The argument the mod writes is 👌

Update : there’s a new one that appears but, I’ve checked, that’s the same mod as the others

Update 2 : got contacted by the mod, overall sweet guy/gal we agree to disagree and keep the ban up, who said that Lemmy cannot be civil

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    The computers in Star Trek are fictional. They work because the plot needs them too. They do not resemble a large language program because they don’t resemble anything. You might as well say CSI: Miami’s enhance image computer is AI.

    The mod who typed that up might as well just declare from the rooftops, “I fell for a Silicon Valley marketing trick of describing software with a sci-fi tropes.”

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    Isn’t “post-scarcity society” a big part of star trek too? Weird to claim you are a star trek fan while defending “scarcity generator 3000.”

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      The ai in Star Trek is actually helpful and everyone is having their needs met thanks to technology eliminating scarcity. The AI in real life is useless and causing even more problems for everyone.

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        Not wanting to live in the Star Trek universe is honestly crazy it’s basically Paradise compared to the real world, even billionaires would likely be better off in that universe from a fulfilment and happiness perspective

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          Well, as long as you live in the imperial core. Every other episode is them visiting the kind of dirt farmers that would be jealous of current day Afghanistan.

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            What do you mean? Films and TV exist they’re shown on Voyager it’s one of Tom’s obsessions. Technically I guess they aren’t really making new ones but that’s just because the entertainment moved over to the holodeck novels

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      Imagine if the computer on star trek operated the way it does in every episode where the computer is malfunctioning. That’s how real-world “AI” works. You ask to go to the bridge and it keeps sending your ass to engineering and ten forward.

      Also: They didn’t even mention Data who is more AI than even the ship’s computer!

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      After Tesseract and now this, it raises a question. Do people that call themselves conservatives have to always be contrarians?

      Literally any topic. There were issues that one would think everyone would agree on and they still surprise you.

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        They seem contrarian because half their ideas are outdated by centuries and against the modern commom sense.

        Sounds a bit circle-jerky, but anarchists and socialists are just arguing “We could fix racism and homelessnes easier my way.” meanwhile conservatives in the back are going “Prove racism exists! Also high homelessnes rates are actually a good thing because…”

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        Conservative brains typically have larger amygdalas, which are responsible for anger and fear responses. So yes, their brains reward them when they get angry, so they seek more occasions to get angry.

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      the true AI are usually the holograms, or a robotic race but it seems limited. but they are pretty much not as extensively integrated like the Andromeda series, the ship has an AI that is pretty integrated into all the ships systems(can appear as a hologram or as an android, or upload into multiple robots at once) and perform most of the task the crew requires.

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        Data and Lore? You forget them??? Fully sentient sapient beings that managed to secure in the court of law that they should be trialled as a Human because they have all the same faculties, just artificially created

        Also Star Trek: Picard added a lot of people who were built by the same guy that built Data

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      The censoring is also kinda readable underneath anyway, so it accomplished nothing even if the modlog wasn’t public.

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    It happens when you post here, you don’t even have to interact with their community. Instead they come here, by their own volition, to be angry about us not liking AI and they then decide to ban every name they come across. This community existing is insult enough for them. Thankfully they self-isolate for the most part.

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      There’s at least two communities in there that I have interact with. I don’t think this mod is that petty. However there’s some « stable_Something » that ban me for being here. Meh 🤷‍♀️

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      are you saying people here may have been banned by communities without even knowing? fascinating :o I wouldn’t even know how to check that

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        I was banned from a whole bunch of AI slop communities for ‘persistent trolling’ … but I’d never posted to any of them, so … yes. They ban you preemptively.

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          I got curious and just looked up my profile in the ban log and it seems I am banned as well in a handful of random (same mod in all of them I assume) dbozer communities without having posted in any of them, with the reason given being “Troll account” (no mention of AI).

          So yup, just a power mad mod being cultish about their AI-slop, who probably just banned anybody who posts in here.

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            I’d agree but it’s pretty fucking gross to ban people that have never even visited your community.

            I legitimately think anyone here would deserve a ban if they went over there and said shit. We clearly don’t belong but we’re here minding our own business.

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              Yeah, the preemptive nature of the ban shows some extreme fragility. It would be like the mods of this channel going to the slop celebration channels and banning anybody who posted there.

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        I found out that I was banned from a handful of communities. I was banned for 3 months or something, but didn’t even see that I was banned until after about 6 months had passed. I guess it didn’t impact me at all. The mods be trippin’.

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      Even if I say that I love AI and unquestioningly accept whatever today’s horseshit is?

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      “stable_diffusion_furry”

      My dude, you’re in a subculture that basically revolves around human art and creativity. Get out of your ass.

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      bdzer0’s claim to be anarchist yet wholly embracing AI is some cognitive dissonance that I cannot wrap my head around.

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        Genuinely my biggest gripe with their entire instance. How do they not realize that by using LLMs you rob yourself of the chance to gain new skills in art or coding?

