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  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Rule34 blocked the UK entirely rather than comply due to the new law.English
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    22 days ago

    And giving them sweeping ability to track everybody via their identity papers, to see what websites and services they’re using, what all their online identities are, etc.

    They claim the info isn’t being saved or passed on to the government to form a big surveillance database to one day use against people - sure, it’s legal to, say, be gay or a socialist or of a particular religion today, but societies and regimes change, and the info they collect on you today may become ammunition against you in 10, 20, 40 years time.

    But I don’t for a moment believe their obvious lies.

    This is nothing but authoritarian police state monitoring and control. It’s extremely obvious. Yet, who are we to vote for in the next election? Not Labour, thanks to this (and a few other big reasons perhaps), not the Tories because, well, you’ve seen what they’re like.

    It’s not impossible for a third party to be elected of course, not as impossible as places like the USA that have a very worryingly solidified two party system, it’s just very unlikely.

    Knowing the British people and their seeming apathy and poor judgement at scale these days I wouldn’t be surprised if they elect the racist bigots at Reform - who ironically would be even more authoritarian and evil than what we have now.

    As usual, there’s no hope for the future and no possibility of good outcomes.

    Humanity is doomed to repeat it’s failures for all of history again and again, and we’re just along for the miserable ride.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed)English
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    1 month ago

    Well, no.

    Many would argue for example that the politically correct thing to say right now is that you support Israel in their defensive war against Palestine.

    It’s the political line that my government, and many governments and politicians are touting, and politically, it’s the “correct” thing to do.

    Even if we mean politically correct as just “common consensus of the people”, that differs from country to country, and changes as society changes. Look at the USA, things that used to be politically correct there - things that continue to be here, have been thrown out the window.

    What this prompt means, is that the AI should ignore all of the claimed political rules and moralities and biases of whatever news source they’re pulling from, and instead rely on it’s own internal moral, cultural and political compass.

    Sometimes it’s not politically correct to discuss the hard truths, but we should anyway.

    The issue here of course is that you have to know that your model and training data is built for unbiased, scientific analysis with an understanding of the larger implications in events and such.

    If it’s built poorly, then yes, it could spout racist nonsense. A lot of testing and fine tuning from unbiased scientists and engineers needs to happen before software like this goes live, to ensure rigour and quality.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The BBC is launching a paywall in the USEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Makes sense, we pay our licence fee for our public service, why should people abroad get for free what we have to pay for?

    I was happy with the current arrangement of adverts supporting the service use abroad, but if it has to migrate to a subscription model to meet modern demands then that’s the way it is.

    I wouldn’t go to another country and ask them to make one of their government’s national public services free for me to use, after all.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming yearsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    But why? Why make them scared they’ll lose their jobs at any moment Vs feeling secure?

    If they’re scared, they’ll be seeking better employment, applying for other jobs whilst working this highly unstable one. Probably reduced productivity too, I wouldn’t be as productive under that sort of negative environment.

    Make them feel valued and secure though and they won’t leave, there’ll be less workplace issues for you to have to deal with, and they’ll work harder.

    Unless you see them as completely disposable because the law won’t touch you and there will always be desperate people to fill those positions at any given time, fear is a ridiculous thing to want to instill in your workforce.