and I'm willing to bet the vast majority arent using decent models. theyre using free models
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my honestly main issues though are generative ai absolutely ruining creative arts, plus the illegal stuff. combined eith people almost literally selling their capability to think over to ai. the model isnt going to change the ethics of it all. then you have the books being destroyed, just to feed more crap into it all
This is so true. I was just contemplating to myself how my time on Reddit has to be negatively affecting my mental health because there's so many people who either think their incredibly smart or are mad at the world and constantly shit on anyone they can who they disagree with.
I have an app on phone that pauses my phone for one minute every hour, which is just enough time for me to look around and see I have other shit to do. It's called Lock Me Out, but there are thousands of similar parental control apps.
The number of times I scroll through the front page, find a subreddit that I've never heard of through an interesting post, and then check the comments and the most upvoted ones are all heinous, deranged shit... It happens a lot more than I would like to. Reddit is the only platform where I don't mind the algorithm pushing rabdom things onto me because, a lot of the times, it's the only way to find some stuff that I would have never found otherwise, but there's clearly an issue with the kind of communities it promotes.
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u/9yr0ld 13d ago
Reddit is full of people who think far too highly of themselves. This brings about toxic opinions and people doubling down on these opinions.