Dimitris

@Eglaf
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I am a CAD/CAM guy who would rather work in Rhino than TopSolid.
websitehttps://d-p.works/

Here's a thought experiment.

Imagine a stamp mark with the words "Made with #AI" on it.

If you see this mark on a picture, illustration, mobile app, song, movie, or story - do you get the notion that this product is of higher, lower or unchanged quality?

If you see two identical products for the same price, where one has an AI mark and the other doesn't - which one would you buy?

(Please retoot this #LLM #poll for wider reach)

AI mark signals HIGHER quality
0.2%
AI mark signals NO DIFFERENCE in quality
2.6%
AI mark signals LOWER quality
97.3%
Poll ended at .

Even if “AI” worked (it doesn’t), there’s many reasons why you shouldn’t use it:

1. It’s destroying Internet sites that you love as you use chat bots instead of actually going to sources of information—this will cause them to be less active and eventually shut down.

2. Pollution and water use from server farms cause immediate harm; often—just like other heavy industry—these are built in underprivileged communities and harming poor people. Without any benefits as the big tech companies get tax breaks and don’t pay for power, while workers aren’t from the community but commute in.

3. The basic underlying models of any LLM rely on stolen data, even when specific extra data is obtained legally. Chatbots can’t learn to speak English just by reading open source code.

4. You’re fueling a speculation bubble that is costing many people their jobs—because the illusion of “efficiency” is kept up by firing people and counting that as profit.

5. Whenever you use the great cheat machine in the cloud you’re robbing yourself from doing real research, writing or coding—literally atrophying your brain and making you stupider.

It’s a grift, through and through.

I'm am absolutely on board with the blunt but long-overdue honesty of this hot drinks machine.
If any random app asks for government issued IDs with a selfie, it's a major red flag. 🚩 Do not provide them. Please share this warning with all your friends/family. You should only provide government issued ID when it's for something critical, such as:
* Getting a passport
* Obtaining a citizenship card
* Acquiring a driving license
* Opening bank accounts
Any other request for your ID by any app will likely lead to it being leaked or sold, putting everyone at risk. It's a sad reality

20 years ago and still…

#politics #FreeSpeech #internet #tech

Today in 1950, 75 years ago: Pakistan joins the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank.

#OnThisDay

*Closes current document*
"Do you want to save the changes?"
*Clicks yes*

TopSolid: Oops, fatal error-application crash.
->Sorry, I crashed. Do you want to dump the previously opened documents in the disk to attempt to retreive the unsaved changes?

*Clicks yes*

TopSolid: Ignores instructions and crashes to desktop, silently.

"I am starting a petition to no longer refer to AI "art" as AI art but instead as Computer-Rendered Artificial Pictures (CRAP).

Pass it on."

Do you think governments should move towards using a Linux distro for computer systems rather than windows?

Please boost for maximum exposure.

#linux #windows #poll #technology #computing

Yes
93.9%
No
1.4%
It depends (please comment)
4.6%
Poll ended at .