate but I feel pride anyway when she says that.
I like to think of “parents and tech” as “kids and toys”. They don’t understand it, they just want to use it and enjoy it. And they certainly don’t care what problematic ethics are involved. So just like with kids, we have to be more careful and caring. And we definitely don’t want to overwhelm them with too much information.
Is uBlock Origin still the king? Been using it since it came out and I genuinely don’t understand the ads problem. Sponsorblock is also a huge help.
AdNauseam takes a more actively hostile approach to advertising. IIRC Google took it off their plugin platform because they consider it malicious. Which I suppose it is, towards ads.
Pretty much, though it does not work on most Chromium browsers anymore because of Manifest V3.
On Firefox on the other hand, it is king!
Combined with Privacy Badger to block tracking.
And switch off Chrome? Nahhhh, too difficult.
– Them, probably
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Meanwhile I ask Gemini “Hey Gemini, can this Google product do X?”
It responds "Here is a list of features for Google’s Product:
… Does W! Does X! Does Y! …Me: clicks source for listed feature X… gets sent to post on Product’s support forum: “Can Product do X?” “No, it can’t do X.”
Thanks Gemini!
Like in the early 2000s when certain websites would copy paste a half a dictionary onto the site description so google would put them in every search result despite not being relevant.
Grok is this funny
Today’s children would wonder how their grandparents lived without cellphone. Tomorrows children are going to think how we get anything done without AI.
I could live without a cellphone. But since AI got popular, it isn’t as easy to keep up at some subjects as it was before (since everybody at our highschool cheated with AI - at least I did most of the non-annoying stuff myself), which means I had to do more work.
Factually, using AI in your education means you get less value out of that education. In every math class ever, you’ve probably heard some version of,
“I don’t care that you got the right answer. I already know that 2x^2 - 5x -3 factors into (2x + 1)(x - 3) and I already know that this information is freely available. What I care about is making sure that you can figure that out without anyone helping you.”
If you use AI to do a problem, you’re training your ability to do something that everyone else on the planet can do. If you force yourself to do it, you’re training your ability to actually think.
You actually WON’T have to do more work in the long run. Think of it as an investment. If you spend the time learning it now, properly, so that you actually understand it, then every test that your study for, for the rest of your life, will be easier, and you’ll get higher grades. Measurably.
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
Keep it up.
That work is way more valuable than an empty grade. You are going to have very useful advantages over the ones using chatbots to cheat.
There was some AI ad where someone pointed their camera to their messy shelf and were like “Hey, how do I clean up my shelf?” and the AI was like “try rearranging the smaller items first” and about a billion people went “no shit”.
Every AI bubble pump slop article is like
Say: “i’m alive“
AI: “I’m alive”
😱😱😱😱😱
Or
Hack this company plz
technically hacks that company after setting $17.8 million on fire
😱😱😱😱😱
speak for yourself. chatgpt helped me program a medium-complexity task yesterday within ~3 hours which would have taken me about 1-2 weeks otherwise, i fear. especially, it’s really convenient because when you just don’t know some technical term, you can just describe what you mean and it will give you the correct keyword, while googling for that kind of information is difficult since you don’t even know where to start.
The best are when they have the sweet old grandmas asking it how to cook.
Yeah, sweet old grandmas already know how to cook, they don’t need AIs.
One day, I need to recreate a dish my late grandma did. Probably simple, but very nostalgic at personal level. I don’t think AIs are much help here.
Or the ones where the knitting grandmas are asking it for advice. Are you kidding me? First off Gemini is the most shit thing I’ve ever seen when it comes to knitting/crocheting. Second, at that age, either you’re a repository for the craft already or you are looking for community and will be knitting aside these walking yarn encyclopedias in a knitting circle.
Some of these ads actually makes me think that artificial intelligence is for the naturally dumb.
stupid is growing faster than ever
