BCOVertigo
@BCOVertigo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Starlink Alternative that can't be blocked 1 day ago:
Don’t give up! WAN links use shielding and beamforming, or even just lasers to avoid general background noise and achieve high bandwidth even in adverse conditions. Anything can be a medium for data!
- Comment on Shitheadpost 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, I’ll line up our talking points with a keyboard and elaborate.
People use ai as a blanket term and don’t understand the difference between an LLM and GAN or any of the dozens of other kinds of models.
When I say “These models aren’t actually intelligent, talk about specific technologies and models without lumping them all together under AI.” I am met with scoffing saying that everyone knows AI is just the name of the field so I should stop being pedantic. Now you’re painting the opposite picture that a person like me lumps them together because of ignorance, and that’s frustrating. Maybe some of those assholes you encountered are exhausted because the artificial cheers for this technology are inescapable and that’s coloring their interactions with you. I don’t feel like it’s a fair point to call people ignorant for having to wade through manipulative marketing language to have a discussion. Hopefully you can sympathize with that a little.
The anger of people decrying the death of artistic beauty on subs that prominently feature ms paint stick figure drawings and shitty distorted images makes no sense to me. This isn’t costing anyone’s job.[…]The people that decry the death of art have never bought anything in a gallery, they were fine with artists getting paid fuck all before ai. They weren’t contributing to artists’ living in any meaningful way.
I’ve paid artists for art related to tabletop RPG campaigns in the past (some but not all). Now everyone shows up to games with genai character portraits and I believe my artist is going to have to quit or at least scale back because of lack of demand. I would ask that we keep in mind how gig work, commission, and subscription models form the basis of most modern artist’s income. Anecdotes aren’t data, but data doesn’t give you an email thanking you for your support while giving up on its dreams. The taste in my mouth just didn’t go away when genai invaded shitposting too. Does that make some sense?
They’re not rational. There are many valid criticisms of the tech, but you can’t even talk to these people about addressing them. Because a lot of the criticisms can and should be addressed. They won’t hear it.
I don’t think the tech is being used well by the largest actors wielding it. I don’t think genai can be secured or patched in the traditional sense because its not deterministic, so prompt diddling will always be a cat and mouse game. I don’t think that hallucinations will ever be meaningfully solved. I’d love to learn that the overall adversarial success rate has lowered from 95% since the study I read last year! It’s not that I won’t hear solutions, I just have very little confidence in them given how this saga has developed over time.
Please spare a little charity for how rattling this shit is to regular people. I believe you that you’ve talked to some absolute dipshits, and I hope you get fewer in the future. I also hope that maybe you can reinterpret some of that vitriol in light of how these systems might have resulted in them being laid off or otherwise maligned. Maybe it’s not that irrational even if they can’t articulate their feelings well. Personally, I’m stifling irritation at an executive who asked me to replace a technical team with an agentic framework (behind their back) despite the technology being wildly inadequate. I hope none of that overflows onto you.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve commissioned paid art for rpg campaigns, and I can’t draw a distinction between AI and LLMs because I get yelled at by people saying, “Its just the name of the field! Nobody thinks the Sims games are actually intelligent!”
So am I allowed to draw that line now? And do you see that me using a comfyui on my local machine does actually mean an artist won’t get paid? This position isn’t 100% strawman.
My main issue is that I think maybe they can’t be patched because they’re not deterministic systems, and I have personally been asked by an executive whether a team could reasonably be replaced by LLM agents behind their backs as soon as the tech was available. How was I supposed to form your opinion given those experiences and why do you think that I’m rage addled rather than just tired?
- Comment on Go on, git. 2 weeks ago:
You are in for a fucking treat, this is 'Godzilla as natural disaster" in a big way and I loved it.
- Comment on Monke 3 weeks ago:
Elden ring cosplayers, ugh.
- Comment on Thank you for the shitposts, y'all kept me sane. 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on GPT 3 weeks ago:
Powerful rage comic energy
- Comment on mistake 3 weeks ago:
This why you don’t walk around assuming you understand things well enough to solve people’s problems for them.
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- Comment on We Should All Just Own It, FFS. 3 weeks ago:
I swear to god I’m gonna give you a hug if you keep this up.
- Comment on We Should All Just Own It, FFS. 3 weeks ago:
You get in this ingroup and have fun this instant!
- Comment on We Should All Just Own It, FFS. 3 weeks ago:
Why would you possibly think that’s the evil one? Shameful.
- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 3 weeks ago:
There is a correct amount of doom each person can engage with before it negatively impacts their mental health so much that they will be less effective at doing anything to make the world bette.
I don’t presume to know what that is for you, or anyone else, I just know that if we let Lemmy bucketize things in line with its design then people can opt in and that self determination will do a better job than either of us.
I don’t even think that there should be a rule against politics here, but people posting an article that’s not a shitpost in any sense are getting more upvoted than things that are clearly shitposts because people viewing from their subscribed feed upvote before noticing the com. The pinned post’s ratios are very telling to me that the people clicking the com vs the general public are voting much differently and I have no idea how to fix it.
Maybe we require a minimum bar of editing (ignoring quality of edit obviously) for pictures of certain topics, and block URLs from OPs? Clearly there are some shitposts that are political and fantastic, but ffs it was getting bad enough for this backlash.
- Comment on You'll doom us all! 4 weeks ago:
Corn is the natural enemy of news and political posts.
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- Comment on I am here once again to post shit 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is audiophile bullshit cheating? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on My next edc pocket knife 5 weeks ago:
I think it came off more like an ad and so no one clicked it. I bet if you pulled the images out and did something creative you’d get some love. Also that Weiner warrior knife lmao
- Comment on My next edc pocket knife 5 weeks ago:
The corn will continue until morale improves.
- Comment on Ope 5 weeks ago:
Correcting, thanks!
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- Comment on Corn? Beans? Why not both? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2 5 weeks ago:
You have it backwards my droog, this uprising is approaching the threshold where it becomes a newsworthy event.
- Comment on Ope 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s because it’s slightly edited from the original image, giving her a more pronounced smile and changing her eyes and the shape of her face. Maybe a cage transform or some other warping was used on too large a portion of the image after the caption was put on?
- Comment on Jake would be very happy with current meme trends on lemmy 5 weeks ago:
Floop those pigs
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- Comment on Seeing so many corn posts today 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on GIVE UNTO CAESEAR 5 weeks ago:
Unfixed due to dictionary usage guide showing both.
Please keep comments corn focused.
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