We need to get some moderators in here. Lots of bigotry in this comment section…

There’s always Ungoogled Chromium. If you do want to suggest Brave to people, please tell them about these downsides as well.

I use Vivaldi and it is great. It does send a “user count” to its servers but AFAIK that is literally just increasing a number in a database, effectively the equivalent of one of those free hit counters you’d put on your GeoCities page.

It’s sort of ridiculous at this point the lengths they’re willing to go.

It’s not that bad once you get the hang of it, especially using a wiki farm like http://www.miraheze.org/

I wonder if it could be done with a MediaWiki plugin, given how extensible MW and its plugin system is

Windows is at least relatively un intrusive with that stuff, MacOS often makes hidden metadata files with the same extension as the files they store info about

I installed an old program the other day that added a Thumbs.db file from 2008 to every folder containing images as it extracted the program files to disk.

And this is why I’ve never touched anything AI related

Reported to instance admin.

they put it in the whale. that is how docker transports things and you cannot change my mind.

It was proposed as a badge, but it originally comes from https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certification-program/amp/

I agree with JustARaccoon’s reply to your comment, and also this is really turning from a respectful debate into a ridiculous argument for something most everyone thinks is wrong. The artists should get their compensation. I don’t care how “improbable” it is, it needs to happen.

The problem being, how do we get it banned?

By “figure it out” I meant “figure out a way to get big companies on board”

I also agree that ethical sourcing is pretty ridiculous given real world constraints, but I’m holding out hope that someone figures it out.

[Lemmy] is very pro-piracy

There’s a bit of a difference, I’d say. Piracy hurts massive companies that already have tons of money to spare and (to be frank) don’t need any more. AI hurts individual artists that barely make a living as is. It’s like comparing Robin Hood to whatever the inverse of Robin Hood is (OpenAI, I guess). Point is, I have zero issue with generative AI, I do however have issue with the companies behind it. If all of their data was sourced ethically, and the people creating the training data actually got compensation, I’d be fine with it. Everything can be a tool for high effort and low effort content, it’s just increasingly insulting to creators that their work is being stolen and then twisted into something with considerably less effort that makes more money than they could ever hope to make. In other words, dead internet theory.

Every link posted to twitter is followed to the end of any redirect chains that may be present and then the end result is shortened IIRC (take this with several grains of salt as this is just what I’ve heard previously and it may be incorrect or may have become incorrect)

oh hey you’re the vegan cat guy

thanks for reminding me why I use an ad blocker (and why I hate pro-life fuckers)