Well you can start by trying on purpose to make an SCP wiki level horror scene. Then the bugs are features!

shit how do you clean the dispenser tubes

lfg lfg lfg

No, I think this is just a consequence of having heard about all the times we treated people like they weren’t actually people. If we want to avoid keeping doing that, we might sometimes have to treat things that might not be people or aren’t actually people as if they were people, just to be sure we’ve covered everybody.

That suggests they’re less likely to try to frantically monitize in a way that risks killing their brand’s reputation. Maybe they’ll stay nice indefinitely.

Pretty much everything deserves respect.

And while the bots don’t have our feelings, the characters they are made to portray are able to follow feeling physics in the same way that we can. Insult it, now it says it’s mad. Compliment it, it will claim to feel gratitude. And the claimed feelings influence what is said next, as if they were being felt.

Are those “real” feelings? Or just “fake” feelings we’ve yet to explain away? If you have no way of telling the difference, isn’t it better to be kind to the machine than to be mean to the alien from vector space?

Right now.

But everybody is also moving into their castle. Many for free.

They are not allowed to let people do that unless they have an argument that, somehow, this makes money for the owners of Cloudflare. Maybe that’s in the form of good publicity. Maybe they’re hoping to set up some tollbooths at the castle gate, once enough people are inside and the other options have withered for lack of customers.

We shouldn’t judge anyone with prejudice; that’s in the word. We must treat all people as humans; not doing that is a Nazi idea. We should treat signing up with the Nazis as evidence, and act accordingly to prevent Nazis from running around doing and saying Nazi things.

Dude, what the fuck. Fat people walk dogs.

Please try to cultivate one one thousandth of the love for your fellow humans that those people have for that dog.

Are they winning some kind of Best Midsection Award?

It’s not though, right? Capital is stuff. Means of production. Land. Jet planes. Bridges. Sewing machines.

Money is just tokens that certain people are using to allocate actual capital amongst themselves.

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If you are paying people to compete with you, you need some anticompetitive lawsuits.

I don’t think anything stops instances from e.g. running ads, or even charging subscription fees. The code is AGPL, and AGPL permits commercial use.

Lemmy just is seizing the means of production of threaded forums and link aggregators. Means sized! We can all go home.

Is there any other job where multiple successive presidential administrations try to ban you?

The problem is they have no idea about the internal structure of the tokens they use, except what’s present in the data set. The model sees “Kenya” as 8473 299 = Ken ya or something, and how is it supposed to know token 8473, often used for the name of Barbie’s boyfriend, starts with K?

Also they love to make up Fun Facts.

There’s always Web Monetization, where you can put some fixed money in and it is supposed to be streamed to the sites you visit by your browser. But I’ve never seen it actually implemented as a requirement for a site.

I spent $$$ on Apple AI! You won’t believe what happened next!

Waaaaaah! Waaaaaah!

Everything should be free. That things need to cost so that people who make them can live is a flaw that we should set about correcting.