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          Plus the fact that they are literally sucking up to techbro billionaire oligarchs pushing this nonsense by doing so.

          I guess the techbro in them overrules the anarchist.

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            How does running a Chinese model locally on your computer suck up to techbro billionaire oligarchs?

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              Techbro oligarchs would love nothing more than for you to use AI because it ultimately turns your brain into soup from its sycophantic behaviour. Many cases of AI psychosis have appeared and a lot of stories of suicides spurred on by LLMs have come out.

              The billionaires push LLMs on everyone because it’ll turn you into political cattle. Locally run models won’t help you because the problems don’t come from the fact that other models are run on their private servers, it comes from the effects of prolonged AI usage.

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          I never trust taxi drivers who use an electronic map. Taxi drivers should know all of the streets by heart, and be able to accurately predict road congestion, like they did in the good old days. By using this evil navigation technology, their spatial awareness withers and it is just a shame.

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            I mean, it is true that if you don’t use a GPS or an electronic map that you do develop a better awareness of your surroundings and the street mapping. Same way using a guide to something doesn’t let you really remember and commit to memory the task you’re doing.

            It’s just that AI exacerbates that tendency tenfold, because you don’t even have to follow a guide if the guide does it for you.

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            knowing streets and predicting road congestion are not creative acts, that is they are not creating something

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              Wow, okay. I mean I was being sarcastic with my comment, but now I kinda regret it. Way to cheapen another profession’s talents and trade.

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                nothing in your comment indicated sarcasm. unless you’re brand new to the Internet you should know perfectly well that pure-text communication lacks the fidelity to indicate that. this is why so many times over the age of the internet people have tried to add in a way to communicate that either with “/s” or SaRcAsM/mOcKiNg CaSe, or italics sometimes, someone once even tried to make a sarcasm mark

                I said nothing to cheapen taxi drivers or their profession. I respect and appreciate it a great deal, especially with examples of them unionizing. That doesn’t change the fact that the profession does not create a thing. I find it disingenuous that you would suggest that not calling a profession creative would diminish it.

                Garbagemen, for instance, is a profession that is very much worth respecting but also which does not create anything.

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        they oddlly crossbanned me from multiple comms i dont vist at all, thier reason was a vague"whatabotism" i couldnt find the actual offense, checked the modlogs. so i think they did it like some reddit subs did. i participate din a comm they dint like and just crossbanned me.

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        What a strange take. That’s like saying you couldn’t be trotskyist and embrace industry in 1919.

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      Man DBzer0 really sucks. That’s the one place I’ve been mass banned from (although it is because there was a troll using my name, but they never even responded to an unban request), I should check if it applies to the ai dumping communities too.

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        same here, i checked the modlogs, and it was “troll whabaotism” but i found no original comment/post that triggered it. i think they just banned people who participated in a community they dint like.

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    LCARS was a data access and retrieval system capable of doing calculations and simulations. It was not, I REPEAT, was not “artificial intelligence”. It did not try to act or sound sentient, it simply responded to commands and ran programs.

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      TOS had the m5, which went rogue and started attacking and blowing up other starships, and lower decks had the Texas class, which went rogue and started attacking other starships

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      There is at least one instance where it was written as sapient in TNG. That was mostly for a joke, though. Specifically, there was a running gag in early TNG with Data getting a bit too into defining things and someone (usually Picard) would interrupt him with something along the lines of, “Thank you, Data, we get it.” In one scene, Data is alone and only talking to the computer, which gives the line there.

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      Though it could create intelligence. “Computer, make an opponent that can be better than data”. Ok, guess it’s time to make a sentient hologram then.

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        But that could only be done if the method do so had been stored as a program in the databanks. In Voyager, when they try to replicate The Doctor; Harry writes a program and then tells the computer to run that program. When the hologram fails, he has to reprogram it and run again.

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          It’s not like Star Trek is the most consistent over time.

          In Voyager, they did tend to treat the Doctor with more care and show that it was a lot of hard work. By extension the other sentient holograms.

          In TNG, they absolutely just casually upgraded a run of the mill holodeck NPC to a sentient being with a single supremely vague directive.

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    These people understand Star Trek is fictional, often takes place on quasi-military vessels, and depicts a society that has some significant differences from our own, right?

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        A friend has compared generative AI to the electric monks from Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective agency.

        I’ve found that the AI chatbots feel a lot like the Genunine People Peronalities from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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            From Dirk Gently

            The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe.

            In the book, an alien ship crashed on earth, the crew asked an electric monk if their ship was repaired. The monk responded that it believed it was, the aliens tried to take off, and then the ship exploded because it wasn’t actually repaired.

            In Hitchhiker’s Guide, Genuine People Personalities were AIs that tended to be obnoxiously cheerful, neurotic, or hyperactive. Doors with a GPP would sigh with pleasure when they opened and loudly ask if they did a good job if someone told them to open quietly, for example.

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      But let’s for a moment ignore that it is fictional. Star Trek’s economical system is communism, I wonder if they also embrace it?