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[–] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No because I don’t us ai slop

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

By far the easiest solution.

[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

With how so many services are forcing it upon us, I'd have to disagree.

It's also getting to be a bit of a chore to block AI elements on all the various websites implementing them, and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist. On each device...

It is the most effective solution for sure, though.

[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

You don't have to block them. Just don't use them.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist.

Does ubo accept css selectors? Css has syntax for "match element that starts with, ends with, or contains, this string"

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors

[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Dunno, I'd have to investigate this later. Thanks for the info!

[–] tarknassus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

With how so many services are forcing it upon us, I'd have to disagree.

Maybe we need to add a term for anti-AI psychosis. Like an equivalent of ‘going postal’?

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what i always think when i read things like that. "Facebook is invading our privacy, same as instagram, and there is nothing we can do."

Idk man, not using it is pretty easy actually.

[–] blicky_blank@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh but Facebook tracks you regardless of you having an account with them. Half of Android phones come with facebooks telemetry built into them, all those like and share buttons on websites/blogs, also tracking you.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

I put in an IT ticket the other day over the fucking Copilot button on my work-issued Surface laptop. They actually told me to install Powertoys. So I did. And disabled that fucking button.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I can't run local models bigger than 7b q_4_k_m or so, so I'm safe for now. The idea of revealing my deeper personality to corporate LLMs is horrifying.

[–] blackstampede@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

All who argue in the interwebs are potential victims honestly. And those who argue with them, even if only IRL. How do you tell which news, which discourses and which commenters are bots (or repeat after bots, or consult bots)?

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In addition to this, I was just thinking about how many kids are asking questions to LLM's that just a few years ago they would have asked friends or their parents or a mentor. A whole generation that will be used to taking advice from a black-box LLM.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ye-es, we'll see a good test of humanity's ability to adapt. Either it delivers, or it ends right in the following decades, because its survival is based on a much subtler process than people controlling these technologies can conceive. It's all the time of evolution and its volume of entropy spent on optimization versus like 40 years of computer programmers deciding they know how it all should be done, just have to pass through the resistance. The latter is a drop in the sea. It can't realistically be anything but a threat.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not immune to it but it'll have to fight all the other psychosises I have.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Now i need to know who wins.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

None of you, that's for sure.

[–] m3t00@piefed.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

might be entitled to compensation, for all the money you spent.

ouija board lied to me

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fortunately AI is not big enough part of my life to care about this one way or another. It definitely has it's uses but I never used as anything other than data transformation and as a search engine alternative. I don't know what kind of people confuse AI with a companion and have sincere conversations with it, I don't know how to help them and I don't care how this will impact the AI industry.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The thing is you don't have to use it personally, other people will use it for you and present it to you, possibly without you knowing it. AI bot accounts, AI news stories, AI art and so on. It is already a big part of the internet and it will continue to increase regardless of whether we personally use AI or not.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah but I'm pretty sure reading AI news stories will not give me psychosis.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. Every time a Republican makes a post on social media I'm a victim of AI Psychosis.

[–] atticus88th@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

One dude dies on his way to meet his cat fishing AI girlfriend and every new outlet pretends it's Rise Of The Terminators.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

There are more cases where the use of AI greatly accelerate people's schizophrenia and they fall into some cyber psychosis.

I still have a hard time feeling bad for people who use AI as a self affirming tool and ask it for advice.