[–] 0 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Look, it's okay man. You can play pretend with the other principled smart people in the dole line while the rest of us actually contribute to the economy. :) I just can't get over how clearly delusional you people are.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    ... Aren't open source projects supposed to share? And aren't AIs mostly trained off of open source code?

    See, I think the people in this thread are mostly programmers who realize they're about to lose their jobs. Personally, I don't really care. I have real world objectives that need to be accomplished so I'm going to keep paying my API fees until the local models catch up. Maybe you guys should learn to swing a hammer or something. Lol, what a joke.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    It's an open standard that could lead to tighter controls on devices in the future. That's an extremely slippery slope. Wouldn't it make more sense to require age verification for social media platforms and outlaw online gambling? Why deanonymize the devices themselves? I suspect it has nothing to do with protecting children.

    If I had to speculate, I think the people in power are scared of how much on-device AI could empower the masses and they're laying the groundwork to curtail it right now.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    I know where you're coming from. I'd say it's algorithm driven and platform centric consumption that's bad. If things were more open, it'd be easier to use things like RSS readers to control your influences. The laws should be enforcing open standards, not closing things down.

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  • [–] 134 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    These days a computer is pretty much another lobe of your brain. What happens when we actually have computers embedded inside of us? Are they going to restrict access to our own cognition?

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