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- Comment on We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it 1 week ago:
This is just one of the many far reaching effects of the disinformation age we are headed into. It would not surprise me if, in the future (assuming humanity survives our climate crisis), this period of time will be contrasted with the middle ages as periods of great loss of human knowledge.
For what it’s worth, a lot of what the article is bringing up isn’t particularly new. Fake studies are nothing new, but the scope of them will definitely increase. While it is manpower intensive, this is easily solved by peer review. In fact, perhaps ironically, AI could be used to do a first-pass review before and summarize what seems like it was AI created versus human created and send that along to a human.
Corporation funded studies designed to get around regulation or to promote their product, on the other hand, is something we’ve been dealing with for quite some time and an issue we haven’t really solved as a society. Anyone who works in science knows how to spot these from a mile away because they’re nearly always published in tiny journals (low citation score) which either don’t do peer review or have shady guidelines. The richer companies have the money to simply run 40 or 50 studies concurrently and toss the data from every one that doesn’t have the outcome they’re looking for (in essence repeatedly rolling a d20 until they get a 20) which allows them to get their findings into a bigger journal because it’s all done above board. Some larger publishing journals have created guidelines to try and fight this, but ultimately you need meta-analyses and other researchers to disprove what’s going on, and that’s fairly costly.
Also, as an aside- this belongs in the science community more than tech in my opinion.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 33 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
hey there, removing this because its not a gaming article, feel free to repost it in a more appropriate community
- Comment on How Tea’s Founder Convinced Millions of Women to Spill Their Secrets, Then Exposed Them to the World [404 Media] 3 weeks ago:
Disgusting typical techbro behavior, I hate it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming out on September 4 3 weeks ago:
wild they managed to keep it under wraps for so long given its so soon
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is coming out on September 4 3 weeks ago:
Sept 4 like, 2 weeks from now? or 1 year and 2 weeks lol
- Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor 4 weeks ago:
The president really made an executive order about preventing woke AI? Humanity is cooked fam
- Comment on Your CV is not fit for the 21st century 4 weeks ago:
That’s going to take some research and a rewrite to get it looking like those it was trained to match. You need to be adding synonyms and dependencies because the AIs lack any model of how we actually do IT, they only see correlations between words.
Very simple solution: ask AI to rewrite your resume for specific job applications or fields.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 5 weeks ago:
Having seen how so many average people are using AI, I’m sadly not surprised that people are just going with whatever is up there, even when it is wrong.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite 5 weeks ago:
The difference is that Camacho is a himbo, our current president is more of a bridge troll
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It really isn’t hidden lol. But you will get countless LLM defenders online who claim you can eliminate the bias with prompting or other hacks which don’t address the underlying issue or do anything but patch a broken system. To fix LLM bias you need to systematically correct, and very few folks have bothered to try and design methods to systematically correct. In the case of Grok, it’s actually explicitly designed to reference Musk’s bigoted musings on subjects first before examining other information.
- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 2 months ago:
While you are correct, and the author deserves to be called out on their behavior, the context of the entire author is around how they are struggling with being bombarded with things taking up their attention and time. This response is seriously lacking in any compassion for the author’s struggle and more or less ignores the entire point of the article in order. Beehaw isn’t the place for one-liner gotchas.
- Comment on The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess 2 months ago:
Eh frankly I just see us moving to more strict reputation based systems - someone has to vouch for you.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust 2 months ago:
So how is an AI prompt poking for Holocaust denial different than a Google search looking for Holocaust denial?
Because one is something you have to actively search for. The other is shoved in your face, by a figure that many feel is one who has some authority.
Why are you defending anything about this situation? This is not a thread to discuss how LLMs work in detail, this is a thread about accountability, consequences, hate, and society.
- Comment on The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess 2 months ago:
Definitely something I’ve observed even here. Luckily we get few applications and there is a report button, but I share the author’s frustration and the author’s jaded view of a limited timeline on services such as ours being tenable. Eventually it will be trivially easy to flood this place with slop.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Comment on Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle 2 months ago:
314m what a joke! Still, good to see them lose this battle
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
You believe that a police officer, who is doing public actions, in a public role, should be given privacy while performing public actions? Say more
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
Even if an officer’s name and badge number were not public (which would be weird, because both of these are a part of a police officer’s uniform), what is the concern about a tool which provides these?
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
I would love to hear what has you concerned about a tool which provides a piece of information which is, by law (California Penal Code Section 830.10), supposed to be accessible to all individuals interacting with the officer - their name and/or badge number.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American 3 months ago:
In what world is that even a plausible outcome of this news? This feels non-sequitur by its pure absurdity. If they had a list of 1000 things they can do with this database, that would not even be on the list.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Create Master Database on Every American 3 months ago:
Already not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news
- Comment on Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia 4 months ago:
wokepedia lmao what’s wrong with the world
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 5 months ago:
I’m glad to see a lot of different people trying different models. I don’t think microblogging really has the capability of being nontoxic, but who knows? Maybe they’ll succeed where everyone else has failed. I certainly know we’re trying to have nontoxic social media around here, and we have plenty of issues at a much smaller scale.
- Comment on Why you should be polite to AI 5 months ago:
I understand why you might be upset based on how they made a rather sweeping statement about the comments without addressing any content. When they said “a bunch of sanctimonious people with too much appreciation for their own thoughts and a lack of any semblance of basic behaviour” it might strike many as an attack on the user base, but I’m choosing to interpret it through the lens of simply being upset at people who are not nice. I could be wrong, and perhaps @sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al can elaborate on exactly who and what they were talking about.
Regardless, let’s try our best to treat them in good faith. Don’t let your own biases shape how you interpret people or their language. Please try to ask clarifying questions first before jumping to the assumption that they are a right wing troll.
- Comment on have positive reviews destroyed games? 5 months ago:
That’s just cherrypicking. Yes some people will review bomb. Others will make fake positive reviews to counteract people review bombing a game for being too “woke”.
In the end the only thing that even could matter is how people in aggregate work - and that’s easy to account for, you just readjust the distribution to be more spread out to get the “true” score of things.
This video seems more like clickbait than anything. I’m finding it hard to find anything worthwhile to engage with here even from a high level.
- Comment on AI’s Fairness Problem: When Treating Everyone the Same is the Wrong Approach 6 months ago:
Installing ramps is explicitly not treating them the same. It is making accommodations for them because they are not the same.
- Comment on AI’s Fairness Problem: When Treating Everyone the Same is the Wrong Approach 6 months ago:
Yes, equity vs equality.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR 8 months ago:
The 3D medium had some fantastic art. There were a lot of gimmicks in movies you’d expect, like harold and kumar go to whitecastle (not meant to be a serious movie). But there were also fantastic shots and art direction such as in tron: legacy and prometheus, where 3D provided a much deeper feel of space and made certain shots that much more emotionally resonant and beautiful.
There were a lot more misses than wins, as most directors saw it as a gimmick, but not everyone did. The folks who thought carefully about how extra dimensions would affect a shot (even when it was done in post rather than shot on 3D cameras) made some wonderful art, and it’s a shame so many folks missed out on it because they weren’t able to see past it as a gimmick either.