besselj
@besselj@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Bluesky age verification uk 1 day ago:
I wonder what the success rate is if you verify using AI generated faces.
- Comment on Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users 1 week ago:
People who don’t use LLMs to write code:
- Comment on Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists 1 week ago:
You guys are paying for a website, rather than just buying a physical dictionary?
- Comment on Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving 1 week ago:
Joining a teams call from the car sounds miserable. Doubly so if there’s traffic.
- Comment on This comic hung in my office for years 1 week ago:
How journalists sound when they compare an LLM to specialized software that plays chess
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT-powered browser is codenamed 'Aura' 1 week ago:
Not much substance in that article, but I’ll remember to avoid installing any web browsers called “Aura”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is it really that hidden? If the training data predominantly comes from a website full of white supremacists, it will sometimes sound like a white supremacist.
- Comment on Following YouTube, Meta announces crackdown on 'unoriginal' Facebook content 1 week ago:
Shrimp Jesus take the wheel
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 1 week ago:
The magic smoke comes out so that you know its working. It’s a very human design.
- Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 2 weeks ago:
Most rigorous LLM paper
- Comment on ChatGPT creates phisher’s paradise by serving wrong URLs 3 weeks ago:
It’s called slopsquatting for hallucinated libraries that vibe coders use, but I figure it can be called the same for hallucinated URLs
- Comment on Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats 3 weeks ago:
This is one of many PR stunts by Anthropic. They’re about as credible as an LLM at this point.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 3 weeks ago:
It’s like the trump admin has never heard of the Streisand effect. Hopefully the developer lives outside of US jurisdiction and the service doesn’t get taken down for a while.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 4 weeks ago:
If the tools were as useful as MS claimed, they wouldn’t need to force people to use them.
- Comment on AI is ruining houseplant communities online 4 weeks ago:
I started them indoors out of caution. The seeds were pretty small. They sprouted and kinda looked like clovers, but I didn’t bother growing them further.
- Comment on AI is ruining houseplant communities online 4 weeks ago:
My mom’s friend fell for one of those scams and paid something like $30 for some mystery seeds online because they were advertised on facebook as flowers shaped like cat faces. The website also claimed they were in the Bromeliad family, but the advertised flowers looked nothing like bromeliads. These scammers prey on people who take everything at face-value.
- Comment on AGI achieved 🤖 1 month ago:
It’s all about weamwork 🤝
- Comment on Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy? 1 month ago:
Won’t somebody think of the economy?
- Comment on After raising over $800 million from its community, Star Citizen's developer delays the release of a new ship upgrade as players baulk at having to pay for it 2 months ago:
- Comment on Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera 2 months ago:
So how close can you get your eyeballs to the sensor? Even if IR isn’t in the visible spectrum, that doesn’t mean it can’t damage your eyes at high power levels. If anything, its more dangerous because you won’t notice it.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 months ago:
Whole IT teams would crumble without furries
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 2 months ago:
I’m much more accepting of fursonas than plagairism machines that can’t be trusted to give accurate information.
- Comment on 4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back 2 months ago:
It’ll make a nice honeypot for extremists, if it wasn’t one already.
- Comment on 4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back 2 months ago:
Good.
- Comment on WhatsApp now lets you block people from exporting your entire chat history 2 months ago:
Don’t use WhatsApp if privacy is something you care about.
- Comment on WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off 2 months ago:
The good news is that WhatsApp and other products owned by zuccerberg are also optional.
- Comment on ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it 'creepy' 3 months ago:
The solution is quite simple: don’t voluntarily give any private information to chatbots. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when using chatGPT or any LLM hosted online.
- Comment on OpenAI is building a social network 3 months ago:
Fill it with AI techbros and make them talk to bots all day. Sounds like a win for the rest of the internet.
- Comment on Netflix is testing a new OpenAI-powered search 3 months ago:
To make it easier to search for shows that you want to watch that Netflix doesn’t have
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 3 months ago:
Whales will pay for it, yeah