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What's always upset me about this is that I don't get to see the illustrated diagram. I want to see the diagram.

I think this is quite a bad idea even if we totally set aside any ethical concerns with AI, solely because it increases the hardware requirements to run a Lemmy instance. I believe that a critical goal of federated services should be to reduce the barrier to entry for instance ownership as much as possible. The more instances the better. If there's only two or three big ones, the problems of centralization appear again, albeit diluted. The whole point of federation is to have multiple instances. Already many survive on donations or outright charity. But AI increases costs immensely.

I think it's fine to add features that require more compute power if they have a vast improvement to user experience for the compute required. But AI is one of the most computationally intensive features I can think of, and the ratio to its value addition is particularly low. There's so little content on Lemmy that you can feasibly view the entire post history of most communities in under a day of browsing, so there's no real need for improved searchability - it's just not that big here yet. And even when it does get that big, I think a strong search algorithm would be just about as effective, much more transparent, and most importantly not require instance owners to add GPUs to their servers.

It answers the call behind the scenes without you needing to hear or listen. It pops up a notification saying that the call is ongoing with the screening AI, and you have an option to immediately stop the call or to pick it up. It also records a transcript of the call for you to listen to afterwards. It also doesn't screen every call, if it's a number in your contacts it lets it through to you as normal.

Has anyone here read 100 Years of Solitude? This seems exactly like something that would happen in that book.

Soooo incredibly beautiful. I love how it waves around, and the scale of it is just awesome. It's crazy that some of those oscillations are fast enough that, if overlaid with the earth, would be absolutely flying across the sky in real time. But by far the most interesting part is how the cloud structure just hangs there while bits of it get torn off and dragged into the surface, and the way it has almost a surface tension like effect even at that size. It really doesn't look much different from water on the window during rain. Does anyone know why or how the cloud stays suspended like that while the bits get torn off? At that proximity, naively, I would have thought gravity would just pull the whole cloud in, especially if it's strong enough to pull the bits in?

I get that this is just porn, but something about the natural setting of this picture and her body type really makes me think about how terrifying and alien humans must have seemed in the wild in prehistoric times. Imagine being some animal and seeing these shiny spindly upright hairless things relentlessly striding after you. Not intended as an insult towards her, but just, really picture that. It's an almost alien image even as a human.