melmi

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google destroys their own search engine by encouraging terrible SEO nonsense and then offers the solution in the form of these AI overviews, cutting results out of the picture entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are already AI-written books flooding the market, not to mention other forms of written misinformation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you, ultimately. My point is just that “good for humanity vs bad for humanity” isn’t a debate, there’s no “We want to ruin humanity” party. Most people see their own viewpoint as being best for humanity, unless they’re a psychopath or a nihilist.

  There are fundamental differences in political views as well as ethical beliefs, and any attempt to boil them down to “good for humanity” vs “bad for humanity” is going to be inherently political. I think “what’s best for humanity” is a good guiding metric to determine what one finds ethical, but using it to categorize others’ political beliefs is going to be divisive at best.

  In other words, it’s not comparable to the left/right axis, which may be insufficient and one-dimensional, but at least it describes something that can be somewhat objective (if controversial and ill-defined). Someone can be happy with their position on the axis. Whereas if it were good/bad, everyone would place themselves at Maximum Good, therefore it’s not really useful or comparable to the left/right paradigm.

  But hey, instead of killing everyone, eugenics could lead us to a beautiful stratified future, like depicted in the aspirational sci-fi utopia of Brave New World!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that “everyone is inherently equal” is a conclusion you can reach through logic. I’d argue that it’s more like an axiom, something you have to accept as true in order to build a foundation of a moral system.

  This may seem like an arbitrary distinction, but I think it’s important to distinguish because some people don’t accept the axiom that “everyone is inherently equal”. Some people are simply stronger (or smarter/more “fit”) than others, they’ll argue, and it’s unjust to impose arbitrary systems of “fairness” onto them.

  In fact, they may believe that it is better for humanity as a whole for those who are stronger/smarter/more fit to have positions of power over those who are not, and believe that efforts for “equality” are actually upsetting the natural way of things and thus making humanity worse off.

  People who have this way of thinking largely cannot be convinced to change through pure logical argument (just as a leftist is unlikely to be swayed by the logic of a social darwinist) because their fundamental core beliefs are different, the axioms all of their logic is built on top of.

  And it’s worth noting that while this system of morality is repugnant, it doesn’t inherently result in everyone killing each other like you claim. Even if you’re completely amoral, you won’t kill your neighbor because then the police will arrest you and put you on trial. Fascist governments also tend to have more punitive justice systems, to further discourage such behavior. And on the governmental side, they want to discourage random killing because they want their populace to be productive, not killing their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with a “beneficial to humanity” axis is that I think that most people think their political beliefs, if enacted, would be beneficial to humanity. Most people aren’t the villains of their own stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what’s going on here. It’s just doing what it’s been told, which is repeating the system prompt. It has nothing to do with Gab, this trick or variations of it work on pretty much any GPT deployment.

  We need to be careful about anthropomorphizing AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 actors reveal the darker side of success fuelled by AI voice cloning⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. It would be better to set a precedent that using people’s voices without permission is not okay. Even in your example, you’re suggesting that you would have a Patreon while publishing mods that contain voice clips made using AI. In this scenario, you’ve made money from these unauthorized voice recreations. It doesn’t matter if you’re hoping to one day hire the VAs themselves, in the interim you’re profiting off their work.

  Ultimately though, I don’t think it matters if you’re making money or not. I got caught up in the tech excitement of voice AI when we first started seeing it, but as we’ve had the strike and more VAs and other actors sharing their opinions on it I’ve come to be reminded of just how important consent is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have nothing wrong with lighthearted takes on Trek, but choosing to make the movie about “fascist space emperor joins the CIA” lighthearted seems like a dubious choice. I guess we’ll see how they portray it but given how Trek has handled S31 so far, I don’t want to get my hopes up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Infinite Ends Development – Trek Central⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to play it when it came out, but there were some visual issues that started to give me a migraine so I put it down and just haven’t picked it up since. At some point I’ll give it another shot and see if they fixed the migraine issue haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Infinite Ends Development – Trek Central⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are two Star Trek total conversions for Stellaris, even, each with their own unique approach. New Civilizations might even be a little better, imo.

  Also, Resurgence already came out, to mixed reviews—but no microtransactions! It’s coming out on Steam in May, but that’s because it was a timed Epic exclusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you wrote this yourself, that’s even more ironic, because you used the same format that ChatGPT likes to spit out. Humans influence ChatGPT -> ChatGPT influences humans. Everything’s come full circle.

  I ask though because on your profile you’ve used ChatGPT to write comments before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you use AI to write this? Kinda ironic, don’t you think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: The Deep Space Nine episode that predicted a US crisis [bbc.com]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there may be inequality and bigotry in some solarpunk fiction but unlike cyberpunk it’s not about “our heroes fighting the system that will almost inevitably crush them”. Solarpunk is innately hopeful, and there’s conflict (kinda intrinsic to storytelling) but it doesn’t require the existence of inequality or bigotry, and a lot of solarpunk fiction explicitly doesn’t have any bigotry in it period.

  Cyberpunk might be about “our system sucks, and our heroes may or may not want it to change”, but solarpunk is about “the system of the modern day was bad, and so we replaced it entirely”. The “punk” part doesn’t require that the heroes are individually punks within the context of their own world, it’s called punk because it’s in contrast to our modern system. Also because -punk is kinda a generic term for genres at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the kids didn't mutiny, would Picard have been killed when the turbolift fell?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ending was decent. It ended right where the book series it’s based off of has a 30-year time skip, so it worked out pretty well for them. They have plenty of time to come back to it and still keep continuity with actors too FWIW.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching Threshold again. Yay or nay?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame you didn’t like The Elysian Kingdom, I thought that was a great episode. But then I’m a sucker for episodes where the actors get to act out of character for a while, and a LARP episode was silly fun. I suppose it’s just a preference thing. I can’t believe you compared in the same breath as Code of Honor, though—lots of Trek is boring at times, but Code of Honor is straight up offensive, a true failure for Trek. If anything, Elysian Kingdom is more similar to Threshold in the “low quality” sense than to Code of Honor, which is actually an awful episode that shouldn’t have been made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just sayin'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Distributions often ship their own compiled versions of the kernel, with some options changed, but it’s still Linux. Same with GNU tools. But the main difference between distros isn’t their flavor of GNU tools or what kernel they ship, the difference between distros is actually all the stuff that gets layered on top like the package manager.