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Cool. I don’t mind AI art (I know, buuh ;-) ), but here the ‘interestingness’ of the content, how separate visual ideas, and a ‘weird’ reasoning jumps from inverted Mushrooms to skull, to rising bubbles of thoughts, is special.

An AI can produce such a style image, but I can’t naturally relate to the transformer ‘thoughts’ and effort behind an AI’s visual flow, as I can naturally relate to the cognitive process of a hooman artist (obviously on a shroom-trip and proud of it, but still…). The needed skill and time/energy it must have taken, are quickly added to the initial impression, and it kind of ‘forces’ my brain to look closer/twice, and imagine what it ‘means’ - even if no meaning at all.

This image could in principle be artificial (I wouldn’t know), but just believing that a hooman made it, ads a little extra dimension/relationability to it. I think… …not that I know shit about art, just a quick thought :)

I think they do that anyway… Well, I’m pretty sure, but your initiative/warning is 👍

‘Party pooper’ ;-)

Seem to be ‘snucked in’ here while Trump is holding back latest job-numbers from the public, and besides: I’m sure US corps, or Oligarchy wouldn’t fund/fiddle their numbers, and conclude, in a way that helped them financially in a crashing economy. We must trust them ! We must …

You can just debunk all the childish US-originated propaganda your self. No AI, and no ‘hacking’ techniques are needed for that. Just be critical of your sources, that’s all.

I have a few super old phones/tablets I didn’t threw out for some reason. IF termux can be installed, does the Android version mean anything for the running services ? My latest Android device is version 7.

I don’t think “AI” is the problem here. Watching the watchers doesn’t hurt, but I think the AI-haters are grasping for straws here. In fact, when comparing to the actual suicide numbers, this “AI is causing Suicide !” seems a bit contrived/hollow, tbh. Were the haters also as active in noticing the 49 thousand suicide deaths every year, or did they just now find it a problem ?

Besides, if there’s a criminal here, it would be the private corp that provided the AI service, not a broad category of technology - “AI”. People that hate AI, seem to really just hate the effects of Capitalism.

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html (This is for US alone !) overview

If image not shown: Over 49,000 people died by suicide in 2023. 1 death every 11 minutes. Many adults think about suicide or attempt suicide. 12.8 million seriously thought about suicide. 3.7 million made a plan for suicide. 1.5 million attempted suicide.

“And with that, hopefully we can put this argument to rest.”

That’s not how the internet works, but nice try though ;-)

Good thoughts and choices.

A small side tangent: I remember Ubuntu made a small exe file that could install ubuntu on a running windows machine. I cant remember clearly, or fork/develop it, but it could be nice for windows users to have a simple Linux-install.exe app that does all the confusing work for them and perhaps follows your advice here. Just a quick thought…

I dislike the whole idea/musk/maga, but there are problems with wikipedia, and it is naive to think it is unbiased - money and pressure breaks that principle really fast when necessary.

Here, grokopedia were absolutely right about Russia/Ukraine, and surprisingly the first western/US based platform to actually honestly write what Russia says instead of inferring what Russia says/want from ridiculous rumors/claims from the anti-russia campaign/pundits. Wikipedia is filled with biased ‘truths’ on that article and likely all other high stakes pro-liberal views.

All that unfortunately just means that wikipedias leadership is lying, and that we now have not one, but two biased sources of ‘truth’. Each blasting their own path - away from unbiased scientific truth. We cannot trust sources originating from the Western hemisphere where money incentives are above the search for truth. We also see it in our media, where journalists write whatever they are paid to write. Profit and scientific truth only correlate if scientists/oligarchy have the same goal, but usually they don’t. Profit and Truth are orthogonal to each other and only overlap at one point.

I wouldn’t use/support the private/racist grokopedia - even when verifiably less biased than wikipedia on Russia. I suspect that ‘truths’ are biased in both. Wikipedia are pretty good at non-controversial topics, but slightly to heavily biased towards the liberal view on most controversial topics (especially current western propaganda topics, bad Russia, bad China, many sexes good, etc). OC the Guardian is at the forefront of deliberate liberal anti-russia propaganda in the West, so they have to write biased claims to keep their readers convinced, and keep the conflict going (money pouring in).

In the end, it is just two right-wing databases fighting for supremacy - anything not right-wing are shut down and other activist - or non-capitalist encyclopedias have been build around on the net instead of fighting wikipedias bias. (no, a ‘liberal’ is not ‘left’, they are all capitalists, and thus all following the capitalist doctrines).

Can’t see much difference under the ‘crazy hood’.

