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There's absolutely questions about the ethical sourcing for image generation models... but what I really hate about AI art is that it has become really boring... Every one generates "BIG CHEESSEBURGER" when we were dreaming up sentient toilet monsters that had squirrel vision when it first came out

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Bold of you to assume you assumed. I am assumed as you are he who assumed as you are me who assumed that we all have assumed together.

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"your honor, he wasn't sucked out. He was sucked off."

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What about top tier AI slop?

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Bold of you to not assume I am assuming what that other guy may or may not be assuming or not assuming.

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I mean... the whole concept of mixture of experts is a guardrail against hallucination. It's not perfect, but no technology comes out fully baked on day one. I agree that more and better guardrails need to be put in place, but to say there are NONE is just not correct.

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I mean... that's similar to what is happening with LLMs as well. There's more guardrails and systems in place to produce better, more reliable information. I remember when the school librarian would beat you to death if you even thought about typing wikipedia into the URL bar.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 09/09/2026

You don't use LLMs as a source either. It is a diving board... much like wikipedia. You can ask multi-layered, plain language queries of an LLM... something you cannot do easily with traditional search engines.

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I have had this argument a bunch lately. It seems folks do not see this as a layer of abstraction and think you just need to prompt. There’s a ton of skills that make a GOOD prompt and you do need to understand what is good or bad output from these tools.

Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 08/09/2026

Well, this is exactly why we would want to identify this and recognize personhood as soon as possible. We’re already bad at this for human beings… I don’t necessarily think LLMs are sentient, but I recognize it as a very real possibility at this point.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 08/09/2026

I mean, as humans, we can’t process all of that information all at once. You’d probably make a mistake or two as well if you had to have snappy answers to any question anyone asks of you. I don’t take things people say to me at face value usually, and I don’t do it for LLMs either.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 08/09/2026

The fact that there is serious debate on this proves that it is, in fact, changing things. You might not be changed, but you are not all of humanity. There’s plenty of folks that are coming to believe that it is doing something beyond “fancy autocorrect“ and I think that is worth examining.

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I feel like we're all arguing the same point. What I am saying is: Digital Citizenship (media lit, judgement, etiquette, crit. thinking, Process/procedure) Digital Literacy (layers of abstraction, folder/files, how to operate a computer) This should all be taught before they are introduced to AI

Well... yes. Because the topic is nuanced. You also seems to be passing by the fact that I think that waiting a while before introducing kids to AI is a good thing. I don't know if you want me to be a villain or something... But I am mostly agreeing with you here.

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The second half of what I said was that computer science focused students should absolutely understand AI concepts. AI goes much further than generative AI. The same hardware is used for other data processing. This is, again, much different than me saying CompSci kids should learn to prompt.

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I think you are misunderstanding me. I am saying that we should teach students in earlier grades fundamental computer skills. Computer skills are absolutely necessary for navigating the modern world. This is different from me saying kids need to learn "AI".

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This is why I am saying they should learn digital literacy in earlier grades. For computer science, they absolutely need to be learning about AI. There are tons of new technologies that don't involve LLMs. But computer science is a subject that is geared more for high school / higher education.

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LLMs are just another layer of abstraction, but it's necessary to understand the underlying technology to be able to tap into the technology's strengths and be aware of its weaknesses. And unfortunately a lot of folks assume the kids are proficient with computers because they use phones / tablets

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I mean, you'll always have people like this. The hope is to lift up the middle and high end of the bell curve.

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I guess that is what I mean when I am saying they should learn digital literacy. It's a major issue in the workplace right now. Kids do not have the skills to operate computers at a basic level. In my experience in IT, they have a much harder time than older folks.

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But this is what I mean. You need to learn these skills pre-K to 8th Grade. There is much more to using AI than just asking AI to do things for you. Much like you should not just stop at the first result you find on google or the first article on wikipedia.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 02/09/2026

This varies by district though. I worked in the top school in one of the best states and the students who were actively in robotics or computer related classes were proficient, but the rest of the district struggled to operate their computers at basic levels. Both teachers and students.

