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silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification lawEnglish21·1 month agoMy understanding is that it applies to every site which hosts any NSFW content, whether or not minors can access it
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky blocks Mississippi users over age verification lawEnglish84·1 month agoThe problem isn’t that the state is blocking it; its that they threatened to impose a $10,000 fine for each user who can access the site without first proving their age.
You can afford that risk if you live outside the US. Not if you’re a US corporation
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to actEnglish151·1 month agoMind you, the Trump administration has made it much harder to install the cheapest electric generation available — solar and wind.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to actEnglish89·1 month agoThe way utility rates are set allows them to spread costs onto residential ratepayers instead of bearing it directly.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬34·2 months agoIt is indeed real. But published almost a decade ago, about a promise he made when she was 17, back in the 1990s.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?English7·2 months agoMore that blacks being eaten by alligators and crocodiles is a racist trope dating back to at least the early 1800s.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.English19·2 months agoI think they wanted it to be a bit less blatant — they took down this version and Yaccarino resigned
silence7@slrpnk.netto Technology@lemmy.world•Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”English15·2 months agoIts Musk’s LLM, which interacts with people on X. He’s been paying people to tune it to be more hate-oriented for years.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.English1·2 months agodeleted by creator
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.English14·2 months agoThe kind of person who would use X
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.English44·3 months agoIt was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.English7·3 months agoThere’s a preview of that, but link points to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/grok-anti-semitic-tweets/683463/?gift=c1JLM5vSU5FaaTvxtMmEpcpUxc9MKWWfcr6Ifc8rD3w
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously badEnglish16·3 months agoFor what its worth, Anthropic posted this in their corporate blog. So if its a joke, its coming out of vetted corporate PR.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting electionsEnglish2·3 months agoGiven its current state, this is a singularly bad idea.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t SayingEnglish1·3 months agoBy customer is easy: they’re each renting specific resources. A fractional cloud instance (excepting the sma burst able ones) is tied to specific CPUs and GPUs. And there are records of who rented which one when being kept already.
You might not be able to break out specific individual queries, but computing averages is completely straightforward
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t SayingEnglish2·3 months agoYou can produce a remarkably good estimate by looking at CPU and GPU utilization out of procfs and profiling a handful of similar machines power use with similar utilization and workloads.
Network is less than 5% of power use for non-GPU loads; probably less for GPU.
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t SayingEnglish172·3 months agoData center demand has created huge backlog of gas turbine orders. They’re not planning on renewables for the next big expansion
silence7@slrpnk.netOPto Technology@lemmy.world•How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t SayingEnglish91·3 months agoThey know exactly what the power consumption of that hardware is though. This isnt tough to figure out just because you use a cloud provider
With the UK, they can block content that’s known to be NSFW. With Mississippi, they get fined if kids access the site at all if somebody else on there sees something NSFW.