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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
You are right. I’ve updated the naming. Thanks for your feedback, very much appreciated.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
I changed the naming to “engangement poisening”, after you and several other commenters correctly noted that while over-optimization for engagement metrics is a component of “enshittification,” it is not sufficient on its own to be called as “enshittification”. I have updated the naming accordingly.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
You are making a good point here with the strict definition of “Enshittification”. But in your opinion, what is it then? OpenAI is diluting the quality of its answers with unnecessary clutter, prioritizing feel-good style over clarity to cater to user’s ego. What would you call the stage where usefulness is sacrificed for ease of consumption, like when Reddit’s layout started favoring meme-style content to boost engagement?
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
So, just to be clear, you modified the system instructions with the mentioned “Absolute Mode” prompt, and ChatGPT was still so wordy on your account?
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Can you tell one or two of those questions to counter-check?
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
Just to give an impression of how the tone will change:
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
It is enshittification in a way, from my point of view: OpenAI aims to let users feel better, catering the user’s ego, on the costs of reducing the usefulness of the service, rather than getting the message across directly.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
I agree that the change in tone is only a slight improvement. The content is mostly the same. The way information is presented does affect how it is perceived though. If the content is buried under a pile of praise and nice-worded sentences, even though the content is negative, it is more likely I’ll misunderstand or take some advice less serious, so not to the degree as it was meant to be, just to let me as a user feel comfortable. If an AI is too positive in its expression just to make me as a user prefer it over another AI, even though it would be better to tell me the facts straight forward, it’s only for the benefit of OpenAI (as in this case), and not for the user. I gotta say that is what Grok is better at, it feels more direct and not talking around the facts, it gives clearer statements despite its wordiness. It’s the old story of “letting feel somenone good” versus “being good, even when it hurts”, by being more direct when it needs to be to get the message across. The content might be the same, but how it is taken by the listener and what he will do with it also depends on how it is presented.
I appreciate your comment that corrects the impression of the tone being the only or most important part, highlighting the content will mostly be the same. Just adding to it that the tone of the message also has an influence that is not to be underestimated.
- Comment on Enshittification of ChatGPT 4 weeks ago:
It turns ChatGPT to an emotionless yet very on-point AI, so be aware it won’t pet your feelings in any way no matter what you write. I added the instructions to the original post above.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 66 comments
- Comment on Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows 10 months ago:
Well I’ve heard Cybertrucks are getting cheap because not many people want them.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Well, such a license could just obligate the company that uses the content to open source the AI model that has been trained on it. If the instance prohibits training of AI models, or allow it, would be a separate condition that’s up to the instance owner.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 10 months ago:
Goldman Sachs would not publish it that prominantly if it didn’t help their internal goals. And their intention is certainly not to help the public or their competitors. There are “independen” studies that are well made and get to opposite conclusions. They just do what serves them. I wouldn’t trust anything that they publish.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 10 months ago:
There are studies that suggest that the information investment firms publish is not basdd on what they believe to be true, but what is good for their own internal investment strategy. And in many cases for serving their investment strategy, it benefits them to publish the opposite of what they believe is true.
- Comment on Goldman Sachs: AI Is Overhyped, Wildly Expensive, and Unreliable 10 months ago:
If that is what Goldman Sachs says, than most likely the opposite is true.
- Comment on Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? 10 months ago:
Why not banning them in schools, are they needed for studying?
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 11 months ago:
It’s not helpful because it’s not discussing content but attacking a person’s character. This leads to emotions running high rather than letting your readoning win the argument.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 11 months ago:
There should an option to say “I read it and I don’t want it” that makes the dot disappear.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 11 months ago:
When there’s a post about privacy issues, expect alternatives with more privacy be mentioned. It’s just that there are so many moments that big corporations violate user’s privacy nowadays, so people who escaped that mention an option with privacy in mind. Just don’t blame those people for the many privacy issues that corporations create.
- Comment on [May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors 11 months ago:
120 hz dynamically allocated, which means when you read text or do office work you save energy on a lower frame rate, and when you need higher frame rates for scrolling, movie or gaming it automatocally increases it up to 120 hz. 120 hz on a 4 k display is something you can’t get from other brands. I have to uprade my Lenovo X1 Carbon just to get more RAM, but would have to downgrade the display as Lenovo doesn’t offer good display options jn their Laptops anymore. I’m not going to sacrifice my eye sight to save Lenovo production costs. Fortunately, there is Frameworks now with their user orientated approach. And I won’t have to throw away a perfectly working high quality display and keyboard just to upgrade RAM, CPU, or ports, as all components can be swapped and independently upgraded on a Frameworks.
- Comment on [May 29] Introducing the new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 processors 11 months ago:
Well, I guess 9 hours of battery life for office work is enough for most use cases.
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 11 months ago:
There’s no way anyone in Europe can use a bank account without a banking app. As I said, even if you log-in on a browser on a laptop, authentication still requires you grab your phone and use the banking app to authorize the log-in from that laptop once in a while, or any transaction.
Unfortunately, the solution you propose is technically too advanced for most people, including me. Is using GrapheneOS with its sandbox feature good enough of a protection?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
That’s a great idea. Can we not apply a license to that social content that forces AI models trained on it to be open source?
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 11 months ago:
How do you acces your bank account without an app that requieres Google Play Services running? I can install bank apps via Aurora, but almost all of them won’t run without Google’s Software.
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 11 months ago:
It reads like a piece of comedy, except that it’s real.
- Comment on Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Shows 11 months ago:
I stopped buying their phones when they started trying to get control over the hardware I paid for, preventing me from installing the Operating System of my choice. I switched to Google Pixel phones and installed GrapheneOS via its one-click installation. Since then I’m enjoying a clean simple interface with no advertisement, no background telemetry, and a long battery life.
- Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts, Leaked Contract Showswww.404media.co ↗Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 11 comments
- Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training 1 year ago:
AI training to suggest emoji reactions? Really? 😂
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 1 year ago:
I think this has an effect most people don’t think of: Media will just lose it’s value as a trusted source for information. We’ll just lose the ability of broadcasting media as anything could be faked. Humanity is back to “word of mouth”, I guess.
