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Cake day: August 7th, 2024

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  • Boss: “Corperate demand more AI. AI is the future and the future is now!”

    Graphic artist: “fuck i need this job to pay for my families survival. Fuck it ‘OpenClaudPT generate a breakfast burrito’”

    OpenClaudPT: “Wow that is an amazingly insightful and well reasond idea. There are not many people around who could have come up with such a fasinatingly innovative idea for a picture. Here is a picture of a cat! Hope you like it”

    Graphic artist: “I didnt want a picture of a cat i wanted a picture of a breakfast burrito!”

    OpenClaudPT: “Whoopsie poopsie. You are absolutly right. That is 100% my fault, i will own that one. Here is your Moon Sausage Burrito”

    Graphic artist: “Fuck it! Close enough. If the boss dosent give a fuck about my work enough to let me do it then the best they are getting is a Moon Sausage Burrito. Whatever the hell that is”

    Boss: “Why does the burrito look weird, oh well corporate asked for more ai and Graphic artist clearly used AI to make whatever this is. I need this job to pay for my families survival so im not going against corperate. Full send it!”


  • The wiki referance linked and subsequent article talk about trackers on the DDG browser not about search queries. DDG have a corperate license with Microsoft, sure, but any amount of line reading on or between seems conspirital at best.

    Looks like this corperate contract with Microsoft is a secret especially if you have to “between the lines” read about a completly seperate product.

    And i go to a publicly hosted instance of searxng and immediatly get told the past 10 search queries? Dosent seem magicaly private to me. To which your response might be "its designed to be selfhosted. " Sure that maybe the case, but we are just putting extra lines on this social contract to read between now. Not terrible but not perfect, which is the same area DuckDuckGo is playing in so i am prepared to take them at their word.




  • Its one of those things right?

    If AI was so great we should be seeing OpenAI and Anthropic investing in high schools and Universities, “the next generation” so to speak. If AI is “so cool” we should be seeing investment in the next generation to use it. But we are not seeing that, OpenAI got $50 billion from Nvidia and all of that went on Nvidia GPUs, none of it went towards the people who will be using it in 20 years!

    You have this thing that a lot of very rich people think is going to be biger than the printing press or the internet and they are not facilitating people to learn it… Their moto seems to be “build it and they will come”.

    Think what you want about AI… “It is the best thing since sliced bread” or “it is the Anti Christ”. These companies need 10x even 100x uptake to justify this years spending, Alone. Never mind next financial year. These companies need so much more uptake to be profitable to the point where the level of investment from the MAANG companies makes sence that we should be seeing investment in schools and universitiy programs for these tools to be used so that the next generation and the generation after that, wants to use these tools. Amazon used to run hackathons where they would promote their tools over Microsoft or Google because they knew the developers who use their tech will advocate for their tech. We are not aeeing that level of support for AI tools and, to me, that speaks volumes.