TheOctonaut

There are ones that are tiny, but those are basically facial wipes. The actual towels are hand-sizes

I'm sure it's something specific to the Georgia political landscape but honestly the bill sounds perfect for us in Ireland — the number of either malicious or well-meaning things that get funded entirely by American money in our politics is scary.

Because the British people that vote, vote primarily for parties that are seeking to destroy the NHS, because they've been trained to believe it exists entirely to employ and treat Them. The Others. Their Kind. You know The Ones.

What's macs?

... I don't see how you can genuinely have understood that to be a point I was making. That's the opposite of what I was saying. I even gave an example of how you might be forced to drive a car. Because you are in fact forced to live in society. But you are here on Lemmy so you must understand that you are not forced to use Gmail? So either you're being disingenuous or you're not actually reading all of what I'm posting. Given how you completely ignored the majority of my other post and went straight to "oH sO iF wE dO iT fOr 20 yEaRs", I'm going with the latter.

I'm almost certainly older than you, but I'm still interested to hear how deliberately answering Captchas incorrectly saves time over answering them correctly.

The 20 years thing was my bafflement as to why people felt the need to explain what Captchas are. Not a justification for their existence. When I ask "why" I think I'm pretty clearly not asking to have how Captchas work explained to me.

Putting that aside, can you explain to me how asking you to identify a traffic light is "at the expense of literally everyone"?

Someone was saying "they'll train smart cars! And sell it to us as a subscription!" which I think is the same route you're going down. But... how is that at the expense of everyone? And would not training smart cars benefit anyone? Is someone else going to do it? Is there a FOSS smart car I can contribue to? And is that FOSS going to prevent bad actors from training it to misbehave?

You're not doing work for free. That's a really weird way to look at it. You're doing it to gain access to a service, an entirely optional one. It's somewhat believable when people say oh, yes I have a car but I have to have a car, I'd like not to. But nobody is required to use GMail to live.

And yes, feel free to be an AI pessimist. You could quite well be right. It seems bizarre to me however to make an effort to sabotage this one specific AI training (which might stop cars from running us down) so that you can log into something which will also be used to train AI (to sell you shit). And then posting your opinion about it here, where it will be used to train an AI.

Yes?

Sorry I'm not sure "why?" is a difficult question. People keep explaining that is happening as if this hasn't been happening in various forms for 20 years.

If its "I don't want to contribute to machine learning", I've got exciting news for you about every post you are making on this site where every comment is publicly accessible and consumable.

Is it going to put a lot of... traffic light recognisers out of work?

Profile people as... traffic lights?

Is that a reason not to do it?