Elektronauts get a fresh update! . . [ Read OP for issue resolution ]

[Holon]

Wen AI overbridge to my smart fridge?

[HoldMyBeer]

I’ll be dressed up for the occasion.

[earwolf]

Cringe mode?

[DoS]

@HoldMyBeer

dressed up

Wizard cape and hat?

[HoldMyBeer]

@DoS

Wizard cape and hat?

Birthday Suit!

[Fin25]

@DoS

Wizard cape and hat?

@HoldMyBeer

Birthday Suit!

Birthday suit with wizard cape and hat.

[Bunker]

@Fin25

Birthday suit with wizard cape and hat.

Sans shitty knickers

[rtme]

@David

Various AI stuff

@plragde

But not the AI. If there is anywhere I can go to register my permanent opposition to any such features, please tell me.

+1, this forum does not need any of this AI nonsense. Let’s try to care a little bit about energy use. Do we really need a trained chatbot with all manuals indexed, or a LLM based “mood summary” for the last few posts?

Elektronauts is awesome as it is because of the forum members and the moderators, no AI needed!

[icecold]

Please don’t enable AI

[m0ld]

I’d also like to register my opposition to AI on Elektronauts. This place functions mostly pretty well already without it.

[knobgoblin]

Update on Wednesday, nothing at all suspicious about that, nothing at all. I won’t be having a nervous breakdown when I can’t load the site, I swear

[idylmind]

All this time spent updating the forum when they could update Octatrack instead.

[thermionic]

Part of the problem is the techbros conflating “AI” with everything, LLMs and generative slop and market-spiking terminology alongside general machine learning / data science that dominates a lot of what we use in more neutral, less surveillance capitalism tunings.

[Bionicvinnie]

Avoid the Sonos approach

[Azzarole]

Looking forward to the forum being more stable and user friendly. Hope there’s a “jump to last post” button. Also hope discourse app will continue to work with Elektronauts.

+1 for no AI, i’d we can still get the update. Otherwise, we’d not get a “Digitackt or Octatrak” thread every other day, how lame would that be ? (jokes aside, I don’t want LLMs to be here and suggest “helpful” things, see the autocorrect thread)

[LyingDalai]

@idylmind

All this time spent updating the forum when they could update Octatrack instead

I guess this forum gets more use than the OT

[B_LD]

Can’t be stated too many times: I’m all against AI driven mind control features be they hidden euphemistically in “helpers” or not.

While I’m not so confident this sentiment will be taken into consideration, I’d expect 100% transparency about the process of the integration/activation. Also I suspect terms of use of the forum would need to be updated in case of making use of LLM etc. in a way that would allow disagreement from the users. The assumption of silent agreement to such a change would be a rather bold and irritating move.

[shigginpit]

It’s highly unlikely that users will have the ability to opt out of things like having their posts included in AI topic overview summaries or other sitewide functions.

These are discourse features so the integration will probably be fairly good, but I’m probably not a fan of some of these backend changes.

Not really up to us though, is it? Don’t want to give anyone a hard time as I know that the admins are just trying to improve things overall but it’s kind of an unpleasant subject.

[Azzarole]

@shigginpit

Not really up to us though, is it?

If the majority is against it, there might be an update we could jump to before they started integrating AI? Since we’re skipping several versions. But at this point, it might be too late.

[shigginpit]

I don’t think that this is a democracy. They pay to keep the lights on, so to speak.