Zedstrian

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They're definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that's in large part because people aren't generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they're a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than parentheses.

In this instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 40 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The AI industry is actively telling companies that they can become 'more efficient' (i.e. fire workers) with AI; that's more than a mere 'messaging problem'.

It has a financial interest in companies firing their workers and raising prices to make room for it.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 52 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even a 5% fee is 5% too high; letting Apple tax all sales on iOS merely because they control the operating system is monopolistic.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago

Their point is that Claude is now engineering its responses to specifically conform to a detectable pattern, something that can of course be easily removed via a seperate LLM.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

AI agents have no agency of their own; their operators are the ones with that control. Negligence in giving an AI agent access to the internet does not absolve the operator of liability.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 316 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (32 children)

More OEMs should ship devices with Linux as an option, discounted by the Windows license cost.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The entire AI industry is built on IP theft; even if you don't believe in IP ownership, companies like OpenAI and Anthropic rely on their ability to scrape the internet for content, with only largest of publishers having the resources to sue for anything in return.

So long as copyright is being enforced at the individual level for consumers, large corporations shouldn't be allowed to get away with infringing on it for profit.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

It's one thing for individuals (particularly those without the means of paying) to pirate content that its original creators have already been compensated for and now exists to milk money for an IP holder for a century; it's another matter entirely when AI companies with multi-billion dollar valuations scour the internet for content to include in their models to then profit from without permission from or compensation to the millions of people whose work they depend on.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

Whoever you are, don't outsource your understanding, judgement, empathy and taste to AI. Don't abdicate your responsibility. Don't be a meat proxy.

By expanding the ability to program to people without the knowledge of how that code works in the first place, it's naive to expect that most uses of AI in programming will be informed uses by senior developers able to recognize errors and security flaws.

Such a pro-AI position also ignores the enormous amount of theft that these tools are built on.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AI bots cannot be and should not be licensed mental health care practitioners, so existing licensing laws should be enforced.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maximizing shareholder value also includes maximizing the non-tangible value of the Roblox brand (something that could be harmed by short-term cash grabs), but unfortunately many investors only think one quarter at a time.

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