Hackworth
@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 2 days ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Generative inpainting doesn’t typically employ an LLM. Only a few even use attention transformers. It costs in the range of $100,000 - $10 million to train a new diffusion or flow image model. Not cheap, but nothing crazy like training Opus or GPT 5.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
The different uses of AI are not inexctricable.
Many generative inpainting models will run locally
Continuing to treat AI as a monolith is missing the point.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
The different uses of AI are not inexctricable. This is the point of the post. We should be able to talk about the good and the bad.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
I don’t see the relevance here. Inpainting saves artists from time-consuming and repetitive labor for (often) no additional cost. Many generative inpainting models will run locally, but they’re also just included with an Adobe sub.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Gish gallop
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 week ago:
Spoilers: We will not
Generative inpainting/fill is enormously helpful in media production.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 1 week ago:
When I’m on the phone with a real human being in customer service, I’m often actually talking to an egregore of the company. They’re reading scripts (written by AI?), being scored by an AI that’s listening in to the recorded conversation, and responding in ways that the conversation tree tells them to respond. Even in the call center jobs that aren’t so managed, there’s really only so far someone can go off script. So while I definitely want more genuine human interaction in the world, I dunno if this is the hill to fight on. All that said, we’re definitely headed for the cyberpunk future, cause everything’s run by a buncha gonks.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 1 week ago:
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few AIs in my time.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 weeks ago:
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on robot slurs 3 weeks ago:
L…l…l…l…look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
Mysticism has a way of filling a volume. They’ll ask question after question until they get the answer they want: “No, we’re not sure why charge is a property that a particle can have in our universe, but…” - “Got it, mystery.” Then they’ll turn around and shepherd all these “mysteries” into their god of the gaps to demystify them anyway, so they can feel wise when they should feel curious.
- Comment on US education 3 weeks ago:
Obligatory Gremlins 2 Brainstorm Key & Peele sketch
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 3 weeks ago:
The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30’s-70’s didn’t taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 5 weeks ago:
From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 month ago:
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value
Advertising and politics?
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 1 month ago:
- Comment on DIY 4th of July 1 month ago:
You can also do this by blowing out a match and putting it under an upturned glass shortly before microwaving it. Turns the carbon vapor into plasma, or some such. Though the time I tried it, it escaped the glass and melted the microwave’s lining. Don’t recommend if it’s an appliance ya care about.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 1 month ago:
And in that environment, everyone who actually understands how things work quits or gets quit. It’s my understanding that there are large sections of code bases that MS just doesn’t touch, because everyone who understood how they functioned is gone. Continuity of institutional knowledge is difficult in the best cases and impossible under leaders that discourage dissenting perspectives. /gestures about wildly
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 1 month ago:
352413, I mean, clearly.
- Comment on My tactic 1 month ago:
- Comment on Crikey 1 month ago:
The single CD amongst all that analog media seems so much like an anachronism that I had to look it up. The CD standard was published in 1980 and it was commercially available in the US in 1983 but it took until 1992 for CD sales to surpass cassette tape sales.
