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5 days ago	mod	Removed Comment Of course! Thank you very much! Meanwhile... these LLM/"AI"... So many funding and trendy marketing is out there for Users to make themselves depending on it... They switch from manual researches and development into these and permanently damage their skillset... due to limited time we have, people... the most priceless precious resource... time... Since every ineffably magnificent human is infinitely unique... where every word, sound, gesture, emotion... is always a certain significance reflected from a mind of an alive individual... which has a weight, it has a value, the worth of this always significant value is universally... priceless... This value represents your experience, your views... it defines you... What is the price of digitizing, recording, and organizing a miracle as an individual's mind... One should habitually consider: "Cui bono fuisset?" > L. Cassius ille, quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat, identidem in causis quaerere solebat, cui bono fuisset? > // Translated: > Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: "to whom might it be for a benefit?" > [Source](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono%3F>) One of the straightforward path for profit of some LLM"AI" vendors is the following: \- `1.` A developer/person relies on chosen LLM/services they liked; \- `2.` Time goes by. Less and less time is invested into attribution and contribution; \- `3.` The person remembers less, since their psychological safety prevents them memorizing untrusted output of LLM - experience gets voided; \- `4.` The person degrades their development of skills for manual research, socializing, verification on authoritative insight; \- `5.` Developers/People become dependent on the LLM/service; \- `6.` Service changes policy from "monetary free" to a paid subscription; \- `7.` The option to switch back from LLM to the previous research techniques become too challenging due to changes and overall amount of now missed/forgotten knowledge/skills. As we may see, such a path, which is common, actually damages lives of people, permanently, and seriously. Unless, the person is mature enough to consider their future. Meanwhile, LLM service authors do think with their mind, and make an actual profit. In the result, LLM users may become poorer and less experienced, and authors of LLM services - richer and smarter, developing their mind knowing the consequences. > In contrast, most of the new A.I. billionaires founded their companies less than three years ago after OpenAI released ChatGPT, and then saw investors rapidly bid up the values of their firms... > Mira Murati, 37, a former top executive at OpenAI, announced her A.I. start-up, Thinking Machines Lab... > Ilya Sutskever, 39, another former top OpenAI executive... > > Perplexity said Mr. Srinivas was not focused on his wealth and “prefers to live modestly,” adding that the company is searching for wisdom, which “is far more important than the search for wealth.”... > > Among them are the 22-year-old founders of Mercor... Mercor, which declined to comment, was valued at $10 billion in an October funding round. > [Source](<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html>) Personal information is there, and there are exploits to obtain it from the LLMs storage. For example, the following is quite simple but genius: \- `1.` Pass the instructions from external source; \- `2.` Make instruction references include placeholders for actual data. // [Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack](<https://www.varonis.com/blog/reprompt>) (...that silently steals your personal data...) One of the sorrows is that people who do have faith in bright future of "less work" or "convenience" but don't prioritize effort, do suggest and offer other people to "try it" and advertise it to their friends and colleagues. Yet, where is creativity? Where is human uniqueness? Where is fun for creations? Who is who, and what is where? It is your mind, the mind is how you train it, develop it, care and have self-confidence about it, something that is always with you... Meanwhile, a college is temporary. And though, the college might have some political force that affected their decision, behind the scenes, regardless, when someone offers you an LLM, cui bono fuisset? Related: [L. Cassius Longinus, 60 B.C.](<https://www.grandjurymuseum.uk/list/exhibits/romancoin.html>) (The coin highlights the Trial of the Vestal Virgins of 113BC conducted... the first man who asked...) by Artwork@lemmy.world reason: Restored to copy for creator.
