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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

previously

presently:

(you can turn it off but in typical fashion: sneaky new setting, default-on, way to make it turn off is hidden in settings instead of a direct “no fuck this” button. same shit twitter and fb pulled for years)

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

double kicker is that the opt-out settings have been been in "No, do not use my data" for months

discord feedback: "Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand your frustration regarding ads in the client. Discord continuously explores various features and changes to enhance the user experience, including the possibility of advertisements. As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client. We appreciate your feedback and will make sure to pass it along to our development team."

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago
[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Have a cursed book written by Henry Kissenger in 2023.

The Age of AI: Our Human Future -- https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805

^Found^ ^by^ ^way^ ^of^ ^https://old.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1dqv2kj/having_heard_the_entirety_of_the_kissinger_series^

[–] hrrrngh@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I hate that I saw that same post earlier today

Here's a quote from the book:

AI already transcends human perception — in a sense, through chronological compression or “time travel”: enabled by algorithms and computing power, it analyzes and learns through processes that would take human minds decades or even centuries to complete.

Glad to know the calculators I had in school were capable of time travel

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Isn't it absolutely deranged? These people have (well had lol) real power over us.

There is a great March 2023 episode of Trashfuture I'm listening to atm called "The Diet of Brainworms" about this book. They basically want to install feudalism and tech-priests because AI is sO pOwErFuLl.

One of the hosts (Riley iirc) made a great point that it's as if someone showed Kissenger that trick where you write "boobs" using a calculator, and he became deeply unsettled by the computer's power of speech. Also appreciated the one about Kissenger being the guy who used an etch-a-sketch to draw a gun and was scared of it.

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