“Shouldn’t,” you say? Sure - I agree with that. They also shouldn’t swear, ride a bike without a helmet, hit a friend, eat candy, or stay up all night playing video games. But they’re going to, and there’s only so much you can do before the “fix” becomes worse than the problem.

Most of us did those things as kids and we mostly turned out fine. The world’s a messy place and it always will be. This is just yet another moral panic that’ll just create further problems rather than solving them.

Mine would me much older if it wasn’t for an mentally unstable ex-girlfriend deleting my original account.

Depends on what job it’s replacing. LLMs are so-called narrow intelligence. They’re built to generate natural-sounding language, so if that’s what the job requires, then even an imperfect LLM might be fit for it. But if the job demands logic, reasoning, and grounding in facts, then it’s the wrong tool. If it were an imperfect AGI that can also talk, maybe - but it’s not.

My unpopular opinion is that LLMs are actually too good. We just wanted something that talks, but by training it on tons of correct information, they also end up answering questions correctly as a by-product. That’s neat, but it happens “by accident” - not because they actually know anything.

It’s kind of like a humanoid robot that looks too much like a person - we struggle to tell the difference. We forget what it really is because of what it seems.

Well there I don’t see any other options. No matter how much people tell them not to give an inch, that’s just not realistic. The options are pretty much to cut your losses or take back the occupied territories by force. That’s just not going to happen. If it was possible it would’ve already happened. The defensive positions preventing Ukraine to take back the lost ground are significantly more substantial than the ones holding Russia back. If they had equal numbers of men, then maybe but Russia has near infinite source of soldiers to toss into the meat grinder.

Surrender as in just give up and let Russia take control of all of Ukraine? Abso-fucking-lutely not.

Surrender the lost territories, however? It’s without a doubt going to happen.

Every single person on earth. There’s nothing more inherently human than caring about what others think.

I get what you mean though - I also try not to let other people’s judgment affect what I do, but I’d be lying to myself if I claimed it doesn’t, and especially if I claimed I don’t care.

• I prefer to operate the clutch and shifting on my truck myself.
• I’ll rather do manual labor than any work that involves sitting on a computer.
• I’m chronically online but without a smartphone addiction.
• I prefer long-form media.

Firefox

The less apps I have on my phone the better and I mostly browse Lemmy on desktop anyway.

What do you mean they don’t give you a choice? You always have the choice not to use it. DDG gives me AI summaries and I never read them. WhatsApp has an LLM button I’ve never pressed. Twitter has Grok, never tried it. Android probably has Gemini somewhere, and I don’t even know how to access it. As for Proton’s LLM, I hadn’t even heard of it despite paying for their email for a decade. I just don’t see how something existing as a feature in a service I already use somehow mandates me to engage with it.

If someone is so deeply anti-LLM that they want to avoid all this on principle, I don’t necessarily have an issue with that. But personally, I genuinely struggle to grasp the logic behind it. People seem to have a strong emotional response to LLMs - your reply makes that pretty clear - and that’s the part that really boggles my mind.

I’ve only ever tried ChatGPT and that’s what I’ve stuck with.

Most of the time it does what I ask. My two main uses are editing my writing and answering random questions. I also use it to bounce ideas off, and honestly it’s the “adult” I talk to when I’m about to tear my hair out trying to have civil conversations online. I feel like an LLM is tuned better to my autistic wavelength than most people are. I rarely get to talk about my deepest interests with others because they’re usually not the kind of things your average Joe spends time thinking about - so rather than boring people to death or sharing thoughts with friends who won’t even respond, I find myself turning to ChatGPT more and more.

It’s interesting that I genuinely enjoy my interactions with an LLM more than with most people online. I’m not sure what that says about me, other people, or the LLM itself. Out of everything I do online, YouTube and ChatGPT give me by far the fewest regrettable minutes.

If you don’t like LLMs then why can’t you just not use them? Why do you have to start avoiding everything LLM like the plague?

You can export settings and blocks from your old account to a new one. The users here tend to be pretty privacy-minded, so not wanting to put all your eggs in one basket is probably a common mindset. That’s why I ditch my old accounts once they hit around 1000 comments and start fresh on a different instance to lose the tail. It’s too easy to become “famous” on a platform this small. I’m sure many people like that - I don’t.

About a hundred. The list used to be thousands of users long when I tried filtering out everyone pushing extremist policies or just being hostile in general - but it turns out that’s most people here, since my feed completely died down. Now I’m trying a different approach: blocking only the worst offenders and using keyword-based content filtering to hide the comments that poison my mind.

AI-powered content filtering can’t come soon enough. Even keyword filtering is a blunt tool. I’d rather just describe the kind of content I don’t want to see and have it filtered out before it ever reaches me. I’m sick of how angry everyone is here. Most people probably don’t notice it much since it’s usually directed at people they dislike too, but anger hits me differently. I don’t like feeling that emotion, and I don’t like being around angry people.

Bimbos. Like proper, over the top plastic ones.

Only when I can’t be arsed to deal with the backslash.

I used to think my dream job would be building custom furniture in my own workshop at home, but now that a small part of my work actually involves making custom pieces, I’ve learned it’s not my dream job after all. I’m far more productive when I have a set time and place to show up - otherwise I’ll procrastinate until noon and end up working through the whole evening.

Because of climate change? That’s not even on the ballpark when it comes to the worst case scenario estimates of the excess deaths because of it. No wonder young people are so stressed out…

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debt

Is it not debt when you owe money to the bank?

You can invest in index funds online. I passively earn over a month’s salary that way every year.