XLE

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Transferring half of Grok to a public wealth fund will just create a government-powered incentive to keep developing Grok until it's actually profitable for Elon Musk.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 21 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That's a lot of words to smuggle in the baseless assertion that "AI is inevitable and we must embrace it"

NFTs are inevitable. Crypto is inevitable. Metaverse is inevitable.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah there's a huge difference between "they can't afford a proportionate number of moderators" and "firing the existing moderators is acceptable because they can't afford the appropriate number". Because at least the latter was a little water on the dumpster fire.

It does go to show that AI will performatively replace actual talent, though. The "it'll augment their effectiveness" people were wrong in the one case where you'd figure it would be a layup for increasing moderation quality and turnaround (and maybe even protecting the existing moderators from the mental harm that we all know Facebook is offloading onto public services and taxpayers, at best).

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago

When did it become necessary to say "no, Telegram is not your friend in standing up against governments" because it never has been.

They hand off data often because they can always access the data.

And the encryption is comically, infamously bad. Since the start.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.wemustactnow.ai/

Includes 6 OpenAI executives, 3 Google ones, 10 Anthropic, a bunch of other virtue signallers.

What does it say?

AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years.

May it?!

This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy

What will happen?

"We are driving in the fog, and it is extraordinarily difficult to anticipate what will happen next."

We can really hold them to account for saying this specific thing!

What must we do, and why is it designed for corporate capture?

Economists, policymakers and technology leaders must act now to understand the economics of transformative AI and to build the incentives... to steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Facebook has the money to hire enough moderators, though. They're starting to not grow any more, but content moderation is one of the last things that should get cut instead of the first. When Yahoo started dying*, moderation was also the first thing to go.

Like a canary in a coal mine.


* it's technically not dead, but it's basically dead. People keep telling me Yahoo is inevitable, and its continued existence is evidence of this. /s

[–] XLE@piefed.social 14 points 1 month ago

I hope that's not a load-bearing "likely."

Meta will now have the chance to defend itself, but if the Commission’s decision is made final, Zuck and Co. could face a noncompliance fine of up to 6 percent of its worldwide annual turnover. In 2025, that was $200.97 billion, meaning a potential fine of up to $12 billion.

Ditto here.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Best guess : Web interfaces are known for being inconsistent because they don't follow any particular OS-specific design language. And I've seen people complaining about MacOS being really inconsistent, especially in its use of menu icons (what an essay!), and I've seen some people complain the bad UI practices come from iOS.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Does the introduction of media that's downloaded from the internet and locked to a single proprietary device present extra issues here?

I presume this will drive a lot of people away from the platform entirely, but it must be a massive headache for game preservationists

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I think he gave it a fair shot (including spending money on Microsoft apps!), although plenty of the complaints are from the perspective of a Linux user migrating to Windows. For example, the average Windows user won't worry about dual booting.

Personally, I think the biggest mistake was to not try out FOSS versions of things like Firefox and Thunderbird, but I appreciated the insight into Edge for example.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

I botched my comment when I initially wrote it, the confusion is all due to me

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Wait, since when does Windows install apps and not just device drivers?!

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