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  • Glitterbomb@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneClippy [Rule]
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    7 months ago

    It’s about every service in 2025 that tries to worm its way into your life just to fuck you. Clippy didn’t do that. He was annoying, and popped up, but looking back today he was actually trying to be helpful and actually went away when you told him to, compared to these godawful AI services getting shoved down your throat to harvest your data.

    Louis Rossman started it. I’d link the particular video but you should just watch all of his videos.







  • Glitterbomb@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonereal rule
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    8 months ago

    You picked the only real landlocked city in Florida to mention sea level? 2,400,000 Florida residents live less than 4 feet above high tide. 75% of the state lives on the coast. I’m here too, and half the roads have drainage problems when it rains. Planes couldn’t land at the ft Lauderdale Airport in 2023 because the runways flooded. It’s gonna be a mess man





  • If that’s the case, then we anthropomorphize technology all the time. Like, constantly. How many times has your phone died when its not even alive? How does a phone drop a connection without hands? We feed a computer input and it regurgitates or spits out output, all without a mouth. The examples are endless but hard to immediately pick out, because the usage has changed to be completely commonplace. Even bytes were originally conceived as a play on words with ‘bite sized’ to refer to a small collection of bits. I don’t necccessarily defend these ‘AI’ tools, but policing the language people use ain’t it. Changing the word hallucinate to refer to a part of technology is exactly how language has functioned since always