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  • At first, they denied it—“OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati said the company did not pattern any ChatGPT voices on Johansson’s sultry computer voice in the movie,” but Altman and other OpenAI guys had let the cat out the bag on Twitter

    They’re not just deliberately using her voice; they’re deliberately lying about it and bragging about what really happened in public. They’ll pay some nuisance settlement that’s a small fraction of their profit.

    That’s how they treat an a list actress. Imagine how they treat everyone else. You don’t get a settlement. You just get fucked.




  • Maybe it’s methane release. Maybe it’s gasses from the sea floor we knew nothing about. We have no fucking clue what climate change is going to look like. PR firms told scientists to put the lowest projections in press releases for the last decade. The real numbers are both grim and proving to be optimistic.

    As it turns out, the math was all wrong. Who knows why? Maybe all the Earth’s various systems are interrelated, and when one system collapses it causes dozens of other systems to collapse. Maybe Earth and the delicate balance that enabled life to grow on this planet is a little more sensitive to sudden, radical change than we thought.

    Maybe all the people who lied about climate change since the 1970s lied about more shit we’re going to find out about shortly now that we can’t stop it from happening. But they’ll still make their profits and get their taxpayer-funded subsidies, so capitalism is working as intended.






  • Nobody@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldThey really want people to RTO
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    3 months ago

    While slumping over a desk for 9 hours straight improves back health. Prevents 100% of cases of lumbago.

    It’s not just that the old money dragons of commercial real estate are losing money, it’s also that middle management nothings need to exert their authority over you in person to feel relevant.

    WFH makes every company money on decreased overhead. The war against it is 100% commercial property landlords that collect rent in the billions.

    Fuck every single one of those fucking assholes. They are destroying our world to squeeze out just a little more.






  • Nobody@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlDo you believe the that you have a soul?
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    4 months ago

    There’s a pattern of energy that you control at least in part with your thoughts and intentions that the neurons in your brain use to make patterns. You can take chemicals that change these patterns in radical ways, including psychedelics that can unweave those neural connections.

    Matter and energy are always conserved though transformed. We know what happens to the physical body. What happens to the energy pattern that animated and controlled the body?