Leon

LLMs are not effective therapists, because they’re not therapists. They cannot treat anyone.

Honestly, attempting something impossible might be a better use of one’s time than feeding into the AI hysteria. LLMs don’t think, they don’t know, or understand. They just match patterns, and that’s the one thing they’re good for.

If you need human connection, you won’t get that with an LLM. If you need a therapist, you certainly won’t get that with an LLM.

If all you need is a chat, then go find someone flesh and blood to talk to.

Quite effective at what? Because it certainly isn’t therapy.

Evil people doing evil things because they’re evil. They want more than they have any right to and are willing to throw everyone else under the bus.

I can’t help but laugh at the names they’ve chosen. They know that they’re the bad guys and embrace it.

Authoritarianism, duh. It’s a global thing.

I am in favour of this proposal.

She was the founding director of Women’s Forum Australia, […]  It also promotes a trans-exclusionary ideology and campaigns against transgender rights.

Right so assuming she’s not Lesbian, then her being anti-LGBTQ+ is a safe bet. If she somehow is Lesbian, she’s going to be anti-BTQ+ at the very least.

This is how I feel. I’m not really okay with the money I pay getting used to develop ML and crypto BS.

I dont think you understand how many mentally unstable people out there are using LLMs as therapists.

I do understand. I know there are people out there thinking that LLMs are literally Jesus returning. But in that case, write about that.

There are a lot more reasonable critiques of LLMs, and the companies to be had.

Don’t assume evil when stupidity

I didn’t, though? I think that perhaps you missed the “I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice” part.

Scream racism all you want but you’re cheapening the meaning of the word and you’re not doing anyone a favor.

I didn’t invent this term.

Darker patches on darker skin are harder to detect, just as facial features in the dark, on dark skin are garder to detect because there is literally less light to work with

Computers don’t see things the way we do. That’s why steganography can be imperceptible to the human eye, and why adversarial examples work when the differences cannot be seen by humans.

If a model is struggling at doing its job it’s because the data is bad, be it the input data, or the training data. Historically one significant contributor has been that the datasets aren’t particularly diverse, and white men end up as the default. It’s why all the “AI” companies popped in “ethnically ambiguous” and other words into their prompts to coax their image generators into generating people that weren’t white, and subsequently why these image generators gave us ethnically ambigaus memes and German nazi soldiers that were black.

Oh yeah, absolutely. There are no good options for a truly libre web, unfortunately. :(

I think it’s a compounding issue, primarily of Google products just kind of being the “default.”

Google pays to be the primary search engine in Firefox, on iOS, and sets themselves as the default on their operating systems. They, wherever possible also set their browser as default. Yes, Chromium is open source, but they have the ultimate final say, and no one seems to have the interest in forking it. This puts Google in a similar position that Microsoft was in in the 90s and early 00s, where they can essentially hijack the web and force their ideas through whether others want to or not.

We saw this with Google forcing Manifest v3, all Chromium-based browsers essentially just had to follow suit. That was just Manifest v3 however, who’s to say what else they’ll do?

Then there’s my tinfoil hat worry that Google essentially being the window to the web for so many people, on an OS, browser, and discoverability level is just overall a cause for worry. That’s not even considering their communications and media platforms.

Just don’t use Chromium unless you for some reason absolutely have to. Mozilla is just another corporation, but they’re not exactly threatening to monopolise the internet. Google is, and using Chromium directly aids in their effort to do so.

Yeah. I swapped over to Proton in my degoogling process sometime in April last year. Not thrilled about their crypto/AI/Trumpy BS since.

Proton keeps doing the wrong things. Ugh.

PleasedontadaptandGTFOinsteadpleasedontadaptjustGTFOpleasepleasejustGTFOrotinhell.

I use Mullvad’s VPN and DNS on a router level. Every device on my network is blanketed by it. Some services don’t work, but I am willing to sacrifice their profits for my integrity. Thus, to them I say 然らば fuckmothers.

It is a direct result of structural racism, as it’s a product of the treatment of white men as being the default. You see it all the time in medicine. There are conditions that disproportionately affect black people that we don’t know enough about because time and money hasn’t been spent studying it.

Women face the same problem. Lots of conditions apply differently in women. An example of this being why women historically have been underrepresented in e.g. autism diagnoses. It presents differently so for a while the assumption was made that women just can’t be autistic.

I don’t think necessarily that people who perpetuate this problem are doing so out of malice, they probably don’t think of women/black people as lesser (hell, many probably are women and/or black), but it doesn’t change the fact that structural problems requires awareness and conscious effort to correct.