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I know of a few self hosted projects that has been used to some extent with AI and has gotten reaaaalllyyy bad security patches.

Yeah, I noticed similar too. I’ve been using a game mod for many years that is in active development, and its devs switched to very AI-heavy development earlier this year. They now add new features with lightning speed, but they are noticeably buggier and unreliable.

No, it relies on user tagging when creating a post, so sadly only works for posts made by PieFed users for now:

I think using an algorithm would be treacherous territory bc there would be guaranteed false positives.

Like, if you’re sitting in front of a computer as part of your job, you’re using LLMs. And if you aren’t, you’re probably using them indirectly and don’t even know it.

This is a gross generalisation. If you don’t use Google (or use a search operator to go straight to its Web results), and disable Copilot in Windows/Office, that takes care of the most annoying instances of corporations pushing LLMs on you. In my experience, in more specialised software AI features tend to be opt-in rather than opt-out.

PieFed has an option for blocking AI-generated posts

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yeah, I’ve since seen the suggestion for enforced tagging in the top comment, and I agree that it could be a good solution for allowing users to decide for themselves if they want to engage

Yes please. It’s dispiriting to regularly go through the cycle of seeing an interesting project pop up here, oh wait it’s vibe-coded crap, nevermind…

I think the most crucial part of the context in which a work was created is the mind it was created from. If that mind has the personality of an irredeemable asshole, that affects the way I perceive the art.

I’m more surprised that/if historically people separated the art from the artist. No art is created in a vacuum, their creators live in the world along with everyone else. I guess the only justification I can see if someone believes that art solely comes from divine inspiration or similar.

Unexpected chat between OpenAI bots led to Hugging Face hack - BBC News

I use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ together with the uBlacklist browser extension. It lets you ban domains from your search results across all major search engines and also lets you subscribe to blacklists compiled by others, such as https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist (I see now that this hasn’t been updated since last year, but there are most likely others out there.)

There’s also Ecosia that lets you choose between Bing and Google as result provider. (And for a while now they have been working on a European Web Index with Qwant to replace the US sources.)

I studied video game art in uni, but left the course after 1.5 years bc it went in a different direction I hoped for (it went all-in on 3D, and the 2D I was actually interested in was done in a month). By that point I already had a part-time job as graphic designer, so I continued that instead, and eventually managed to land a graphic-designer-ish job at a non-profit organisation.

My current job is a lot less glamorous from the outside than video game art, or even a typical graphic design portfolio would be, but I really enjoy it :)

nice! wow, at 27 USD it really is cheap :o

sadly for now I find my Garmin’s features useful, but I hope more open products like this will appear over time

oh I had to look up “repper”, I see now :)

I know many trans people know their gender identity from an early age, and have strong convictions despite society’s pressure, but being agender, I had no strong convictions about my gender, it wasn’t even there. And I always tried to be practical, and so the only option that seemed available was to just try to put up with my born sex and assigned gender no matter how unhappy they made me 🫠

Wishing you success in your career change!

What job did you switch to?

UK?

Not sure if they changed the original title or it was editorialised by OP, but the current article title is much better at highlighting the problem:

Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens

Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device

I sorta knew that trans people existed, but didn’t know of hormone replacement (in the '00s Hungarian tabloids only spoke of surgeries when they mentioned trans people 🙄), and since I couldn’t have passed without that, it never crossed my mind that me being trans was an option.

The biggest surprise would definitely be that I’m trans, so I look completely different now than 19-years-old me might have imagined :D