Eugen Rochko
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Executive Strategy & Product Advisor, Founder of @Mastodon. Film photography, prog metal, Dota 2. Likes all things analog. Luddite.
Help us name this little princess! 🖤 What name do you think suits her?
And while you’re here, how old was your cat when you got them?
Just before Theo fell asleep in his new favorite cardboard box, he wished you all a very peaceful evening.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117215319335459732
The EFF is way less on your side than you think. It's mostly a libertarian/tech corporation lobbying group.
Whilst I am really happy to see the resurgence of collecting physical media, it's clear that most people are either sleepwaking into, or couldn't give a shit about, a world in which we own nothing, and pay above and beyond for licences that are revoked on a corporate whim.
I am shopping around for attorneys to sue a couple businesses over their use of AI and automated voice customer service.
Due to my Parkinson's Plus, MSA, I have speech issues and over this past month, at multiple businesses, I haven't been able to get past their AI customer service loop to speak to a human because the AI can't understand me.
I even made an #ADA request for a human worker to the AI prompt.
I am going to sue to try to force their AI to understand an ADA prompt, or offer one, to bypass the AI/voice only customer support and directly connect to a human. #AI
One issue is, I talk slow and deliberate because I have to get the words out and some phrases are slower than others and AI customer support is too impatient to wait and moves on mid-sentence, not understanding my request
Always a good day when a new #PsychedelicPornCrumpets track comes out.
I have created business cards, stickers, and a website for spreading awareness and push back wherever there are Harry Potter products.
The idea is simple: print or order some cards/stickers, then whenever you run into a place hawking hate-fund merch, drop a card and to let the business and/or prospective customers know.
Clark Kent should really only clean his glasses in the privacy of his own home. #grickledoodle #superman #clarkkent #superheroes #cartoon #funny #art #humor #drawing
Sometimes the app I use to pay for parking asks me “do you love this app” and I am not sure I understand anymore what love is
Azodicarbonamide is a chemical used to make bread dough more elastic is also, incidentally, found in yoga mats.
It is not healthy. And in Europe it is not allowed.
Still, no burger crisis. No sudden change in taste. Just the same sandwiches, quietly made without it.
And a regulation quietly doing its job in the background while you ordered your dinner.
— Regulation (EC) No 1333/2008: Food additives. EU ban on azodicarbonamide. In force since 20 January 2009
One thing that keeps me up at night is the progressive certainty that we as a society are slowly but surely losing our ability to be bad at things. We are ceding that skill to AI.
"You don't understand, without AI, I couldn't have drawn this/written this/designed this." says a person, certain that surely this, this argument right here is the nail in the coffin of the anti-AI argument. Utility: "Without this thing, I would have been bad at this task."
Yes. Correct. You would have been bad at it. And that's ok. Not only because it's just... Ok to be bad at things in general. But also because being bad at a thing is the first necessary step to learning how to do a thing.
Every musician you love has spent thousands of hours first being bad at being a musician. Every artist that brings you to tears has spent thousands of hours being bad at art. Every single designer with a master's degree in design has spent thousands upon thousands of hours designing things that are utter crap.
We learn how to do a thing by first being bad at it. And then noticing what skills we need to acquire to be better at it. And then honing those skills on a million failed attempts. And THEN we are finally good at doing it.
And being bad at things isn't just about learning how to do it yourself. It also teaches you how to listen more effectively to music. How to see art with the eyes of an artist. How to study a design for design flaws before it's even built. It teaches you good taste. How to perceive the humanity in the things all around you - things built by humans, for other humans.
No, the biggest problem with AI isn't that it makes bad art - although it most assuredly does also do that. It's that it robs human beings of the legitimacy of creating bad art ourselves.
How can anyone ever be expected to learn to do a thing if we can't ever be bad at it first?
