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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why connect to the Internet with it then. The browser could just make everything up on the fly.

Got questions about a medication?

Maybe you want to check up on some disease symptoms?

AI can make something that sounds vaguely plausible.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why connect to the Internet with it then

To check if your subscription to their models is still valid of course

[–] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And send back telemetry and training data.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

AKA all of your personal data, you know, just in case we need it

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't fucking understand why Lemmy is permanently stuck in 2023 with AI

Using RAG (retrieval augmented generation) results in much lower, almost negligible confabulation rates

[–] thiseggowaffles@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago

Generally speaking, people used ChatGPT back when it first came out, had a bad experience and never fucked with it again, so their understanding of it is frozen in time. Most people know next to nothing about the current state of AI unless you're a researcher or enthusiast. They're completely unprepared for the actual state of the industry.

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do Sam ~~Conman's~~ Altman's boots taste?

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh fucking -please-

This place is genuinely more insufferable than Reddit. That is actually an achievement

Whatever dude, writhe in your own ignorance

[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Making an assumption regarding the entirety of a social network with at least tens of thousands of users based on a single inflammatory comment (mind you, a comment that has more downvotes than upvotes)? That's a bit of a small sample to extrapolate from, don't you think? You should've probably asked ChatGPT if that's the right call.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

I've seen this stupidity all over lemmy. It's like, people "group psychology" -ed this thought into the central culture of lemmy and refuse to budge.

It also doesn't help that capitalists are using AI to take people's jobs and also a misunderstanding of how image diffusion works had lead to the artistic line of people to also hate AI

Nobody likes to fucking listen. People like to be smug.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are these fucks stupid? Chromium is open sourced. They can do it themselves

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They don't want to buy the browser. They want to buy the brand and the users. Chrome makes up over half the browser market. Think of all the data they could extract from Chrome users. It would cost significantly more to fork chromium and grow the user base to a point where they could extract anything valuable from them, and that's assuming they'd be successful enough to make it happen.

[–] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no way Google would sell Chrome. But you can bet at least a thousand engineers are working on bolting Gemini onto it right now.

[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

There's no way Google would voluntarily sell Chrome. Unfortunately for them, they might be forced to sell Chrome.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 0 points 1 year ago

OpenAI is like a zombie stumbling around trying to infect everything. We shove it away because it’s fuckin’ gross and we want nothing to do with it, while the bosses that reanimated it are like “well fuck, we made this thing, we have to use it for something.”

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know how we thought " How could chrome get any worse?" well, we have an answer.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Great! Now not only can chrome eat all my system memory, it can use all my GPU memory at the same time! It's genius!

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sounds like the best thing that could happen to Firefox

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately, Mozilla is investing a ton of money into AI, too.

[–] Bazimon@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look into Waterfox instead.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 0 points 1 year ago

That really doesn't solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they're completely dependent on Firefox. You can't just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).

[–] exu@feditown.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

Mozilla works mainly on LOCAL AI not this corporate trash like closedAI

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?

But, maybe "it will be different this time", I guess.

[–] Fenrir@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago

Validating my years old decision to use Firefox

[–] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

This can't happen. Not because I think google is doing a wonderful job, but it's got serious market share now. Basically a monopoly. It needs to leave the hands of for profit companies and be transitioned to a foundation.