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   TronNerd82 to Jonathan N. Little   
   Re: Facebook blocks Linux as a security    
   12 Apr 25 22:23:26   
   
   From: tronnerd82@aol.com   
      
   On 2025-01-30, Jonathan N. Little  wrote:   
   > I really love tech and the promise of tech, but all I have seen AI means   
   > "Automated Idiocy". Fulfills the adage "garbage in; garbage out". Just   
   > serves two purposes: 1) collect as much data on everyone without the   
   > company needing to hire anyone to do it. 2) do things for the company   
   > without anyone having to take responsibility for any transgressions, it   
   > was just the AI. I guess I am bit jaded on all this AI crap.   
   >   
   >   
   Maybe I'm just naive, but I don't see AI ever truly taking over human   
   jobs. Tech billionaires with more money than brains might try to make it   
   happen, but what they're left with is an enshittified product since all   
   the people who worked to make things good were left destitute and out of   
   a job, but soon enough these companies will have no other choice than to   
   look their AI-generated disfigured crack baby in the eyes, and suddenly   
   people will mysteriously have their jobs back.   
      
   AI may take a few jobs, but when it starts to bug out and people realize   
   how terrible the results are, suddenly good old-fashioned humanpower   
   doesn't seem so bad. In any event, Facebook stopped flagging Linux as   
   malware, but if they didn't stop, I might have just created an account   
   solely to list distro names, but not the name "Linux" itself and see if   
   I can speedrun getting banned :)   
      
   In the end, AI is little more than a toy. Generative AI is equivalent to   
   connect-the-dots on a computational level, but massively enshittified   
   and ugly in its results, and LLMs are basically just an   
   encyclopedia/search engine for people who jump on the latest hype   
   trains. I never use either for anything serious beyond pointing and   
   laughing at how such things are legitimately considered truly useful   
   products. It amuses me to no end :)   
      
   --   
   I didn't choose the Slackware life.   
   Oh wait, that's a big fat lie.   
   But the Slackware life also chose me :)   
      
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