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This is actually a good example of why we need -NEW- buildings. After some digging, this building was an old manufacturing plant. It seems like they did not do adequate noise insulation for this building leading to this issue. Newer facilities when built right are insulated and are quieter.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 02/09/2026

This is good as long as educators also develop programs on digital literacy and digital citizenship. I think wholesale bans on AI will lead to the same issues that plague the current generation in terms of tech literacy. Kids know how to scroll social media, but do not know how to use computers.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 28/08/2026

Ok. I am glad this is addressed haha. I absolutely feel gross about a lot of the ways people use this particular slur. It would also be awful if machines -DO- attain something like sentience. We as a society do a bad job treating humans like people, let alone non humans.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 28/08/2026

I dunno. I disagree. I think this just enables people to tell racist jokes and do the "I'm talking about the robots ;)". It's more telling about the person saying the slur rather than the receiver of the slur.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 21/08/2026

Codex items are the real loot.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 14/08/2026

Nah. To hell with that. Millennials have gotten shit for every little thing from everyone older than us forever and now the younger generations are giving us shit for every little thing. What's crazy is how far into authoritarian end of the grid the kiddos are.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 12/08/2026

I wish we could get codex items in there, but I think I have more experience now to be useful to randos in the PVP CyAc debt generator.

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 03/08/2026

Computers are computers.

I think that all depends on how you say it, honestly. I think in the case of the original screencap... that's probably a slur.

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What we need to do is design the data centers around the environment they are in. - Cooling that makes sense for the environment - Using non potable water options whenever possible - Data center developers being responsible for grid upgrades - Restrictions on gas turbine / diesel generators.

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Data centers themselves aren't necessarily a bad thing. It's the lack of green energy to support them that is a problem. The way they are being built at the current moment is also a problem. Federal regulations have been relaxed and it's up to towns to pick up the slack.

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Anyone who has a remote job right now is being supported by a data center. Any cloud or online tool people use for work in office or from home relies on data centers.

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The part that sucks about doing infrastructure for a research organization is trying to explain the benefits of data centers without sounding like this guy... They do support jobs... just not in the way a traditional building would. For my org, it's data scientists and researchers.

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The problem at the moment is GPU assisted HPC has absolutely blown the doors open for everyone and on prem data centers don't really cut it for this type of stuff. I think if we had better leadership and a major push for green energy, data centers would still be boring.

The fun part is there is no such thing as an "AI data center". AI data factories were just hyper scale data centers that just so happened to have a very high concentration of AI machines. A few are purpose built by a few companies for only AI training. A large majority of hyperscalers are color

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Data centers are separate from AI. They house scientific research, medical data, climate data, anything you interact with online, your Netflix, banking, anything in Microsoft 365 or the cloud (most office jobs interact with this in some form).

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I also try to set expectations that it can take a very long time before the career can feel even remotely rewarding. It took me almost a decade before getting traction outside of help desk.

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It very much sucks out there. Any time I talk to anyone who wants to get in the field, I always emphasize networking. You can learn skills along the way. Networking is the most important part of getting in the door.

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The jobs part is sort of... abstract. Onsite, sure there's about 50 - 100 jobs or so. The part I don't think people are considering is folks logging into cloud storage, shared drives, applications, and other things people use for work. Data centers and cloud infrastructure are the backbone of WFH.

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I wish everyone could be normal and not politicize data centers. They house science... Science is, in fact good. I do think we should regulate data center construction and make sure that we leave room for sustainable technologies...

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Foxmeadow @foxmeadow.tech · 25/07/2026

I was saying absolutely before the robots came. Does that mean I am a robot?

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Medical research is housed in data centers. We need to be careful with how we are directing tech policy. AI Data Factories are very different from colocations. The problem is that everyone is flattening the conversation and it is causing issues for the scientific community.