Chaos in Washington, DC, is forcing some to move to new platforms.

Summary

Federal workers are increasingly wary of mainstream communication platforms like Facebook Messenger, fearing surveillance under Trump and Musk’s influence.

Many have shifted to encrypted apps like Signal, avoiding even casual discussions on traditional platforms.

Concerns stem from tech companies’ past cooperation with authorities and potential misuse of data. Privacy advocates warn of legal loopholes that allow government access to user information.

Workers have also become more cautious in workplace conversations, reflecting broader distrust of both government leadership and major tech firms.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 days ago

    They want to repeatedly retrain a megalithic AI to consistently and repeatedly remodel the entire internet to to pull out some half-assed speculations.

    Whoever wrote that page has a base knowledge of the concepts they’re talking about It doesn’t have any understanding whatsoever about problems of scale. I’m out of napkins for math at the moment, But my gut feeling on this is that even a small portion of that request list would exceed the total resources available for the planet.

    The reason it doesn’t exist isn’t because people aren’t clamoring for it or nobody’s ever had the idea. Every AI vendor out there is chasing small parts of the things on that page with trillions of dollars, but because the actual work/energy in both AI training and production is absolutely unreasonable.

    Not to mention if you did magically find some way to create it keep it updated and power it, It would essentially crash all stock markets because any futures in anything would be easily predetermined

    It’s essentially an impossible pipe dream.

    • Aolley@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      the idea does not use AI in almost any way, so I don’t know how to respond to this comment. It’s almost wholly terrible to scale, that is for sure.

      removing the ‘stock market’ as it currently exists from relevance is actually a goal of this system, because the current SM is totally broken for normal people.

      I don’t disagree that it’s a likely impossible pipe dream, but it may also be the only way humans have of ever getting out of the mess we are in

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        6 days ago

        I was trying to skim it for context, it’s a difficult read that just goes all over the place. Whatever section I happened upon made me think you were trying to injest.

        Few to none would be willing to participate in something like that, it’s a big ask for people who aren’t generally going to personally care. People spend time arguing over topics on here and reddit to help someone with a problem, not for the betterment of humanity.