[–] 34 points 7 hours ago* (3 children)

Imagine getting a new monitor for your PC that quietly changed what you were able to see when you used it. If you wanted to read an article about a topic the manufacturer didn't like, the article would be completely reworded to fit their preferred narrative.

Someone eventually realized this was happening and called out the manufacturer publicly (which allegedly led to death threats and such) who proceeded to crash out over it, initially claiming this was to reform the broader internet, but eventually quietly pushing a patch that made your monitor install malware on your PC.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

    There is no “AI”. If you’re claiming that this image was generated with a computer, then of course.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedantry

    Who cares? There are real problems out there. “AI” is literally being used to genocide palestinians.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

    The strange part of your second bit is you attack OP for being anti-AI while you yourself are anti-AI, evidently not realizing that reducing PETA's use of AI would definitely reduce the use of AI against Palestinians in a simple funding sense; paying money to AI companies to make ads like PETA is presumably doing/supporting helps the companies that develop AI weapons that are used against Palestinians.

    Classic purity test infighting to make yourself feel better by attacking someone, even if they're your ally.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    Quotas are illegal in the US. KPIs are not.

    The difference is one is a concrete line in the sand that you're required to cross Or Else and the other is just "more is better."

    A cop who made 5 arrests is considered a lower performer than a cop who made 10.

    - Ex-cop

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    It seems like no matter how many times I set my language to English in my profile settings, I have to set my language to English when I submit any comment or post every time.

    I don't know what happens when I just ignor that drop-down, but I'd like to avoid reinforcing the Americentric Internet issue where non-English speakers have to sort through a slew of posts they can't (or don't want to) read in English just because that's the default and nobody bothered to tag them.

    Put differently, if say, a Spanish reader gets posts that are labeled Spanish as well as any post that are not labeled, there's a good chance the vast majority of posts are English, which is probably pretty annoying. I don't want to do that to people.

     

    I believe one or more moderators of an instance are acting in bad faith. As I understand it, Lemmy does not have a modmail function to address the issue with the team, so I need to seek out the instance admin?

    How do I:

    1. Find out who that is

    2. Contact them

    I see no indication towards either on the community's side bar and I don't think there's a support@[instance] community.

     

    I can't find any specific Yes / No via search and my understanding is that's not really possible due to how federated websites work, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can give me a straight answer.

    I had something I wanted to post that wasn't very relevant to any particular community, but more specific to me, kinda like a blog post.

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