The way I remember it, on old phones before smartphones, speakerphone was a very obscure feature that many users didn’t know how to turn on. I certainly didn’t (I was a child at the time) unless someone showed me.

On modern smartphones it’s very easy, maybe that should be changed again. 😁

I use speakerphone a lot in my own home too when no one is around. It’s just more comfortable to hold my phone in front of me instead of to my ear. Never in public unless specific other people need to hear it.

They’re different but compatible pieces of software.

A major difference is that Lemmy doesn’t allow following individual (microblogging) accounts, only communities. The other three allow following both AFAIK.

Is the source code already available?

I would have copy-pasted it verbatim no matter what the output would have been, didn’t know what it would be before. :D

I didn’t even tell ChatGPT what the contents should be, I just told it to write a public speech about your initial showerthought, didn’t give it any instructions what it should or shouldn’t say.

In fact I agree with you that it ended up as an ironic illustration of what AI writing is like at its worst.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Today I want to talk about something many people are excited about: artificial intelligence. AI can help us write emails, summarize reports, generate ideas, and yes—draft speeches. It’s a powerful tool. But like any powerful tool, it reveals something important about us: technology can assist judgment, but it cannot replace it.

That brings me to a very public example: Pete Hegseth.

If you’ve been paying attention to recent public discourse, you may have seen speeches and statements associated with him that sparked debate—not just about the content itself, but about how they may have been written. Many people suspect that AI tools were involved. And when those speeches fall flat, contradict themselves, or sound oddly mechanical, critics jump to one conclusion: “AI wrote this.”

But here’s the truth we should understand: bad speeches are not a failure of AI. They’re a failure of the human using it.

AI can generate structure, language, and ideas, but it cannot replace authenticity, judgment, or responsibility. A strong speech comes from clarity of thought, understanding of the audience, and a genuine message. If someone simply copies and pastes machine-generated words without reflection, editing, or ownership, the result will sound hollow—no matter how advanced the technology is.

So when people say that certain speeches are a “terrible advertisement for AI,” they’re actually pointing to something deeper. AI doesn’t stand at a podium. AI doesn’t decide what values to defend or what message to send. Humans do.

The lesson isn’t that AI makes communication worse. The lesson is that AI magnifies the communicator.

A thoughtful speaker can use AI to research faster, refine language, and test ideas. A careless speaker will use it as a shortcut—and the audience will hear that shortcut immediately.

Public speech has always required responsibility. The tools change—typewriters, teleprompters, word processors, and now AI—but the core requirement remains the same: the speaker must mean what they say.

So instead of blaming the technology when a speech fails, we should remember a simple principle:

AI can help you write words. But it cannot help you believe them.

And the audience always knows the difference.

Thank you.

(sorry, I can’t resist replying to posts like that with AI-generated examples of what they’re complaining about; in this case, the above was generated by ChatGPT)

What do you expect when everything you post is instantly copied (“federated”) to something between dozens and thousands of other servers? They might not all properly process any deletions. :/

That link doesn’t work for me, and I’m pretty sure that’s generally how Lemmy works, you yourself can still see things you deleted on your profile, but other people can’t. Try opening your profile logged out (e.g. private browsing mode), I think you won’t see deleted posts or comments there anymore.

If you don’t trust deletion to federate to other instances, why would you trust edits to do so?

I am not. I am from a country whose constitution starts with the statement that it is a democratic republic.

I would find it very sad if they were a majority, anywhere. :(

I really didn’t hear anything about it until recently

Yes, I expressed the same sentiment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/55959326/24302621

Is our entire information “ecosystem” so broken that we only pay attention to bad things after they’ve already happened, not before when there is still a chance to stop them?!

OK, that’s about the elaboration I was looking for…

Somehow I don’t think this is the central reason. I think governments are perfectly capable of doing bad things completely without billionaires having an interest in it. It especially doesn’t explain things like the California law that will regulate how we can or cannot program operating systems (hint: software code is a form of speech, meaning that this ought to be struck down as a violation of free speech), because no age verification services are involved in that.

Billionaires certainly are people, but these laws don’t even serve billionaires in any meaningful sense, so that’s hardly an explanation without more elaboration.

In my youth I was taught that democracy meant that the government served the people.

What do any of these laws have to do with serving the people? Do they have anything to do with the will of the people?

wait until you find out what the opposite of progress is

I realize that, academically.

I feel that what I am buying with a lottery ticket is a few days of allowing myself to imagine what my life might be like if I win.

And I invest vastly more of my money than I buy in lottery tickets.

… they are in my country, at least for people who want to attend a university.

I realize myself that the lottery is a tax on lack of statistical knowledge. I still occasionally play it because if I don’t play, then the probability of winning (and never having to work for money again) is 0, and I can easily afford to occasionally buy a lottery ticket.

at least https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22780466/why-cant-my-program-compile-under-windows-7-in-french was actually funny