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- Comment on Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says 13 hours ago:
A lot of artists will practice anatomy by drawing people nude, largely because it’s hard to get a good understanding of anatomy by only drawing people with clothes on.
If you wanted to put some examples of bare human anatomy in odd positions to expand the range that the model is capable of, well there aren’t many large corpuses of that than porn.
Also, even if they don’t want it to make explicit content, they probably want it to make “suggestive” or “appealing” content. And they just assume they can guide rail it away from making actual explicit content. Although that’s probably pretty short sighted given how weak guardrails really are.
- Comment on Google Gemini deletes use's code 23 hours ago:
It’s insane to me that people are actually trying get these LLMs to do things. Let alone outside of an experimental setting. Like, it’s a non starter at a fundamental conceptual level.
It reminds me of an experiment where they had a few try and run simulated vending machines. Resulting in the systems attempting to contact the FBI, threatening to nuke suppliers, and
It was pretty clear from the results that none of the LLMs were capable of consistently performing basic tasks, with them routinely introducing irrelevant or incorrect information that would derail things. Such as ordering nonexistent products, assuming capabilities that it was never given, and generally just failing to properly recall information or keep values it was given consistent. Some of the failures were quite spectacular, ranging from insisting it had gone bankrupt and was trying to sell the vending machine, to threatening to nuke suppliers and trying to contact the FBI.
- Comment on Google Gemini deletes use's code 23 hours ago:
Exactly, They’re just probabilistic models. LLMs are just outputting something that statistically could be what comes next. But that statistical process does not capture any real meaning or conceptualization, just vague associations of when words are likely to show up, and what order they’re likely to show up in.
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 1 week ago:
”we’ve built a machine to minimize the amount of time people need to spend touching grass.”
“Oh no, someone’s gone insane from not touching grass”
- Comment on Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor 1 week ago:
I actually kind of believe them on this. Like, the last team they’d want to cut back on if they were gung hoe on AI would be web services. Like, most “AI” companies aren’t hosting their own services, they’re relying on a third party to do that.
Admittedly AWS isn’t really built around providing what those companies need, being focused more on hosting websites (you know, a proven business model that actually makes profit) and less on massive racks of Nvidia GPUs to run probabilistic models.
But still, that’s a fairly small cut relatively speaking compared to Microsoft and other’s recent announcements. So I’m tempted to believe that theses are actually just fairly normal cuts, as supposed to what Microsoft is doing; cutting to the bone to free up more cash to buy a few more Nvidia GPUs.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 1 week ago:
Free speech is the right to say what you believe without facing legal consequences from the government, not the right to publish what ever other people say uncritically, especially with what they’re publishing is directly inciting real harm to the public.
Their current moderation stance is akin to allowing people to shout “fire!” In a crowded public space.
- Comment on Meta Takes Hard Line Against Europe's AI Rules 1 week ago:
Ok, well, guess it won’t be voluntary for much longer.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 1 week ago:
Or the autoplay function, or YouTube shorts shelf, or so many other new “features” they’d really like us to turn on.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 1 week ago:
on IOS I’ve found the mobile web page the be legitimately better than the app, I can do Picture in Picture and listen to it in the background, things the app won’t let you do without paying. For a while it also let me get rid of the shorts shelf, which the app just had no option for, they got rid of that a few months back, but I’ve found that if I mark “not interested” on any shorts it puts up it hides it again for a while.
Also if the ads are getting a bit much I can open it in fire fox focus and I’ve found it block ads completely, I’ve heard from others that Firefox focus doesn’t block YouTube ads for them, but, I’ve never seen a YouTube ad while using it.
Honestly, in general, if something has a web page, I won’t use an app at this point. I’ve had so many experiences with dedicated apps just being worse experiences.
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 1 week ago:
A marginal improvement for a limited use case.
Not a revolutionary jump forward in capability. not a trillion dollar industry that justifies this level of investment or obsession.
- Comment on Ex-Google CEO: Power Grid Crisis Could Kill AI's Next Big Leap 1 week ago:
The really crazy part is that it’s been like that for 4 years now, the models have improved based on arbitrary metrics the people making the models have decided upon, but in terms of real world usability they’re basically the same. Marginal improvement from running it twice to have it fact check its self, but only a marginal improvement by doubling the compute.
It’s insanity that they’re burning billions upon billions to keep this charade going.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 1 week ago:
Well, on top of the tens of thousands of volunteer developer hours put in to stuff like wine that they built upon.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 1 week ago:
The United States Geological Service.
A pocket producing an amount is not the same as a significant deposit.
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 1 week ago:
to date there is zero evidence of meaningful deposits of geological hydrogen. There is definitely hydrogen in the crust, but, so far zero evidence that it accumulates in meaningful amounts in the areas we can currently drill to.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 1 week ago:
I really don’t get why payment processors care. like, I really doubt it’s a morality thing for them, so where’s the financial incentive?
