Today, a package of a dozen “child online safety” bills is moving forward in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The laws, framed as a way to crack down on harmful content and make the internet safer, would force social media companies to enact invasive identity verification measures in order to keep children from accessing online spaces.
Don’t remind me…
Agreed. I don’t see LLM services making an actual ROI any time soon unless something drastic changes.
The primary financial issue with LLMs taking people’s jobs is in the cost of operation, mainly for the LLM companies. They still have not made an ROI, not even close, and that’s with massive government contracts. I personally think that there’s one of three possibilities here. Most of the LLM companies could go under (but they may be “too big to fail” at this point), the LLM companies could start to charge far too much for the quality of the outputs causing some companies to back out, or the LLM companies will, by some miracle, get a ROI through a more efficient model.
The models are enshittified at the start, since they’re basically just hallucinating with guardrails. There’s not any way to make them truly deterministic. Even the “agents” that run through multiple iterations of code to find the “best” solution are lacking. This is because they cannot “think” logically.
My personal opinion, though, is that they’re simply using it as an excuse to fire workers and pump up company stock value. I don’t believe they actually think that LLMs can fully replace devs and engineers. So yes, while LLMs are taking jobs right now, it’s not because they’re good enough at what they do or anything like that. It’s just greed.
I agree and am on the same page. For a year or two I’ve wanted to leave tech (which is crazy since it’s been my hobby for basically my entire life). I’d love to start a cafe, maybe get into woodworking, or something outside. The problem is that I feel like I have no practical skills outside of tech stuff.
I’ve also considered starting my own tech consulting business for local companies, because at least then I’d have control over use of “AI” bullshit.
Does this cover the apps that work with exploit compatibility mode enabled? My banking apps work fine with it on, with it off they don’t work.
Just wanted to chime in and say that you’re part of the problem. That is all.
I’ve seen plenty of misogyny here on the threadiverse. It’s not solved just by not using Instagram or TikTok.
Edit: it’s in this very comment section, in fact.
This is the tenth (no joke) cm0002 account that I’m blocking. This has been posted seven times to the threadiverse, and yet, cm0002 felt we needed to see it again, and that it should be posted by another account so that people cannot block them.
It would be one thing if these reposts were done with one account, because then people could actually remove their posts from their own feeds. But cm0002 does not care about giving you the ability to clean your feeds of their posts, so they rotate between dozens of these spammy accounts.
Oh, and they immediately downvote any comments complaining about their behavior, usually without comment or response. They are unable to see that they’re doing anything that some people may not like.
For me, while I find the duplicate posts annoying (since I tend to go to the “all” section), it’s the fact that they have dozens of accounts that they do this on for no reason that really makes me dislike them. It makes it impossible to block them.
This is the ninth spammy cm0002 account that I’ve now had to block. cm0002 makes the threadiverse seem like it’s got a spam issue (it does, it just happens to be this single user for the most part). I have never once seen a post from any cm0002 account where I thought “wow, I’m sure glad I saw this post again!”
You make it impossible to filter out your spam because you have dozens of accounts that you switch between. I hope that one day, admins of instances realize what you’re doing and blanket ban your accounts for spam.
Note for other users, this was already posted twice to other communities with heavy cross over between the subscribers. It’s cm0002’s classic karma farming (even though that kind of thing shouldn’t matter here).
You can self host Teamspeak and the self hosted version at least has voice chat unlike Stoat.
This. I have a Garmin watch and it works perfectly with Gadgetbridge.
Bummer that it doesn’t have voice chat yet in the self hosted version. Hopefully soon - I would probably switch if they had that.
cm0002 is the worst with this…I’ve blocked like five or six of their accounts but another one just pops up in my feed the next day. It’s so annoying and makes the threadiverse seem like it’s full of spam.
Even local models are trained on stolen art and content. That’s the immoral part.
LLMs still hallucinate what content is on the pages they search. It’s not great.
They just replied:
This makes me think that they didn’t review or test it at all, lmao