AI

Don’t care

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9921530/

I wouldn’t be as sure about that as you are

https://www.neurology.columbia.edu/news/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-brain-scans-language

We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people that are suffering from ALS communicate by reading their thoughts, and has a privacy feature where the user can activate and deactivate the device by thinking a password in their mind, in order to allow them to still have private thoughts.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-brain-device-is-first-to-read-out-inner-speech/

Phones are not fMRIs though.

It sounds like they’re specifically talking about a phone, making reference to app permissions and TikTok.

WiFi can also do pretty precise location. Bluetooth/BLE even more precise (inches or less)

That’s already the original use case. Cardiac signature biometrics, can install in a doorway and do identity verification and track/monitor every individual that passes through the threshold

3 letter agencies have already been using this for cardiac signature identity verification and tracking for a long while

Honestly, probably lol

No, I’d definitely agree that AI sentiment overall is pretty negative. I am not such a hardliner, but they are definitely out there. I don’t see it as astroturfing at all, to even suggest this is ironic because LLMs are the ultimate astroturfing tool. The institutions capable of astroturfing do support AI and are using it. What institution or organization are you accusing of anti-AI astroturfing, exactly? This question requires an answer for that claim to be taken seriously.

IMO the problem is not LLMs itself, which are very compelling and interesting for strictly language processing and enable software usecases that were almost impossible to implement programmatically before; the problem is how LLMs are being used incorrectly for usecases that they are not suited for, due to the massive investment and hype. “We spent all this money on this so now we have to use it for everything”. It’s wrong. LLMs are not knowledge stores, they are provably bad at summarization and as a search interface, and they should especially not be used for decision making in any context. And people are reacting to the way LLMs are being forced into all of these roles.

People also take strong issue with their perceived violation of intellectual property and training on copyrighted information, viewing AI generated arts as derivative and theft.

Plus, there are very negative consequences to generative AI that aren’t yet fully addressed. Environmental impact. Deepfakes. They’re a propaganda machine; they can be censored and reflect biases of the institutions that control them. Parasocial relationships, misguided self-validating “therapy”. They degrade human creativity and become a crutch. Impacts on education and cheating. Replacement of jobs and easier exploitation of workers. Surveillance.

All of these things are valid and I hear them all from people around me, not just on the internet.

Lol you shared your personal experience and got downvoted… lmao even

Nope, it’s wrong lol

No. Steps/day is the unit. They used the symbol incorrectly

People don’t know how to use greater-than or less-than symbols

The number of people that I know who were hardcore vegans, went to an agriculture school studying to become veterinarians, and gave up veganism immediately as soon as they got real experience in the meat/whool/dairy industry and saw the reality of it rather than propaganda…

domesticating animals is a form of fascism

Do me and all rape victims a favor: learn about the evil and corrupt animal ag industry

…do you hear yourself? Take a moment to self reflect on the words you are typing. Also probably worth looking up a definition of “fascism” because it definitely does not mean not what you think it means

Seems to me that you’re the one disrespecting rape victims here by denying how other species can experience the same.

I’ve never claimed that animals cannot be raped. Artificial insemination is not rape, though.

The mistake is thinking that this is about creating a successful movement and real change, when veganism is actually often a tool to allow one to believe they are personally morally superior to others.

The more people that participate and agree with them, the less effective it is at making them feel better than others, so it actually requires excluding and belittling people rather than convincing them.

You’re no different to me than the fascists in power the world over that seek to dominate minority groups.

Yep, gotta make everything black and white in order to process the world. Very healthy “if you eat dairy you’re a fascist” 😂 It’s at that ridiculous statement that someone capable of self reflection would realize they are wrong. Your childish naivety is showing.