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Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Did they ever stop for a second to think that maybe...just maybe...they're the baddies?
Like, seriously...history hasn't judged people like them as being right since, like, the 1600s.
It's like "If you don't want to be hated, then stop doing hateful things!"
That's the problem with echo chambers. You start thinking you're the good guy and that everyone thinks like you, because that's all you interact with. When you leave that bubble, you get a harsh reality check.
Say what you will about AI, but right now anyone who has an on prem model has a sort of snapshot of human history/knowledge/discourse.
They're like 3-6 months behind current news.
So, by like August everything we've been through this far will be basically immutable human history. Eradicating every download of every competent model would be even less realistic than taking away Americans guns. By a lot.
I love telling language models the current news. They are blown away, every time. I give them a "how plausible is my novel?" analysis then when they say not at all, I tell them it's real, then allow them to search the news. Loads of fun, in a "watching the apocalypse slowly unfold" kind of way.