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Cake day: July 18th, 2023

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  • Just remove algorithms that are predictive in nature. Everything non-deterministic, targeted to anything more than high level and imprecise location or similar should be illegal. At the end of the day, the spirit of the law needs to be that dragnet mass surveillance, and the capture and sale of user data for predictive purposes, is an information asymmetry that is an attack vector for propaganda, manipulation, coercion, and general logical corruption of a population.

    It is an imminent national security threat to allow such practices, which benefit the most unethical and immoral criminal participants, the most.




  • Thanks for doing the thing I couldn’t be bothered to do. This bot definitely ripped off the recent poster, as the noted defects in it are identical.

    They found a fire alarm that wasn’t working, took note of the garbage around the property, and found windows that were boarded up in the basement that needed to be real windows to satisfy the city’s ‘at least 2 real windows in basements’ rule or whatever.

    Makes sense really. Easier to have your bot farms rehash and cross post high engagement material between all sources. No matter what, only a fraction of total users are gonna see any one.

    Come to think of it, in the last month a custom meme made the front page using some western girls image as the background, then within hours I saw the same meme (identical “custom” text) posted to an indian sub, but with an indian girls image instead. Dead internet theory in action.


  • I still check r/all on libreddit (gotta keep tabs on the fascist propaganda) and I literally read a comment in the last couple of weeks that is the basis of this fake post. The commenter said they gave their landlord 3 months instead of the 30 day requirement, mentioned multiple other defects were found, and specifically included a part about their electrical wiring being crossed with a neighbour, resulting in many thousands more in expenses for the landlord than the few hundred their request would have.

    The comment appeared real, but it could have still been a bot copy pasting from an old thread. Either way, I’m certain that’s the source.







  • I kept seeing a popup about adding a phone number because I might lose access to my account. I removed the phone number a decade ago. You mean my recovery email, OTP code, and backup codes can’t be used for recovery motherfucker!?!

    Anyway I exported everything and closed my account because the fascists can eat a dick.






  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Ban AI Slop?
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    I’m conflicted. I’m anti-AI due to distrust in capitalism and our pseudo-democratic plutocracies, the profit motive to replace the human workforce, the reckless criminal-incompetence of its implementation, and apparent stupidity of the average hairless primate in understanding that you can never trust a correlation engine… but it’s just a tool, and I’ve also found it incredibly useful in my limited and controlled usage; getting it to write small functions or blocks of code, then amending and composing them myself.

    How do we determine what is “heavily written by ai”, and all the obvious slop factory bullshit, without banning strong projects who are just leveraging it for legitimate dev work; as a glorified autocomplete, test autofill, etc but still read and validate every line of code?

    Like most people, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to find trustworthy projects amongst the see of amateur slop, but I think banning it out-right would likely result in many false positives, and ultimately be counter-productive.

    As much as I don’t want to depend on metrics, I think a better approach would be to define a bunch of heuristics based on historically-competent projects. Things like defining an upper limit based on LoC vs commit time and number of devs, project age, etc. Ultimately I feel the industry should do what cybersecurity should be doing; moving to some sort of cryptograhically-verified social trust model where engineers/professionals have to build trust in the real world, and take turns in “vouching” for projects and code releases.


  • In general, there is an entirely separate rule of law for businesses. That’s why regulations were created. Instead of holding a corporations decision makers and investors criminally liable with existing laws like fraud (“false advertising”, etc), or manslaughter (poisoning and killing their workers, customers, or environment), they created an entirely separate rule of law mostly based on laughable punitive damages with limits that don’t significantly impact investors. The entire system is geared to suppress, oppress, and exploit workers for profit.




  • Claiming capitalism didn’t exist until it was formally invented/defined is rather fallacious.

    No matter how much capitalists want to manufacture that narrative, they’re splitting hairs. There is no significant difference between private orgs/individuals or landowners using their wealth to influence the system and control laws/workers/consumers under that jurisdiction, vs a monarchy and private lords/landowners using their wealth to control the laws/workers/consumers of their fiefdom. The illusion of democracy or rule of law doesn’t change the underlying nature of the system, or how it operates.

    For example, America is claimed to be a “capitalist” “democracy” yet in 2026 it is much closer to the same sociopathic, psychopathic, and authoritarian psychologies of the pre-democratic, pre-revolutionary fiefdom era, where a wealthy ruling class are subject to a different “rule of law” than the workers/consumers, than it is to the ideals and virtues written on paper. Acting as though the paper still applies while the president and all his accomplices are free to rape children on a private island is extremely delusional, and borderline psychotic.