Stopthatgirl7
Hey, y’all! Just another random, loudmouthed, opinionated, Southern-fried nerdy American living abroad.
This is my lemmy account because I got sick of how unstable kbin dot social was.
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Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British | Technology | The GuardianEnglish28·10 months agoI’ve got to admit, I’ve wanted to do one of those tests just because my family is such a mix of “lol we don’t know.” Like, no really, what IS my maternal grandma? She does not look like the rest of her family and had a different family name from her siblings. And ok really, where DID my paternal great-grandmother who lied about her race so she could marry my great-grandfather back when “miscegenation” was illegal, come from? And WAS that great-grandpa biracial himself?
There’s a reason I call myself an ethnic Rorschach test, and I’d love to know why it is I am. But the rest of my family is against the idea of finding out because “it doesn’t matter” plus who knows how just data might be used one day.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Why I regret using 23andMe: I gave up my DNA just to find out I’m British | Technology | The GuardianEnglish18·10 months agoI read the headline and went, “…I mean, what were you expecting?”
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Ex-Google CEO warns that 'perfect' AI girlfriends could spell trouble for young menEnglish81·10 months agoIf real women don’t like you, that’s a You issue. Make yourself a better person that other people - aka women - want to be around.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto politics @lemmy.world•Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe Performs Wildly Racist Set At Trump Rally In New York City9·11 months agoYou can’t even say he knows his audience because not that many people were actually laughing. Dude is so unfunny he couldn’t even get a Trump crowd up laugh at racist jokes.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s SuicideEnglish21·11 months agoThe chatbot was actually pretty irresponsible about a lot of things, looks like. As in, it doesn’t respond the right way to mentions of suicide and tries to convince the person using it that it’s a real person.
This guy made an account to try it out for himself, and yikes: https://youtu.be/FExnXCEAe6k?si=oxqoZ02uhsOKbbSF
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Paralyzed Man Unable to Walk After Maker of His Powered Exoskeleton Tells Him It's Now ObsoleteEnglish61·1 year agoRespectfully requesting that in the future, you read articles before replying.
And:
According to Straight, the issue was caused by a piece of wiring that had come loose from the battery that powered a wristwatch used to control the exoskeleton. This would cost peanuts for Lifeward to fix up, but it refused to service anything more than five years old, Straight said.
“I find it very hard to believe after paying nearly $100,000 for the machine and training that a $20 battery for the watch is the reason I can’t walk anymore?” he wrote on Facebook.
This is all over a battery in a watch.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.English143·1 year agoSo you think these companies should have no liability for the misinformation they spit out. Awesome. That’s gonna end well. Welcome to digital snake oil, y’all.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•A courts reporter wrote about a few trials. Then an AI decided he was actually the culprit.English163·1 year agoIf they aren’t liable for what their product does, who is? And do you think they’ll be incentivized to fix their glorified chat boxes if they know they won’t be held responsible for if?
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•'Someone manufactured this': Mark Robinson blames shocking 'black Nazi' comments on AI15·1 year agoSure bro. Suuuuuure.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s X is a poison. We don’t need to keep taking it.5·1 year agoI’m replacing my phone soon, and I’ve anyway decided that when I get a new phone, I’m not installing that cursed app on it. That’s how I’m finally going to cut myself off from it and be done.
The way I laughed just reading the first paragraph.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Thoughts Around KBin's Current Status and the Importance of Community Migration FeaturesEnglish40·1 year agoYou’ve highlighted what is definitely a major problem with the Fediverse - all it takes for you to lose all the hard work you’ve done building up a community is the person running a server to pull the plug with no warning.
I loved kbin social - I started out on there, and only moved over to lemmy because it was getting too erratic and it was impossible to find out what was going on. Being able to move is a great thing, but if you miss your window to move, you’re SOL.
Admins definitely need to be willing and able to have the reins over to someone else if it’s getting to be too much, or to at least let people know in advance if they’re planning to shut down. Communication is key.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright InfringementEnglish125·1 year agoSomeone posted links to some of the AI generated songs, and they are straight up copying. Blatantly so. If a human made them, they would be sued, too.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright InfringementEnglish7·1 year ago…oh my GOD, they are cooked.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldto Fediverse@lemmy.world•Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)?English11·1 year agoI gave up on kbin social months ago when it went down with no idea when it would be working again. I ended up going over to lemmy.world.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunchEnglish4·1 year agoRight now, it’s all being funded by one person, Zhang Jingna (a photographer that recently sued and won her case when someone plagiarized her work) but it’s grown so quickly she got hit with a $96K bill for one month.
Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunchEnglish3·1 year agoDeviant Art is also trying to scrape artists’ work for AI. It what allows AI at to be posted and has prompted it.
That’s the other big reason I’m hesitant - different tests can give totally different results, so who knows what’s “right”?