Yeah, TBH it’s still probably not actual “AI” and is really just complex, inaccurate autocomplete—proven by the fact that GPT 2.0 can be run entirely in Microsoft Excel lol (even though it’s certainly a massive table). So it’s just a buzzword…

Nevertheless, I think if it’s free and open-source, I can mildly get behind AI usage in certain situations. The profiteering models I have more of a problem with.

Huh, I didn’t realize that All including all federated communities must be a Thunder-specific feature.

What? No, use “All” to browse through federated instances and then subscribe to any interesting communities across the whole Fediverse. Then stick to the “subscribed” feed and only occasionally recheck “All” if you’re bored and looking for new communities with none in particular; otherwise, run searches for them.

This is actually false, which was surprising to me upon hearing this podcast episode: The TED AI Show: AI therapy is here. What does it mean for you?

Some people actually prefer AI counselors because they never judge, they’re infinitely patient, and they remember everything. There is a role for them. For me, while they’ve always messed up code, they’ve typically shown me a different way to attempt to do something that I didn’t think of before, which eventually led me to newfound tinkering that got me to develop working code needed for my projects.

For this case, I think it’s the framework of AI being inserted into an existing institution that is causing this emotional stigma. If it was started separately as its own AI pep talk program or motivational system for social outreach and equality, then maybe it would thrive. So I think it can’t replace church activities simply because of their innate history.

I’d never heard of Betterbird until now and wanna check it out, too!

Whew, good to know!

I just hope that FOSS doesn’t become a regular training ground for immoral capitalists to assault.

Well, there was an article I read elsewhere on Lemmy that said that FOSS is an enemy of capitalism by being a cheaper competitor, so capitalist dogs may try to attack FOSS developers’ resources and willpower to keep going so they can funnel all of us users over to their paid products.

Gosh, I hope these things don’t start targeting Lemmy instances.

Right, so the buck stops here with FOSS, finally!

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It goes both ways: look at how much Lemmy usage has grown, and Lemmy’s existence is due to technology. We can protest with our dollars and time by leaving such products behind. Greed is independent of tech itself.

prevent communities from becoming echo chambers

I suspect this will still become a problem since we can subscribe to whichever communities we like and vice versa.

Trolls, bots, and scammers make them necessary at a minimum, and then the subliminal messaging from the cronies of politicians, etc. make them welcome. Bots are easier to make than ever before so you can’t compare the past with the present that easily. kbin.social died last year because of relentless spam bots posting garbage/malware links 100x/sec.

The picture’s off-center stance is bugging me lol.

I’ll be a Guinea pig and install it. It’s only 35kb; what could possibly go wrong?

You are right that Molly would lag behind in security updates by one version every time, but Molly is currently the only way to get Signal on tablets/other Droids in one account, effectively, as far as I know.