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Did not expect the government situation to deteriorate so fast, tho.

Yeah, it's rather exhausting to hunt down information about some of these things. Like, I can usually find info on who owns a news site, but sometimes I don't have the context to know if they've been doing shady shit. Keeping track of things is (purposefully) difficult. Like, I found this resource but it is out of date. I am using ublocklist to slowly add to a list of news sites to make it so that I check them as I see them. If anything comes of that, I'll post here or something?

Trying to balance gathering online resources and personal stuff. Working on being a more positive influence in discussions I have online, which is draining.

Do we have any good resources on what isn't in this situation. My current research is turning up very little that doesn't suffer from this problem- I think all I have right now is AP.

After doing some cursory research, I've identified uBlacklist as a potential tool for curating your search results. I have seen some reassuring things about it. If anyone else has suggestions or comments, they are welcome.

Wanted to add to this as well: In 20 US states, the minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. If someone is working minimum wage, this represents almost three weeks of work- more, because of income taxes. It would represent the consumption of, like, 20% of your gross income?

So that's going to kill people, either directly or by overwork.

The source for the data is from the Tax Foundation, which is ostensibly non-partisan, but their president and CEO worked as policy staff for three different Republicans, so YMMV.

Time to find more tools to blacklist specific news sites.

Those are only conflicting statements if you believe that the market will not embrace worse products. It totally will so long as you have a group of people who lack the critical analysis skills to compare the products and arrive at the conclusion that the new one is worse.

It doesn't help that the potential drivers of this action are massive conglomerates, so if a sweeping change comes from the top-down and is paired with a lot of propaganda (Marketing) then people will have no choice but to accept it as the standard.

I think that a lot of criticism about the actual quality of AI art is mixed, though. I feel like it has flaws, but I've seen arguments about flaws I don't think are actually real problems with the technical quality.

Hey, I wanted to say I'm sorry for using ambiguous language there. My time studying history has profoundly affected me, so I tend to use "Opinion" to mean "What's your understanding and reasoned analysis of X thing?"

The alternate implications slipped my mind when I posted. My bad!

I wanted to say thanks for sharing your thoughts and I think we're actually on the same page with regards to current AI technology. I do recognize that a lot of people are interested in using it, and that they will continue to highly value the functionality it has. My objections to it are, of course, related to secondary concerns and problematic social issues- which I think you understand based on your post.

Hey! Are you up to talking about your opinions on the value of current AI technology? I'm personally opposed due to how our society has chosen to organize itself, but I think the basic concept is interesting.

Totally agree! It's not even on the article's list of things to be concerned about.