I think it means /shitpost

Maybe they’re a bot that communicates poorly.

You can be unproductive by daydreaming.

You can be unproductive by taking a nap.

You can be unproductive by eating a bunch of snacks and watching videos.

You can be unproductive by being bored, which… might not sound fun, but that’s the time when I do some of my best cogitation. And I find myself bored less and less these days.

Or, I dunno, maybe you think all of those things are productivity, too, in which case—what are we even talking about?

You should do things because you want to do them. And if you want to do nothing, you should do that, too.

I just use torrents or Soulseek. That’s the easiest way. A lot of stuff can still be found on disk, too.

This is about the consequences of recursively training AI on AI-generated content. It doesn’t have anything to do with volition or true intelligence. There’s a good article about it here.

This is the AI Grey Goo scenario: an internet choked with low-quality content, which never improves, where it is almost impossible to locate public reliable sources for information because the tools we have been able to rely on in the past – Google, social media – can never keep up with the scale of new content being created. Where the volume of content created overwhelms human or algorithmic abilities to sift through it quickly and find high-quality stuff.

The social and political consequences of this are huge. We have grown so used to information abundance, the greatest gift of the internet, that having that disrupted would be a major upheaval for the whole of society.

Isn’t “X shit” most of the stuff that gets posted here? I guess if you want yet another dead Lemmy community…

Sorry if I’m misjudging you, but this sounds like an appeal to futility. Hey, people are already not using their brains, so why not use them even less with AI?

Here ya go. Less than 5 minutes with DuckDuckGo; no AI required.

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline

Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-generated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down.

What is the “it” that will not happen?

Use your imagination. It’s an analogy.

Not as long as the media keeps reporting on it.

If you try to kill somebody and fail, that’s still a crime.

Imagine if Lemmy was run by a billion-dollar corporation and injected full of AI, bots, and ads.

23. (Fnord.)

The funny thing is that when I go to lemmy.com, the first thing I see is a box with a button that I can click to sign up:

How much easier could it be?

Folding Ideas on YouTube has a very entertaining video about him.

That’s nothing new.

He already ripped off Squid Game.

I’m pro-LLM and anti-AI.

They are buying the books. Used booksellers are reporting a rash of unusual purchases: high volumes of book purchases with no regard for content or cost.