I think it was an attempt to normalise the killing of political opponents. Such violence is already normal and legitimised in America, the land of school-shootings and capital punishment.
Such murder needs to remain behind closed doors as to be polite in American society. Please enjoy the following entertainment-products:
I seriously question the idea that death is inherently traumatic. History is littered with public-executions, ceremonial killings and death for entertainment. People are eager to pay for and play GTA 6: a murder- and crime-simulator. People love violence. People are unfazed by death when the victims belong to an out-group–those that are deemed not to be people.
“Oh that’s just an actor. The character died, not the actor.”
“They’re not real; it’s a video-game.”
“They’re jews.”
“He was a pedophile.”
“She’s a nazi.”
“He’s a murderer; it’s comeuppance.”
This seems absurd. How did the government get to this point? Were there prior frameworks before they decided on this one?
I can’t see any other result than to deter economic activity that uses computers and “the internet”. I feel this is incredibly reactionary. I sympathize if the goal is to capture economic flows that are disproportionate and outwardly foreign. Facebook as an example: it’s a foreign company with a net negative on France. American ‘internet’ companies dominate others because the governments of the past allowed it. Out of sight and out of mind. China’s the only nation that has been doing it correctly. They have domestic equivalents and more. Compare that to the rest: it’s just America rofl stomping everyone and extracting capital.
Europe’s washed up–capitalist liberal democracies can’t exist without looting. Each nation now wants to pivot towards war to begin the looting process again. Enjoy your austerity budgets. Meanwhile China will keep on winning.
LMFAO! Wait until you read about the industrial revolution and the environmental destruction caused by Great Britain. Go suck your king’s cock.
Meanwhile the UK has royalty that live in opulent luxury whilst the working-class dwells in poverty. Their hayday of wildly looting and enslaving foreign nations is over. They have nothing.
It works every single time. It’s so sad.
America’s perennial trend of bombing foreign nations is so much better at… creating dead children.
Crypto grift still grifting? Still waiting for the blockchain to change the world. Any minute now… the only people I’ve seen use a terminal to buy bitcoin have been senior citizens.
Drop Google completely. Don’t use it. They’re telling the Americans who to kill and enabling Israel’s genocide.
Something to consider: we’re partly here because one entity (Google) said it could do it all. Consumers then realised they had no power at all; they had voluntarily subjugated themselves to that one entity that could do it all. Then it started doing things that made them squirm in their seats like recommending who to bomb for the Americans and how to efficiently commit genocide to the Israelis.
Does anyone know a way to replicate that with proton?
How about you pick up a pen and an address book. You’ll then have a decentralised and offline address book. Portable between Android, iPhone, Linux, Windows and no-phone-at-all! Contact lists are high-value to intelligence-organisations and I wouldn’t use any digital offering.
B-b-but I’m just a consumer in the imperial-core and want convenience.
You’d have to use it and tell us. No one probably uses all of a suite’s features; some users won’t notice a difference whilst others will. If you’re using Google products though… one is made by a titan of surveillance-capitalism and the other is a project with morality. Google works with America’s government to kill and they’re enabling the genocidal Isrealis. In my mind Google and libre-software are diametric opposites. “How does it compare?” in that context makes the question absurd. Using Google software is never ok.
Computers are literally garbage; there’s so many of them. Get another and use it for 9front. Get another and use if for OpenBSD. These other software projects aren’t immune to AI or whatever this thread is about… video-games are garbage too. Go outside.
AI is a direct result of mass-surveillance. I’ll repost what I wrote to a previous user:
Something you’re not acknowledging is that this technology stems from surveillance-capitalism and the surveillance-state. Google et al were financed to solve the needs of the state. Google search for consumers was a by-product from the state’s need and desire to make sense of their mass-surveillance programs.
Surveillance-capitalism operates under complete deception. Pokemon Go players didn’t know they were collecting data for autonomous-murder-drones.
Solving Google’s Captchas was unpaid labour: you were creating data for Google’s OCR program and now you’re creating data for autonomous cars or whatever their investors want you to toil on next.
