These apps need ulterior uses.
Most know Matrix as an alternative to Discord.
has it replaced Discord? No, and it isn’t likely to, buuuut Matrix is still a swiss-army-knife for other chat protocols via bridges, so it has its own use beyond Discord.
It’s still useful, even alone.
What problem does Peertube solve beyond not being Youtube?
Got bought up by Microsoft and enshittified.
It isn’t a long story, you likely could’ve researched it yourself in five minutes.
Ever heard of Skype?
When you quit talking to potential customers and go right for the unhinged investors.
It runs deeper than that. You can walk back the why’s pretty easy to identify anyone’s motivation, whether it be personal interest, bias, money, glory, racism, misandry, greed, insecurity, etc.
No one is buying rims for their car for no reason. No one is buying a firearm for no reason. No one donates to a food bank for no reason, that sort of thing, runs for president, that sort of reasoning.
Ai is backed by the motive of a for-profit company, and unless you’re taking that grain of salt, you’re likely allowing yourself to be manipulated.
Valid reason.
However,…Virtual Machine?
I’d rather not break down a human being to the same level of social benefit as an appliance.
Perception is one thing, but the idea that these things can manipulate and misguide people who are fully invested in whatever process they have, irks me.
I’ve been on nihilism hill. It sucks. I think people, and living things garner more genuine stimulation than a bowl full of matter or however you want to boil us down.
Oh, people can be bad, too. There’s no doubting that, but people have identifiable motives. What does an Ai “want?”
whatever it’s told to.
Imagine a world where browsers were primarily funded by donation, with every release bringing something new and exciting to the table to entice new donators, rather than milk the customer for ad revenue.
That was nice… Oh well, back to hell, I guess.
It will happen to YOU!
Young people thinking their Ai waifu is real
Boomers thinking America was great and not just racist and imperialist
Gen X being really entitled because they were raised by Boomers
Millennials being the best at everything
I agree 100%.
Are we really going to devil’s advocate for the idea that avoiding society and asking a language model for life advice is okay?
throws keyboard
“how dare you insult my robot waifu?!”
The article targets its study on Gen Z but… yeah, the elderly aren’t exactly winners here, either.
The batshit insane part of that is they could just make easy canned answers for thank yous, but nope…IT’S THE USER’S FAULT!
edit: To the mass downvoting prick who is too cowardly to comment, whats it like to be best friends with a calculator?
Our family group used to have a Signal chat until the older people in the family started having issues remembering their pins.
They were using MMS before, but the depth of privacy needed for them was mostly dinner plans, so when the Signal chat dried up, I didn’t really care or push back on it. Whatever. I just told them that they’d get zero depth out of me beyond surface level information unless it was on Signal, but in the end our conversations never went deep enough to matter unless someone couldn’t log into Jellyfin, and by that point, they’d ask in person.
Elon: “and I took that personally…”
lol, as one does
Matrix and Xmpp are good for that sort of thing. Maybe there’s a way to export your notes.
That’s how we know he isn’t a Tool fan.