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If someone can figure out what IA stands for, and the meaning that reflects, than we are one step closer to staving off the utter annihilation of our species from data centers hoovering up more and more electricity until climate change accelerates catastrophically.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

How about:

Informed Answers

For two reasons: combat all the AI slop/hallucinations coming out these days, and also address the problem of people becoming too lazy to learn. Remember when people went to libraries and read books to find answers? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

Hello from Iowa. You want more of this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

This was my immediate solution as well. Unfortunately, IA is what got us into this mess

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

We had an IA building at my high school. It stood for Industrial Arts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Indifferent Ambivalence

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Indiscriminate Actions

Actions designed to throw AI off and make it even less accurate. It can be nonsense words, coded phrases, or phrases that don't normally make sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

International Agape, I guess? Love will save the world and all that shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Well in spanish, and I would assume a lot of other latin-based languages as well, IA does stand for artificial intelligence

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Iffy algorithms

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

But is IA a real thing, or just an implicit bias towards dualistic thinking? What if not everything has its opposite?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Intelligential Artificence

Intelligent Artifacts?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Impulsive Andorians?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

hmmm, there is something here, because this suggests that AI is Idiocy, Metaphorical... Meta Intelligence.....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Inaccessible Accomodations?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ignorant Anti-intellectualists?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not gonna lie, that one was funny to see out of context in my inbox in lemmy notifications lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Information Apocalypse?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Intelligence Artiticialle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Indians Actually? This is technically the truth. Remember when Amazon said self-checkout stores is powered by AI but it was later revealed it was just tons of indians monitoring the cameras sitting in a call center in India?

If someone can figure out what IA stands for, and the meaning that reflects, than we are one step closer to staving off the utter annihilation of our species from data centers hoovering up more and more electricity until climate change accelerates catastrophically

@[email protected] I figured it out! I restored harmony!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Very good point, well done on solving the puzzle!