You can also tell they’ve never killed anyone either:
"Have you any idea what kind of noise happens when somebody’s stabbed in the back? Because I do.”
- Sir Christopher Lee, to Peter Jackson on the set of LOTR: Return of the King
“Then he started telling me about some clandestine part of WW2…”
- Peter Jackson
This looks a lot like the crystal orientation map of a metal sample
Do you treat the words cognitohazard and infohazard as synonymous or not? And if not, how does one differentiate them?
Yes, In Vaulted Halls Entombed, man I need to rewatch this show
Yell “Fire!” But they’ll get mad if there isn’t actually a fire so remember to start one before you yell
Because they say “made in Taiwan” on them instead of “made in China”
/s
So when it comes to using genAI, you are going to have a lot of people (including leftists) just using a corporate model, then you have a smaller subset trying out “open” models like deepseek, then a smaller subset locally hosting a distilled model, and a smaller subset fine tuning a model or using RAG, and smaller and smaller subsets of people maybe try to build something on their own.
The db0 instance’s official stance is against using corpo AI, so you’re talking to the smaller subset already. So any arguments based on “most people” aren’t really relevant to the complaint you’ve made about this instance.
So in reality, most of these users will be making predictable and easily influenced output using these tools.
If you’re talking about the AI output, predictability is kinda the point. If you’re talking about the “influence” effect it has on certain people, watching youtubers or consuming any media can also influence people significantly. Does this mean listening to or creating podcasts is unethical and shouldn’t be tolerated? No, it means you should be careful what kind of media you consume regardless of its source. I am reasonably certain everyone on this instance knows genAI is quite fallible and biased.
Also, I think the basic function of these tools, which will be true for open or corporate models, makes us less dependent on eachother, which I think will lead to even more self centered societies then we currently have and not the community centric goal that I think a lot of us share.
First, there is a difference between dependence and dependability.
Secondly, one could make this argument about any information sharing system ever. Youtube tutorials have made people less dependent on repair-men. Does that mean tutorials on how to fix an air conditioner are unethical?
Furthermore, genAI is a hobby for some people (especially those on this instance who use it). People like sharing cool things they made with/about their hobbies, and finding people with shared interests is a great way to build a sense of community. However, if an instance were to assert that no use of genAI is ethical ever, that would alienate people who use it in an ethical way, preventing/discouraging them from sharing/creating and/or participating in communities that they would have otherwise. I’d argue that is literally, directly against the “community centric goal” which “a lot of us share.”
I don’t use genAI basically at all, but I have experience with machine learning in general. Here’s my take:
Generative AI itself is literally just statistical modeling. Very complicated statistical modeling/prediction but still the same idea as any other method for prediction/classification.
The only problem is how certain models are trained and/or used.
You can (and imo should because it’s fun/interesting) create your own generative AI using responsibly sourced training data and open source code. Is that a crime? Does that hurt anyone? Does that harm society as a whole? No.
The concept of “GenAI” is not the problem. In fact, utilizing it for protien/drug discovery is pretty fucking cool, as is the fact it makes language translation significantly more accessible and accurate.
The problems you listed mostly apply to strictly corporate GenAI models. They are problematic not because they are generative statistical models but because they are built, maintained, controlled, and used by capitalist institutions in a capitalist society which allows them to do any damage they want as long as they can continue bribing politicianslining the pockets of investors
Learn mathematics. If something/someone tries to assert the following fallacious syllogism, then it is propaganda:
If someone/some-organization asserts that a simple correlation means causation—especially in the case of surveys or polls—thats propaganda.
Hell, a lot of the time the correlation doesn’t even verifiably exist.
If someone asserts that because the publication/school publishing a paper has prestige, that paper must be well founded and correct, they are using it as propaganda regardless of whether it draws solid conclusions or not.
The same is, unfortunately, true in reverse. Just because something is a biased source or even a superspreader of propaganda, doesn’t necessarily mean they are always spouting misinformation. Though if the conclusions are sound, you should be able to find a better source than any clearly biased news/journalism organization
If they cite a paper/study:
Too blueshifted
No no no butthead would be the opposite so it’d refer to yeeting your butt as far away from their head as possible
Nah ds1 is more bisexual since you can choose to serve a 20ft tall woman or her little femboy brother gwyndolin, and technically you’re gwyndolin’s pet even if you choose the woman since his sister is an illusion.
Plus, you get to save a fire damsel-in-distress AND also get your knight-in-sunshine-armor Solaire who “jokes” about you having feelings for him
Why did the cop just stand there and get eaten? /s
I think you actually just described Danish.
Why pronounce a consonant when you just can swallow it and use a glottal stop instead?
This looks a lot like a sky shot of a dense city at night.
New cyberpunk world-building technique just dropped
This’s anti-twink propaganda
Horrible? You are regularly committing war crimes. So definitely
Yeahh rotten breath alone probably counts as a violation of the Geneva Conventions
Oh I was so hyped to see the ancient dragon man just because I had started playing DS3 right before SOTE. But yeah id say he’s still horrible little man material
Also on the lines of Eleonora, I’d say Varre is a pretty solid choice for horrible little man too. He might be taller than the player but even if he was, he just feels like a creepy little evil guy
What is the name of this neighborhood? Need it so i can being it up the next time someone tells me calling it a genocide is antisemitism because “all jews support Israel.”