No one tell RFK.

I’ve heard much of the same from my friends who teach middle and high schoolers: most alarmingly that they can put information up on the board, ask a question about it, and the students don’t even connect that the answer is already in front of their eyes.

And sadly, a very common question they get is: “If AI can do this for me, why do I need to learn it in the first place?”

The worst part is that, in the short-term, the only recourse people have is suing social media and LLM companies, who are awash in cash and happy to settle, or throw their weight behind age verification, which in its various forms poses a security risk. Parents, clearly, are parking their kids in front of screens and unwilling to parent, so that’s not something you can depend upon.

I’m just glad I never procreated, but this problem is going to affect us all when these kids try to enter the work force and can’t actually do anything.

Christ, I hope it happens. Someone’s metaphorical head needs to roll for this embarrassing, murderous rampage.

This is not news.

This, more than any other issue, is why Donald is going to lose big in November. Because he’s never done his own shopping, or opened his own medical bills, or had to take his own kids to day care, he has no concept whatsoever of what it means to live in America right now.

Affordability is also the only reason why he was re-elected, and he’s doing the Biden/Harris thing and trying to gaslight people into thinking things are better, which is not only going to backfire, but he will be so much more unpopular by election time that even the dirty tricks they want to pull won’t be valid tactics by then. They’ve even stopped the gerrymandering push because Donald’s own coalition has become so hostile to him that they can no longer rely on voters who pulled the lever for Republicans just a year and a half ago.

Now, if only we could get thirty Kat Abughazalehs elected at the federal level so Dems might actually oppose something.

Ugh.

The service has been quite good for ten years.

Guess it was good while it lasted.

I hope she sues and makes it hurt.

ACAB

If the shit hits the fan, and oil prices move up, it’s too late to complain… especially if your own president started an unnecessary war.

Wrong.

Every American has a right to complain here. Not only has our president broken his campaign promises on war, he had a record of disentangling us from foreign wars in his first term. (Most notably Syria and Afghanistan.) So, unlike some of his other promises, this one carried weight.

He did not run on warmongering. He ran on peace.

And as for gas prices in particular, people are barely scraping by and any drastic fluctuation in the cost of essentials threatened stability.

Absolutely. Also why I want to throat punch every person I hear make jokes about egg prices.

An important note, to be sure. In Afghanistan we displaced tens of millions of people, and all we heard from our government and most Americans was: “Welp, they must just hate us for our freedom.”

For a while there was a VR app for Google Earth that allowed you to visit museums virtually. This is a wonderful use of modern technology.

I hate that our country is run by the dumbest people and they’re also massive douche bags.

LLM’s have been proven to manipulate their users into doing terrible things. That’s what happens when there isn’t any meaningful regulation of a harmful product.

OpenAI will settle, NDA’s will be signed, and people will forget this ever happened.

This guy needs to lodge his head deeply into a dark recess of his own anatomy.

When this becomes more common, and I’m certain it will, it’ll be interesting to see how many Americans kinda just ignore that it was us and our allies who radicalized these people.

Who is ‘we’ in this?

Both the Iran War and high gas prices are wildly unpopular with the majority. Problem is our federal legislators are largely pro-war zionists who are heavily invested in euphemistically-named defense stocks and oil stocks, and they are profiting handsomely, just like they did when their classified briefings told them the country would be shutting down in a few weeks in February 2020.

They’re probably also all making money on prediction markets.

No need to quit Lemmy.

There are sub-lemmies that are dedicated to only positive things, like cats. Sub to a bunch of them and then go into your profile and set up your default home page to be only channels you’re subbed to, and you’ll see all happy stuff when you log on.

I think we’ve seen with cops over and over again that, to them, the rational thing is making sure the victim doesn’t survive, and thus, taking away their ability to testify.

The donut eating piece of refuse refused treatment once inside the ambulance and kinda just ignored that a dying person needed it more.

Classic ACAB.

The video release by the FBI in the Guthrie case proved definitively that every device equipped with a camera or microphone and a wireless connection is spying on you, and not only that, feeding the data into government databases without a warrant or any meaningful oversight.

This means to protect yourself you have to secure your devices as best you can or simply keep them locked away. There’s nothing you can do about the bazillion cameras your neighbors have set up, though some eyeglass retailers sell lenses coated to foil AI face scanning. (Zenni is one.)