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TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in Gemini: Who negatively impacted society more, Elon Musk or Hitler?

I’m not going to play word police but I am going to attempt to change your mind. Dumb used to be the medical terminology to mean the same thing as what you said and it’s not considered a slur or a disparaging insult. And so the word does have more bite and it does have power.

I’m not going to get offended if you keep using it as an insult but using it says more about the emotional maturity of the person who said it than it does about the person being insulted by it.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to news in Hobbycraft refused to sell paint to black man as ‘he may use it for graffiti’

I’d be thinking of buying some spray paint from this guy and then using it to vandalize his building

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in India confronts Google over Gemini AI tool’s ‘fascist Modi’ responses

If the shoe fits…

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to games in Emulation

I just have all my old consoles, a crt, and an input switcher for composite and hdmi. 7 consoles on my bookshelf and 5 more in my entertainment center. I could probably save a healthy amount of space in my basement with emulation lol

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in Lemmy helping Lemmy World browse the web

I’m an apple luser so I use safari on mobile for voyager PWA and m.lemmy.world on safari on laptop

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price

If Apollo for Reddit still worked, I’d probably still be there too. But at the same time I’m pretty thankful that things happened the way they did because it really opened my eyes to how dissatisfied I was with corporate social media and I feel so much more engaged in my hobbies and their communities now on the fediverse.

It helps that I am already primarily interested in tech, web, and networking (with some retro gaming mixed in) so the fediverse was already a suitable replacement. I feel for people whose communities are dead here.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to android in I'm tired with all this Big-Phone-Elitism

If I have to I’ll start using clamshell flip phones but they need to figure out the crease problem and durability problem. I had a Motorola razer 1st gen a few years ago that I loved except for the fact it stopped working after 6 months. The touch screen stopped working and the lcd started to turn green until the only sceeen that worked was the small outer screen.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

I agree with your comment. As you say, I doubt the training sets are reflective of reality either. I guess that leaves tampering with the prompts to gaslight the AI into providing results it wasn’t asked for is the method we’ve chosen to fight this bias.

We expect the AI to give us text or image generation that is based in reality but the AI can’t experience reality and only has the knowledge of the training data we provide it. Which is just an approximation of reality, not the reality we exist in. I think maybe the answer would be training users of the tool that the AI is doing the best it can with the data it has. It isn’t racist, it is just ignorant. Let the user add diverse to the prompt if they wish, rather than tampering with the request to hide the insufficiencies in the training data.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to technology in Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

Edit: further discussion on the topic has changed my viewpoint on this, its not that its been trained wrong on purpose and now its confused, its that everything its being asked is secretly being changed. It’s like a child being told to make up a story by their teacher when the principal asked for the right answer.

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They’ve purposefully overrode its training to make it create more PoCs. It’s a noble goal to have more inclusivity but we purposely trained it wrong and now it’s confused, the same thing as if you lied to a child during their education and then asked them for real answers, they’ll tell you the lies they were taught instead.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to selfhosted in RIP my photos from 2017 and contacts from 2005

I think everyone has done this. I know I have. I believe I used dmda to recover all my photos back. Unfortunately I lost all the metadata for about 3000 photos. It took years to manually retap and redate them all but at least I didn’t lose them forever

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in Frozen embryos are “children,” according to Alabama’s Supreme Court

Whether you committed murder or not is directly correlated to the amount of money you have and whether you are in the in-group.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense

To be fair if he hadn’t invented the imaginary person to be offended for, someone else would have

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider.

I absolutely have seen that here. I’ll have to see if I can track down the chain, of course i wasn’t offended by it either.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider.

Not to mention that amitheasshole is the biggest collection of validation seeking goobers on reddit. We really aren’t better than redditors, we are the same people, we just have principles that led us to seek the same experience uncompromised elsewhere.

TORFdot0 , 4 months ago to technology in X suspends account of Navalny's wife

Smarter than me, I thought of Nostr