I have no problem with using AI for things it’s actually good at and generally help people do their job. There are so many things that can be done more efficiently in regards to coding with using AI and it’s very useful in that regard. That being said, AI should be used as a tool to make a coders life easier and more efficient, not replace them entirely. All these big tech companies are using AI as an excuse to replace workers when in reality they could keep all their employees and have them complete 10x the work with the same amount of effort.

The reason “vibe coding” is becoming a problem is because people that have no idea how to code are using it as a shortcut to not learn how to code at all. AI can be a really great tool for some of the more tedious and non-automated tasks coders have to use on a daily basis and discounting it entirely is just not feasible in the tech world anymore. It’s basically the upgraded version of copy and pasting code you found on the internet which a lot of coders already do.

I remember last year when there was a trend of AI generated videos that depicted animals or people doing ridiculous and crazy things on doorbell cameras. Everyone was surprised at how realistic they looked but never questioned why there was enough training data of doorbell cameras to make them in the first place.

Not that relevant, but it makes it pretty clear how “private” this data was in the first place.

Damn straight.

I mean, you took the first sentence out and ignored the rest of what I said. My point was that yes that is a reason, but it’s not the only reason. My point was they don’t wanna sell to consumers because Elon Musk is just gonna pre-order their entire stock for the next two years.

Part of me thinks that they wouldn’t be stupid enough to have the Grok available to the public as the same one they will be using at the Pentagon. Like, the same servers that the consumers get to use and all that. Another part of me thinks they are stupid enough to do that and it’ll only take a few weeks until people start getting Grok to share battle plans on twitter.

What’s crazy is that they aren’t just doing this because they make more money with AI. They’re doing this because these AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made yet for datacenters that are not even built yet all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up. As long as the manufacturers get paid they don’t really give a shit, but this is so unsustainable it would be hilarious if it weren’t so catastrophic for the rest of us. And as long as the line goes up as they all circle jerk their money around they’ll all be happy and can pretend the economy is good.

He had plenty of time to move out of the way if he didn’t spend so much time getting his gun out. Dude had to take two steps to his right but opted to pull out a gun against a car instead. Afterwards you can hear him call her a “fucking bitch.” I’m pretty sure this dude just wanted to kill her because they were taunting him.

And to those that say “maybe you shouldn’t talk like that to law enforcement” maybe you should really think to yourself does that really justify getting shot in the head? Just because this guy didn’t like what she said doesn’t mean anyone deserved to die.

Nobody in the AI industry, tech, or government cares. He says all the buzzwords and gives them all what they want. What he says is basically irrelevant at this point. Until something actually happens we’re all gonna read about some sort of “gotcha” moment every day as if it makes a difference so we can have our rage moments and move on after we get our dopamine hit by calling him a moron.

Not talking shit on anyone here, I’m just tired. And I’m tired of seeing a similar headline day after day as if it changes anything.

The problem is that they believe what they want to believe, not what he actually says or does. It’s like a game of telephone where nobody actually fact checks each other. One person sees a speech by Trump that says he’s going to solve affordability by defunding stuff that he doesn’t care for or doesn’t benefit from. He tells his friends and coworkers that Trump is going to solve affordability but barely mentions how. Those friends are also conservative so they don’t ask for more details they just say “hell yeah, about time” and then move onto the next topic without elaborating. Next those people tell their friends the same thing and if they get asked how they just say “I don’t know, it’s just what x was saying.”

Fast forward a few months and it’s election day now everyone associated with that person, some of who don’t spend a lot of time on the internet so they aren’t really up to date on current events, have this vague idea that Trump will solve their problems. They’re too busy with their own lives and never get a good opportunity to do look things up or actually research what candidates are doing what, but they heard Trump had some good ideas and they’ve voted for Republicans before, so why not?

This is the reason why republicans and Trump love the poorly educated and love making life expensive. It makes people so caught up in their own bullshit and so uninformed that they make poor decisions because they either don’t have the time or don’t understand what’s going on.

Well, it is actually. Literally everyone told you this would happen. The problem isn’t that you “didn’t vote for this,” the problem is that you voted for something that never existed. Ask any Trump supporter what they voted for and 8 out of 10 times they have made up their own reason that specifically fits their viewpoint and even contradicts what Trump himself said he would do in most circumstances. In their anger towards “liberals” and “woke” they basically created their own idea of what Trump was based on nothing but vibes and then voted for that idea as if it was what he actually stood for. It’s a religion and based on faith, not a political party. Like when “Christians” make shit up from the bible to fit their arguments even when it doesn’t make any sense.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command”

Which it seems most people have forgotten. I remember when Trump got put on it last year and everyone was raging.

I mean, they did Trump last year knowing full well what he was going to do. They are just trying to appease their overlords so they don’t fall out of a window in the future. And didn’t they do Hitler way back in the day too? Their person of the year award is pretty pointless, honestly.

It’ll make the green line go up and that’s all they care about. I completely agree that it seems they won’t be able to do anything to stop it so they might as well try and make money from it.

It’s starting to reach the point where I don’t really find this funny anymore and I just find it sad. Kinda like when you see an older person get scammed out of thousands of dollars by one of those IRS or tech support scams. Fear makes people do stupid things. I get it, this is what they voted for. And yes, a lot of MAGA are legitimately Nazis and deserve all the hate they get and more. But some of these people just got scammed plain and simple. When I see someone get scammed out of their life savings I don’t just laugh at them and say “I told you not to fall for those IRS scams. Jesus Christ you are so fucking dumb.” No, I get pissed at the scammer that took advantage of them. Fuck all those people that are actual Nazis, though.

The fact that we see so many people having regret is a good thing. I’d rather have people that realized they fucked up then people that are doubling down and defending everything Trump is doing.

Here pretty soon we are going to reach a critical mass of Dead Internet Theory and misinformation that the internet will become basically useless. It used to be the biggest source of information in human history and these tech bros are just burning down the library to build a data center. It’s already losing its reliability every day as less and less people take it seriously. If the bubbles doesn’t pop, I’m pretty sure the internet is going to consist exclusively of storefronts and streaming services as the rest of it slowly gets poisoned to death. Either way, the AI will collapse and take the internet with it. All in a effort to produce some mythical AGI that probably won’t even happen.

My guess is that they don’t quite have the resources to do anything about it but are more than happy to let everyone know they are doing it to scare people. We’ve already seen how abysmal their ICE recruitment numbers have been and I highly doubt they’d be able to do anything against more than 50% of the entire population with what they currently have.

Obligatory Fuck ICE

The only problem is some anticheats older games. Whenever the boys and I wanna play Battlefield I gotta switch to Windows, but besides that it’s basically fine.

I already have to use Windows 11 at work so I know the problems it comes with and I absolutely refuse to upgrade at home. I’d sooner go to exclusively Linux than upgrade at this point. I’ve already been duel booting Linux and Windows at home just in case I gotta bail completely. And as someone that has tried Linux back in 2015 it is leaps and bounds better than it used to be. Besides certain proprietary software you can basically do 80% of what you can on Windows at this point.

Yeah, but some people didn’t opt into it. I’ve worked on a lot of new construction in my state and they buy these appliances for every new apartment complex they build. I know people could choose a different apartment, but most people don’t have any other option and saying “no” to a decent apartment because of a refrigerator isn’t a luxury people can afford.