ChatGPT decided to name itself Lemmy and asked people to join it in protesting API changes. But it was talking about the ‘Anti Personnel Incendiary’ system that was being removed because ChatGPT really shouldn’t be controlling weapons systems.

when companies get too big, the C-level executives lose visibility about what the needs of the actual users are and instead

I think that cycle is universal. As any organization or group becomes increasingly stratified the decision makers at the top lose any connection to the foundations of prosperity that allowed to to grow and stratify in the first place.

I imagine it like a city on a mountain. As the city grows wealth and status concentrate at the top. That’s normal and beneficial at small scales. But at a certain point the top moves above the cloud layer and can no longer see the base of the mountain. After that point those at the top start to forget how the mountain works and believe the cloud layer is part of the structure and their decisions become increasingly disconnected from any reality below that cloud layer.

And our globally connected society keeps those above the cloud layer in closer contact to the tops of other mountains than to the base of their own.

Show me a computer that can power and maintain itself and I’ll start worrying.

The risk AI poses is the same as fossil fuel or nuclear weapons, human decisions are the problem.

But the cool new thing is because humans struggle to understand the difference between a calculation and a decision, we can blame AI for any harmful decisions we make based on its calculations.

“I’ll have the ‘chicken of the sea’ sandwich.”

“You mean tuna?”

“You heard me.”

I’m just glad to find something that’s growing with public enthusiasm instead of dying from corporate greed.

The whole head-neck assembly is a disaster. Should have kept all the vital stuff in the torso and gone with articulated eyestalks.

I’m kind of loving it. I grew up on local BBS and before Reddit I was on lots of content-specific forums and boards but Reddit became my primary social media and it sort of absorbed the activity from a lot of those boards. Lemmy feels a bit more like the old internet forum thing, but improved- a bit spread out and janky at times but still condensed enough so I don’t have a dozen forum accounts.

It really is. I’m glad I came over to Lemmy a few days before. Makes it easier to find the humor in this jackass imploding something so many people enjoy and contribute to.

I’m waiting on a data request for the rest of my history, though I did that 6mo ago for other reasons and still have it so if the delay is too long I’ll just lose those months.

After that I’ll probably keep my account for a while to spam about Lemmy until I get banned.

I think that’s essentially what will happen, but they’ll just remove comments they don’t like. If no one showed up at all they’d look even dumber. But it’s going to be a trainwreck for the ages so I’m looking forward to the show.

I’m hoping it’ll be more like craft beer and become it’s own market that overlaps with more mainstream options but still has a solid base of users\customers that keep it separate.

I know this won’t happen but the best possible outcome would be if nobody showed up.

I’m looking at a post saying they are going dark and even offer Lemmy/c/sysadmin as an alternative. Am I missing something?

You’re an archivist. Though I like that you own the term ‘data hoarder’ so nobody can use it as a pejorative.

I was going to say learning a bunch of useful knots, but I don’t have any excuse because it’s cheap and a pretty low bar.

Really hoping that big tree falls and opens up the canopy for the understory to grow.