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Cake day: July 14th, 2023
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What search engine do you use?English
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    15 days ago

    I wouldn’t say Kagi has “moved to become an AI company”.

    They host some open weight models, which you can use with your subscription (which hasn’t increased in price or dropped features since they added AI access), but you’re not forced to use AI ever, and they’re not collecting your searches or prompts to feed into training.

    They’ve taken a pretty skeptical stance on AI from the start. You can disable AI features completely, so you don’t even accidentally use them. But even if you leave them enabled, you have to opt into invoking AI by ending your query with a question mark.

    Edit: Also, they downrank content that has been flagged as AI generated: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Should I go into freelance web development in 2026 in high-cost country?English
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    17 days ago

    Well, “should you”? Only you can decide that. You only get the one life, you know. It would suck to spend it only doing things because they’re “prudent”.

    It seems like you’re asking for market predictions here, based on the AI and outsourcing aspects. Nobody knows what the future holds. But we can look at the past and present.

    Historically, companies — both individually, and the industry as a whole — tend to oscillate between:

    • “oh my god, knowledgeable people are so expensive, I don’t need someone with deep understanding, I just need more output” and
    • ”oh fuck, I am drowning in output that nobody understands, I desperately need knowledgeable people”

    For all the AI corpos’ talk about a revolutionary change in the way we think about work and employment, it all looks very familiar right now.

    Historically, these moments, where everyone seems to agree that they want more hands on keyboards rather than more brains on call… tend to be the worst time to freelance.

    It’s a race to the bottom, and you’ll probably be so busy spinning plates that you won’t be able to make any long-term strategic decisions about what you wanna learn and do next.

    If you can, I’d look for a stable corpo job that you can firewall to 9-5, and keep your options open. Watch the market, and — more importantly — find something that you like, so you don’t have to ask internet strangers what to do with your life again.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Why do the vast majority of people on Lemmy seem to HATE AI?English
    1293·
    2 months ago

    I mean, take your pick. This is a place where a lot of us…

    • are leftists who disagree with extractive, anti-human economic systems
    • left Reddit because they insisted on controlling how people could connect to each others ideas
    • like the open collaboration of open source, which is getting wrecked by AI
    • like open access communities like wikipedia, which are also getting undermined by AI
    • dislike copyright law, which is being selectively ignored here because the people violating it are rich (on paper)
    • are marginalized people, who tend to be disproportionately effected by AI decision-making
  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is "AI slop" enough?English
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    3 months ago

    We might want two separate terms: one for the personal ways that AI slop infects and manipulates your mind, and another for the way it makes the wider cultural landscape difficult to navigate by adding noise and intercepting your attempts to find the original sources of concepts or artifacts which might bring you into a community (and the fact that these communities are now all playing defense because of the everlasting scraping DDoS).

    I’m concerned about the former because I think it might make doing anything at all much more difficult.

    But I’m concerned about the latter because we… don’t really know how much pollution culture can withstand before collapsing. We may already be in the early stages of something like Kessler Syndrome but for communications.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Now where are you guys?English
    10·
    4 months ago

    Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

    Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialtoPiracy@lemmy.ml•Now where are you guys?English
    41·
    4 months ago

    Culture is our most important invention as a species. So important, in fact, that we’ve evolved to make it essential to our individual health and collective capacity to function. To deny someone access to interact with culture on the basis of their lack of wealth is cruel and anti-human.

    Likewise, developing something like an LLM, which spews thoughtless pollution into the only shared infosphere we have, and displaces individuals’ ability to connect to each other to develop culture… that is an existential threat to the human race and should be opposed vehemently.