luddites were not anti progress, they were pro workers rights. today’s usage of the word is insulting to their work.

exactly one comes to mind: blender

and yet all those “use eu tech” charts always recommend proton products

I bet you’re right, but the fact that I never see it is a feature worth paying for, especially for a smooth-brain like myself.

I would prefer to run my ais locally, but my brain glazes over if I see github. I found a a program called “gpt4all”, but it’s very limited in what models it can run, and what I could get just wasn’t as good for my use case as openai’s 4o model. Also, being able to generate images in the same conversation as text work is a feature that I’m fairly certain no other ai model can do (yet).

I pick my battles.

If I took a hard stance of not engaging with any business that did things I morally object to, I’d be forced to be a self-sufficient hermit in the woods.

I say this as someone who frequently uses generative ai, and actively chooses to pay for the service.

Fuck openai.

This company has utterly failed to fulfill their mission statement, and they will be unable to make right by humanity until ALL software they have created is available to the public as FOSS (free and open source software). Openai claimed that this is exactly what they were going to do, and then they just didn’t. So fuckem.

eventually, imma have to actually look into lemmy front ends or clients. I stand by the statement that I shouldn’t have to, but I’ll prolly have a better time of things if I did.

if someone says linux is hard to learn, that person isn’t making regestry edits.

That said, windows used to be intuitive, but they peaked with xp and it’s been a downhill slide since.

a display of their choices.

someone else linked one called “shreddit”. haven’t really looked at it yet

Of course not, but can you say that it’s not convenient for them to stiffle foss alternatives to microsoft/apple/google software? many open source projects are at least partially made by russian developers.

literally one of the 2 reasons I haven’t quit reddit completely (the other being I’m slowly deleting all my comments)

true, but let’s not pretend that they were without agency in this decision and in decisions leading up to the current context.

when you’re a corporation with billions of dollars and US politicians cost millions on the high end, you can choose to do whatever you want.

when it was good, it was real good. Every subject I could want in one place, and I could organize it as I wish.

Lemmy is a confusing mess and lacking in basic features compared to reddit (although there’s probably front ends I could download that would fix my complaints).

Obviously, I’m here, so the inconvenience is an acceptable price for not being on reddit anymore.

that is not a thought i needed in my brain just as i was trying to sleep.

what if gpt starts telling drunk me to do things? how long would it take for me to notice? I’m super awake again now, thanks

The fact that it’s not a person is a feature, not a bug.

openai has recently made changes to the 4o model, my trusty goto for lore building and drunken rambling, and now I don’t like it. It now pretends to have emotions, and uses the slang of brainrot influencers. very “fellow kids” energy. It’s also become a sicophant, and has lost its ability to be critical of my inputs. I see these changes as highly manipulative, and it offends me that it might be working.

A number of different quotes come to mind:

“Can robert downy jr do for marvel what robert downy jr did for marvel?”

or

“You’ll be doing this until you’re ninety”

I’m not hype for this, especially after deadpool+wolverine was just an endless parade of HEY IT’S THAT THING YOU LIKE, YOU LIKE THIS. Nothing to make me want to watch it a second time, at least not without a lot of alcohol. Nothing I’ve seen recently gives me high expectations for the next movie.

that’s what was advertised. To most people, computers are actual arcane magic, impossible to understand except by the wizards in IT who can do anything.

Of course people believed it.