Skullkid

My thinking is, for all I know, the 5 year old reputable account accusing me of being a bot was just sold to some spammer and it is now posting with AI. I know I’m real, the conversations provoke my consciousness and cause me to have new thoughts, and that’s what I’m here for. Like, no offense everyone, but unless we’re gonna meet up and hang out, it doesn’t really matter to me if you exist or not lol

That’s crazy to me. My parents still have a landline, and I used my VCR maybe two months ago to watch my copy of The Land Before Time. I’m almost 30. I know I could stream it online, but it just doesn’t hit the same

I’m currently installing Linux Mint, it’s been about 5 years since I last used Linux (school required windows, ugh)

What tweaks should I look into? I don’t even know where to start, excited to poke around the settings but I feel like I’m missing the bigger picture here, idk.

Reddit has had subredditsimulator for years, stuff like that has been around a lot longer than the general public realizes. Could easily create a believable version of asklemmy, like you said. But the people who would want that are probably not the people who even bother responding to posts in the first place.

I hope Lemmy stays obscure enough to avoid the AI onslaught for a while longer, every major website is already completely overrun

Haha that is funny, it kinda sucks how reputation has become so important online. I’ve spent my whole life regularly changing accounts, recreating profiles, etc, because it just makes me uncomfortable to have a long digital record of my opinions, thoughts, etc. Last few years I’ve spent more and more time just lurking on forums without accounts because you get accused of being a bot if your account isn’t a few years old! I could easily be an AI responding to your comment, or I could be a person just using AI to reword my thoughts. How much of a difference is there between those? If an AI says “this would be a better way to word that”, but it changes the meaning ever so slightly, is that sentiment still “from a human”? What about when Microsoft word would reword things and correct grammar to make it “more concise” or whatever? Is that the same thing? That was technically a rudimentary form of AI too - artificial intelligence doesn’t mean “talks like a human” despite that being the current public perception. Where do we draw the line? Is it even possible to determine what “counts” as AI at this point, technologically speaking? We don’t even have a solid definition for intelligence, so how can we define an artificial version of it?

This line of thought is fascinating my stoned ass right now holy shit lol

You mentioned fleas, did they check for ear mites?

My cat did this for almost two years, sounds the EXACT same!! The mites were way deep in there I guess and the vet missed them for the longest time. We tried everything, I had been cleaning her ears with wipes one day and saw a little tiny moving dot. Called the vet like “I think there’s a bug in her ear?!?” and they gave me some ear drops, few weeks later they were gone and she hasn’t once scratched herself bloody ever since.

I like this comparison. Made me realize that it’s all about human connection.

I think the origin of the handmade cup is what matters here, same with human vs. AI content. Did you make the cup yourself? You’ll have memories and pride attached to the cup. Did someone make it for you? The cup will remind you of that person, it will have meaning because of who it’s from. Content you or someone you care about makes will always “feel” different than something made by a random person online.

If you don’t personally know the people making the cups, would a “handmade” label at the store make it more meaningful than if you knew it was likely made by a machine? It’ll still just be an object that you don’t have a direct human connection with, just like the random content you see online. It might “mean” more to you to know a human created it, but if you can’t tell the difference, it still serves the same purpose. The cup lets you drink. The content entertains you or makes you think, react, respond.

I wonder if part of my instinctual “fuck AI” reaction is a reflection of the imaginary connections my brain thinks it’s making with other humans on the internet. Talking to AI feels meaningless… but, for all I know, you are AI. I’m still taking the time to type this. We may never interact again, I may never know who made that handmade cup I bought from the store.

Are we connecting as humans right now? Or is my monkey brain just experiencing this as “this is a moment where I am communicating and that is good”? Can we subconsciously recognize the difference between “real person” and “imaginary person”, or are our brains just satisfied feeling like they’re communicating with someone?

I’m new to Lemmy but I think I sent you a message lol

Oh boy, how long until things start making me feel old?? I’m still waiting for that day to come!

Oh I know, I just thought it was funny that the idea of someone not having had a landline was weird to me, until I realized that most people nowadays don’t have them! We just had one of those “plug directly into the phone line, no electricity needed” phones until 2006ish because my mom was paranoid about caller ID for the longest time, so I get it :)

I have a can opener that just breaks the factory seal instead of actually cutting the metal, and I put it on the side of the can. I wonder if these mixups are just from everyone using different kinds of can openers without realizing it lol

Haha this is kinda hilarious. I’m in my late 20s and, reading your comment, I’m like “oh man I can’t imagine skipping over landlines and going straight to cell phones, is that really a thing?” And then I realized that, yeah, a majority of the people younger than me probably did exactly that. But I also still consider the Wii a “new” game console, so I might just be frozen in time or something…