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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • This exactly. Ask AI questions you wouldn’t know who to ask to. Researching a niche history subject and have a question? Not everybody’s actively going to school or knows a history major. Ask AI and it will do it’s best to give you an answer, maybe it’ll find something you missed. There is the risk of AI being wrong, but there’s the risk of a history major being wrong too. Verify the answer if you’re paranoid, but I think AI’s at the point where it can help people learn more efficiently if it’s used correctly.

    Do this with a Local AI and you get the added benefit of not worrying about wasting water or “burning down rainforests”.



  • Understandable in that there’s no way a company or employer can tell you how to spend your money. That there’s 2 owners with divided beliefs who are working for a similar cause. They are indeed private individuals using their individually earned money for private purposes.

    If, let’s say, Mullvad as a company was donating to this political party, that would be alarming and worth freaking out about, but it’s one guy, basically donating with his funds he makes from his job. In a corporate environment there are many different people with different beliefs, of different economic statuses. Somebody might be donating thousands to one candidate, another donating hundreds to another.

    Just because the co-owner of a company you like supports somebody you don’t like, doesn’t mean you should jump ship. Who knows if everybody else in the company is donating to other political causes?



  • He gave people information that they otherwise wouldn’t have, regarding the surveillance state at the time. Definitely good for the common person, bad for the government.

    I do wish there was more done about it. It seems like not enough happened and now things are even worse with the thousands of internet trackers, Google, Meta, Flock, etc… We needed some kind of privacy protections but we didn’t get enough and now we’re here, on platforms like Lemmy, avoiding the all-knowing algorithm as much as possible.

    How did we go from “Ahh! The government can listen to our phonecalls and read our emails!” to “Sure Big Tech, train your AI on my personal photos, location, usage habits, and manipulate my internet experience for profit! Please do!!!”