The BBC used generative AI to help draft promotional emails about Doctor Who and got a bunch of complaints. They will no longer use the technology because of that.
This is a bit silly and is akin to complaining that a spell checker was used to send you email spam. There is a lot of Luddite energy around generative AI and overreactions from companies both for and against it
@carnage4life Luddite energy #ftw
“Luddites were not ignorant. Smashing machines was not a kneejerk reaction to new technology, but a tactical response by workers based on their understanding of how owners were using those machines to make labour conditions more exploitative”
“It wasn’t the invention of these machines that provoked the Luddites to action. They only banded together once factory owners began using these machines to displace and disempower workers” https://theconversation.com/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172
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Mi band app (#Zepp) just started playing "AI generated melodies" on my phone based on my relaxation status. I didn't activate it, it just started playing by itself after the update.
I'm so uninstalling and throwing away this forced #ai junk.
#opinion
Olvid est sans doute, techniquement, une excellente messagerie chiffrée.
Mais rien à faire, y'a mon cerveau qui tire des sonnettes d'alarme. J'arrive pas à faire confiance au truc. Peut-être à tort, hein.
Ça sent trop la startup franco-française promue par le gouvernement. Au point de suggérer que Signal n'est pas sécurisé 🤨
(ouais, je pense encore trop à CryptoAG, ou à l'affaire du 8 décembre, ou au fait que le gvt a toujours détesté les messageries non écoutables.)
@sebsauvage
Désolé de saboter le débat avec un argument marteau : Olvid n'est pas décentralisé. Pourquoi êtes vous sur le fediverse ? Heureusement nous avons DeltaChat #FTW ! https://mstdn.social/
Pour info, je me sert de #DeltaChat avec ma #Zaclys depuis quelques jours et ça fonctionne bien !
Le débat #WhatsApp#Signal#Olvid se termine : vive une messagerie décentralisée et chiffrée ! DeltaChat #FTW !
Good fucking lord. Tell that to 40 million people with health insurance from the Affordable Care Act who never had it before. This is classic dem carping. No matter what progress gets made, it’s never enough. Biden has delivered more than any Dem since FDR, and all he gets from the puritopian left is grief, drama, and threats of primaries. Our pols often suck because we do.
So far the first night of cat ownership has involved Rossi waking up after a few hours and meowing over the house to try and find me, and then immediately jumping on the bed for affection when she did
@GumpyFunction great initiative! But Discord? 😓 Why not open a #lemmy community? It's not owned by a greedy corp and does not track your users? Your followers can even use their #mastodon accounts. #fediverse#ftw
Since leaving Twitter, I've been trying to figure out what my journalism-y socials look like. (Threads: A sad Potemkin village where I just share articles. Bluesky: A fun, bitchy hotel cafeteria that still seems ill-suited to news.) I've been trying to use Mastodon for more hard news stuff, but I'm having a hard time getting my feed to be both active and relevant.
So I'm trying a few experiments to see if I can rejig my good. If you've got good journalism follow suggestions, send em my way.
@justinling IMHO, hashtags as metadata at the end of a post are a lot more palatable than #hashtags in the #middle of otherwise #readable sentences ...
Marathon Halloween French
Octobre commence, saison propice pour regarder des films qui font peur !...