Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on ChatGPT's hallucination problem is getting worse according to OpenAI's own tests and nobody understands why 16 hours ago:
That is, almost certainly, not the reason. What you’re describing is “model collapse”, a situation which can be triggered in certain extreme laboratory conditions, and only in small models. It may be possible on larger models such as OpenAI’s flagships, but has never been observed or even proved to be feasible. In fact there probably isn’t enough synthetic (ai-generated) data in the world to do that.
If i were to guess why hallucinations are on the rise, i’d say it’s more probably because the new models are fine-tuned for “vibes”, “empathy”, “emotional quotient” and other unquantifiables. This naturally exacerbates their tendency for bullshit.
This is very apparent when you compare ChatGPT (fine-tuned to be a nice and agreeable chat bot) with Claude (fine-tuned to be a performant task executor). You almost never see hallucinations from Claude, it is perfectly able to just respond with “i don’t know”, where ChatGPT would spout 5 paragraphs of imaginary knowledge.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 1 week ago:
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s not necessarily baked into the models, but rather part of a style guide in the system prompt
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 week ago:
I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.
Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.
You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 1 week ago:
Honestly that made me realize that he’s a really, genuinely funny guy. From the outside you may think “yeah his shows have good jokes cause there’s a whole team in the writing room and they can rewrite a scene until it’s a banger” but then you hear him improv 20 minutes of MC non-binary chicken or some moronic shit, while drunk out of his mind, and it just fucking works.
He also came off as a pathologically sincere person, which is a trait i like a lot. There was this borderline me-too story between him and one of his assistants, and he was so sincerely apologetic in his response that the victim basically praised him for apologizing right…
Kids, take a look at this fat alcoholic narcissistic piece of junk cause he may teach you what it means to be a man.
- Comment on What show are you surprise managed to finish, or get many seasons out of it at least, and avoid cancellation? 1 week ago:
I’m still sad from Harmontown ending. It was a hell of a podcast.
- Comment on Black Mirror Question 3 weeks ago:
Black mirror is inspired by the great scifi anthologies such as the twilight zone, which themselves are an offshoot of scifi short story anthologies (as in books). The formula is pretty well established, you’ll get a cold open, some rich world building based on technology, and, most of the times, a bleak and existential ending.
Sorry but that’s kind of baked in the entire genre…
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 3 months ago:
Yeah i don’t know much about TS but as an extreme metal fan happily married to a K-pop & K-drama fan, I agree with your point. But again, there’s a lot of signal in those various situations.
The girl in the story has clearly signaled that pop-culture tastes are important for her in a potential partner, while you and I have clearly signaled that it isn’t. Both are very valid.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 3 months ago:
I was actually agreeing with you. She rejected him for liking anime just like he may have rejected him for liking Taytay & reality TV. As you said, dating is not a speedrun to making some random person like you - it’s a search for someone you like and who likes you back. Personal interests and hobbies are a great proxy to finding that person. But of course you have to be in a good place mentally, and not ready to ditch your dignity for validation from a random person you might not even like if you were frank with yourself.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 3 months ago:
Yeah I’d Anon had asked first and she had replied “Taylor swift and watching reality TV” how would he have reacted?
- Comment on oopsie 3 months ago:
I have to keep my LinkedIn for business reasons but recently I noticed a big uptick in fascist-adjacent posting. At first it depressed me big time but then I started blocking and a couple weeks and dozen blocks later it was over. Turns out a small number of people can really give the impression of a crowd and fuck with the whole experience.
- Comment on Anon comes up with filenames 3 months ago:
Yeah the filename is fsdfsdf like always
- Comment on Anon goes to the doctor 4 months ago:
Be me
SPQR-fag enjoying the steam at the bathhouse
Romanon comes in, agitated and talking to himself
claims he is shooting the shit with Plato
tfw Plato’s been dead for centuries
someone’s feeling the effects of lead poisoning extra hard today
Delenda est Carthago
- Comment on Oh fuck no 6 months ago:
I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 6 months ago:
Yeah it certainly depends on the teacher. If you’re into that kind of history, Pacome from Blast made a gigantic episode about this in his “L’empire n’a jamais pris fin” series. One of the best youtube essays i’ve ever seen in French.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 - Official Teaser Trailer 6 months ago:
I had the same feeling with planet crafter. After a while you learn to run around with just enough materials to build a room and a door and bam, the whole oxygen management mechanic is neutralized.