Biden were a dimwitted demented lunatic/lier also, they all are, and US are doing the exact same things as they did before - just more openly now. The two-party system is merely ‘crowd-control’, and people are fed entertainment, lies and small emotional issues - just like the Romans did with the coliseum etc. All just crowd-control. Nobody in the top of the US government - both ‘parties’ - cares about any people other than themselves and their oligarch donors. Presidents don’t change anything but a few ‘make-up’ issues, and US internal/foreign policy have been the exact same for around 70-100 years. That equals to 100% oppression, political colonialism/control - at home and abroad.

At home in the US, there haven’t been ‘Democracy’ ever. It was and always will be a Plutocracy, by the Plutocracy, and for the Plutocracy - like this Trump oligarch they dug up and placed in power. Free markets = 100% corruption on all ‘markets’, and no oversight allows for rich c*nts to “Manufacture Political Consent” through the media and other channels. The US plutocracy controls the money flow to media, and have hence captured the America/Western people in something called “Colonization of the mind” (type of propaganda control). This are all directly built-in to the US political system through the free markets of politics where peoples interest/well being doesn’t matter - money and Oligarchs does.

On a geopolitical scale US manipulates other nations through their nations oligarchs and newly opened markets, and all the US wars against the nay-sayers around the world where they scoop up other nations/peoples resources in a calculated attempt to preserve their post-WW2 hegemony and power structure. Their campaign against Russia (yes, the war were manufactured by US over 30 years!) went really sour compared to expectations, and now the whole Western economy and power base are contracting, and we are moving towards a so called multi-polar world, where US oligarchs can’t decide global events anymore.

I love the sub and certainly want to boycott US (have done/tried so for 10+ years), but it seems like most here are only reacting to Trump’s open bullying and would stop boycotting US if Trump were removed. I wouldn’t.

However in the end, I guess the underlying reason for what we do isn’t as important, as long as we agree about the boycott and slamming of Psychos in charge of our lives.

Oi, the US/Plutocratic anti-China propaganda is running in high gears atmo 🙃 Why anyone would believe these obvious moronic claims about ‘other guys’ doing exactly what US Plutocracy and Capitalism have done for centuries, are beyond me. But they do anyway… Perhaps complete ignorance of what the West and their contrived ideology are doing in/to the world ? Who knows…

Anyway, congratulations to China for pushing though all the bullshit and continues attacks from US (and its liberal puppets), and because they won against the US Empire of Lies… In fact, congratulations to all enemies of the psychopathic US Plutocracy: Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and so on and so on. All victims of the Western ideological dictatorship through a hundred years…

Great. We need open alternatives/integration before the Corp monkeys saturates services/tools and the whole AI ecosystem. I don’t want to rely on corps and their services, and I don’t want to loose the AI capabilities. AI can help me de-google/de-westernize my life - max FLOSS and open living as possible.

Great idea, and love re-purposing stuff! Price/ram probably limit the use to always-on low-power cases. Not sure it can beat small sbc’s at their own game, so not sure where it shines - except for re-purposing wasted resources oc.

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Everything you said was true, but there’s a small group of shortcuts that are very harmful when misused. “IQ”, “GDP”, and many others are routinely used in bad ways, and are therefore not ‘more useful than not’. So overall, correct, but specific usage of these distinct meanings are very harmful, and always worth scrutinizing.

Just infantile Western propaganda/russophobia. reverse it for Western reality, and ignore the post…

This eternal Sinophobia - hatred of everything ‘China’ from western for-profit outlets, is looking like an organized effort. Propaganda to demean a winning competitor. Sad…

No, “Capitalism” is Destroying a Generation of Students. It is destroying jobs and most other existential problems come from that belief system, but AI - for now - is a tool.

Only in a terrible environments with psychopath behavior, does it do harm. Unfortunately, that describes 99% of all leadership under Capitalism. It has always and will always be powerful people misusing tools/tech for their own individual benefit. That is what ‘free competition’ allows to happen. Live with it, or complain about Capitalism instead.

Too bad, but we just have to live with open source being used for shitty purposes also.

Musk IS a **nt!, but he have obviously been targeted - just see how much Cash, products and media attention he have gotten. Look how much Cash is floating in the Anti-Musk Campaign. Activists usually don’t have money for Ad campaigns and shit, and hacking a prompt at XAI wouldn’t be hard for the right people. Whenever you see activists with new flags, banners and ‘expensive’ stuff, we know that someone have sponsored that event - usually US oligarchs.

So, don’t like Musk, don’t care much what happens to him, don’t need/want to defend him, but we should at least pay attention to the pattern of attacks, acknowledge that such targeted pressure/events against a single person is easy to create and happens all the time - even if completely false - AND can be used against somebody YOU like next ! These information war methods are already used against other Nations/competitors of US/The West, so re-focusing the geo-political ‘change’ apparatus against an internal enemy isn’t a problem at all. They have been ‘utilized’ in Britain (Corbin) and on non-liberal competitors in all the other Liberal/Western nations.

It happens daily…