Hackworth
@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Dawg... 2 weeks ago:
More weed use among teens → more hot dogs sold in the U.S.
- Comment on Punch Time 2 weeks ago:
Just for fun, this was Opus’s attempt at translation with the prompt: “I saw this in a commercial for tea. Please translate: 「美味ちい」Keep an eye out for wordplay or cultural difference that would matter in the translation.”
This is clever Japanese wordplay! 「美味ちい」 is a pun that combines:
- 美味しい (oishii) = "delicious"
- 茶 (cha) = “tea”
They’ve replaced the し (shi) in “oishii” with ち (chi), creating a portmanteau that sounds like “oichii.” This blends “delicious” with a phonetic hint at “tea” (since ち/chi is close to ちゃ/cha).
Translation: “Deli-tea-ous” or “Tea-licious”
In English, we’d need a similar pun to capture the playful spirit. The commercial is essentially making a tea-specific version of the word “delicious” - it’s a fun bit of marketing language that suggests the tea is so good it deserves its own special adjective!
Interestingly, Anthropic’s newer (but smaller) model, Sonnet 4.5, doesn’t catch on without following up with something to the effect of, “What is tea in Japanese?” LLMs showed pretty amazing multilingual capabilities before they even started intentionally training them with more languages. That said, you definitively still need someone who speaks both languages to check/guide em. As it is their way to bullshit.
- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 2 weeks ago:
Been in video production for 30 years. We cannot rely on spotting problems to identify AI video. Selective attention alone means we miss major details in traditional video. Streaming services are testing AI upscaling, adding AI artifacts to pre-AI media. I regularly see comments pointing out artifacts from other sources (interlacing, morph cuts, moire, stabilization, compression, data moshing, etc) as evidence that the video is AI generated.
- Comment on No more Mr. Nice guy 2 weeks ago:
I get that too. But many people who are going to do harm won’t care what you do to ingratiate yourself. They’re more likely to see it as a sign of weakness that makes an easier target. We can’t service our way to safety. And on an even more fundamental level, the never-ending grasping for security through impression management is a way to distract us from the fear of death. “Memento mori,” in part is meant to short circuit this drive, which can turn malignantly toward sacrificing humanity and freedom for illusions of immortality and invincibility.
- Comment on No more Mr. Nice guy 2 weeks ago:
Probably not, but this is what I try to remember. People pleasing is a weird kind of arrogance. It feels like a selfless sacrifice, but it’s fundamentally an attempt at control. We cannot control the internal state of others. People are not going to always be pleased, nor should they be. And on the other side, those that encourage people pleasing behavior are (perhaps unintentionally) trying to control or exploit me.
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 2 weeks ago:
That’s not what’s meant by “ears over shoulders,” rather they’re over when standing. So in-line with shoulders when laying down, not what’s pictured here. But whether or not you want the neck in flection depends on whether or not there’s been an injury. The kinetic chain isn’t simple.
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 2 weeks ago:
Curiosity is as important as raw intelligence, and curiosity can be encouraged. Mostly it’s discouraged.
- Comment on Big if true! 3 weeks ago:
It’s best to consult the grimoire.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Funny, that was the first thing I thought of. Then the Tom Petty music video where Alice is a cake.
- Comment on "Behavioral Conditioning Methods to Stop my Boyfriend from Playing The Witcher 3" 1 month ago:
Like Cyberpunk 2077
- Comment on Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote 1 month ago:
Been uploading to Vimeo for 20 years. This does not sound like good news.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 1 month ago:
In much the same way people think of digital storage as external memory, I think of generative A.I. as external imagination. Of course, human memory doesn’t work like a hard drive, and LLMs don’t work like our imaginations. But as a guiding metaphor, it seems to work well for identifying good/bad use cases.
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 1 month ago:
No Gods or Kings or Mans.
Only Dinosaur.
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 month ago:
Cyberpunk Circuses
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 month ago:
One may draw upon the dark arts with any degree. -BA in Film, make ads
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 2 months ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Gish gallop
- Comment on Lemmy be like 2 months ago:
Spoilers: We will not
Generative inpainting/fill is enormously helpful in media production.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago:
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 months ago:
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 2 months ago:
- Comment on robot slurs 2 months 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 2 months 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.
