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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Actually two things:

First: Capitalism is bad. It gets so bad it will destroy people the worst way: both mentally and physically. And it will destroy our planet more sooner than later. We need to get rid of „the rich“, switch to a social stable System and actually care about our environment (aka climate) immediately to stop the worst. It is already way too late to stop the catastrophe entirely, but some of us still can survive.

Second: Voting for faschist and racist parties will hurt you badly. They don‘t want what’s best for the common people, they want power.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

That there are AI art generators that use licensed art and/or public domain and open licence images. People so deep in the "AI art is theft" shtick they don't even wanna hear it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (3 children)

That AI safety is much more important than AI hurting copyright or artists.

I say this because the "AI sucks haha" and "AI just steals" retoric is very harmful to AI safety movement as people just don't believe AGI or even close-to-AGI will be capable enough to harm our society.

Currently many estimate that there's 1-20% chance that AGI could end our civilization. So fuck the copyright and fuck the artists when we're looking at ods like this we need to start preparing now even if it's 10 years away.

But alas, nobody can't think further out than the length of their nose and honestly I'm just hoping we're lucky enough to be in that 80% because clearly we're not going to do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

That would require an actual AGI to emerge, which it has not and is not going to. LLMs are fancy text prediction tools and little more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

What we see in AI as an average consumer is like the RC hotwheels to a state of the art tank being used by big corps.

Just imagine that if an early LLM can fool an engineer into thinking it's sentient, what a state of the art system can do, one designed to predict the market, run propaganda bots on social media or straight up manufacture news stories with the footage to back it up.

The AI being used by big corporations is so advanced, it's one of the reasons countries have been trying to digitally isolate themselves. It's really not an if, it's a when.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not sure you understand what AGI is, and why we're not going to invent it any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

I do. I did get a little lost in the weeds with my point though, as I was talking in a more general sense about how AI is already powerful and dangerous - because AI safety is a subject in this thread.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

These answers reek of superiority complex. These are less "educating" others and more that so many of you have decided something specific is a big deal to you and in a proselytizing fashion you preach to others and when they don't give a shit or perhaps just dont have the emotional capacity to ALSO care about the thing you brought up, you take that as ignorance, when really it's just some people don't feel like caring that much about that specific concern you decided is uber important.

People aren't built to endless worry about every little horrible problem surrounding them and the world every fucking day.

Also, this whole forum feels like overreaction too. Just because "some" people didn't care for your input doesn't mean all didn't, but a lot of people overreact online. It's coupled with the usual "am I the only one who..." kind of crap. No. You aren't. You aren't the only genius who understands the world is shit and we're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The importance of digital privacy and freedom. The way capitalism ruins everything you like.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

Worked at a major tech company as a data engineer, constantly warn everybody that major tech company is doing crazy surveillance, nobody cares. Told everybody my job was taking economists and research scientists python models, translating them into production code for data pipelines that would operate on terabytes of streaming data and it would change our recommendation system on the fly to keep you on the page. It was designed by academics to prey on basic human instincts. Tons more sketchy stuff, but I always felt like that was the most predatory. All we need to know was your zip code and gender and we knew how to recommend you stuff you wanted, and then people would voluntarily give us more identifying information.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

When you're at a fast food drive thru and they offer to round up for a charity cause, YOU can claim that write-off donation on your taxes, not the restaurant. Of course virtually nobody would do that unless you save your receipts and tally them up next year... but you can!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

I thought you couldn't even write off charity unless it was some stupidly high amount. Last time I looked into it, it basically just seemed like a tax grift for rich people

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I never thought about that, but it makes sense

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 20 hours ago

Looks at Republican party

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago

Reading more than a headline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

I didn't think folks actually care about ads as much as you think. This place is a bubble in that regard.

For me that America isn't a hellscape for most. Yes there is disparity and it's growing, we should correct that. But gen z is still buying homes (more than millennials), most people have decent albeit over priced health care, and live better than large portions of the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

America isn’t a hellscape

gasp How dare you...

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