• blechlawine@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    The underlying technology is still very cool, just the way it is shoved down everyones throats is not, and the way they suck up everything humans created.

    • plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      To paraphrase Cory Doctrow: evaluate new technologies based not only on what they can do, but also on who they do it for, and who they do it to.

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      11 hours ago

      It is very useful for a whole lot of things. But it is like a hammer. A single tool with some functions, but you’re going to have a bad time if you think you can fix everything with a hammer. Also not worth burning the world for.

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    13 hours ago

    Robots in fiction were almost always just weird humans.

    Real robots are not humans, but machines.

    But most authors are incapable of depicting real machines in their stories. Or real animals, or real hacking, or real economic systems, or any profession that isn’t their own…

    • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip
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      11 hours ago

      Except actual robots IRL are often delightful. I will smooch a roomba, theyre cute as fuck. Its just genai thats revolting (and the abusive corporate practices and surveillance capitalism with which many technologies are implemented)

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      the future is now…

      Designed to produce body heat. Zhuoyide Robotics’ humanoid robot Moya, very MOYAest.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        2 hours ago

        humanity is in for some weird times.

        i wonder if people are still gonna be ok with surveillance capitalism when their humanoid fuck robot starts advertising dick pills to them.