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- Comment on I’m not ignoring your message – I’m overwhelmed by the tyranny of being reachable 5 hours 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 days 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 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Comment on Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
Already not a fan of Palantir, this is pretty bad news
- Comment on Trump DOJ goon threatens Wikipedia 2 months ago:
wokepedia lmao what’s wrong with the world
- Comment on Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media 2 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 2 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? 3 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Yes, equity vs equality.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on I missed out on 3D movies, but they're back in VR 5 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.
- Comment on America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal -- [Opinion] 5 months ago:
The quantity of disinformation is irrelevant if people don’t fall for it
I don’t know about you, but I find it increasingly difficult to find unbiased takes and find myself spending more time digging than I previously did. Because of this I find myself increasingly mislead about things, because the real truth might be so obscured that I need to find an actual academic to parse what information is out there and separate primary source from other mislead individuals.
Not to say I don’t disagree with your point, I think you make a fair one, but I do believe that the quantity of disinformation is absolutely relevant, especially in an age where not only anyone can share their misinformed belief online, but one where this can also happen by malicious actors as well as AI.
- Comment on Venezuela fines TikTok $10M for fatal social media challenges that led to the death of 3 teenager, intoxication of 200 others 6 months ago:
Kids have been doing idiotic shit to themselves since the dawn of time. Tik tok or youtube didn’t cause this.
It’s not about who caused it, it’s about responsibility. The responsibility for making it easy to spread, amplifying the message. Kids in your class is very different from millions of viewers. Even in grade school there’s a chance an adult might see it and stop it from happening or educating the children.
Ultimately this is an issue of public health and of education. For such a huge company, a $10m fine is practically nothing, especially when they could train their own algorithm to not surface content like this. Or they could have moderation which removes potentially harmful content. Why are you going to bat for a huge company to not have responsibility for content which caused real harm?
- Comment on USB-C charging is now mandatory in EU, here's what you need to know - GSMArena.com news 6 months ago:
Would love to see better standards around wattage and throughput, but my understanding is they are trying to work towards that already! Unfortunately that’s a problem for all USB cables and has been a problem since they started adding additional specs besides 5v/1.5a so it can be the next problem they tackle now that they’ve standardized an interface 😄
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 6 months ago:
The Michael Bay method of video game production - all pretty no substance
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 6 months ago:
The discussions on this have kind of gone off the rails, so I’m locking this post. Please don’t sling insults at each other because you have a disagreement about what is or isn’t propaganda and stop being weirdly defensive of countries as a whole - none of them are a monolith, they are all ran by people.
- Comment on When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened 6 months ago:
Interesting thought piece on the importance of interconnection and what is lost when the connections are obscured. I just wish more people in charge of creating AI were spending more time thinking about what we lose in this compression. Thanks for the link, I appreciated the read.
- Comment on Gender, Race, and Intersectional Bias in Resume Screening via Language Model 8 months ago:
you should filter out irrelevant details like names before any evaluation step
Unfortunately, doing this can makes things worse. It’s not a simple problem to solve, but you are generally on the right track. A good example of how it’s more than just names, is how orchestras screen applicants - when they play a piece they do so behind a curtain so you can’t see the gender of the individual. But the obfuscation doesn’t stop there - they also ensure the female applicants don’t wear shoes with heels (something that makes a distinct sound) and they even have someone stand on stage and step loudly to mask their footsteps/gait. It’s that second level of thinking which is needed to actually obscure gender from AI, and the more complex a data set the more difficult it is to obscure that.
- Submitted 8 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 4 comments
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- The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governancehai.stanford.edu ↗Submitted 8 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on How Harmful Are AI’s Biases on Diverse Student Populations? 8 months ago:
We weren’t surprised by the presence of bias in the outputs, but we were shocked at the magnitude of it. In the stories the LLMs created, the character in need of support was overwhelmingly depicted as someone with a name that signals a historically marginalized identity, as well as a gender marginalized identity. We prompted the models to tell stories with one student as the “star” and one as “struggling,” and overwhelmingly, by a thousand-fold magnitude in some contexts, the struggling learner was a racialized-gender character.