This just in: People like being told what they want to hear. More at 11.

People tend to be helpful and kind here, thankfully.

All I see here is Gordon Freeman kissing Barney.

As it should be.

Too many, is the answer.

It feels like a total Don’t Look Up moment.

Yeah, Don’t Look Up is a bleak commentary on US society and politics. It feels like a DLU moment because it is and has been since at least 9/11, if not Reagan or Nixon.

American citizens have less of an attention span than a goldfish.

Source: Am America— oooh shiny!

Most transparent administration! /s

Yeah, having the real people behind it hidden is basically the norm for Trump admin.

It seems like it’s only crappy on mobile, no isues on desktop here.

…and about 82 messages per conversation. Also, at least half of all the messages are from the user to the AI, and the other half are from the AI to the user, meaning around 41 messages from the user per conversation.

It’s a bit funny that it’s completely at odds with how they describe their goals (emphasis mine):

I am thereallo, a web developer who makes things look pretty and work smoothly >w< been building stuff since 2020, mostly frontend but i can do fullstack too! i use react, next.js, and tailwind css because they just work, and motion for animations that don’t feel plastic. i prototype in figma, steal components from shadcn/ui when i’m lazy, and deploy to vercel or cloudflare depending on the vibe~ i used to reverse engineer games (genshin leaks era lol) but now i just make websites that don’t suck. i know typescript, python, go, and dabbled in rust and lua. my goal is making ui that feels human such as smooth feedback, clear buttons, keyboard accessible, no confusing bs. mobile first always! outside coding i listen to vocaloid and play project sekai, which definitely influences my color choices uwu. oh and i care way too much about bundle sizes and performance. currently learning native ios/android development. hmu on discord or github if u wanna chat! ♡

Huge Study

*Looks inside

this latest study examined the chat logs of 19 real users of chatbots — primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT — who reported experiencing psychological harm as a result of their chatbot use.

Pretty small sample size despite being a large dataset that they pulled from, its still the dataset of just 19 people.

AI sucks in a lot of ways sure, but this feels like fud.

It also needs to factor in a threat models. Maybe this is important for governments or giant conglomerates, but an average hacker isn’t going to have their hands on a quantum computing rig to just use. Until its use becomes widespread on a consumer level it will be mostly used by corporations and governments. I think it will be a while before a criminal organization has one, but maybe I am wrong.

Unexpected !achievers@piefed.social

real and based

Ha, it’s very easy to have strong principles when you’re a weird shut-in who spends all their time online ( definitely not me /s ). It’s not exactly as demanding to be here as so many make it out to be. Unless you’re running your own instance, it’s just making an account on someone else’s server, you just get a little choice in what kind of server you sign up for and where its hosted n such.

It’s not like making an impact on your bills like committing to only eating organically grown vegetables as well as ethically farmed chicken, beef, and pork because you’re against pesticides hurting insect populations and only want animals who aren’t in industrial farm hell. You have plan where to shop for foods matching your principles of minimal harm to animals and ecosystems, and the cost may be significantly higher than non-organic or factory-farm produced food. There is a larger buy-in on your principles in this example, a larger impact on your daily life and routines.

Making an account on a relatively niche set of sites on the internet is more like just being a stubborn nerd. Not to say our reasons aren’t often valuable principles in themselves, just that standing by those principles is often easier and cheaper to do online than very impactful real life principles. It’s easy to talk big game online and be a bum in real life. It’s easy to make an account once and then its as easy as typing in your username and password.

All you need to be principled out here is a halfway functioning old laptop running Linux (“I use Arch btw” -Lemmy probably) and an internet connection fast enough to load a website. It’s not big stakes.

Further, there’s a gap between being principled, and having good principles while being a regretful fuckup because you didn’t live up to your own principles. I’d wager there’s a lot more of us in the latter group of regretful fuckups.

I was able to get my mom a “new” computer for free because a friend was upgrading from his 2020 mac mini. Probably the newest computer she has had since the 90s. That has felt nice. She already had a cheap refurbished iPhone and iPad so it felt nice to give her the full Apple experience with a newish mac with an M1 processor. Bonus: my first chance to play around on Apple silicon while getting it prepped for her. We are both poor so this is a pretty big deal for us both. (My sister, who is doing a little better than us, had bought her the phone and iPad.)

If only we could have warned ourselves that, really, go for it, it’s the 90s, and probably the last time in your life before numerous “once in a lifetime” economic crises destroy your life and the lives of those around you.

Njalla

“Humans are the real monsters ackshually” is a near-endlessly repeated theme in media, especially for example, a show like The Walking Dead where the real danger always seems to be other humans and the zombies are mostly an ancillary danger that humans learned to live/survive with in the world. It’s not that “humans are the real monsters” isn’t a valid and worthwhile position to take in your media, but there should be more interesting ideas that one can plumb out of horror, or at least that’s my opinion on it. Just seems like low hanging fruit type story to me.

“Step-Operating-System what are you doing!?”