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[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

When I told people that literally every aspect of life will be worse under Trump, I absolutely meant it. Republican poison will seep into literally every aspect of our lives. And this is exactly what I mean when I say "everything is political" to those who only single out a handful of hot-button issues as "political".

With the rise of fascism in the US, just keep "everything is political" in the back of your mind for the next 4+ years, and if you don't believe it by then, I don't know what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (1 children)

4 years is quite an optimistic view. We'll see what they will implement of project 2025, this could have been the last election in the USA

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hence "4+", because I agree with you wholeheartedly.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Off to check if ‘civil war in the USA’ is on my bingo card.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought that was the free space.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's assuming that people are organized enough for a civil war.

I doubt that many Americans are.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This'll also extend far beyond American borders. We're all in for some... interesting times...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

In some places like Argentina they started earlier even without explicit allegiance to Project 2025. The ideology is pervasive and poisonous.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

With the rise of overt fascism in the US,

FTFY.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure that if you use generative AI to publically embarass Donnie, safeguards will be tightened before one can start and finish the pledge of allegiance.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I made a lot of Donald and Putin porn to shock the local magats. I never posted it, just showed them on my phone.

Turns out that if you use some languages other than English, even the shittiest AI wouldn’t filter out the words haha.

Доналд Трамп Путиннің пенисіне микрофон сияқты ән айтады

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The US had AI safeguards? I thought they're going all in with AI recognition and mass surveillance.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

For generative AI, yes.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don’t think this will make much difference honestly, we already have very little regulation here. It probably means that there will be copyright exemptions for training models. And honestly eroding copyright bit by bit is okay in my book.

What we should be worried about are the human rights that are about to be violated.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Allowing the rich and powerful to get around copyright is good, actually, because it means copyright MAY someday go away"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, the rules would allow everybody to get around copyright in this way. A rule like that would apply to all the indie LORA trainers as well.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Don't forget the current supreme court motto though: "rules for thee but not for me". Only massive and rich corporations will be allowed around copyright rules, but you and I and indie and open source will be held to the letter of the law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're right about the regulation but I'm not so sure about the copyright exemptions. All in all, you'd think he's more likely to side with property owners - especially the heirs of media empires - over progress.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s certainly true. Trump’s also close with Musk these days, and Musk certainly will pressure him to allow Grok to vacuum up all the data for free.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Musk also has his hands on a fair amount of data through X and Tesla. But yeah... Copyright expansion seems like an odd place to start breaking the constitution.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is the least of my worries concerning trumps upcoming term.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

News would be even more useless, for one.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think it's pretty scary. Completely overwhelming the media and internet with near-infinite variations of their propaganda is the most powerful way I can imagine for them to carry out the stuff you're more worried about, with even less resistance.

It's not the lack of AI safeguards themselves that worry me, it's the constant stream of propaganda drowning out reality that worries me.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When Trump is crushing them under his boot they will blame Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had a little trouble getting my morning poop out today. I decided to blame Joe Biden. It was either that or the pound and a half of cheese I had yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is "blame Biden" the next "thanks Obama"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard that despite the vast majority of objective measures of societoeconomic factors improving under his leadership, many with direct links to policies he put in place, that he's actually the very worst president in the 400 year span of American democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Black mirror robo-murder-dogs coming soon.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To the surprise of absolutely no one. Tech companies are going to force this shit down our throats whether we want it or not, and Trump is going to pave the way for it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I really don’t think their goal is consumers.

Sure they want consumers to use generative AI so that they get quality feedback so they can improve the product. But that is not the goal.

The goal is enterprises, the goal is replacing workers with AI.

There are estimations that around 300B$ have spent so far for generative AI. This is not for a gadget that close to no-one likes and burns money rather than make money

This is for removing humans from the productive cycle. It is such an ambitious goal that the various CEOs/shareholders are ok taking such an high risk gamble.

Trump will ditch any red tape to AI because Trump openly wants this world, a world where there isn’t any more the need for immigrants or workers or unions.

My ingenuity suggests me that this plan will fail on technical grounds but if it will not, it will be worse. There will be poverty and civil unrest, there will be instability and wars (it’s always easier to look for the enemy outside rather than inside) and, in the end, economy will not do great either (who will buy the crap people will produce?)

Again, I think that this plan will fail on technological grounds but removing red tapes will not accelerate this failure

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, don’t for a second think this wasn’t part of the deal he made with Musk.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Grifters, rejoice!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Quick let’s make an AI that despises billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone should dismantle him, in small pieces

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

just stop supporting american companies already; trump's already going to ruin the economy so if you stop supporting american businesses it'll crash faster. pirate that shit if you have to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Have you heard the saying about horrible end being better than horror without end?

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