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Cake day: December 18th, 2025

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  • It was kind of impossible to know how far it could go anyway; seeing the pace at which it’s been advancing, even despite all the hallucinations, has been blistering. I mean, look at me; I’m recording this partly via Whisper+ using an offline, open-source model by speech-to-text (manually cleaning it up after delivery, of course, but still). Even just 6 years ago, people would have been, like, “WTF?! How is that sorcery possible?”

    Wasn’t it even just 2 years ago that it struggled big-time with legible text and kept butchering hands and fingers on visuals of generated people? Even that already is a thing of the past, which itself was incredible to even see at all right after COVID times. The speed is bewildering…

    Anyway, I digressed a bit. The book Empire of AI comes to mind in terms of researchers’ intentions indeed.




  • I don’t have the full picture of this altercation, but sorry to see others’ needlessly harsh reactions. I also strive for an educational view whenever possible.

    Unfortunately, hive-mind cliques are everywhere; what Lemmy offers is the ability to change instances from ones with disagreeable people, or even to the same community name on a different instance. Getting said community up to as much popularity is a wholly different and oftentimes monumental matter, sure, but at least the option is there, unlike on Reddit.














  • I never said that it is bad to limit online exposure, though. We agree.

    I said that it is not bad to have online exposure* provided that you either already have a decent, offline social life, or are legitimately doing your best to work towards growing one. If online discussion is the majority of your social connections, then yes, that’s bad.

    *Apparently if it’s not Lemmy.ml… I guess I’ll just delete the alt I have on that instance since it’s that bad, wow.