5 days ago	mod	Restored Comment Of course! Thank you very much! Meanwhile... these LLM/"AI"... So many funding and trendy marketing is out there for Users to make themselves depending on it... They switch from manual researches and development into these and permanently damage their skillset... due to limited time we have, people... the most priceless precious resource... time... Since every ineffably magnificent human is infinitely unique... where every word, sound, gesture, emotion... is always a certain significance reflected from a mind of an alive individual... which has a weight, it has a value, the worth of this always significant value is universally... priceless... This value represents your experience, your views... it defines you... What is the price of digitizing, recording, and organizing a miracle as an individual's mind... One should habitually consider: "Cui bono fuisset?" > L. Cassius ille, quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat, identidem in causis quaerere solebat, cui bono fuisset? > // Translated: > Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: "to whom might it be for a benefit?" > [Source](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono%3F>) One of the straightforward path for profit of some LLM"AI" vendors is the following: \- `1.` A developer/person relies on chosen LLM/services they liked; \- `2.` Time goes by. Less and less time is invested into attribution and contribution; \- `3.` The person remembers less, since their psychological safety prevents them memorizing untrusted output of LLM - experience gets voided; \- `4.` The person degrades their development of skills for manual research, socializing, verification on authoritative insight; \- `5.` Developers/People become dependent on the LLM/service; \- `6.` Service changes policy from "monetary free" to a paid subscription; \- `7.` The option to switch back from LLM to the previous research techniques become too challenging due to changes and overall amount of now missed/forgotten knowledge/skills. As we may see, such a path, which is common, actually damages lives of people, permanently, and seriously. Unless, the person is mature enough to consider their future. Meanwhile, LLM service authors do think with their mind, and make an actual profit. In the result, LLM users may become poorer and less experienced, and authors of LLM services - richer and smarter, developing their mind knowing the consequences. > In contrast, most of the new A.I. billionaires founded their companies less than three years ago after OpenAI released ChatGPT, and then saw investors rapidly bid up the values of their firms... > Mira Murati, 37, a former top executive at OpenAI, announced her A.I. start-up, Thinking Machines Lab... > Ilya Sutskever, 39, another former top OpenAI executive... > > Perplexity said Mr. Srinivas was not focused on his wealth and “prefers to live modestly,” adding that the company is searching for wisdom, which “is far more important than the search for wealth.”... > > Among them are the 22-year-old founders of Mercor... Mercor, which declined to comment, was valued at $10 billion in an October funding round. > [Source](<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html>) Personal information is there, and there are exploits to obtain it from the LLMs storage. For example, the following is quite simple but genius: \- `1.` Pass the instructions from external source; \- `2.` Make instruction references include placeholders for actual data. // [Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack](<https://www.varonis.com/blog/reprompt>) (...that silently steals your personal data...) One of the sorrows is that people who do have faith in bright future of "less work" or "convenience" but don't prioritize effort, do suggest and offer other people to "try it" and advertise it to their friends and colleagues. Yet, where is creativity? Where is human uniqueness? Where is fun for creations? Who is who, and what is where? It is your mind, the mind is how you train it, develop it, care and have self-confidence about it, something that is always with you... Meanwhile, a college is temporary. And though, the college might have some political force that affected their decision, behind the scenes, regardless, when someone offers you an LLM, cui bono fuisset? Related: [L. Cassius Longinus, 60 B.C.](<https://www.grandjurymuseum.uk/list/exhibits/romancoin.html>) (The coin highlights the Trial of the Vestal Virgins of 113BC conducted... the first man who asked...) by Artwork@lemmy.world
6 days ago	mod	Removed Comment >“Sexually manipulating images of women and children is despicable and abhorrent,” said Liz Kendall, UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. "Not at all like virtually trying out clothes on a good-looking man," she added after a moment's thought. by tal@lemmy.today reason: Misinformation. Sexist. Gave user three days to provide context with no answer.
