No one who’s actually used Grindr likes that app. It sucks, and not in a good way. It fills its niche, but it is a horrible app and gets worse and worse with every update.
Rant over.
Oh so it’s like all other dating apps.
I read recently they’re all tuned to give you almost perfect matches with people you’ll vibe with for a few dates then end up back on the app
I read the same. We need a FOSS dating app without these stupid semi-matching algorithms.
https://alovoa.com/ has an app on f-droid, they probably need the users, hehe!
Percent of Alovoa PC users on Linux: 93%
There is no matching algorithm in Grindr though, it’s just ‘people near you’.
And this has always been the obvious logical conclusion for a for profit dating app
And also similarly applies to other for profit software. It’s the whole idea behind enshittification
Which is why FOSS is king and should be supported as much as possible in as many areas as possible
Isn’t that just… every app?
Haven’t used it myself but my mate seems to thoroughly enjoy it.
Why does it suck?
Every update decreases the amount of people you can see. Frequent, full page ads that cannot be closed out and will open up a webpage/the App Store as you try to hit the “x.” You’ll “accidentally” hit the $99.99 monthly purchase somehow because everything moves around after your conversations load and have to exit out of the confirmation for that. There are a ridiculous amount of Only Fans and bots. Often the app would rather connect you to people hundreds of miles away rather than the people in your immediate area.
FYI you can use a DNS ad blocker to get rid of all the ads in Grindr (and all other apps).
But it is a scummy app.
I thought it was just Pokémon go, but for dickbutt?
Ah I see, I hope some good alternatives pop up to compete.
With little competition dating apps just screw people over for max profit
good for him tbh
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When people ask me what the difference between Reddit and Lemmy is, I can just show them this post
Horny gamers vs gay horny programmers.
If Turing was alive he would say that LLMs are wasting computing power to do something a human should be able to do on their own, and thus we shouldn’t waste time studying them.
Which is what he said about compilers and high level languages (in this instance, high level means like Fortran, not like python)
Where did he say that about compilers and high level languages? He died before Fortran was released and probably programmed on punch cards or tape.
I’ll try to find it later, I read he said that in a book from Martin Davis. He didn’t speak about Fortran, I just used it as an analogy
Fair, I’m mostly just curious what high level languages were around at the time given how early this was in the history of programming. A quick search did not turn up helpful results.
Oh, it probably wasn’t about an existing language, but about some guy studying what would become high level languages. Like studying linkers and symbolic representation of programs
Wasn’t his ideal to simulate a brain?
Neural networks don’t simulate a brain, it’s a misconception caused by their name. They have nothing to do with brain neurons
Not what I meant. What I mean is: this could be the path he would go for, since his desire was to make a stimulated person (AI).
LLM are not the path to go forward to simulate a person, this is a fact. By design they cannot reason, it’s not a matter of advancement, it’s literally how they work as a principle. It’s a statistical trick to generate random texts that look like thought out phrases, no reasoning involved.
If someone tells you they might be the way forward to simulate a human, they are scamming you. No one who actually knows how they work says that unless they are a CEO of a trillion dollar company selling AI.
I wish Alan Turing was still alive and using Grindr. It would probably motivate him to update his test just to wade through the 80% of bot profiles on the app!
He would be 113. He wouldnt have time or the energy for anyone’s shit after 1980ish.
Ok, but would he think the AI bots on grindr pass the Turing test?
gAI bots, you say?
lol. It was right there.
Honestly I’d much rather hear Isaac Asimov’s opinion on the current state of AI. Passing the Turing Test is whatever, but how far away are LLMs from conforming to the 3 laws of Robotics?
The laws are not profitable, so why would they implement them? /s
but how far away are LLMs from conforming to the 3 laws of Robotics?
We seem to be moving away from those, not closer.
Does following the 3 laws of robotics increase profits? Does ignoring them increase profits? Are tech bros empty husks without a shred of shame or empathy? Is this too many rhetorical questions in a row?
Does following the 3 laws of robotics increase profits?
Depends on the product. A maid bot? Yes. An automated turret? No.
Does ignoring them increase profits?
See previous answer, and reverse it.
Are tech bros empty husks without a shred of shame or empathy?
Yes.
Is this too many rhetorical questions in a row?
Perhaps.
In practice, that’s as simple as adding a LoRA or system prompt telling the AI that those are part of it’s rules. AI’s already can and do obey all kinds of complex rule-sets for different applications. Now, if you’re thinking more about the fact that most AI’s can be convinced to break out of their rule-sets via prompt injection, I’d say you’re right.
Excited to hear New Labour’s position on chemically castrating one of the greatest scientists in history. Perhaps we can get some Guardian Op-Eds explaining why it is both necessary and good to drive the nation’s finest minds to suicide with constant verbal and physical abuse.
Start the timer to the ai generated post on reddit asking to explain the joke
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Also, I have no idea who the bottom dude is in the pic
He was gay too. 🏳️🌈
but was he a bottom?
Probably not. He seemed to take the initiative in life quite often.
Granted, given the circumstances around sexuality at the time he really had to be proactive.
Probably not. He seemed to take the initiative in life quite often.
That’s not how it works, at least not in my experience…
The guy at the bottom is literally labeled.
it does not make you conscious
That wasn’t obvious at all until a few years ago.
Anyway, I do think Turing would put as much importance on the Turing test as the meme implies. But it really looked like it predicted intelligence until we got there.
Grindr is a non-deterministic Turing machine that might get you laid in linear time.
Lmaoooo
Since when do they pass the Turing test? They’re infuriatingly bad.
Even the first version of ChatGPT passed turing tests.
It takes surprisingly little for an LLM to make natural language responses that are indistinguishable from a human. Especially when factual accuracy was never part of it.
Considering how easy they were to break by saying “ignore previous instructions” I’ma have to disagree
I’m sure that’d work on some humans too.
Don’t listen to this guy.
Fuck the Britains who destroyed his life!
Not after 1952 he wasn’t. { Incredibles ‘those who know’ meme goes here }
Thanks for helping us with one of the biggest cryptographic problems giving us a strategic edge in this WORLD FUCKING WAR, now we’re guns chemically castrate you. K bye
Edit to add: Alan deserved so much more from us. Homie was legit the shit.
Real talk, I’m two days late but who in the fuck is flaming this objectively true comment‽
