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The future is now (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/funny@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 192 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Not your parameters, not your parents.

Be sure to self-host your loved ones.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

Inspired by: not your weights, not your wifu

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather self host my waifu.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Do you not love your waifu? 🥺

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 116 points 3 months ago (8 children)

In case somebody doesn't know about the nightmarish AI product this comic is referencing: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tq6gqh5aaohgi55y2yofylwj/post/3m5k4ojtgs22r

[–] elvith@feddit.org 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I thought it was a reference to Black Mirror S02E01 - Be Right Back that got a bit modernized.

Interestingly, that episode is now almost 13 years old.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And now we're finally rushing towards this future on a turbo rocket sled.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean... gestures wildly at other Black Mirror episodes ...yes?

And I always considered dystopian tales to be meant as a warning, not as a blueprint...

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

That's the fun part about dystopian tales, they're most frightening when they're close enough to truth that it could be on the same timeline.

That one with Bryce Dallas Howard and the MeowMeowBeenz rip off is SO right around the corner.

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Black Mirror wasn't about the future, it was about the present - the present was when it released

[–] Tire@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No that came out like 2 years ago. There’s ZERO chance that it’s been 13 years already. Absolutely impossible!! RIGHT???!

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Sure buddy. The 70’s were 20 years ago, always will be.

[+] TheBat@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well I mean it doesn't. If the program ever comes out it'll probably just be a generic LLM with a few custom prompts for each customer (if that).

Also, I can't imagine anyone who was actually close to someone being willing to actually use something this ghoulish. So they won't find it suspicious if grandma starts saying the secret ingredient in her pizza sauce was glue or that you should feed baby Charlie one small rock a day.

[–] cm0002@libretechni.ca 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also, I can't imagine anyone who was actually close to someone being willing to actually use something this ghoulish.

Grief is a hell of a drug, someone who's just lost someone close to them might be willing to do a lot of things for just one more day, hour, minute with them

[–] man_wtfhappenedtoyou@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Especially with a targeted micro ad at the right time.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 15 points 3 months ago

Grandma, can you tell me that story you used to tell me as a kid?

Sure, once upon a time, Goldilocks was walking through a Rayonier™ sustainable forest, when she came across a Turner Construction™ subdivision with a Toll Brothers® cottage.

She went inside and found three delicious bowls of Quaker™ porridge on the table. The first was delicious but too hot, the second was delicious but too cold, and being her favourite brand of porridge she tried the third bowl and it was perfect. She washed it down with a cold glass of Alta Dena™ 2% milk, a perfect combination.

...

I could keep going but it's scaring me.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm 4 years out from losing my dad. Can confirm: one of the most upsetting things is knowing I'm unlikely to make new memories of him.

(Unlikely but not unable: his frat brother told last year me about how they used get together in Dad's room, smoke pot, and play tabletop RPGs. I... I knew about the tabletop games but not the marijuana.)

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Six for me, but I cannot picture ever using something like this... even while the grief was still fresh.

[–] smh@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Me, neither. I think the target market is grievers who believe chatgpt is a magic Oracle. It's taking the memory of someone dear and diluting it with nonsense.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Social media scrapping? Which would be the worse version of anybody.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Could have ingested an online diary maybe? Would involve her having to type everything though

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Ive seen where this leads on black mirror. Its truly upsetting stuff

[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

That’s fucking disgusting

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

Holy shit that is super fucked up.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

How did they come up with such an odd company name? It’s like this copy of the promotional video was ripped off from the original and replaced with the name of the knock off.

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2wai (pronounced “two-way”)

ah-hum

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I saw a video of a ~~woman in China~~ (Edit: actually she was Korean) talking to an AI recreation of her child (then-deceased) through VR.

I felt so creeped out by it. Like wtf, if I die, I want my mom to remember me, not talking to a fucking AI IMPOSTER.

Edit: Looked it up, actually it's a Korean woman, I mixed it up: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeCry/comments/12zkqy8/mother_meets_deceased_daughter_through_vr/

[–] Datz@szmer.info 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a whole company/llm about doing that whose CEO gave a Ted talk about it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JrIxFZRA

After that, I actually had a pretty wild idea about someone using to replace dead/missing people in chats. Imagine the horror of finding out your friend died months ago, or got kidnapped. Horribly impractical but sounds like a good novel.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

"watch me talk about how I get rich of off exploiting people's emotional fragilities and try to pass it as providing closure and community service"

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[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It’s unbelievable that this isn’t a joke.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

Art imitates life

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

too gruesome for a black mirror episode!

[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Literally S2 E1

[–] mapu@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago

With a touch of S7E1

[–] Ilixtze@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

nah that shit was restrained.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

At least you could fuck the robots

[–] itkovian@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is the future I reject. It is utterly disrespectful of everything humanity stands for.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Hey it could be worse... oh wait Google "ai.victim statement Arizona".

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

I am seeing ads where businesses will try to influence AI to recommend your brand. I don't know if they actually work but it strikes me as everything we hate about SEO but shoved into every facet and interface that a capitalist owns.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Kids today will never know how incredible the internet was circa 2012. Music was free, Netflix was 5$ and you could share your account, you didn't need id for porn, silk road lol. The list goes on. Now its all about them controlling your data and the narrative. Capitalism destroyed a once beautiful thing

[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Now we have fun from it, but ten years from now we will complain about it.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I am playing Watch Dogs Legion right now and it has the most gnarly fucked up bad guy shit that is relevant to real world shit.

One of the bad guys (cuz there's multiple ones) is creating AI by digitizing actual people and then stripping away their humanity until they are basically the kind of LLMs we have now all so she can do shit like turn the lights in her house on and off. Effectively creating immortal slaves that can never disobey because they're lobotomized.

So like... I guess the real AI we have could be worse?

[–] Coconut1233@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Isn't there a black mirror episode with a similar plot?

[–] VM_Abrantes@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

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