California governor: Generative AI will fix homelessness — based on a 2023 sales pitch
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/08/california-governor-generative-ai-will-fix-homelessness-based-on-a-2023-sales-pitch/
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39 Comments
self@awful.systems · 23 pts · 1y
no, the article isn’t clickbait if it accurately paraphrases a source in a tone you disagree with
no, it’s not ragebait if reading it made you angry and you wish it wasn’t true, but it very obviously is
good talk, thanks
chottomatte@lemdro.id · 21 pts · 1y
In 2024 , AI still can't answer " how many Rs are there in Strawberry " currectly...
dgerard@awful.systems · 14 pts · 1y
yes u need web3 for that
zbyte64@awful.systems · 4 pts · 1y
Huh, well California can't count their homeless properly either. It's a match made in hell.
schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business · 19 pts · 1y
Sounds like he's confused AI and a replicator, neither of which are going to solve his problem of being a complete moron.
dgerard@awful.systems · 10 pts · 1y
Newsom is a very special fellow
V0ldek@awful.systems · 15 pts · 1y
My trajectory of learning about this Newsom fellow was amazing.
How do you keep producing people like this, America?
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 1y
Yeah... He's very much a corpo neolib. He's actively sabotaged attempts to hold PG&E accountable for killing people and render the earned corporate death sentence. He's also vehemently against any wealth tax and keeps pulling the pied-piper strategy during elections to limit the influence of left-of-center politicians.
Is he better than the guys whose campaigns he aids? Yes. Is he a dumpster fire of a politician who is unable and unwilling to take on major issues and address root causes of problems facing his constituents? Also yes.
V0ldek@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y
So why on earth was anyone calling him a good candidate to replace Biden? Sounds like one of the worst people you'd want in charge of anything, much less a country?
mountainriver@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y
I think it is a combination of:
gerikson@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y
It's the same symptoms among the pundits that convinced them that Ron DeSantis had a chance against Trump.
o7___o7@awful.systems · 3 pts · 1y
Ya really think his hair is nice?
I've felt that it falls into that Generative AI/Thomas Kinkade uncanny valley zone because it looks kind of glazed -- as if embedded in a thin layer of ice -- while also inhabiting a strange dimension of omnipresent ambient lighting.
Please note: I am not in any way implying that Gavin Newsom isn't real.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y
Gavin was Pelosi's pick to replace Biden, they're both backed by the same regional California billionaires from SF to Sac. Harris is from Cali as well but her big backers are in LA.
My head canon is Biden chose Harris as a parting FU to Pelosi.
froztbyte@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y
because the US sociopolitical system, just like many other of its social systems, is disastrously sick and dysfunctional
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
I think a lot of those seriously floating him were neolibs thinking that he'd make their stock prices go up.
corbin@awful.systems · 10 pts · 1y
It may help to know about Californian neoliberalism. Newsom is running on a faulty ontology; the world is built out of different building blocks for him than for us. We often contrast it with the more dominant flavor of neoliberalism on the other coast:
swlabr@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y
According to my former left-libertarian roommate: also the scumbag scion of a political dynasty I think? I didn’t look into it because I had no reason to doubt
V0ldek@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y
Seems he resembles RFK Jr. more than a Democrat.
swlabr@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y
At least RFKJ has brainworms he can blame.
froztbyte@awful.systems · 8 pts · 1y
unironically one of the most glorious developments in modern insanity
dgerard@awful.systems · 7 pts · 1y
Newsom is absolutely A Type Of Guy
antifuchs@awful.systems · 15 pts · 1y
What a blessed world we live in - 2014 a homeless person had to learn to code in order to deserve the things they need to live. Today, they just need to become a prompt engineer. The trajectory of the world bends towards justice, after all!
sc_griffith@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y
this one really got to me. very upsetting
swlabr@awful.systems · 8 pts · 1y
Nobody should be surprised that a politician in the west is proposing that we funnel more money into private companies rather than just fixing the root cause.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 1y
LLMs aren't going to save the world. Stop it.
o7___o7@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y
Gavin Newsom is America's answer to the question: "What if Keir Starmer, but worse?"
AnomalousBit@programming.dev · -15 pts · 1y
Reads more like a smear piece, especially when there’s just a cherry picked quote or two with no links to the actual speech.
sailor_sega_saturn@awful.systems · 21 pts · 1y
For links to California AI primary sources there was only:
So poorly cited! Mr. Gerard don't you know that if it's not in video form it doesn't exist for people raised on TikTok?? SMH.
swlabr@awful.systems · 6 pts · 1y
Actually this isn’t enough. It needs to be read by a monotone TTS or deepfaked voice with minecraft, subway surfer, or fortnite gameplay underlaid to penetrate brain rot
self@awful.systems · 5 pts · 1y
also, for some reason, it’s a split screen video and the right half is a sped up cooking video or someone playing with slime
dgerard@awful.systems · 20 pts · 1y
Every quote has the source linked following, you bloviating fuckwit
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y
I admit to being conflicted. I try to keep more positive on Lemmy to avoid the psychological traps of social media outage. However, I do enjoy well-phrased and well-deserved insults.
froztbyte@awful.systems · 16 pts · 1y
oh how fortunate are we to have you, valorous AnomalousBit of programming dot motherfucking dev, to wander past our village and cast upon us the shining beacon of your intellect
truly, without your timely help we would have been at sea, unable to find veracity in the words of the yon governer gavin newsom, be they branded on the scriptures of office or no! oh woe betide us should your clear insight into this most nebulous matter not have come our way this fair day!
now please get back the fuck on the road where you came from and keep your idiotic opinions to yourself. or, y'know, learn to read. both work
lakemalcom10@lemm.ee · -16 pts · 1y
Man, what a shit take this is. Spent two seconds on the press release. This is what they want to accomplish: "Creating housing with more data and accountability by creating clearer insights into local permitting and development decisions and deploying tools to support every community in building enough homes for all its residents, including vulnerable populations. "
And two seconds on the "nonsense generator can't fix homelessness, how do we actually do it?" take: "To improve housing affordability, California needs to streamline and accelerate housing production and reexamine the regulations that have hindered new housing development."
This is bullshit rage bait. I mean, can "GenAI" do this well? IMO no, but the idea of trying to solve the root problems isn't complete dog shit.
self@awful.systems · 15 pts · 1y
the title of the press release:
the paragraph right before the bullet points you quoted out of context:
it’s literally a press release about supposedly using the nonsense generator to fix homelessness and you had to reach fucking hard to make it look like anything else — you quoted the only two fucking paragraphs that don’t mention GenAI, I fucking counted. and for what?
self@awful.systems · 12 pts · 1y
the included fucking summary of the press release!
they wrote this bit so you didn’t have to read! what the fuck is wrong with you
dgerard@awful.systems · 11 pts · 1y
it's also important to look at Newsom's actual real-life actions to "solve the root problem": an executive order to steal all their stuff and throw it away, presumably on the assumption that the bums will magically vanish into pixie dust
the article isn't about homelessness at all, Newsom is getting weird about genAI and spun the wheel for a random issue to solve with genAI
self@awful.systems · 9 pts · 1y
fucking hell. it’s always this exact evil shit from these assholes, isn’t it? and every time they do this (and I’ve seen them do this same shit in my city over and over) they seem amazed when the unhoused people they’re victimizing don’t just fucking die like they hoped they would. instead they survive by any means necessary, like any person would; like any of us would. and every time it’s a fucking mystery to shitheads like Newsom why homelessness got “worse”
self@awful.systems · 12 pts · 1y
where the fuck do you shitheads keep coming from