maol

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[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Funnily enough, there are a lot of data centres in Ireland. Maybe there will be a missile strike and Ireland's population will shrink back to 19th century numbers

[–] maol@awful.systems 4 points 3 days ago

I'm aware of the idea, but it's still very weird for someone to pretend to be Jewish and also be a Nazi!

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Fucking hell. Not the most important part of the story, but his elaborate lies about being Jewish are very very weird. Kind of like white Americans pretending that they're Cherokee I guess?

[–] maol@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I have become aware that there is a very right wing Catholic podcaster who has a Catholicism AI chatbot app. It's called Truthly.

Your Trusted Catholic AI Conversation Companion Deepen your understanding, explore ideas, and engage in meaningful dialogue—anytime, anywhere.

If someone could call up Pope Leo and get him to excommunicate the guys who invented this, that would be great.

[–] maol@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

I should really start looking into Linux huh

 

God help us. These workers are employed by a subcontractor, Covalen.

Multiple workers from Covalen’s ‘AI annotation’ service spoke to The Journal Investigates about their roles. Their day-to-day work involves creating prompts that are fed to Meta’s AI platform so the system can be trained according to guidelines.

In order to do this, some workers have spent entire shifts pretending to be paedophiles online seeking child sex abuse related information, or suicidal people looking for details on how to kill or hurt themselves.

Covalen also does moderation for Meta, with workers forced to watch extremely violent and disturbing footage that has been flagged for moderation.

“Sometimes in my dreams I am the victim, but sometimes – and this is far worse – I am the perpetrator,” they said.

One bright spot:

Over 100 Covalen employees have now joined the Communications Workers Union (CWU). The toll that dealing with sensitive content and inconsistencies in wellness break length were extra motivating factors for the move.

They are also asking for a better rate of pay, as they are currently earning an average of €29,700 per year.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

That Michael Kove guy is one un-self-aware twat. Apparently all millennials work in high paying tech jobs.

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago

That Couple are in the news arís. surprisingly, the racist, sexist dog holds opinions that a racist, sexist dog could be expected to hold, and doesn't think poor people should have more babies. He does want Native Americans to have more babies, though, because they're "on the verge of extinction", and he thinks of cultural groups and races as exhibits in a human zoo. Simone Collins sits next to her racist, sexist dog of a husband and explains how paid parental leave could lead to companies being reluctant to hire women (although her husband seems to think all women are good for us having kids).

This gruesome twosome deserve each other: their kids don't.

[–] maol@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do indeed. A bucket always seemed like pretty poor.protection from the end of the world, even if it was full of purified water and high protein MREs and whatever else. I suppose you could put it on your head and make like Ned Kelly

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Planning for securing food in a nuclear winter? What a great wheeze. If your advice isn't any good, nobody can tell until there's a nuclear winter, and if there is a nuclear winter they won't exactly be able to ask for their money back because they'll be too busy dying of radiation sickness.

[–] maol@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eurgh!

Musk seems like he's 1cm away from Jeffrey Epstein.

 

"Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth."

Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.

 

A video interview with the artist John Wild about AI, AGI, eugenics and Silicon Valley TESCREAL cultism. Posting without watching.

 

"AI for dummies" interview from Irish radio with Dr Abeba Birhane, who's on a UN advisory board about AI.

 

Sure, why attempt to improve the climate resilience or affordable housing in the cities where millions of people already live, when you can just buy land upstate and get a whole new toy to play with? And why tell local, state or national government anything - they'll only be supplying the land, water, sewerage, utilities & transport links. You pay your taxes, you deserve to get something back.

This is going to be one hell of a planning application. What's the land use code for "feudal stronghold"?

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