Any other "dangers" are just sci-fi fuelled nonsense that muddy the discussion and waste people's time.

We don't _need_ other dangers. People's abuse of the technology is more than enough to destroy the world.

I've said it repeatedly and I will keep saying it: This technology has the ability to DDOS truth itself.

In fact, we're _already_ seeing it happen. In that recent suit against Tesla, Tesla's lawyers tried to have evidence thrown out on the grounds that "nobody can prove it wasn't a deepfake".

We are rapidly reaching a point where people will no longer be able to trust what they see with their own eyes. The occurrences don't even have to happen often... just enough to poison the well and cause people to cast doubt on everything they see. Trust in basic facts will become strained. This is going to dramatically worsen the existential fears people currently have today, with completely predictable results... the most obvious of which is people will start irrationally turning to stable "truths" that they can understand. ie: hardline religions

Human nature will take care of the rest. I'm convinced we're looking down the barrel of world war three, and this time cooler heads won't be able to save us.

> Next thing you know, ChatGPT will escape and start eating lawyers.

I believe that's already started. https://www.reuters.com/legal/...

ROFLMAO

> People have the freedom to make the best arrangements that suite them.
Please explain to the class how Joe Pleb is supposed to afford these services when he is unable to get a job because all jobs at his level of capability have been automated, and he doesn't have the level of education/opportunity required to move upward? Your argument is pathologically dishonest.

We are _already_ seeing this in action. Look at the massively expanding Delivery industry (amazon fulfillment, uber eats, etc). And that's just one example among many. Higher and higher strata of jobs are being eliminated, leaving the people from those jobs stuck doing shitty gig-economy/public-facing service work like delivering donuts because those are the only jobs left for them.

The level of productivity gains for all this automation are huge, but it is ALL realized exclusively by the 1% that controls the capital. They will _never_ share that benefit with the people below them. COVID has demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt how the money flows. There is massive price gouging (not "inflation") across the board, all of which goes right into profits, not expenses, while normal people are losing their livelihoods and homes. There are endless stories of people who do have jobs, sometimes really good jobs, but still don't make enough to afford even a tiny apartment.

This was bad enough when it came to "unskilled" jobs, but now they're automating jobs that require a high level of training. People are spending $75+k on university tuition. And now they will walk out of university and be told that they are unemployable because ChatGPT has wiped out the need for all junior level roles. How are they supposed to get experience to reach more senior levels? How the hell are they going to pay their debt off? Oh and of course the laws have been written that declaring bankrupcy doesn't wipe away that debt, so you now have an entirely class of people who are effectively serfs with no hope of advancing in life.

So no, _you_ are wrong.

Apparently you missed the memo. This isn't Twitter or Parler, so it's not necessary to respond like a belligerent asshole.

You're obviously more interested in being a troll than having an actual conversation, so bye.

They would be saying the same thing todays artists are saying: They are happy a machine specifically designed to devalue and demean their work has been removed from the market.

As someone who has had to manage these things, I can give you a very simple answer:

Our email server is not your personal file server. When large file attachments are allowed, people use email to do all their file transferring, which consumes a staggaring of storage space AND network.

And of course they won't delete those emails afterwards, and then when people's quotas fill up they tear help desk a new one for preventing them from doing what they "paid for" and demand larger quotas.

Email is for exactly that: Email.

If you want to transfer large files, there are a bajillion systems you can use as an alternative.

It doesn't suck worse, but it's not better either. Meanwhile there are a ton of other caveats that Linux introduces, like being incredibly fragile as soon as you stick a pinky toe outside of whatever very heavily curated experience has been provided.

Windows -> Difficult, unreliable OS, but unbelievably vast software and hardware ecosystem
Mac -> Overwhelmingly more usable that Windows, a decent ecosystem of software, but locked down hardware
Linux -> Difficult and arguably unreliable OS (mostly referring to the GUIs because that's what users see), very hit or miss hardware support, and relatively poor software ecosystem outside science, admin and dev.

Is it any surprise that the single most popular *nix operating systems go out of their way to hide that heritage? (ie: MacOS, Android)

Until Linux starts to excel in at least one of those areas, it will *never* be taken seriously. Right now it is inferior in all three.

The sexist angle is just a whole bucket of frosting on top of the already large pervert cake.

We're talking about a piece of software whose express and sole purpose is to create sexually explicit imagery of people without their consent. Even if it wasn't specifically targeting women, it is still a very distasteful piece of software whose sole purpose of existence is to empower and encourage wierdos.

Right... because out of all the INNUMERABLE possible applications this type of software could be designed for, the obvious thing to do is make something that can sexually harass people.

The original author showed unbelievably poor judgement in making something like this available to the public. Only a complete and utter fool could possibly have thought that a tool like this wouldn't immediately be abused by the lowest denigrates of society, and that's giving the benefit of the doubt.

You can rationalize, make excuses, and deny all you want, but the fact of the matter is that a sick pervert designed a piece of software to be used by other perverts, and now everyone involved is back peddling like crazy due to the completely justified negative publicity this software has attracted.

Wow. I am in awe.

You have an application here whose express and sole purpose for existence is to sexually harass women (and theoretically men too...). There is literally no good reason for such a software to even exist, OTHER than to sexually harass.

Leave it to the Slashdot Incel Lobby to be outraged that they are now allowed access to software that makes it trivial to create sexually explicit imagery without the persons consent.

Stop trying to use open source outrage as a cloak to cover up your mental illness.

Your argument could be shorted and made more blunt:

Climate change deniers don't want to be inconvenienced. More importantly, they don't want to have to face the idea that they are, no matter how minutely, tangentially responsible for the situation we're in. They not only insist, but demand, that *everyone* stick their heads in the sand just long enough for them to continue enjoying their current indulgent lifestyles, at least until they die and it's someone else's problem.

Meanwhile we're already seeing the effects. Just the record-breaking year on year on year temperature swings alone are already causing major problems with basic infrastructure like roads, which need to be repaired more often. And that's just one example among many.

It's only ones confusing carbon tax with wealth redistribution are people who are intentionally trying to confuse the issue, for a variety of selfish/willfully ignorant reasons. It's like saying that giving a ticket to someone for speeding, or charging bail on a criminal, is wealth redistribution.

The point of Carbon Tax is to be a punitive measure on companies that pump out CO2. CO2 is an externalized expense that companies ignore for the simple reason being that they can. Carbon Tax is intended to re-internalize that expense and put said companies back into the equation of responsibility instead of leaving tax payers on the hook for a company's laziness.

Tape doesn't block the microphones on your device. The only truely good option would be to have a physical switch that electrically and manually disconnects the webcam and microphones when you want them off.

Unfortunately, I don't know of one single laptop mfg that does that. The second best is to at least have a firmware controlled LED that lights up when either is active. My 2015 MBP has an LED for the webcam but not the microphones, and I don't know if that LED is tied directly to webcam activity.

I'm not holding my breath. Apple's fucked up too much and for too long.

Until they go back to the late 2000s where you could upgrade the ram and storage yourself, and they don't force you to use a dongle to connect literally anything, I'm treating any gains towards consumer-friendliness as an accident or maybe the results of a weekend of heavy drinking.

Also, what's this about them dropping that idiotic keyboard? This is the first I've heard of it.

I've personally written off Apple entirely. Even if Apple does recover something resembling good sense, I'm still going to be leary of buying from them again because I don't feel like getting screwed over a second time.

Is there something a) more up to date, and b) something I can read instead of having to sit through a 45 minute video?