Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es

ABANDONWARE SHOULD BECOME PUBLIC DOMAIN!!!! like seriously maybe even open source!! im sick of these corpos shutting down their services!!!

“AI” as currently hyped is giant billion dollar companies blatantly stealing content, disregarding licenses, deceiving about capabilities, and burning the planet in the process.

It is the largest theft of intellectual property in the history of humankind, and these companies are knowingly and willing ignoring the licenses, terms of service, and laws that us lowly individuals are beholden to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/technology/tech-giants-harvest-data-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ik0.Ofja.L21c1wyW-0xj&ugrp=m

#AI #GenAI #LLM #LLMs #OpenAI #ChatGPT #GPT #GPT4 #Sora #Gemini

Adding paintings to MakeRoom, you can choose both a shape/style and the painting itself to get many combinations 🖼

Free demo (+ wishlist!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/2212670/MakeRoom/

PSA: If you are thinking about donating to an open source project then gifting Discord Nitro to the maintainer is NOT a a valid means of donation.

Just because they accept it because you already paid for the Nitro gift and the money is already down the drain doesn't mean they're in any way grateful for the fact you wasted money that could have instead been donated to fund infrastructure for the project that can be independent of corporate platforms like Discord.

Jewish-German refugee genius and movie star Hedy Lamarr was a self-taught science genius who invented and patented the frequency-hopping spread spectrum technology for missile guidance in WW2 that became the foundation of all of our wifi technology today.

Happy women's history month...

The are the 2 paragraphs from https://genderdysphoria.fyi/ that changed my life. These words were the final straws that broke the wall of denial I had built over a lifetime, when I could no longer deny I was #trans

Economics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, | don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*

Mainstream media are finally waking up.

“Firstly, cleaning indoor air mitigates all airborne diseases at the same time without requiring changes to individual behaviour. Several diseases that cause us repeated suffering and fill our hospitals are airborne, including COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and tuberculosis.”

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-its-time-to-clean-the-germs-out-of-our-indoor-air

#covid #PublicHealth #AirFiltration

Apparently HP isn't content on just squeezing their customers; they're going to spy on whatever they're printing, and sell that data.

https://lemmy.world/post/12859204

Time to re-up this from Awkward Yeti: (Nick Seluk)
https://linktr.ee/theawkwardyeti
#trauma #MentalHealth

Upgrade your home defense

#picotron quakotron with proper palette - still runs like dog but hey, at least pretty!!

This meme from egg_irl got me thinking.

This conflation is super common, and also heavily hits closeted gay and bisexual men, bolstering compulsive heterosexuality.

Toxic masculinity largely exists to let bullies be bullies, but this enforcement of cishet supremacy is a huge “bonus” effect.

If you work in education, please please please educate your colleagues that "AI detectors" like TurnItIn are all scams and none of them can reliably detect AI-generated content.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1bwojmm/comment/ky7o8m4/

All of you. ALL OF YOU.