XLE

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe they should try suing the businesses that actually have tons of venture capital money to take.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Well, jokes aside, MS had keyboard shortcuts when they launched, and supported legacy menus too. LibreOffice, by contrast, is experimenting with several different menubar replacements, but they're all half-baked and look like they were developed in Office 2003 times.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago

True, but it used to be made up by people looking for an ego boost. Now there's an additional monetary incentive behind it. Look no further than Twitter for an example of that.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

The battlefield is now firmly in the age of AI-driven robotic autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).

I'm not sure about "firmly," but if you're confused about the acronym, L stands for "lethal," not "robotic"

Images in this article were created using AI.

Nice disclaimer, but the top of the article would have been a more appropriate place to warn us

[–] XLE@piefed.social 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This post makes some really, really compelling points for AI bots being brought intentionally onto Reddit. All the coincidental features like being able to hide your post history. Seems like a terrible idea for long-term profits even. After all, if you've helping third-party bot spammers to hide their behavior too, how are you going to keep selling your content to OpenAI? They're like a zombie, they need real people to feed off.

And I don't think this article even touches on a separate mistake: letting people monetize their content. This is a goldmine for people who want to create emotionally manipulative content: sympathy bait, ragebait, whatever works, no matter how underhanded.


ETA: if people haven't read this post yet, the section you mention here

Reddit added terms on AI advertising to their business page around the time the bots appeared.

has some of the most suspicious stuff tied to it. In other words, this was a great read.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

This looks incredible and I wish I could get more information about how it was made, and whether we have our own.

The writing is less thrilling.

The premise is deliberately careful: not to pronounce guilt, but to surface cases .. This is not a finished watchdog machine; it is infrastructure under construction... Its public roadmap points not only to Portuguese procurement data but to a broader European layer.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OP's article is true. Did you accidentally click an Eli Yudkowsky article in your bookmarks?

[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There is... It's just really not very good. Last time I checked, it didn't have keyboard shortcuts.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

The only difference between OpenAI and Anthropic is the amount donated to the Trump campaign. That's it. Ethically they are identical. Their "red lines" are both actually green lights.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago (8 children)

LibreOffice is missing the forest for the trees with this: yes, the ribbon isn't the greatest paradigm, but the open-source suite looks like it hasn't had any visual update at all since 2003.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

LLMs don't create objectivity, so if you're looking for "facts," you'll have to actually engage your brain.

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