The Ramen Dutchman

Loomer is not a very credible source…

Also, you could’ve been much nicer about this. There was no need for you to insult people over this.

I would say it’s a good example of a bad use-case for an LLM; you don’t have sources, and you can’t fact-check anything. Those two are absolutely vital requirements when claiming something as true.

Aside from that, most generative AI have been trained on vast amounts of data that was never allowed to go into the dataset; copyrighted/IP-righted paintings, articles, comics, and novels have been included against the wishes of the artists/authors. The fact that nothing is being done on a legal system level shows that copyright and IP rights clearly do not apply to American oligarchs, and many of us don’t like that. Most generative AIs also need an absurd amount of power to run and hurt the environment a lot. It sucks to separate paper and plastic waste just to know that there are people blasting through an hour worth of airconditioning just to ask a computer something they could’ve looked up instead (and found sources, too!)

I say this as someone who loves using AI and experimenting with it¹: This was a very bad use-case of generative AI.

¹: although lighter ones and locally like Mistral, using open datasets like OpenOrca

I do think they couldn’t catch the killer, and they needed a scapegoat just to make an example out of someone.

No need to track down your scapegoat; especially not when you just found someone’s cringy but fitting manifesto online.

The Pokémon community in general goes hard, and I absolutely love that part about it!

(to clarify: not the modern games, but the community)

At some point around retirement age, humans seem to cognitively revert back to children

I know someone who works in a elderly care home, she says roughly the same: “Ouderen verkindsen” (elderly turn into children)

Your cognitive abilities really do seem to diminish after a certain point, no matter where. It’s annoying they think they’re adults and demand respect…

It’s so bad comparitively that I am considering to just not use AI anymore.

This is the way.

What metadata does XMPP leak? AFAIK only when a message was sent, roughly (in large increments) how large the message was, the server of the sender knows from who to which server, the server of the recipient knows from which server to who.
I find it strange that Signal somehow doesn’t know when a message was sent, and from who to who; how would they ever make this possible?

Also, you say you have yet to find any other free service that collects as little data… How about most e-mail providers? Not Google and Microsoft of course, but most e-mail providers only need a name which can be made up as well. You hm also host your own email server, then you are in control. All of this is true for XMPP and Matrix, as well.

XMPP is more comparable to Signal, yes.

Signal does need (yes, need) a phone number, and most people only have one so that is identifiable info.

This puts it at mostly the same level as some competitors, including WhatsApp which is often advised against.

Signal is American

Opt for a Matrix or XMPP provider in Europe (magicbroccoli.de is a genuinely great XMPP provider)

Relevant XKCD

18 across says “every third letter in the word for “inability to visualise””.
You’d need to figure out what word this is, and then visualise every third letter of it. Which you can’t do if you have it!