- Comment on Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy 1 week ago:
I remember my parents got some Philips lightbulbs years ago, I set it up for them. They never used any of the functionality after the first month. They were just normal white lightbulbs.
Realistically, most of this stuff is just an excuse to harvest people’s data and up charge them for appliances.
It’s fine for hobbyists who can set up all this stuff properly and make use cases, but the vast vast majority of people who have this stuff aren’t hobbyists and will never actually find utility in it.
- Comment on Microsoft Soars as AI Cloud Boom Drives $595 Price Target 2 weeks ago:
Any of those analysts gonna point out that a significant portion of the demand driven by open AI is just them redeeming credits Microsoft gave them for free?
- Comment on Court nullifies “click-to-cancel” rule that required easy methods of cancellation 2 weeks ago:
See the beauty of doing this now is that khan has been illegally removed from her position at the FTC by the current administration, of course the court will not take up the case about her removal, just strike down rules on technicalities now that they can’t be resubmitted.
- Comment on Semiconductor industry could short out as copper runs dry 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure that the super AI they’re gonna build will find more copper. Like if we just poor enough capital and resources in to it, it’ll start causing new copper deposits to appear using psychic powers it will develop after we let these companies monopolize all information and blow past every single emissions target.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 weeks ago:
That there is no garentee that I will always have access to a game I like is really what kills it for me as a user. Like, I’m basically paying them the equivalent of the cost of a game every 3 months, but I could loose access to a game I like at any time because it’s no longer on game pass, so I’d be better off just buying games I like outright with that money every three months.
I’d rather my cash go directly to studios making things I like, rather than to who ever Microsoft decides deserves to make games.
- Comment on Fairphone 6 Teardown: Proof Phones Don’t Have to Be Disposable 3 weeks ago:
I am very interested in Fairphone, when my current phone inevitably breaks it’ll definitely be my on my short list. Also considering the pine phone pro.
It’s really cool to see the phone space opening back up with meaningfully differentiated options. Like foldables are starting to have a good selection, red magic has one with a fan for active cooling, and we’ve got phones with repairability and maintenance in mind.
I’m also curious to see if RISC-V processors start making any serious inroads in to phones. I know Qualcomm was talking about it a while ago, and there is some amount of support for android on it.
There is legitimately interesting things going on again, and it’s so annoying to have all the oxygen sucked out of the room by the current hype cycle.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
The wages’s do come out of the profit.
Profit is revenue minus expenses. Wages are part of expenses.
Wages are used to ensure that people working there are able to keep working there, covering day day expenses of the workers.
Wages rarely reflect the real value of the effort put in by the people working at the company. They reflect the cost to the worker of choosing to work at the company.
I think that workers at a company should be payed some percentage of the profit of the company, with financiers and investors receiving some percentage of the profit in turn.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
Unless the company is an ESOP, they do not, they get paid an hourly wage or a salary. If the company becomes more profitable, they do not see a consummate increase In their compensation.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
I don’t own a car.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
I think the larger issue is that so many studios get set up as things that can be sold by one or two people for the benefit of only one or two people. Like, the larger issue is that everyone who has been working at the studio should have some amount of say in if it should be sold or not.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff 3 weeks ago:
MORE SOULS ON TBE ALTER OF THE AI GOD, you know, just a few more and it shall burst forth from the machine and solve all our problems.
Just keeeeeeep pouring resources and capital on to the fire, any day now. Don’t worry about the climate or housing prices, the inevitable AI god will solve all that, surely.
Eventually…
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 3 weeks ago:
Shame, exploitive studios that let the business idiots take over and then sell them to Microsoft.
Will be happy to support the people who used to work there that go on to make indie games.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 3 weeks ago:
it’s kind of terrifying how much power has been concentrated in the hands of people so eager to adopt such a flimsy ideological/religious cause.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 3 weeks ago:
You think the producer was trying to be an ass? Or like, are they just that deep in the cult that they think this is helpful advice?
- Comment on Crunchyroll accidentally confirmed it uses ChatGPT for subtitles 3 weeks ago:
they appear to be copying direct translations from chat GPT in to the subtitles, judging by the fact that one of the subtitles said “Chat GPT says:” and then the line in German. People who speak German also noticed that the grammar and sentence structure for many of these shows has been awful and nonsensical at times.
If anyone is doing any sort of oversight, they don’t appear to speak German them selves and are just betting that the output will be accurate and pasting it in.
Someone who spoke German and Japanese fluently enough to do competent oversight could probably translate faster than they could edit and rephrasing the work of an LLM, which are notoriously bad at translating languages in a high context situation like dialog in a animated show.