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Twitch Is Mining Peoples' Streams to Train Amazon's AI in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Did you know that you can correct people's writing without being an ass? Plenty of people in this world do not have English as their primary language.

New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

One of the few good uses for AI, to generate photos or video of the device with the cord cut

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 13 points 4 weeks ago

I don't trust AI companies to not alter the texts of those books if there's something in them that does not align with their worldview.
So any book added to the online archive(s) by these companies is suspect.

Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16 in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Or, you know, this is the first step with the final goal of killing off social media entirely.

One can dream..

OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (5 children)

There's a pretty massive difference in scale and impact here..

Volkswagen now blocks grapheneOS in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] WaxRhetorical@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

And you can't have this with open standards..?