mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 1 week ago:
This “We’re not” sounds a lot like “We kind of are.”
You’re using it for moderation.
You’re using it for editing.
You’re using it for translation.
You’re using it as the first thing new people experience.
Where are you not using it? What’s left?
- Comment on Desert of Impossible Hope 1 week ago:
One of the biggest tells in generative art is how the model likes lining things up. A human artist would not put the balloon tangent to the skyline - where its distance and scale become ambiguous.
- Comment on Collective licence to ensure UK authors get paid for works used to train AI 1 week ago:
Training is transformative use.
It’s not like this ends with authors being paid every time a neural network gets used - we’d see a properly open model emerge. Smaller networks, trained on hand-pruned data, already look like the way forward. Generalization from sparse examples is how any of this works.
If people can’t simply let the robot read every book in the library, they’re not gonna pay for every book in the library. They’re gonna switch to some above-board torrent of public domain / Creative Commons / permissively-licensed content. That didn’t happen first because scaling up worked better, to a point. Aaaand scale prevents competition. Also it was a great excuse to spy on as much private data as possible.
When the bubble bursts, the tech will remain and flourish, and there’s not gonna be much money involved.
- Comment on Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game 1 week ago:
Fond memories of some redditor recreating the Terminator 2 trailer with video AI, back when it was impossibly primitive… eighteen months ago. Total gloop. Panning across a guy and a kid on a motorcycle, to the same guy and kid on a motorcycle, to a third copy that’s upside-down.
- Comment on Apple replaced Mythic Quest’s series finale after the show was canceled 2 weeks ago:
And there were so many unresolved plotlines that the sudden cancellation meant that Mythic Quest would always feel incomplete.
Well aside - fuck shows that do this. Unless the next season is guaranteed, act like this is the last one, because it probably is. Especially on streaming. If the whole season drops at once, you can’t be warned halfway through making episode 6 that there’s not gonna be an episode 12. People can be interested in more, even invested in it, without leaving them unsatisfied.
This revisionism is a memory-hole band-aid over that kind of writing.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 weeks ago:
Rational argument is a learned behavior. Anyone can be trained out of that tribalist mode. We’re just bad at recognizing when someone’s in it. We have a kneejerk insistence that nobody’s really going through life on pure kneejerk insistence.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 3 weeks ago:
COVID proved a quarter of humanity would rather gargle their own lungs than tolerate change or admit mistakes. It proved beyond any doubt that conservatives think reality is a team sport. They’re not just fucking with you while secretly knowing what’s true. They don’t believe in truth. Conservatives don’t believe anything. Conservatives believe people.
There is nothing we can all agree on, because some of us don’t understand agreement, as a concept. They think it means interpersonal loyalty. You’ve decided someone is Right.™ If the facts change, you’re supposed to maintain allegiance to whatever that person says, because facts aren’t real.
- Comment on Anon notices 3 weeks ago:
Know your audience.
Jesus versus Santa is not a difficult popularity contest to call.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 weeks ago:
Alan Davies: “And you could fit his accomplishments on the back of a stamp.”
- Comment on Anon plays Metroid 4 weeks ago:
Cyclical ripping-off gave us Sergio Leone movies.
- Comment on Anon watches It 5 weeks ago:
Did you not take the hyperfixation perk? Rookie move. There’s supposed to be one thing you’re permanently weird about.
- Comment on Anon watches It 5 weeks ago:
ADHD is a bitch.
- Comment on Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House 5 weeks ago:
It’s repetition of settled issues by people too stupid to know when they lost an argument.
- Comment on Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House 5 weeks ago:
What century is it?
How much of a cunt do you have to be, to get mad at Quakers? Their whole thing is - they don’t start shit.
- Comment on ‘Harry Potter’: Nick Frost Poised To Play Hagrid In HBO Series 1 month ago:
Good choice, still fuck that.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 1 month ago:
Other blunt instruments may have similar success; experimental research is ongoing.
- Comment on Anon is chasing an old high 1 month ago:
Maybe because it’s not limited. If your comfort games were in RPG Maker, then 24-bit pixels are right, but good art is wrong. If they were on consoles, they should be aggressively paletted and tiled.
Try homebrew. An NES or SNES game will always look about right, because breaking those limits is a thousand times harder than embracing them.
- Comment on Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 1 month ago:
- Comment on Trust your training 1 month ago:
- Comment on Polish leader offers actor Jesse Eisenberg military training to 'land the new James Bond role' 1 month ago:
On several fronts: No. What?
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 month ago:
No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists “don’t know how to design an experiment.”
That’s just what physics does to your brain. They’re all like that.
- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 month ago:
Ironically - still successfully highlighting how smart people can be assholes.
- Comment on Amazon MGM's Best Bet to Protect James Bond's Legacy: Hire Christopher Nolan 1 month ago:
Abigail Thorn is: James Bond. Like the time she was a naval captain in WWII, and went to space, back when she was the same guy.
- Comment on Do you remember zombie apocalypse MMO Urban Dead? It's shutting down after nearly 20 years 2 months ago:
[sad barhah]
“The strongest protections in the Act have been designed for children,” an explainer says. “Platforms will be required to prevent children from accessing harmful and age-inappropriate content.”
Fuck them kids. Monitor your children’s internet access if you don’t want them seeing weird shit. Same as unsupervised access to television, books, magazines-- anything. The world is not for children.
Since the dev team is A Guy, hopefully he chooses to hand off to someone in a slightly less stupid country. Short as that list has become.
- Comment on goofy goober 2 months ago:
Kermit theee phage here.
- Comment on frfr no cap 2 months ago:
All eyes on me.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon hates condom 2 months ago:
Anon got sodomized and desperately needs to believe it doesn’t count.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 2 months ago:
Sourced from the vicinity of your pelvis.