Expectation Vs. Reality

People using a glorified Markov chain to fact check things is the most depressing shit I've had to endure in a while
- It's also useless. Like even for coding I have to check all the code manually for basic mistakes like solving a 2x2 system. Is not even good for grammar/spelling correction. The dam thing changes whole phrases to something with similar but different meaning.
  
  I find it mostly good enough for canned response and template type of tasks but not much more than that
  
  Ehhh maybe a year or two ago. Modern systems are far more capable than you’re giving them credit for.
  I’m not insinuating that they are perfect or even human level, because they’re not, but both of those complaints are things that AI can usually handle summarily.
- Very predictable new form of brainwashing.

This one hurts a little.

I'm so tired of carrying the weight of their stupidity and ignorance.
- I don't know if this will help, but the stupidity level is probably no worse than it's ever been, it's just a lot more visible now.
  Most human beings have never paid much attention to the world outside of the little bubble they live in. But now that we have such a good communication network they're able to get casual low-effort glimpses of the big world by glancing at a few memes or whatever, which they think makes them experts, and they broadcast their ignorance worldwide because they can. The ignorance was always there, just never this noticeable.
  
  And boy are they angry about it.

It is true that the Earth is round, much like it's true that an ongoing genocide against white people is occuring in South Africa.
- Nice reference

Blade Runner was made in 1982 and set in 2019 Los Angeles. I think that in most ways, real life 2019 was closer to 1982 than Blade Runner 2019.
- Culturally we are still living in the 80s, just a dragged out fun mirror version of it because everyone at the top of the pyramid refuses to believe there could be anything better than their idea of life and the malls are online.

Just read a sci-fi novel set in 2005 where they had laser guns and orbital defence platforms.
- Heinlein?
  
  Nah, Bear. The last time I read Heinlein he laid out a schema for starting a cult that sounded suspiciously close to what his friend L Ron Hubbard later did for real.

What's a grok?
- Elon's pet LLM chat bot. The one that he recently tweaked temporarily(?) to spread South African "white genocide" conspiracy theories on Twitter because... well because what else would you expect Elon to spend his time doing?
  
  It also got tweaked to spread Holocaust denial after that.
  
  Oh, I see.
  Ugh. Billionaires should get restrictions on the stuff they are allowed to publish
- … ask grok

We might be on track for that future though. The picture features a floor of ocean on which there seem to be artificial islands connected by tubes of glass and steel. So we see a future with heavy flooding and people needing to be protected from extreme weather events 24/7

Instead, we get Dark Age 2: American Boogaloo

But AI is actually way ahead of where I thought it would be in 2025.
- It's not, really.
  
  I mean, I did not expect to have this kinda nonsense yet. The video creation stuff? Utterly without use, but technologically impressive.
- I played with chat bots back in the AOL messenger days. There was this “Run-A-Bot” program I used to run at home, and when I was out I could chat with it and it was surprisingly interactive and realistic.
  The responses were probably hard coded to expected inputs, done the hard way… as I feel it should be.
  I thought wow if a company spent years add in more and more important data by hand this will be AMAZING in just a few years.
  Fast forward 20 years and the AI companies did it the most lazy way possible. Just auto feeding data scraped from the web. Yikes, all the trolls and fake info included.
  This new AI is just a sentence generator, it’s almost useless. They have some twisted algorithms to spit out junk but each one is leaning towards whatever twisted views the company that made it want it to spit out.
  
  back then the buzz word was "expert system" and later "fuzzy logic", all kinda sorta leading down the same path LLM 's have taken today, they just didn't have the compute power back then.
- yeah and this meme is entirely self defeating? twitter is garbage, why are you in a garbage dump complaining about the garbage?
  
  Ever heard of the orphan crushing machine? https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-crushing_machine
  You're welcome.

Oh Lemmy. Will you ever crawl out of your pit of depression and despair?
- This is an internet phenomenon, not lemmy specifically
  
  It's infected the real life too. I've been observing like there's a quiet air of desperation around everyone which makes me sad.
  
  It's much easier to avoid on other platforms to be fair.
- When the world stops being a neoliberal hellscape
  
  If corporate social media can be used to fuck up the world so horribly, then imagine what we can build now that we have p2p social media. Everybody is mad and should be mad. But we're easy to manipulate. We need to adapt how humans obtain and process information, and numerous p2p apps have demonstrated limits to corporate power.
  New ways to communicate and coordinate are a really big deal. We're a tremendously productive species whose time is mostly being wasted. With what might seem like minor tweaks to our society, we can build this picture.
  
  So edgy
- Can't change something if you don't know about it
- No. Have you not been here for the past 2 years? It gets worse from here!