DrElementary

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Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

This is how companies act even if they have competition. Because the competition is doing it, too.

Clarence Thomas appears open to making drug addiction illegal in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

It basically already is.

Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

violating copywright (Which ai training does not do) I would say that's still very much up for debate, legally and morally

Google Admits Its AI Overviews Search Feature Screwed Up in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago (7 children)

The AI bullcrap at the top, before actual search results, is what finally made me change my default engine to duckduckgo

It has already been removed again in c/[email protected]

Won't someone think of the yachters. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"I'm a bitch"

3 syllables

"I'm an orca"

4 syllables

"Sinking yachts"

3 syllables

"Off Majorca"

4 syllables

Adding "Just" makes it 5, which is too many for the pattern

Won't someone think of the yachters. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Is anyone else bothered by the addition of the word "just", which throws off the whole rhythm and doesn't need to be there in any way?

xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

This is the superior thin crust style of pizza. Cut in squares, which is a totally fine and legitimate thing to do.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis%E2%80%93style_pizza

Tax the rich in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Kris Straub drew me a cross between an Ent as a Vulcan once

This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I got that email about google podcasts being shut down and went and found a FOSS alternative: AntennaPod. Been using it for a few days and does everything I need, free, no ads, no extra crap, and now I don't have to start using stupid YT music.

US supreme court strikes down affirmative action in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (19 children)

This is gross. Why are these people allowed to be in charge of anything?

Wagner Group captures headquarters of the Southern Military District and the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Rostov, the headquarters of Russia's base of operations for War in Ukraine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what I'm worried about. I hope they all tear themselves to pieces, but if Putin gets out scot free, I'll be disappointed