Most of them are wealthy because they effectively mass scale doxx everyone to advertisers anyway.
They hate shit like VPNs and places not using any linked ID info and online handles and shit. Anything providing any later of anonymity.
Fuck these people.
Because eventually they will need you to buy into the Cloud based VM platform so they can monitor everything you do and block ad blockers.
One thing on anyone wondering for migrating mail history, Thunderbird works fine for this, Outlook actually also does is it, I want to say a bit better. You don’t have to regularly use Outlook, but if you map both the old and new account you can drag and drop mail between them and it just works.
I did my own email server for a while using Mail in a Box. It’s not hard, but it’s a hassle.
Now I just pay like $36 a year I think for Purelymail. Works great.
Walmart already does this with pick up orders I see as many Walmart employees with carts running around as I do regular customers.
Sorry Mr Ed, won’t happen again sir. Please do not Gatling Gun me.
I mean, even in that one case, it was accurate, just not in the way they thought.
Yeah, I check toy stuff for clearance sometimes with the app and it even says “in this store” or something for the price.
Are Walmarts open at 2AM again? Most of them around here stopped doing 24 hours during COVID and never went back.
Fast Food too.
I think Claude is actually useful for things I need it to do sometimes while Open AI is very much not (coding). Open AI is often wrong in simple ways it should not be. Claude is really great at iterative building.
Yes and no, it’s hard to say.
Individual things will always be less efficient than mass produced things.
Food
Factory produced items.
Electric vs Gasoline cars.
Local vs central models.
But also, people might use it less frivolously if they are footing the bill directly. Plus, you will still need a data center somewhere in the chain to train the models, you cannot train models on local hardware. Not with any level of meaningful usefulness (AI hate it’s never useful blah blah aside).
The main advantages of local AI are two things. First Privacy, which is huge. No stealing your prompts of tracking what you ask about for ads or potential abuse by fascist assholes etc. Second, it’s not edited or censored (with the right model). You can ask it whatever you want from Tianamen Square to making bombs, to naked pictures of your favorite celebrity etc. If this is good or not is debatable, but it’s one of the two main reasons local is better.
I will never, pay for Open AI.
I might, in some future, pay for Claude, but not OpenAI.
But also very much probably not on Claude either.
/r/marijuana_enthusiasts vs /r/trees
It’s probably technically true since in the US we leave our spying to the Corporations.
I mean, local models with RAG exist.
I mean, we cut basically all of our external aid style programs so it sucks for non Americans too.
Personally, I would MICH rather my tax dollar go to teaching African kids about LGBTQ+ topics than being given to some stupid AI company.
Yeah, the type of people pushing this don’t even care about the inaccuracy either. If it “catches a black man” with facial recognition, even if it’s the wrong person it won’t matter “they are all criminal thugs anyway.” See also the ICE bull shit and basically deporting anyone even remotely Mexican looking, citizen or not.
I think this will backfire too. I think they way underestimate the amount of people already using “underpowered devices” that will just continue to do so without the new cloud services shit.
Basically everyone I know us using a 5-10+ year old laptop, for example. And they just use it fine, sure it’s pokey, and it’s not everyone, but it’s a lot.
What’s stupid is, you could even just keep just the programming part, and it would become much more efficient and not ramble on with explanations etc.
What does this mean though, are you suggesting a billionaire could just bribe someone to not doxx them?
Society is collapsing and the planet is dying because of these fuckheads. Who cares about the fucking mortgage when it’s looking like Mad Max in 20 years.