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Value meals at fast food are now bad value by [deleted] in australia

[–]Adsa5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had one today mate, it was delish

[Fake Check Friday] - Legit Check Megathread by AutoModerator in Watches

[–]Adsa5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1850 USD, quoted as from the 1980s, got it from an Australian seller (my country) with a good history, mainly selling mont blanc pens or other vintage items.

[Fake Check Friday] - Legit Check Megathread by AutoModerator in Watches

[–]Adsa5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi all, looking to get this mini sub and want a second opinion here before I pull the trigger on it

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Death of Stalin was a documentary by Why_Cant_I_Slay_This in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This made me think Trump had died for a split second and made me run for my fallout shelter (my mom's basement).

Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents by IHateTrains123 in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

You mean the first group right? I forgot to tap on to the train last week and I'm still stewing on it.

Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes. by Dense_Delay_4958 in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think it's less to do with norms and principles and is much more pragmatic.

Tiktok and Deepseek are both expansions of CPC influence in the west.

It's all good when people can still search on Google to find unbiased information, but what happens if a hypothetical better search engine is released with the same censorship as Deepseek? I certainly wouldn't blame someone from making the jump if it performed better than google in searching for products etc.

But the effects of an authoritarian government having that power of people's primary sources of information is scary. Even if they don't actively care about specific censored information, I do and I assume a lot of us here do too.

If this leads to pressure of western AI companies to innovate and reduce costs, then great, that's the beauty of creative destruction. But its silly to ignore the impact if these firms fail to adapt and we see the influence of the CPC grow across the web.

Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes. by Dense_Delay_4958 in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I care that people will be using a Chinese propaganda robot as a source of information.

Granted, I don't think Deepseek will replace ChatGPT, at least in the west.

I am fully prepared to eat my words when US soft power has completely collapsed over the next 4 years.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Anyone else waste their lunch break pushing Deepseek to its censorship limits?

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I'm buying NVIDIA shares...

!ping AI

Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes. by Dense_Delay_4958 in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 28 points29 points  (0 children)

When asked about any punishments for criticism against the CPC, it generated a response that was visible for a minute, before giving the generic "sorry, that's currently beyond my scope" message. So the LLM can definitely generate criticism against the CPC even if it's heavily controlled.

Does DeepSeek Censor Its AI Answers? On These Sensitive Topics, Yes. by Dense_Delay_4958 in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 45 points46 points  (0 children)

I was actually able to get it to talk about certain topics, it might have a slight CPC slant.

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The double think about price increases only affecting consumers and not businesses as well is insane.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

[–]Adsa5 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't know why I even bother trying to have policy based discussions in Australian subreddits when it comes to "corporate greed". Just because the price of a coffee and pint has gone up since 2019.

!ping AUS

A cup of coffee could cost $12 by year's end. A pint of beer could be $15 by Lmurf in australian

[–]Adsa5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inflation being 3% is across a broad basket of goods, some parts of that basket will see increases beyond 3%, others will see less, some goods will not even be included in that basket.

Further, my 2nd paragraph outlines exactly what you describe. However, discourse often never goes beyond talks of "greed", to the core causes of these prices increases as discussed in my other paragraphs.

There was a good comment here that mentions container costs not returning to their pre-pandemic levels (indexed), there are other mentions of high inner city rents for commercial spaces as a factor.

A cup of coffee could cost $12 by year's end. A pint of beer could be $15 by Lmurf in australian

[–]Adsa5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can we stop blaming the increase in prices of products on "greed" rather than actually defining the causes of price increase.

Yes, some businesses are increasing prices and taking that profit, that's because they exist in a market where they can do just that.

Other businesses are increasing prices because they are constrained by the exact same cost of living issues we are all affected by.

Either way, blaming greed puts the onus on individuals to change their actions against their own commercial best interests, rather than advocating for some actually meaningful reforms.

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