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Developers who are told to use AI whether they like it or not, however, tell a different story.

Well there’s the problem.

I’m a software developer and I say that AI is the greatest force-multiplier that’s been introduced into the field since the compiler. I love using it, it handles the most tedious and annoying parts of the process. But there are situations I don’t want to use it in, and of course being forced to use would give me a more negative opinion of it. Obviously.

See if you can invest? Evil is doing very well these days.

This is the opposite of an “apocalypse.” It’s all of a sudden being able to fix the vast number of bugs that always existed but we never got around to fixing.

We should never have accepted having a land border with Denmark, it’s a perfect invasion point.

It’s mainly a question of proximity. The United States is right next door, China is across the Pacific. And I’m not really in a business where I’d need to travel there for professional reasons either.

As a Canadian who holds negative views of both the American and Chinese governments, I think to myself: which am I more likely to visit someday and will therefore have the opportunity to stick me in an ICE detention center when they look up my profile to discover that? Which of the two governments is a more direct threat to my own country’s security and sovereignty?

I get an answer that would perhaps surprise Americans.

Prosecute everything.

Indeed. Or charge them fees for their power consumption that would pay for the construction of additional generating capacity. This is how it is with any new expansion of industrial demand, there’s going to be a need to build up the infrastructure to match. This is normally considered a good thing when you manage it properly.

These headlines are getting truly hysterical.

HA-ha!

On federated platforms like Lemmy, a small number of highly active users can also create the impression of a broader cultural shift.

And bear in mind that this goes in both directions, it’s possible for highly active anti-AI users to flood the discourse.

Community opinion is often a bistable state. If 70% of the userbase has opinion A and is constantly downvoting and browbeating anyone who says anything positive about opinion B, one would naturally expect the userbase to soon be 80% opinion A. Then 90%. And so forth. The few holdouts who continue to say positive things about opinion B get labelled as “bots” and “trolls” and are dismissed.

Maybe it’s just that the world isn’t as uniform in their anti-AI opinion as you imagine it to be? Social media inherently forms bubbles, smaller platforms like the Fediverse even moreso than most. As the Fediverse grows opinions are likely to become more diverse.

Give it a few months and the gold leaf is flaking off, and they start fixing it with spray paint. It’s all so poetic.

They were already pretty hard to defend.

They would also stone you to death for wearing clothing of mixed fabric.

Religions always pick and choose which rules to apply and how to apply them.

I’ve been using ChatGPT since it came out and yet my brain isn’t nearly fried enough to fall for clickbait headlines this obvious.

Just watch them.

It’s actually solving abstract problems.

Also, local models are available that are quite good and run on a standard consumer-grade GPU.

These things shouldn’t be torn down. Relocated, sure, but Americans need to remember what they’re capable of. Maybe put them in some kind of Smithsonian Museum of American Failure, along with all that Confederate statue spam.

Oscar Isaac did an interview recently where he revealed that line was added in reshoots. So that line was written in an attempt to fix whatever catastrophic wreck the script was in before then.

I’m imagining some writer going “wait a minute, did we ever explain why Palpatine was back?” And then writing that and leaning back with a smug “whew. Nailed it.”