Kwakigra

@Kwakigra@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having read the compared stories now, I have to say I’m deeply offended at the results. The AI stories are quicker to read because they are chains of cliches which state and restate the theme of the story (as stated in the prompt) outright instead of demonstrating it through the charged and personal perspectives of the characters. The LLM generated text is meaningless word sausage formatted to be easier to read for people who don’t read much. I have never read something more cynical, and I have read plenty of trash by authors who hate their audience and consider them all to be idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is like comparing landscape paintings to photographs of the same landscape from the same perspective and asking random people to judge which one they think is better. This is an insane comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM companies may now freely commit corporate espionage because the news media is locked into reporting the claims that LLMs are capable of things like this as fact. This is like when the US bombed the girls school in Iran and blamed it on AI and the news reported it as fact until it was clear reasonable people weren’t willing to accept that excuse in that context. Corporate espionage is certainly not as bad as the mass murder of little girls, so people are willing to buy it since it doesn’t matter as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure people who abuse their family members have plenty of good qualities as well. I’m not sure how that’s relevant to what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of world problems would be solved if these things were encouraged instead. If someone needs their romantic partner to be a mindless sycophant, I would rather them have that with a machine than try to abuse a human person into serving them as would be more traditional. More children being born in situations other than exploitation and manipulation could only be a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Too Expensive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird that I’ve spent most of my time living in a post-economic world of abundance which I’m not allowed to acknowledge or encourage others to acknowledge because the pretend economy of valuation and confidence depends on exclusively on showmanship and nothing else. The LLM bubble may persist because the work being “saved” never needed to be done in the first place, so it not being done makes no difference to investors being told what got done as usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dolphins will get there one day too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually fascinating because it demonstrates a social construct created by animals. Not all animals have the same intelligence, and in nature intelligence is typically found among animals living in groups. It requires intelligence to live and cooperate with others. To me it seems that these animals actually used their intelligence to preserve socially constructed zones for the general good of multiple groups of wolves, likely by staying where the right smell is and not going where the wrong smell is. Hopefully none of the wolves discover the prisoner’s dilemma and become a wolf emperor by suddenly invading and enslaving their unprepared neighbors.

• Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code's Source—The Internet Is Keeping It Forevertech.yahoo.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dying randomly⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Egg -> Coot -> Dead Egg -> Dead Dead

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a US state with a submissive to authority government. As of today it’s still giving me an “unable to connect” page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yesterday the site and its mirrors redirected to an eero page saying it was blocked because it was “dangerous.” Today it was a more general couldn’t connect page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My eero router recently got an update which permanently blocks archive.ph . What a coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Israel would look very different if they didn’t have the total impunity the US provides especially recently. Everything the Israeli government has done has been the US’s responsibility for decades. The US doesn’t give Israel privileged treatment because they’ve been tricked. They do it because Israel is primarily their own colony that they want to see made permanent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here it is. The ultimate purpose of AI technology. Corporatism has all but eliminated any accountability by almost all Western leaders, and now there will be no accountability at all as long as this paradigm of implicitly trusting the most untrustworthy people in the world persists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game company stock prices dip after Google introduces an AI world-generation tool⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If Google had released an AI skinner-box geneation tool, publicly traded video game companies would all collapse over night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You nailed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here specifically is where consumers have drawn the line with the Postal series, a game series about doing mass killings for fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The nerve of CNBC to use the word “hoarding” and and not mention the actual cause of the problem being the declining wealth of the median household relative to wealth hoarders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is quite a headline. I just got on but that’s already enough internet for today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The actual bubble that needs to be popped is financialization. The US economy is now completely deratched from productivity and is now running on speculation only through financial valuation. At the same time, people are starving, infrastructure is falling apart, the birth rate is plummeting, and suicide is on the rise. It’s time to stop taking “job creators” seriously and use all this fallow professional experience and skill to restart the material economy and forget this pretend crap that keeps plutocrats busy doing nothing of any value to anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the right approach. Once it starts getting old it won’t get better. That being said, the writing of the DLCs does not have the problem of the main story and are often pretty good. If getting access to all your character’s abilities wasn’t attached to playing the main story I would advise skipping the main game and only playing the DLCs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On: Borderlands 4 wants you to forget Borderlands 3 ever happened | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I, like you, heard the story was bad but figured I could just focus on the gameplay and ignore the writing. Unfortunately, the reason the bad writing is so notorious is that the game is setup to jam it in your face consantly. It’s unrelenting.

  Imagine playing a pretty decent game while a dead-eyed 50 year old comedian is making the worst jokes you’ve ever heard in your life while doing a very poor impression of gen-z internet slang they barely understand. The comedian thinks you the player are actually stupid so the jokes are as condescending as they are awful. Now imagine they won’t shut up. Every time you do anything in the game, you get a few minutes of these whacky jokes. Accepting a mission, every bullet of the mission, skits that you have to watch before progressing, etc. You have no choice but to engage with the lazy, insulting, horrendous writing that wears thin after minutes and goes on for the entire hours-long game.

  There are mods that disable the endless chatter which I can’t recommend more highly. I made the misake of playing the game raw. The game is actually pretty fun, but the aggressive garbage of the writing is not something easily ignored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shein Used Luigi Mangione’s AI-Generated Face to Sell a Shirt | 404 Media⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really interesting. Faking an endorsement by someone who is accused of preventing thousands of needless deaths to sell shirts is on one level nefarious but on another level incorporating Luigi into mainstream pop culture. The plutocracy wants people to think this kid is the worst monster who ever lived, but the average American is so pleased with what he is accused of doing his likeness can be used to sell clothing. I am not totally opposed to the mainstreaming of this kind of folk hero. Optimally he should at least get some royalties to pay for his legal fees, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we talk about the Roblox situation?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely. They could do something about this but they would make less profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we talk about the Roblox situation?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is, very unfortunately, what happens in every internet space which is targeted towards children and allows communication among users. It is by far the easiest way for anonymous predatory adults to make contact with typically unattended children. I would like at some point to see a child-oriented space on the internet have the highest priority of children’s safety at some point, but there hasn’t been one yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This appears to be stupid, and it is, but it’s mostly evil. Teaching children to accept absurdities and distrust evidence to make them easier to control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 owner banned for playing second-hand Switch 1 games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And the Nintendo of my childhood was responsible for pretty much every anti-consumer practice and cultural trend concerning videogames during my childhood:

  Inventing the idea that videogames are toys only for little boys only for marketing purposes. Betraying and exploiting established relationships with developers. Screwing over partners on disc technology and reversing course to limit technology to be under their control. Supporting Jack Thompson throughout his campaign to ban all videogames with any adult content at all. Lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit to hold the entire industry back. The list goes on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self insert power fantasy recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, yeah. The courier probably has the biggest turnaround of any bethesda game protagonist. They go from a completely anonymous average person delivering packages to being essentially a demigod capable of pretty much anything. No fate, no destiny, no special heritage, just you and your choices.