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Good points, but even so I’d still rather have a less-than-optimal sub that still lined up with what the characters were saying in the dub, than having the two conflict with each other. (Maybe if you turn the dub off, the subs could be replaced with the better sub-only version?)

Yeah, to be honest I’m a bit worried studios might use this technology to start changing lines in already released movies, so subtly only film buffs who know the film line-for-line would ever notice.

Even done for well-intentioned reasons (like removing slurs from old-timey movies) it would open up a whole moral and ethical can of worms about whitewashing the past. And I have zero faith in studios to do it for well-intentioned reasons-- especially not when they’re under pressure by religious fanatics, authoritarian governments, etc.

Also, for some reason the dub and subtitles use different translations, so the character will be saying one thing and the subs will read something completely different. It’s confusing AF. Often end up getting so frustrated I just turn off the dub and focus exclusively on the subs.

And the willfully ignorant morons flocking to that site still somehow manage to delude themselves that it’s not going to become an alt-right breeding ground. Even though that’s true for, oh, I don’t know, literally all of Meta’s other products.

As an elder Zoomer, can confirm. Seeing first-hand the horrific effects social media has had on so many of my IRL friends’ mental health-- and how it’s utterly decimated IRL communities-- makes me want to cut it out of my life as much as possible.

My guess is it’s to offset the lack of other benefits-- health care being a huge one-- that you lose when you sign up to be a gig worker, not a full-time worker.

And we already have different minimum wages for at least one industry: servers at restaurants. The economy isn’t going to collapse if we put gig workers in their own category, too.

If your business can’t afford to pay its workers a living wage without going bust-- then it deserves to go bust.

To be blunt, did you read either of the articles I linked? Because none of your bullet points are correct in any way, shape, or form.

Also, it would require Biden to act so wildly out of character I’d start being worried about whether he recently had a TBI.

Truly, from the bottom of my heart: LMAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOO

I remember hearing about a high-profile case where the AI would dock points if someone’s resume listed them as participating in women’s sports as an extracurricular, while giving extra points if it listed them as participating in men’s sports.

Also, bias doesn’t necessarily have to come from happenstance. Unfortunately, humans tend to have unconcious (or, sometimes, not-so-unconcious) biases against women and people of color. There was a study where researchers sent identical resumes to a random group of recruiters-- but half of the resumes had a male name and half had a female name.

They found that both male and female recruiters were more likely to rate the resumes with the male name higher and be more likely to recommend they be advanced to the next round of interviews. IIRC, similar studies have found similar results if you give the resumes a “Black sounding” name versus a “white sounding” name.

So if you train an AI on your own company’s hiring data-- which is likely to be tainted by the unconcious bias of your own recruiters and hiring managers-- then the AI might pick up on that and replicate it in its results.

It’s a bit sad that he doesn’t have the best odds of winning relection

Agreed with the rest of your comment, but gotta disagree with this line. All signs seem to indicate that the general election will be a Biden / former guy rematch. And Biden’s already beaten him once.

To be clear, not saying victory is guaranteed or even likely, it’s going to be a long, hard slog between here and election day. But I wouldn’t count Biden out just yet, not by any means.

I consider myself a news junkie, and I’d never even heard of this until right now. God, do I wish good news like this actually got the airtime it deserved!

And it’ll be no one’s fault except for UPS.

Except that the Biden Administration kept working with the railroad unions for months after the strike to pressure the railroad companies to give them sick leave, resulting in the railroad companies caving and giving the unions everything they wanted this spring. Union leaders are on record saying they couldn’t have gotten it done without the Administration’s help.

But progress doesn’t sell as well in the papers as doom and despair, so almost no one knows about it.

Honestly, that’s kind of even sadder, IMO.

(Especially when you consider most of those celebrities weren’t running their own accounts, they were handled by PR teams, so you weren’t actually interacting with them, either. But even if they had been-- like, guys, go make IRL friends. I know that’s agonizingly hard, I struggle with it too, but this shit ain’t healthy.)

Gotta wonder how Ernest feels, having kbin go from his niche side project to being name-checked in The Verge (even if it’s in the context of pointing out it’s not ready for prime time) in the space of like two weeks.

Yeah, and the author all but freely admits that. But they’re apparently willing to throw all that away to have it “feel like everyone’s there.”

Maybe this is me being uncharitable, but to be blunt it sounds like he just wants to feel like he’s sitting at the cool kids’ table.

If you have a kbin account, you don’t need to join lemmy. You’re actually on a lemmy community right now-- technology@lemmy.world, hosted on the lemmy.world server! The two work together so seamlessly you apparently didn’t even notice when you crossed over from one to the other ;)

As far as how humans connect to one another, what’s next appears to be group chats and private messaging and forums, returning back to a time when we mostly just talked to the people we know. Maybe that’s a better, less problematic way to live life. Maybe feed and algorithms and the “global town square” were a bad idea.

I know the author goes on to argue against this, but I agree with it completely. The “global town square” didn’t just lead to IRL discourse becoming just as toxic as the worst internet cesspools, with devastating real-world consequences. It also killed what made the internet special.

The author talks about having to explore the web to find the content you want, stumbling on niche communities you’d never have heard of along the way, as if it’s somehow a bad thing. To me, it was what made the internet so much fun. And it’s one of the things I’ve most desperately missed in the era of big, centralized social media.