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exodust
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About exodust
Interest and opinions on technology ethics, privacy, UX, big tech good and evil, methods, madness.
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Comment #49239316
> He won't let you into his house with a smartphone His mistrust might be about the phone's owner and the recording apps they might use, more than the smartphone itself. Socially i…
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Comment #49165152
> "I told the interviewer I already knew the riddle, and I asked for another one." The question wasn't "do you know this riddle", she just wanted the riddle answered. No need to ma…
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Comment #49164874
Agree with this. Small steps towards the feature. Review, iterate, learn and optimise as you go. If the project is a mountain, I want AI to assist with the climb so I can learn the…
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Comment #48944048
> " Elon Musk himself though absolutly knows about this and how easy is to generate porn. " Your claim directly contradicts Musk's statement on the issue: https://x.com/elonmusk/st…
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Comment #48943922
You said: " I've seen it generate such things " By your own admission, you've seen it generate such things. Meanwhile, I've never seen it generate such things because I don't write…
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Comment #48943693
> "show you more to provoke you" How dare they show people stuff! Reminds me of the perpetrators of crimes against women who blame what women wear. " She provoked me by showing her…
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Comment #48943659
Sugar is addictive. TV is addictive. Reading is addictive. Stuff is addictive. Take some responsibility over your own impulses, desires, and life balance. "Govern me harder daddy" …
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Comment #48931310
Sounds like you've tried generating such things. You've seen things people wouldn't believe. Inappropriate AI images off the shoulder of Orion, etc. Now the counter-weight over-com…
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Comment #48931177
> "mainstream news...cave diver...the world soured on Elon" Must be stressful maintaining the low quality rhetoric and negativity? Straight from reddit I presume, to regurgitate ta…
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Comment #48919213
> very addictive The "addictive" insisting by 2 new ones in short time? Getting bot vibes. "We need to classify social media as an addictive substance" more or less. Is that from s…
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Comment #47898473
> You are allowed to be wrong and happy Nobody said you can't. They said the happiness is " decoupled from truth ", which isn't ideal if we care about objective health of a society…
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Comment #47804458
Yeah this is the way for sure. The OP forgets that young users advertising their age online with an "orange vest" might not be best idea. There's almost endless choice of legit qua…
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Comment #47582677
All you've done is link to a lobby group who ramps up the outrage and fear before asking for a donation towards: " stopping the digital hate ". From your linked study: " The prompt…
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Comment #47527745
So Musk's ex-girlfriend makes allegations about images nobody has seen but her, and you're locking that in as a confirmed scandal? Okay dude! Many users including Musk responded at…
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Comment #47527598
> jailbreaks Your comment made it sound like "out of the box" Grok can generate AI porn. It can't. That reddit sub you mention is tame compared to something like unstable_diffusion…
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Comment #47514162
> there are people who pay $300 a month for Grok to generate AI Porn. Did you just make that up? Grok barely makes "M-rated" nudity, let alone porn. Musk recently claimed it can do…
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Comment #47320438
There's multiple reasons. An older family member told me she dislikes AI because she's worried it will give her wrong information or make stuff up. The hallucination issue put a bi…
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Comment #47320326
> Different byline, but somehow essentially the same as this story... Have you considered the possibility that more than one website picked up the volcanic cabins story because it'…
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Comment #47275206
The apology was for an earlier leaked post. In that post his tone descends into a diatribe, deserving of apology. He lashes out, accusing others of lies, spin, gaslighting and pedd…
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Comment #47230439
Fair point, I take back my last remark about placement of schools near bases. God I wish the Iranian regime would just surrender, it would be so much better for everyone. Look at H…
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Comment #47204648
" Iranian prosecutor says... " deserves minimal trust. That said, if the US/Israel didn't do it, we'd have heard a denial by now. Perhaps the target was a nearby military site. Pla…
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Comment #47204562
The long-term strategy is peace & stability. Before you ask "how's that going", remember that doing nothing wouldn't result in a satisfactory answer to that question either. The id…
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Comment #47176324
I read the statement twice. I can't understand how you landed on "take my money". Looks like an optics dance to me. I've noticed a lot of simultaneous positions lately, everyone fr…
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Comment #47176202
"Seppo" is rarely used in Australia today, it's an old bottom-of-barrel word most have never heard of. The neutral "Yank" is more common, but even that only pops up sometimes. Gues…
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Comment #47162418
I like how the phone rings in the background on Gypsy Eyes. Wonder who called? Voodoo Chile lyrics: " on the night I was born the moon turned fire red ". Poetic license? Stellarium…