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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago

Pretty much every corporately owned service on the Internet actively spies on you for the police.

An important thing to understand as authoritarians take control of governments and start using this comprehensive spying apparatus to target political opponents.

Learn to use your computer. Use open sourced tools and software, invest in your own hardware and host your own services. It doesn’t require years of learning or study, you can often get by with a video or two.

My Jellyfin server doesn’t call the police. My local language models don’t store everything I’ve ever written. Nobody is scanning my NextCloud server or mining my Signal/Matrix/Jami contacts to determine my social graph.

All of this is running on cheap leftover hardware (with some new hard drives) and I save over $100/mo on the equivalent services. And way more if you consider access to every streaming service with exclusive content.

Windows is spying on you, Meta is spying on you, Google is spying on you, Amazon is spying on you, OpenAI is spying on you.

They do this because they make it slightly easier to use software and so people give up every bit of privacy and autonomy for their entire lives just to avoid reading a wiki or learning a technical skill.

I don’t think that that is a good deal.

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 42 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Local models. Can't be surveiled if your ai isn't on the internet.

[–] CapnClenchJaw@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Exactly.

This is going to be the next Google searches thing, isn't it. People being ignorant to, or forgetting that corporations are saying everything they say or do. And then bring all shocked when they get exploited for profits or reported to authorities for doing shady things.

Rinse and repeat.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 20 points 6 hours ago

Of course they are. They are a literal data farm. People need to stop using it.

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 64 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized pipelines where they are reviewed by a small team trained on our usage policies and who are authorized to take action, including banning accounts," the blog post notes. "If human reviewers determine that a case involves an imminent threat of serious physical harm to others, we may refer it to law enforcement."

See? Even the people who make AI don't trust it with important decisions. And the "trained" humans don't even see it if the AI doesn't flag it first. This is just a microcosm of why AI is always the weakest link in any workflow.

This is exactly the use-case for an LLM and even OpenAI can't make it work.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 19 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

This is exactly the use-case for an LLM

I don't think it is. LLM is language generating tool, not language understanding one.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 hours ago

Funny, now you'll have the cops arresting you for prompts like "how to survive being homeless?", rather than social services when you prompt "how to avoid being homeless?".

And will authorities be called when someone prompts "how to shoot wild animals?" when asking about wildlife photography? 😆

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yo, I was just joking about making a gallon of PCP

[–] Konstant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I was just doing a cirizen's audit, your honor.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This sounds like PR deflection from egging on the kid to suicide. But I still don't doubt it.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 42 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

"Hey ChatGPT, how many human corpses can 12 pigs who haven't been fed in a week process"?

[–] db2@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

They don't eat teeth. Just saying.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

Hence the phrase: as toothless as a pig

[–] vane@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

you can always grind it, add it to paint and paint your house white

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Eww, the teeth of my victims plastered all around my house.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Paint exterior not interior.

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[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 29 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

Well if idiots share their crime plans with a corpoo, what do they expect.

However, police won't do anything.

But even if they do, prosecutors won't.

Just look at that incident in Nevada with Israeli pedophile.

Cops bust him, federal prosecutor refused to charge him..

Laws are enforced selectively

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 26 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Are you seriously comparing a corrupt Israeli politician to an average joe? Israel can get away with murdering Americans and they would apologize they didnt die earlier?

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 7 hours ago

USS Liberty Remembers

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

However, police won’t do anything.

This is the punchline to the joke of mass surveillance. You can have people doing crimes in clear view of the police and they just stand around. The police aren't for deterring crime, they're a jobs program and a human shield against harm to private property.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's state charges... This was a fed op and feds always charge under this fact pattern.

The fact that feds didn't charge means that somebody at DoJ decided against the policy.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did the feds charge the other people caught in the same sting? I'm not seeing any articles about the fed vs state charges.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 6 hours ago

I am not sure.

I tried looking more into but can't even find articles I saw last week now.

Recent did say the Israeli skipped his court hearing yesterday though.

[–] wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

He had diplomatic immunity. They refused to prosecute because it is an international incident that would require dragging the Israelis to an the ICC just to get permission to prosecute him in their jurisdiction. That's always a decades long approach in normal times - and with this administration of pedos who are beholden to Mossad, there's 0% chance of it happening. So it's often better to NOT prosecute and wait it out until more friendly times than it is to swiftly lose a trial and then be prevented from seeking justice by double jeapordy.

It's part of why the Kyle Rittenhouse trial was such a shitshow. The prosecution team threw the case intentionally and made him immune to justice.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 7 hours ago

You making factually incorrect statements. Please do some basic diligence

But yeah regime are pedos, no doubt about it.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

If he had diplomatic immunity, he didn't claim it as far as I've seen. He was given a date for appearance before the judge so they could have held him until then with no problem. I agree they didn't want to make an incident of it but it wouldn't have involved the ICC.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

There are anonymous GPT version out there.

example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=DuckDuckGo+AI+Chat&ia=chat&duckai=1&atb=v382-1

I've seen several others as well.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lazy authors of crime themed novels are sweating so heavily right now.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Framework Desktop based on an AI Max 395+ processor with 128GB unified memory running a model locally, then hit /r/LocalLLama or !locallama@sh.itjust.works and ask which LLM models work well with corpse disposal techniques and are trained on long-form literature.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

You want an ablated model for that

[–] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Can call the police when you threaten to hurt others, actively prevents teens from seeking outside help when they talk about killing themselves.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

I gotta say... imagine being the police department on the receiving end of that firehose.

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I’m cool with this! OpenAI ought to send those suicide instructions it created for that teen and send it to those pigs for some inspo :)

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Because US cops will totally do something about it lmao

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Woooooosh

Im pretty sure the op you replied to is hoping for the five-oh to start taking GPT's advice to commit suicide... meaning they want dead cops not for cops to intervene. Not the classiest comment you replied to, which is why I think it woooooshed right over your head.

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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

This does not bode well for my assassination fetish, I think I will focus my attention on the assassination of cops, judges and especiall CIA and NSA spooks. In the story I will make it clear everyone in those fields of activity deserve to die in a such a complete way that if they read my text, they will put on pause their metabolic homeostasis

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Self-harm doesn't count apparently

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 4 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

All of this is so fucking bizarre I can't even wrap my head around it anymore. It's a bot. How the fuck is it suddenly killing people? How is talking to a bot a crime now? Did everyone lose their minds?

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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 hours ago

Well there's another reason to not use ChatGPT: "Tell me good slogans against the government" can get you arrested!

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Since they can report content to the police, then they should also be able to send deeply suicidal person's content to related parents or emergency institutions. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgerwp7rdlvo

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

So what you are saying is if I go in my friends gpt and put some batshit the swat team will come? We had swatting now you will have gptting

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean isn't that the same as searching "how to kill president" on google using their computer

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Of course it is. The shit people feed into it is quite stupid, as if they think its not being sucked up and used for their advertising algorithm instantaneously to enrich tech bros. Stop using it.

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[–] mrmule@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

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