Out of all this theft, unpaid labour and intrusive surveillance what does the working class get? Housing costs are increasing. Food costs are increasing. Poverty is increasing. What is AI going to do for us? It’s not building houses. It’s not harvesting crops. It’s not giving the working class any material benefit, but is further degrading living conditions. Enjoy the endless drone of a data-center! Enjoy breathing the fumes of gas-turbines! Enjoy talking to chatbots and never a human!
AI is deployed as a barrier between the working class and businesses. AI is deployed to decrease labour costs. AI is deployed to kill. The fact you can create text, images, videos and audios that mimic reality only means more surveillance on the working class because digital-signals can be faked absolutely and are now suspect by default.
You can’t eat what AI creates–it is completely immaterial, but it is being used to commit genocide. I’m sure that warms the cockles of the hearts in all of us.
I do not think AI use should be condoned.
The year is 2026. Computer users are still “fighting” Microsoft. Battered person syndrome.
I don’t know, but probably a lot of things.
I do think these posts are spam, but the correct thing to do is to ignore it; they’re not of interest to me. Sorry.
I do have an inkling of interest in why people post this sort of thing though; why people feel something is wholly theirs when they’re hardly involved in the creation process. There seems to be an innate need to claim ownership of things. This predates AI and it urked me to see people issuing similar statements then. “Look what I made!” statements when they did not make anything, but a vestige of attention that glued other peoples’ work together into a slightly novel thing. The act itself I have no qualms with. It’s the public advertisement that states credit is due when it is not. It’s juvenile behaviour that demands attention.
I do have an interest in people’s behaviour as it appears malicious to me: like 3D-printed things software has lost all value. Actors selling things are malicious because they’re pretending as if it was not 3D-printed and price accordingly. In other words they’re hoping to exploit a buyer’s ignorance of the production reality. What they’re selling is nearly worthless.
(Capitalist-market proponents would argue that value is not grounded in reality. I am an ignorant communist though, perhaps entirely because of this vicious exploitation of ignorance in buyers by sellers. It is not just an exploitation of ignorance, but a celebration of it and a monied-interest in expanding it, which increases celebration of one party and misery on the other! The advertising industry is innately malicious to all that is good.)
I perceive software-projects like these in a very similar vein. It creates software that is malicious in nature and it’s offered maliciously (or ignorantly). I do not want to engage with malicious-actors or confused-actors as they’re benignly malicious.
I’m also beginning to perceive social-media as only the mass-production of advertisement. Malicious actors use social-media as an advertisement vector, which undermines any good that social-media could do. I’m bordering on the pinnacle that would render any social-media to be malicious in all contexts: irredeemable. Abandon it entirely.
What I’d really like is feedback, especially from anyone on a distro I haven’t tested.
The thing is… why? Everyone else can be a prompt-engineer too. This is essentially spam. It’s like going to local markets and stall after stall is 3D printed rubbish. It’s a waste of everyone’s time. These posts are just ads for rubbish.
I’m hesitant to comment because this topic can become morose. I don’t think these commentators are talking about ChatGPT or whatever dribbles out into the consumer sphere. I think their concern is the extreme dis-balance of wealth and the ability for automated systems to exacerbate that. It’s not really about capital as capital is a form of control on labour; what if you removed capital entirely as you had a more effective mechanism of control? This isn’t about computers writing your assignments or ‘taking your job’, it’s a potential magnification of what technology innately does, but to an absurd degree. Technology allows for fewer men to control more. What happens when a small group of individuals control a nation’s economy?
‘AI’ was used to elect Trump; ‘AI’ is manipulating stocks; ‘AI’ is being used in propaganda; ‘AI’ is forcing economic rents to increase; etc…
It’s the government’s money, not republican’s money. A different party inherits the government and therefore can do what you’re proposing. They’d be in the same situation.
9front welcomes you. The resistance grows.
To be fair OP… he is correct. You probably won’t understand because you’d need to comprehend the “impenetrable philosophical jargon”.