My job just let us know that they are going to invest about $170,000 into AI subscriptions per year. A few days later, they fired an artist they had hired for over a decade. A chunk of us are pretty upset but the rest don’t seem to care. They’re too busy playing with Ai making it generate “funny” pictures.

If you want people to update, you have to push out tested solid updates. Otherwise, the risk outweighs any potential benefit. Watching the windows 11 updates has been so weird

I think the biggest thing is that people don’t seem to understand how AI works. If they understood it’s just predictive text and not like…actual intelligence, I think it would solve a lot of issues.

Part of this, though, is how AI companies keep pushing to personify their AI and keep making them sound better than they actually are. It makes people think its this magical thing

This made me realize that I might end up forgotten once I’m gone. But at least I won’t be remembered for being terrible.

He got in the way, had plenty of time to move, AND she wasnt moving fast. He’s a nazi and a murderer. I hope they all get what they deserve frankly. Life in prison at the bare minimum

Yeah, I actually don’t know. I should have worded that better.

I’m purely basing it off of what I’ve observed/ heard from all the people around me. (As well as my own personal reason).

I suppose on the flip side, there are people in extremely poor countries that have tons of kids so that they can take care of each other. So I don’t know really.

The only way to make people want to have children is to reduce as many bariers that would prevent them from living a life of comfort. If people have money, time, and a positive environment, they’ll have more kids.

Yeah thats true! I hope that the world shifts towards that rather than what most people have been doing.

Only the fascists and the willfully ignorant want Alberta to separate.

Only the most brain dead Albertans think Trump is a good thing. They would still lick boot too. I would be surprised if any of them actually came to the surprised Pikachu conclusion lol

The only way I would be comfortable with Ai is if I could craft it myself, run it locally, and prevent it from feeding bullshit results, was energy efficient, could prevent it from phoning home, wasn’t built off of stolen data and also didn’t give profit to big companies

I lost a molar from getting my wisdom teeth removed. Would be cool to get a new one.

Not sure if it’s just me paying attention more or what, but it has felt like since 2016 politicians globally have followed in trumps footsteps. There’s always a group that just acts like complete awful people with no repercussions

First I think it depends on what we are considering kids. I was online from age 8 but didn’t get into online games or communities until about 10. But in the case of the law, they’re often saying anything below 15, 16 or 18 etc. It depends on the country/jurisdiction.

There are lots of places kids can find community. When i was a kid I was playing on neopets, club penguin, old school runescape, guild wars. I made friends with people from all over the place. One of my best friends in my youth is from across the continent, and we have been friends for 20 years now.

I think the bottom line is parents should parent. When I was a kid the PC was in the main room. My parents spoke to me frequently about staying safe online and asked me about what I was doing on the PC. They made sure I was only accessing kid appropriate sites and that I wasn’t getting myself into trouble.

Could I have gotten in trouble? Yeah possibly. I also could have gotten kidnapped at the local park

I wish union work was more common place. It seems where I live unions are mostly for blue collar work and less common than I would hope to see.

I just got a new pc back in February and I’m kicking myself for not buying more storage and ram

Whenever this comes up, it feels like a play to harvest people’s data and / or to slip additional laws into place under the guise of “protect the children”.

On one hand I don’t think it’s terrible to try to guide kids more. I think parents should be doing more parenting tbh. If a parent wants to put parental locks in place, they can. Even blocking specific sites from being accessed entirely. I think the bigger issue is people don’t understand how to use computers so they think there’s nothing they can do lol.

On the other I think it runs the risk of preventing kids from accessing information online, finding safe spaces online, and isolating kids more than they already can be. It also limits things like teaching kids about technology and how to use it safely.

The vending machine from cyberpunk was pretty cool but this seems like its cognitively challenged ancestor lol.

I’m getting really tired of AI everything. So far AI hasn’t seemed to make my life any easier or better. I have to try and over analyze everything I see now which isn’t fun. But yeah. Wish it would actually do something for me instead of make some billionaires richer.

I’ve been personally wondering about these laws. I am thankfully in a place that doesn’t require them yet. But I assume that some asshole somewhere is going to want our data and say “wow that sounds like a great idea.”

My assumption is that i would feed false data to bypass if possible and then say fuck it and not use whatever service it is if I don’t really need to use it. If I do need to use it and have no choice, then I guess I’m SOL and will have my data breached at some point because none of these services seem to know how to lock down their shit properly.

Sorry for the frustration lol. I just think this kind of thing is stupid and a way to steal info or watch people. I don’t think this is genuinely about safety or helping children. Especially with the latter it always seems governments throw in a bundle of laws along side any “protect the kids” laws so that they can fly under the radar while screwing people over.

I believe the Truck companies think people just want larger and larger trucks every year. I’m waiting until everyone is just driving monster trucks at this point lol