Not sure though if it is mainly a good thing or a bad thing these people now have an ai as companion.

It seems pretty obvious to me that a real human companion would be better - but an AI companion is definitely better than nothing. I’ve often thought about the idea of being alone on a deserted island, and how much of a difference it would make for my mental sanity to at least be able to talk to an AI rather than no one at all.

These kinds of topics are like plutonium on here if you even hint that you’re not 100% onboard with the mainstream Lemmy narrative. A community like this is badly needed, but in my view, it would have to be pretty heavily moderated - people who show up just to throw personal attacks instead of engaging with the actual topic should be shown the door right away.

What is a “real account” anyway? I’ve been here for over two years, and this is probably my eighth account. Whenever I hit around 1000 comments, I make a new one - so I’ll be ditching this one soon, too. Which of those would even count as my “real” account?

Lemmy is such a small platform that if I’d stuck with my first account, tons of people would recognize me by now. I don’t want internet fame, and I’d rather make it as hard as possible for any potential stalker to follow me around. Not tying your entire post history to a single username just seems like the smart move - and honestly, it surprises me how often a privacy-minded platform like Lemmy feels hostile toward people who do this.

I’d say that 4chan is among the main reasons for many of my “weird” kinks and femboys absolutely are among those. Seems to align with my assumed political leanings too.

Depends what he means by that. Are some right-wingers fetishizing femboys? Yeah. Can we generalize this to apply to all right-wingers as people have tendency to do with this sort of things? No. Turns out that people are individuals and they have different preferences. Shocker.

This is Finland. The window for campfire cooking is rather brief. Spring was quite early this year - normally there would still be some snow on the ground too.

Well, it’s not anymore as there’s only the last layer of logs remaining. It started like this.

Supposedly, if you make it big enough with large and damp/green logs at the bottom, and then progressively smaller ones going towards the top, you could have a fire that goes on the whole night. You can even fill the gaps between the logs on the last few layers with sand to slow it down even further.

Ironic how my dull life still isn’t dull enough for this community.

I disagree with the premise that most of our financial decisions are algorithmically driven. The majority of my spending goes toward necessities that I have little to no control over - mortgage, groceries, utility bills, insurance, fuel, maintenance, and so on. I’d imagine it’s the same for most people. Very few of my purchases are something I’ve actively decided to buy.

The term artificial intelligence is broader than many people realize. It doesn’t mean human-level consciousness or sci-fi-style general intelligence - that’s a specific subset called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). In reality, AI refers to any system designed to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. That includes everything from playing chess to recognizing patterns, translating languages, or generating text.

Large language models fall well within this definition. They’re narrow AIs - highly specialized, not general - but still part of the broader AI category. When people say “this isn’t real AI,” they’re often working from a fictional or futuristic idea of what AI should be, rather than how the term has actually been used in computer science for decades.