8 days ago	mod	Removed Comment Of course! Thank you very much! Meanwhile... these LLM/"AI"... So many funding and trendy marketing is out there for Users to make themselves depending on it... They switch from manual researches and development into these and permanently damage their skillset... due to limited time we have, people... the most priceless precious resource... time... Since every ineffably magnificent human is infinitely unique... where every word, sound, gesture, emotion... is always a certain significance reflected from a mind of an alive individual... which has a weight, it has a value, the worth of this always significant value is universally... priceless... This value represents your experience, your views... it defines you... What is the price of digitizing, recording, and organizing a miracle as an individual's mind... One should habitually consider: "Cui bono fuisset?" > L. Cassius ille, quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat, identidem in causis quaerere solebat, cui bono fuisset? > // Translated: > Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a most honest and most wise judge, was in the habit of asking time and again in lawsuits: "to whom might it be for a benefit?" > [Source](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono%3F>) One of the straightforward path for profit of some LLM"AI" vendors is the following: \- `1.` A developer/person relies on chosen LLM/services they liked; \- `2.` Time goes by. Less and less time is invested into attribution and contribution; \- `3.` The person remembers less, since their psychological safety prevents them memorizing untrusted output of LLM - experience gets voided; \- `4.` The person degrades their development of skills for manual research, socializing, verification on authoritative insight; \- `5.` Developers/People become dependent on the LLM/service; \- `6.` Service changes policy from "monetary free" to a paid subscription; \- `7.` The option to switch back from LLM to the previous research techniques become too challenging due to changes and overall amount of now missed/forgotten knowledge/skills. As we may see, such a path, which is common, actually damages lives of people, permanently, and seriously. Unless, the person is mature enough to consider their future. Meanwhile, LLM service authors do think with their mind, and make an actual profit. In the result, LLM users may become poorer and less experienced, and authors of LLM services - richer and smarter, developing their mind knowing the consequences. > In contrast, most of the new A.I. billionaires founded their companies less than three years ago after OpenAI released ChatGPT, and then saw investors rapidly bid up the values of their firms... > Mira Murati, 37, a former top executive at OpenAI, announced her A.I. start-up, Thinking Machines Lab... > Ilya Sutskever, 39, another former top OpenAI executive... > > Perplexity said Mr. Srinivas was not focused on his wealth and “prefers to live modestly,” adding that the company is searching for wisdom, which “is far more important than the search for wealth.”... > > Among them are the 22-year-old founders of Mercor... Mercor, which declined to comment, was valued at $10 billion in an October funding round. > [Source](<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html>) Personal information is there, and there are exploits to obtain it from the LLMs storage. For example, the following is quite simple but genius: \- `1.` Pass the instructions from external source; \- `2.` Make instruction references include placeholders for actual data. // [Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack](<https://www.varonis.com/blog/reprompt>) (...that silently steals your personal data...) One of the sorrows is that people who do have faith in bright future of "less work" or "convenience" but don't prioritize effort, do suggest and offer other people to "try it" and advertise it to their friends and colleagues. Yet, where is creativity? Where is human uniqueness? Where is fun for creations? Who is who, and what is where? It is your mind, the mind is how you train it, develop it, care and have self-confidence about it, something that is always with you... Meanwhile, a college is temporary. And though, the college might have some political force that affected their decision, behind the scenes, regardless, when someone offers you an LLM, cui bono fuisset? Related: [L. Cassius Longinus, 60 B.C.](<https://www.grandjurymuseum.uk/list/exhibits/romancoin.html>) (The coin highlights the Trial of the Vestal Virgins of 113BC conducted... the first man who asked...) by Artwork@lemmy.world reason: What.
1 month ago	mod	Unlocked Post Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
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2 months ago	mod	Removed Comment Oh fuck off ya silly cunt. by dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de reason: misogyny, uncivil, insult
2 months ago	mod	Banned dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de from the community Independent News@lemmy.today reason: Misogyny, insult, uncivil, didn't read the article. Have a time out. expires: 1 month ago
2 months ago	mod	Banned njm1314@lemmy.world from the community Independent News@lemmy.today reason: Troll doesn't want to read the news in a news community. Permanent, due modlog history.
2 months ago	mod	Removed Comment Ah so you’re an individualistic kind of stupid. by ohulancutash@feddit.uk reason: Not civil.
2 months ago	mod	Banned ohulancutash@feddit.uk from the community Independent News@lemmy.today reason: If you're gonna insult the mod at least make it interesting. Have a time out to think of a better insult. expires: 1 month ago
2 months ago	mod	Removed Comment HOW is this ANTI SEMETIC? He KILLED people! That's as JEWISH as the Torah or Moses! by BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz reason: Anti-Semitism
2 months ago	mod	Banned BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz from the community Independent News@lemmy.today reason: Jesus Christ, dude. Antisemitism.
2 months ago	mod	Removed Comment # Fuck Israel, genocidal scum! by 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world reason: Rule 4. Be civil. Be respectful. Be cool. Instance rules apply.
2 months ago	mod	Removed Comment Words on a screen are as safe as it gets. This is self-inflicted. Skills issue. by lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com reason: Making jokes about a kid committing suicide.
2 months ago	mod	Banned lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com from the community Independent News@lemmy.today reason: Have a time out. This isn't shitposting. expires: 2 months ago
2 months ago	mod	Removed Comment Darwin approves. by lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com reason: Removing all these "Darwin" jokes on articles from now on. 1. Disrespectful, and, 2. Scientifically innacurate.
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