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- Comment on 4chan Is Using TikTok Owner ByteDance's Hidden AI App to Generate Porn 3 months ago:
Checkmate, I called the police.
- Comment on Sony kills off [recordable] Blu-ray and optical disks for consumer market — business-to-business production to continue until unprofitable 3 months ago:
Optical discs were sold to companies as a near-eternal solution. And they do this to businesses…
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
I really like Jobs-era Apple and hate M$, but didn’t feel the urge to defend A this time.
- Comment on Finally a useful feature (no) 4 months ago:
The hatred is unfortunate. It’s just a button with a simple software launcher. If people don’t want the logi driver they don’t have to install it.
- Comment on Finally a useful feature (no) 4 months ago:
Likely it’s as simple as a pop up window with UI dedicated for constructing text with ChatGPT. Very useful, nothing more.
- Comment on AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent 4 months ago:
Did we ever agree on AI training with our Reddit comments btw
- Comment on Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI 4 months ago:
If you have pre-trained model or a classical voice matching algorithm as the basis, few samples might suffice.
- Comment on ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself 4 months ago:
Most clients don’t understand art or graphics to begin with, I guess. They just wanted someone good at Illustrator.
- Comment on ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself 4 months ago:
I think the quality definitely degraded, but that’s exactly what capitalism wanted. It’s going to darwin a big chunk of us through climate change that’s accelerated by the electricity needs.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI 4 months ago:
Means nothing to Recall.
His testimony comes after Microsoft admitted that it could have taken steps to prevent two aggressive nation-state cyberattacks from China and Russia.
According to Microsoft whistleblower Andrew Harris, Microsoft spent years ignoring a vulnerability while he proposed fixes to the “security nightmare.” Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.
- Comment on Microsoft in damage-control mode, says it will prioritize security over AI 4 months ago:
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is now personally responsible for security flaws.
I say BS.
- Comment on Elon Musk bets Tesla on Optimus, says over 1,000 robots working in factories next year 4 months ago:
Nah, if 2 are really working, just buy 998 and he’d have at least stuck to the number. Whether that improves something is the actual question.
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 4 months ago:
I just hope they’ll let non-profit app stores join. I just want an open source package manager tbh.
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 4 months ago:
No, Japan just listened to the previous app market monopoly that was NTT Docomo and other providers who wanted their money pot back.
- Comment on Japan forces Apple and Google to open their mobile platforms • The Register 4 months ago:
The funny thing is that this is probably lobbying from NTT Docomo, who lost their own app store monopoly for feature phones the moment smartphones arrived.
- Comment on Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data 4 months ago:
I think the advancement in graphics or computer vision is too huge to be comparable to what happened in audio.
- Comment on Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data 4 months ago:
Adobe has probably employed dozens of top-level PhDs to implement and train AI models, optimized their code.
Hobby projects will never reach that level regardless of the number of users.
Even proprietary developers would have to close the gap made for 10+ years, with far less resources. Just look at the state of Affinity…
I don’t think it’s realistic.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts 4 months ago:
I think they want firstly smooth integration with OneDrive. Then with Copilot, and finally it’s Recall.
- Comment on OpenAI Insider Estimates 70 Percent Chance That AI Will Destroy or Catastrophically Harm Humanity 4 months ago:
This is a horoscope trick. They can always say AI destroyed humanity.
Trump won in 2016 and there was Cambridge Analytica doing data analysis: AI technology destroyed humanity!
Israel used AI-guided missiles to attack Gaza: AI destroyed humanity!
Whatever. You can point at whatever catastrophe and there is always AI behind because already in 2014 AI is a basic technology.
- Comment on German parliament will stop using fax machines 5 months ago:
Japanese Prime Minister
- Comment on New breakthrough may let us charge smartphones in 60 seconds 5 months ago:
I feel the Doc in Back To The Future vibe.
- Comment on OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation 5 months ago:
This is just labeling. You can label everything as bad at will. I’m fine with that, it’s called “you’re entitled to your opinion”. That’s not objective though.
- Comment on OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation 5 months ago:
I can say it’s both on point and not. For the not, you can ban the gun in the UK and it will be very difficult to bring one from the continent. Peace. But the same is not true for AI. If the UK government bans AI, Russia can still bring it through the internet.
And then I can still counter-argue that one, and then counter-argue this one also. See what a mess a metaphoric arguments bring.
- Comment on OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation 5 months ago:
I already write one reply to tell my main point. But whatever argument you come up with, I don’t think that’ll match the reality as viewed by AI researchers. If you give me specific short questions I’d be happy to engage in a discussion, with conditions on time.
In any case, I won’t listen to metaphoric arguments like yours with guns because metaphoric arguments are very difficult to do scientifically. Every situation is different. I mean that anybody can always end the discussion saying “that’s oranges vs apples”, and everything time this happens you’d not have an objective way to counter that.
- Comment on OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation 5 months ago:
The reality is, passing this huge amount of data was the only way these crazy current AI models work as powerful as ChatGPT. With a restriction like you fantasize, the AI programs would have been dominated by bad actors and the west would not have a counter technology for a decade if not longer.
Regulating the outputs of AIs would be a separate story. But it’s still overwhelmingly difficult. OpenAI is actually advanced in this region in the sense that they have in pocket the single best technology to politically balance the replies by a chatbot.
- Comment on OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation 5 months ago:
We aren’t naive. We all knew this will happen. But it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.
- Comment on The level of engagement on Reddit these days 5 months ago:
I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don’t have stats to distinguish them.
- Comment on New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC 5 months ago:
Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved. You view your password on a website, it’s now also in the local AI archive. Friend comes in, asks Copilot about something and the password for my bank is shown. Thank you, MS, for making life easier /s
- Comment on New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC 5 months ago:
This is great, I can show all my 4k porn collection to my managers doing Teams screen sharing!
- Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training 5 months ago:
Corporations are bad and yet still follow laws (in the west). The bigger issue is state actors. Especially the non-democratic ones.