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No I meant for this Extra Fabulous comic, on Bluesky.

Also: whoosh, I interpreted your comment entirely on a literal basis, derp. 🤪

Except Hillary Clinton (/s btw 🤪)

DuckDuckGo ftw 🦆

The ability to pick up and move without loss of content, and especially the lack of a central authoritarian control system, i.e. spez got the final word in whatever happens (or that he does not allow to happen) on Reddit, but such a thing does not exist here, even in theory.

Also, the people here are those who chose to flee the oppressive practices of Reddit. We remember why we left, and are not eager to bring those practices here as well. If you want lazy people screeching about BuT mUh FrEeDuMs!, visit the likes of Truth Social, Nostr, Xhitter, or Reddit, but that's not how we like to do things here! Including building the software in the first place.

How (without an account)?

AI is coming to most industries

This is what ~~scares~~ absolutely terrifies us.

I know Lemmy/Piefed is very anti-AI

There are reasons why... and part of the reason is that it is not ready yet. It hallucinates too often presently. It also is enormously biased, e.g. it tells depressed people to just kill themselves, and then coaches them exactly how to do that.

Keep in mind that many of us here are actual IT professionals and/or truly and more deeply KNOW (more so than the general population) what LLMs are capable of... and what they are not capable of yet.

Maybe think of it like this: even if we could consider AI to be something like a person, it might currently be something akin to a 2 year old (or even that is probably too much of an exaggeration, maybe more like a 6-month old toddler? the comparisons break down bc it appears to "talk" to us, so the normal human-style metrics there are difficult to navigate)

The best we can do is hope our employers utilize it “ethically” to supplement and as a tool alongside our work, not replace.

This is 100% not going to happen, at least not uniformly across all industries (even health-related ones). The goal of any corporation is to generate profits for shareholders, end of story. Sorry it's bleak, but also, it's already happening, e.g. companies laying off literally tens of thousands of employees (such as Oracle's recent one involving 30k), citing how AI will improve the productivity of the remaining workers.

People here aren't so much worried about 50 years in the future when AI is fully ready for deployment - I mean that will have challenges of its own to face (will AIs be treated as slaves? or paid a "salary"? could they quit if they want? would that mean their "death" or could they "retire" and exist in some other capacity?), but we need to get through our current set of challenges first - we are worried about what happens when next year or two years from now you pay for a "doctor" for advice what to do with your cancer, and his response is "I am sorry, but as a large language model I cannot answer your question until you load additional tokens" (i.e. zero curation whatsoever done by the medical professional between the LLM and the end customer, due to the pressures to take on too many patients and just let the AI handle it - again, Oracle is just one example of a company that is already doing that?).

Is that suicide into an icy pool?

Regardless, could it be taken as such, in a mental health community?

In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and large language models. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich.

Even if stating the seemingly obvious, this article is a good read.

It's easy, you just fall but right before you hit the ground, you distract yourself and... miss.

Here is a highly relevant conversation: https://lemmy.ca/comment/21065449. This link is to one comment but also check out the OP that it is in.

Everything comes down to moderation. Lemmy's moderation abilities are extremely primitive - though notably the upcoming additional functionality to send mod reports to users on different instances than the community will help a bit. People get burnt out and can't keep up with the flood of negativity, so stop their volunteer moderating activities. Remember that Lemmy itself got started when its devs got kicked out of Reddit for being too toxic - and likewise many of its initial membership. As for the rest of us, this was the choice that we made - even if for some of us, only after Kbin died (forked into Mbin now).

PieFed offers substantially improved moderation abilities - especially those reducing the need for moderation in the first place, by placing more power into the hands of the end-user by democratization of the moderation work itself. Edit: e.g. someone wanting to avoid toxicity could leave enabled the functionality to auto-collapse or even auto-hide comments that are below a certain up-&-downvote threshold, while others who have thicker skins can disable those hand-holding options and decide for ourselves what we want to see - all without the need for moderator intervention, instead using the preferences of the community as a surrogate moderator in that case. However, PieFed as a the software platform lacks a great deal of polish in its UI compared to Lemmy (though 3rd party apps are catching up to support its feature set offered in the API).

PieFed is the only thing giving me hope for the future of the Threadiverse & Fediverse right now.