Obviously this isn’t ideal, and fuck the massive amounts of destruction (environmental, economical, societal) of AI, but these stories amount to ‘book owner does what they want with books they own’.

I don’t disagree with any of these responses, and I’m not saying reporting on this to make people aware of it is bad or pointless.

So now what do we do about it?

Some guy made a customized lemmy frontend.

He decided to be a fascist justice warrior and secretly embed filters that blocked users he didn’t like personally.

Someone noticed and said wtf?

He framed it as protecting lemmy and new users - anyone asking why a frontend should even be doing this, let alone in an obfuscated, default enabled manner, were met with his whinging.

Instead of accepting the unpopularity of his extremely poor choices, he instead decided to commit the crimes of disturbing malicious software.

So what you’re saying is… they’re inherently bad.

If only there were some device to keep your pants at your waist… (Although really your pants should just fit - a belt is an accessory, not a utility).

Who’s safety though? The car owner that chooses to not have this system? The other driver that can choose whether or not to have such a system? The inanimate infrastructure that was involved in the accident?

quietly 🤫

This is how policing works all over the developed world. Only in America is “murder by cop” a realistic option, and that’s 100% a problem with American policing.

This is emphatically false. There are several other horrilble places where cops will murder civilians as well, without thinking twice about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_annual_rates_and_counts_for_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers

Also, if you look at those statistics Canada is actually pretty high up there with cops murdering people as well.

They do, if the travel is for work, but not for their home-work commute. Some companies do still offer some compensation for that otherwise, but that’s pretty uncommon.

To be fair, it could also be the clean water consumption, eco system destruction, extensive local warming effects, and noise pollution too.

The ‘Verify you are human (ironic)’ got me

Reddit is Fun into Connect. Never looked back.

‘want a job? Go work unpaid and then maybe you might have a chance’ Really solid advice for people who can’t even afford to live on the job they have.

😂

🤣 even

Hunger is probably one of humans, and animals, most natural sensations. Being hungry is normal, genuinely enjoying eating when you do eat probably is as well. Satiating hunger insistently on a moments notice is what’s strange.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REAL_ID_Act

“abuse the ai’s emotions” isn’t a thing. Full stop.

This just reiterates OPs point that naive or moronic adults will believe what they want to believe.

So it sounds like he was in fact not ‘great’

What’s pathetic is your whining. Like, what does ‘don’t get credit’ even mean? They updated the software with a thing people requested. Yeah, they did something a lot of people didn’t want. Great. Nobody is here saying ‘omg Mozilla is so amazing for giving us this great feature’ and Mozilla is still drifting into the evil capitalist corpo garbage they’ve been headed towards.

We get it, you don’t like ai. And many people who have had to use LLMs recognize them for the bullshit machines they are. I’m not here to defend them.

But stop being a little bitch about it. If you want to complain, complain about the myriad issues they haven’t bothered fixing or addressing.

But it’s more likely he’s a Nazi

Or wherever