Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
I don’t smoke and I never will and I’m just here to emphasize how disgusting smoking is for non smokers. I literally can hardly breath when someone smokes next to me. Sadly, my nearby city has a lot of smokers.
Whenever I need to pass by someone that smokes, I hold my breath for as long as possible. I understand you’re addicted, but come on, stop using that poison. If not for yourself then for others at least, or maybe at least while in public.
Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy....
Here in Germany we learn that extremists are people with opinions that go against the system, trying to overthrow the system. By that definitions they are extremists, I think?
so we already know that youtube doesn’t like people freeloading their bandwidth using something like invidious, piped, newpipe etc. why don’t they just close the public web api and require a login or something. by requiring login they can keep track of what users are watching and if a user is watching thousands of videos...
Providing an API is not a service for the users, but a way with which they make sure to waste less resources. You either offer an API with all benefits for both parties, or you’re going to get scraped to ashes.
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Yeah I agree. He jokes about things being low effort but they actually are as it feels. Maybe it’s gotten better I haven’t watched in quite some time but he uploads very infrequently too last time I checked.
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Go out and vote, this is your final warning.
Punch cards ftw
Fun fact I found in a game…...
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....
The master race condition (aussie.zone)
Stumbled upon this when looking for help on Reddit:...
favoring meme, please (feddit.it)
A remote tribe was given the internet for the first time - guess how it's gone (metro.co.uk)
Leaked yesterweb document (lemmy.sdf.org)
Toyota apologizes for cheating on vehicle testing and halts production of three models (apnews.com)
Dreams of AI (lemmy.world)
Mexico's new president! (i.redd.it)
boingboing.net/…/mexico-elects-first-woman-presid…
smoking (lemmy.world)
let's see what is documented for the proxy...
Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025 (www.salon.com)
Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy....
Seems awfully dangerous (lemmy.world)
Why doesn't youtube shut down their public web api?
so we already know that youtube doesn’t like people freeloading their bandwidth using something like invidious, piped, newpipe etc. why don’t they just close the public web api and require a login or something. by requiring login they can keep track of what users are watching and if a user is watching thousands of videos...
Falling (mander.xyz)
UK Woman Mistaken As Shoplifter By Facewatch, Now She's Banned From All Stores With Facial Recognition Tech (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A big biometric security company in the UK, Facewatch, is in hot water after their facial recognition system caused a major snafu - the system wrongly identified a 19-year-old girl as a shoplifter.
Difficult decisions
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Hot Potato License (jlai.lu)