I do absolutely agree.
It’s like “don’t feed the trolls,” the most important internet wisdom ever, has been long forgotten and is tearing down society.
I don’t know how to fix it. We should have regulated social media algorithms years ago, but now it’s way too late, and people’s information hygiene is not getting better. Any kind of news outlet is basically compelled to cover it for financial reasons less they fade into obscurity, and algorithms love it and aren’t going to change.
Unfortunately we basically voted him into office.
It’s the “Trump problem” now. Now he has the power to act on these insane opinions and threats, so ultimately they are newsworthy even if I largely agree with you.
That is an American pasttime
My sister just got sick as stink visiting family who didn’t bother to tell her they were sick! She’s coughing up blood!
I know a nurse who’s an anti-vaxxer.
…Yeah, I guess pandemic-conscious hygiene is not on people’s minds.
They will not.
It’s like everyone forgot COVID-19. The administration’s response and almost daily scandal during that barely moved the political needle, and people are even more siloed in now… I honestly don’t know what it would take.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Best
Be Best was a public-awareness campaign promoted by former First Lady Melania Trump, which focused on well-being for youth and advocating against cyberbullying.
No, this is not the onion. The irony is unfathomable.
Yeah, it’s great for instant feedback. You can ask it “does this dialogue above feel out of character or stilted?” or ask it about character growth, and it will generally give an interesting critique in-line with your writing in the notepad.
You have to keep in mind that it can go off the rails (repeatedly querying it is good to check for this), and has a sycophancy bias, and is kinda dumb, but its still quite useful.
For me it’s not efficiency, if anything it takes much longer running the LLM notepad because I will randomly ask it about passages/chapters and revise stuff.
It’s kinda fun having an assistant to just bounce ideas off of on a whim. You can’t get that with beta readers, as they don’t just sit there while you write (and the LLM is much faster), and I don’t feel like I’m being charged for every response with an API model, especially if it ingests the entire story every time.
It’s also “smart” beyond me. For instance, sometimes I wanna come up with a name for a character, city or whatever, and I can ask it “what’s an interesting name for this engineer character’s brother, from X city in the story, maybe something mythological and fire themed,” and it will crank out tons of examples and start a little conversation about it. It takes me places I never would have googled, much less known off the top of my head, because everything is on the top of an LLM’s head.
Those diabolical Chile preservationists…
It doesn’t even matter:
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/18/consumer-confidence-trump-republicans-white-house
Turns out, a lot of consumer mood is literally just people’s social media feeds. Even if prices go up and QoL goes down, on average, consumers might feel better simply because Trump being in office makes them feel good.
I am not going to point out how monumentally problematic this is… Nope. There’s definitely no bad precedent for that.
Well we voted the world’s biggest cyberbully into office, eyes wide open.
Too bad Melania’s campaign didn’t work…
I suspect Lemmy is going to dislike this, but local LLMs are great writing helpers.
When you’re stuck on a sentence or a blank paragraph, get them to continue it, and rewrite it once it jogs your mind. If you’re drafting ideas for characters or chapters, you can sanity check them or sometimes get ideas. They can reword and clean up your writing and improve it beyond what self experimentation can do… just keeping in mind that its like an idiot intern that tends to repeat itself and hallucinate.
And this is very different from an API model like ChatGPT because:
It won’t refuse you.
It’s formatted as a notebook you can continue at any arbitrary point, rather than a user/chatbot type format.
The writing isn’t so dry, and it isn’t filled with AI slop, especially with cutting edge sampling
All its knowledge is “internal,” with no reaching out to the web or hidden prompting under your nose
Along with all the usual reasons, namely being free, self-hosted, more ethically trained, fast and efficient with long context thanks to caching, and has nothing to do with Sam Altman’s nightmarish visions.
I’d recommend: https://huggingface.co/nbeerbower/Qwen2.5-Gutenberg-Doppel-32B
And once the story gets long: https://huggingface.co/EVA-UNIT-01/EVA-Qwen2.5-32B-v0.2
I’d recommend LanguageTool (with a local server and the browser extension) for locally hosted spelling/grammar/style as well.
I have ADD, which may be why I find this setup to be so therapeutic.
As an addendum, I got a notification from this above message, so it’s not like we’re bugged/blocked specifically from each others.
This is the first time I’ve caught it without clearing my notifications. Is there any way to ping the devs about this? Maybe I’ll look for an issue on Lemmy’s git…
And I just realized how awesome it is that I can do that vs. Reddit or any other social media where tickets are a black hole.
Random aside, but I did not get a notification for your reply.
…Why? This happens a lot to me, and I thought it was a quirk with users on other Lemmy domains, but we’re both on .world.
Trump will get blamed
Like they blamed him for his COVID-19 response?
If that didn’t get through… honestly, I have no idea what would. Americans are just stuck in their feeds and divorced from reality now.
Wow.
He’s basically threatening to “buy” them out of office with his billionare friend’s money if they even question his picks.
What’s the word I’m looking for… Nepotism? That doesn’t seem to cover it.
100%
My mom went to an integrated school in the South, made friends… but sometimes overheard racist slurs and threats behind closed doors. Same story with family I have now, all pleasent in public, friends with some gay family members. But vehemently anti-vaccine and such behind closed doors… I have horrible stories I can’t even repeat.
The duality is unreal.
A question is where that behind-doors comes from… a lot is from church. Church like you’ve never seen if you haven’t been to the South.
It’s even simpler than that, it’s people being told what to think.
I think “people” speaking very generally used to not read a ton of news, heard stuff from the grapevine, and so on. “Elites” and news junkies had somewhat more monolithic sources.
And that’s not true anymore. Nearly every “average” person’s life is now dominated by a personalized feed, a podcast, TV, radio, chatroom, whatever, and it’s having an outsized influence compared to their observations of reality now.
It’s my belief that there’s basically nothing Biden could have done to alter this (other than regulating algorithms, and it’s far too late) and ultimately it’s the DNC’s fault for “taking the high road” and not playing the propaganda game.