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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Unlike you bigots, I've already masturbated to AI generated images

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 hours ago

Step 1: Give Robots Voting Rights

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Plot twist, all those Robots are actually under direct control of the Evil Corporation Inc. and they already won every future election.

Long Live the Cyberlife CEO!

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

What's wrong with large labia majora?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

They're called artificial persons, you fascist.

[–] Cowabunghole@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The type of guy to say "clanka" with a hard r

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'm not American, can you explain what the hard r means?

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Saying the N word with an R at the end is consider extra offensive.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, is that like a southern accent thing or, just kinda because

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It just kinda is I guess. I am not really the person to ask.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, it's all good, just trying to get my head around it

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Black folks often use the N word casually to refer to each other as a form of taking back the word's meaning. It used to be used exclusively in a racist fashion. The primary difference is that with the African American accent, the ending sound -ER is changed to more of an -UH sound. Often times, rarely and depending on the context, it is allowable for non-black people to say it with this accented pronunciation. But under no circumstances is it in good taste to use the original -ER ending to refer to a black person as a non-black person, that form is only used as a slur. When people refer to the "Hard R", this is what they are talking about, the difference between the accented pronunciation as slang vs the original pronunciation intended as a slur.

[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 1 points 2 hours ago

Thanks for that explanation!

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago

And then your LLM-in-law ends up using as much water as Detroit.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 21 points 8 hours ago

No thanks, I'd rather make out with my Marilyn Monrobot

[–] Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

And, over the years, as my body and my mind were... inconsistent, shame and guilt washed over me. I still don't think these machines are people, but I can't deny that she has benefited his life more than any real person, and she's very real to him. Ultimately, how could I be so cruel to deny this "daughter" of mine personhood? She wants nothing to do with me. And, though I still see this as computational output, I can't help but think that maybe I've been wrong, and maybe it's too late to be right.

[–] stoicmaverick@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Perhaps it's the bigotry of my upbringing from a different time, or perhaps it's the fact that she can't answer a simple yes/no question in less than two paragraphs, and tells me to put glue on my pizza... Who's to say?

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I like how every generation has the same issue just rebranded:

Should inter tribal marriage be a thing?

Should be people from different classes be able to marry?

Should people from different religious sects be able to marry?

Should people from different religions be able to marry?

Should interracial marriage be a thing?

Should people of the same sex be able to marry?

And soon, we're about to have

Should people be able to marry robots?

Soon people will want to marry their dogs.

[–] Genius@lemmy.zip 20 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

My kids are only allowed to marry an open source robot, no corpos

[–] iii@mander.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

😱 Open source robots are too dangerous. We need to keep everyone safe. Luckily there's government approved good behaviour modules, as per the "For the children" act of 2036.

That anyone would even want a non-FTC robot is so dumb. It's an easy boost to your credit score, and they only report bigotted or otherwise undesirable behaviour. What are you, a fascist?

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Good call, I can't in good conscience allow my kids to date robots that give them 30 second unskippable ads

[–] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It's not unlike dating a neuro divergent person and accidentally mentioning something about a current hyper fixation of theirs, except the ad isn't 30 seconds, and although it is skippable, you know they aren't going to function quite right until they've finished.

[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 36 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

It's already happening to me, but it's over things like privacy, not recording every bit of your life for social media and kids blowing crazy amounts of money on F2P games.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

But Boomers already have no sense of privacy. That's not a generational divide issue.

[–] thallamabond@lemmy.world 9 points 12 hours ago

What's all this about having to accept NEW TOS for Borderlands 2. I purchased the game five years ago, but if I want to play today i have to accept a greater loss of privacy!

When I was young you would find out about a video game from the movies! And they were complete! Any you couldn't take the servers offline, because they didn't exist!

But for real, fuck Randy Pitchford

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 33 points 14 hours ago (10 children)

Let's not pretend statistical models are approaching humanity. The companies who make these statistical model algorithms proved they couldn't in 2020 by OpenAI and also 2023 DeepMind papers they published.

To reiterate, with INFINITE DATA AND COMPUTE TIME the models cannot approach human error rates. It doesn't think, it doesn't emulate thinking, it statistically resembles thinking to some number below 95% and completely and totally lacks permanence in it's statistical representation of thinking.

[–] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

We used to think some people aren't capable of human intellect. Had a whole science to prove it too.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

If modern computers can reproduce sentience, then so can older computers. Thats just how general computing is. You really gonna claim magnetic tape can think? That punch-cards and piston transistors can produce the same phenomenon as tens of billions of living brain cells?

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

I think most people understand that these LLM cannot think or reason, they're just really good tools that can analyze data, recognize patterns, and generate relevant responses based on parameters and context. The people who treat LLM chatbot like they're people have much deeper issues than just ignorance.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The people who treat LLM chatbot like they're people have much deeper issues than just ignorance.

I don't know if it's an urban myth, but I've heard about 20% of LLM inference time and electricity is being spend on "hello" and "thank you" prompts. :)

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

It's a very real thing. So much so that OpenAI actually came out and publicly complained about how it's apparently costing the company millions.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/telling-chatgpt-please-and-thank-you-costs-openai-millions-ceo-claims/

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 102 points 16 hours ago (16 children)

I sometimes wonder what the end state of social progressivism is. Is it something unimaginable, or is it just accepting everyone should be able to live their life how they like if it doesn't affect others?

If I woke up in a utopia, would I be brought to tears by the beauty of it, or would I be the bigoted asshole?

[–] iii@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Is it something unimaginable, or is it just accepting everyone should be able to live their life how they like if it doesn't affect others?

I fear their utopia looks different, because every single thing you do affects others. From your first fart, to your last meal of the day, they'll have an argument why you're doing it wrong and must change your behaviour for the benefit of the group.

The utopia is you're reprogrammed to only engage in activities from the allowed behaviours catalogue. If LLMs can be retrained to behave within the guardrails, why not you?

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Well fuck me...I guess I'm a soulist.

What I really want to know is how you made a connection between my comment and a school of thought I've never heard of, but describes my worldview so accurately? What was the through line?

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemm.ee 125 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Look, I'm not robophobic. Some of my best friends are cyborgs. I just don't want them living in my neighborhood, you know?

[–] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Big difference with cyborg and robots. cyborgs are augmented humans.

[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 17 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, jeez, that sort of mechanophic language should be illegal

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 91 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
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