Hackworth
@Hackworth@piefed.ca
- Comment on Somebody made a Cave Story Walkthrough Concept Album and its really fucking good 1 day ago:
Nice, it’s been a hot minute since I listened to some good Nerdcore.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 1 week ago:
Oh, you think the darkness is your ally. But you merely adopted the dark.
- Comment on Digital Sorcery – The Occult History of Psychological Warfare 1 week ago:
Also check out Patrick Dunn’s Postmodern Magic: The Art of Magic in the Information Age and the follow-up, Magic, Power, Language, Symbol: A Magician’s Exploration of Linguistics for an exploration of the information paradigm of magic(k). An interesting question to ponder: What is an LLM from this perspective?
- Comment on Do werewolves shed? Or do they lose their whole coat when transferring back? Do Vampires have little holes in their K9s to suck up the blood after puncturing someone or thing? 1 week ago:
Like a reverse selkie. Speaking of Fae, the werewolves of Ossory are neat.
- Comment on Better do it anyway, though 🤔 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Well, shit 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Artax can speak in the novel.
- Comment on AI advice 2 weeks ago:
I agree that we should never treat these things as oracles. But how often they’re right/wrong does matter.
- Comment on AI advice 2 weeks ago:
My point was that some models are better than others.
- Comment on AI advice 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is it possible that none of this is real? 3 weeks ago:
Unless there’s a way to exit game, I’m not sure what difference it’d genuinely make. I am as real as I am.
- Comment on Anti-Woke means asleep. A pictorial example inside. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Internet Didn't Fail. It Was Taken. 3 weeks ago:
The world’s richest men are concentrating control over the pipes through which all of this is running, all of our information.
I’m afraid we’re in/nearing the endgame of this tug of war, and we don’t control the physical infrastructure. Without an ISP that isn’t in bed with the government/corporatocracy, I’m not sure how we even keep freedom of speech alive long-term.
- Comment on How does a person get on the No Gun List without commiting a crime? My brother was diagnosed with BIpolar and others he doesn't even want the option ten year down the road. 4 weeks ago:
Caveat on the drug thing: There is a list of who has a medical cannabis Rx. And I suppose any prescription… do opiods count?
- Comment on A succulent meal 4 weeks ago:
-Dr. Steve Brule
- Comment on Forget your astral sign, which Muppet do you want to be? 4 weeks ago:
Uh huh
- Comment on We are not the same 4 weeks ago:
You could have done both.
- Comment on How?!? 1 month ago:
Oompa Loompa doompety doo.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 month ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk and Sam Altman clashed on X after Musk shared a post about a man who committed a murder-suicide following delusional conversations with ChatGPT 1 month ago:
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 month ago:
Many medical applications of ML do use transformer architectures, so it’s fundamentally the same technology.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 month ago:
Usually when people share a post, it’s because the post evoked a reaction, and they want to share that with someone. Making the conversation about the provenance of the post truncates the exchange in an unsatisfying way. For a news story, propaganda, or the like, the source is important. For funny dog videos? Maybe the quality of the exchange is more important. A nice middle ground would be to react as if it were true, and then point out it’s probably AI. Videos are easier to spot, but the difference between an image that’s obviously AI and one that looks real is like 10 min of work in Photoshop. So we’re often better off saving our faculties of discernment for the stuff that matters.
- Comment on Where are the marketing volunteers? 1 month ago:
As a practitioner of that dark art, I fear you know not what you summon. You don’t really want Lemmy to be popular, not in a way that traditional marketing is going to make it popular.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 months ago:
As I understand it, CLIP (and other text encoders in diffusion models) aren’t trained like LLMs, exactly. They’re trained on image/text pairing, which ya get from the metadata creators upload with their photos in Adobe Stock. That said, Adobe hasn’t published their entire architecture.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 2 months ago:
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 2 months ago:
Here’s 60 Minutes’s piece from last month about the vending machine in Anthropic’s office.
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 2 months ago:
That was all part of the idea, though, because Anthropic had designed this test as a stress test to begin with. Previous runs in their own office had indicated similar concerns.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 months ago:
The Firefly image generator is a diffusion model, and the Firefly video generator is a diffusion transformer. LLMs aren’t involved in either process. I believe there are some ChatGPT integrations with Reader and Acrobat, but that’s unrelated to Firefly.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 months ago:
Adobe’s image generator (Firefly) is trained only on images from Adobe Stock.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 months ago:
Coincidentally, this paper published yesterday indicates that LLMs are worse at coding the closer you get to the low level like assembly or binary. Or more precisely, ya stop seeing improvements pretty early on in scaling up the models. If I’m reading it right, which I’m probably not.
