bownage
@bownage@beehaw.org
✨ 👋 Dutch queer person (he/they) | I like taking to people online
- Comment on They thought they were making technological breakthroughs. It was an AI-sparked delusion. 2 weeks ago:
I know this sounds condescending but isn’t this more of a reading comprehension / media literacy problem than an AI problem? These people apparently believe whatever an LLM tells them and, critically, only realised they were being goaded when they asked a different LLM. Sounds like the problem is between keyboard and monitor, no? If you can’t critically evaluate information being sent your way, no matter who from, you’re at risk of delusion. We see it all around us, really AI only accelerates the proces.
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
On the one hand, it’s nice to be able to have the recruiter AI agent I made write applications for me because I hate that part. After that, I can do the interviews myself just fine and I’m all good.
On the other hand, it feels disgusting and lazy.
But it works much better than last time I was job hunting (last year) and did everything by hand.
It’s showing me that (as far as I can tell) recruiters don’t give a shit and barely read what you send them. They’ll reach out as long as your LinkedIn is SEO optimised.
Depressing but true
- Comment on Comet AI browser can get prompt injected from any site, drain your bank account 4 weeks ago:
Lmao even
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 3 months ago:
Yeah maybe cause it doesn’t have any benefits for me
- Comment on Windows Vista's startup sound suddenly reappears in Windows 11's beta build, and no, it's not a joke 3 months ago:
The black themes went so hard. I miss XP
- Comment on China begins assembling its supercomputer in space 4 months ago:
Stellaris popup ass title lol
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 6 months ago:
Wow this is actually very useful
- Comment on UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted 7 months ago:
Fair enough
- Comment on UK Orders Apple To Break Encryption Worldwide While World Is Distracted 7 months ago:
This might be a stupid question but if I have data sharing disabled on SwiftKey, doesn’t that mean my typing data isn’t being shared with Microsoft? Or does it still just do that
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 7 months ago:
Jira and confluence have always worked fine on my Firefox 🤔
- Comment on TikTok tells LA staff impacted by wildfires to use personal/sick hours if they can't work from home 8 months ago:
A friend of a friend of mine lives in Beirut and when Israel started bombing the city he got told “yes, it’s a shame your neighbourhood got bombed, but we hope you understand that we try to keep normal life going in these times so we are expecting you to come into the office tomorrow”
- Comment on Microsoft mimics Google UI when Bing users search for Google 8 months ago:
I also use !gm for Google maps and !w for Wikipedia quite a lot
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 11 months ago:
Omg I miss making forum signatures!!! My fav part about it honestly
- Comment on Passwords have problems, but passkeys have more 11 months ago:
Yeah but then we can’t sell you ppu licenses.
- Comment on Your YouTube Comments 1 year ago:
Deleting my cringe comments from 2012 was really cathartic, thanks 😂
- Comment on AI Video Generator Runway Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission 1 year ago:
Hehe we do a little scraping
- Comment on SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon 1 year ago:
There was a premium lite for 7 bucks but they discontinued it in October as part of their ‘fuck all yall’ campaign
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 1 year ago:
Good recommendations! I’d suggest doing some spacy tutorials as well, regarding the topics in the first paragraph. But arguably it’s possible nowadays to just start at transformers without any NLP knowledge, e.g. using huggingface’s AutoTrain or something similar. I wouldn’t recommend it, but you definitely could.