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 6 months ago:
where was that ? My hometown is like 20km from a city that was entirely burned down and had its population eradicated during the first Albigense crusade - i swear to God it was never mentioned to me. My parents hadn’t ever heard of it either.
- Comment on What's the term for someone that likes Jesus of Nazareth, but doesn't identify with church, religious dogma, or whatever? 6 months ago:
From reading your post it seems like you could be interested by the Jesus movement (that is the jewish followers of Jesus, before catholicism was codified and adopted by the Romans as state religion). Everything that wasn’t authoritarian fear-based catholic was branded as “gnostic heresy” and purged from the canon, but there’s some real good shit that is very close to the core message of Christ.
A recent(-ish) example of gnostic christianity is catharism, which was a heresy that lasted for a few centuries in the South of France. They had no clergy, just a caste of ascetic wise men and women who would walk the land and dispense wisdom and judgement. Very egalitarian, very spiritual, very christ-like. As you can imagine, they got crushed in one of the rare “self-crusades” in history (meaning the King of France sent his own armies to burn down cities in his own country and murder thousands upon thousands of his own subjects). As you can imagine there is not one history teacher in France who will tell you about this episode.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
dear diary today on Lemmy i saw a guy who was angry at a job title
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
I’m not sure what you mean. Integrating LLMs in a codebase requires the use of specific tools. Sure it’s not as established and wide ranging as “frontend” but it’s still something that you need to learn and work on if you want to do it well. Kind of like, you know, a skill.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
yeah and we all know there is only the one type of software engineer. It would be ridiculous to separate them into categories depending on whether they work on frontend, backend, embedded lmao
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
I … I don’t know man !
I think some time around the year 10000 humanity solved most of their problem and the only remaining scarcity was “good living”. Like, cultures that had a sophisticated way of enjoying life through good food, good drink and good companionship suddenly came at a high premium. The people from SW France became insanely wealthy very quick, and a sort of federation was struck between the Gascony people, the Basque and the Brittons. It was really the only possible counter-power to the more colonialist and military minded Italians.
Boar religion could be described as Albigensian catharism, except in space. Their freedom-loving ways are despised by the Italian catholic church but the galaxy is so vast that religion wars never really break out, it’s just local skirmishes.
I haven’t yet determined what animal the italians have morphed into, really glad to hear any suggestion.
Oh and here’s a picture of the Assembly of the Perfecti, held annually at Baiona Station :
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
I think they have adapted to life in hard vacuum they just wear those helmet cause they look pretty
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
Since Gen art became a thing i’ve been using it episodically to create images of a civilization of space-faring boars, representing the future of my glorious South-Western France civilization. They raise ducks and grow wine in space, and the lore is getting a lot deeper than i first thought. It’s so fucking fun man.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
If there’s one thing artists don’t do, it’s try and build a picket fence around Art to separate it from Not Art. Duchamp was 100 years ago i think the point that “Art can be anything and everything” has been abundantly made during the 20th century.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
Remember when corporations tried to claim that money you didn’t spend on their product was theft ? This way of thinking has been recycled by the anti-AI bros.
Turns out all the money you don’t spend on struggling artists is not only theft, but also class warfare. You stinking bougie you.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 6 months ago:
Except it’s not used as a job title to describe people prompting Midjourney lol. A prompt engineer is a software engineer who specifically deals with LLM workflows.
- Comment on Name generator 7 months ago:
Ok that one is hilarious
- Comment on Sid Meier's Pirates, and everyone else in the game, are aware of the date... 7 months ago:
Same. I remember playing the original on an Amstrad in the 90s and it was already mind blowing. I was so happy they remade it, and even happier that they barely changed anything about it.