[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 19 points 11 months ago

"looks at bookshelf of completely unread books." Oh... Yeah I love books!

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 18 points 11 months ago

Isn't this whole thing a bit performative? I mean, dogs aren't inherently more worthy of liberation from the meat market than any other farm animal.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Imo, the true fallacy of using AI for journalism or general text, lies not so much in generative AI's fundamental unreliability, but rather it's existence as an affordable service.

Why would I want to parse through AI generated text on times.com, when for free, I could speak to some of the most advanced AI on bing.com or openai's chat GPT or Google bard or a meta product. These, after all, are the back ends that most journalistic or general written content websites are using to generate text.

To be clear, I ask why not cut out the middleman if they're just serving me AI content.

I use AI products frequently, and I think they have quite a bit of value. However, when I want new accurate information on current developments, or really anything more reliable or deeper than a Wikipedia article, I turn exclusively to human sources.

The only justification a service has for serving me generated AI text, is perhaps the promise that they have a custom trained model with highly specific training data. I can imagine, for example, weather.com developing highly specific specialized AI models which tie into an in-house llm and provide me with up-to-date and accurate weather information. The question I would have in that case would be why am I reading an article rather than just being given access to the llm for a nominal fee? At some point, they are not no longer a regular website, they are a vendor for a in-house AI.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 45 points 1 year ago

I feel like this phenomenon should have a catchy name, like: "No one hates Scotsmen more than Scotsmen."

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

I already have an everything app where I can date, do banking, and even use Twitter. It's called Firefox.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 28 points 1 year ago

I disagree with this reductionist argument. The article essentially states that because ai generation is the "exploration of latent space," and photography is also fundamentally the "exploration of latent space," that they are equivalent.

It disregards the intention of copywriting. The point isn't to protect the sanctity or spiritual core of art. The purpose is to protect the financial viability of art as a career. It is an acknowledgment that capitalism, if unregulated, would destroy art and make it impossible to pursue.

Ai stands to replace artist in a way which digital and photography never really did. Its not a medium, it is inference. As such, if copywrite was ever good to begin with, it should oppose ai until compromises are made.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 22 points 1 year ago

While investigating an uncovered node in some aviation datalink software, I discovered a 15 year old comment from 1993 along the lines of, "this function never runs, I'll fix it later." I wish will all my heart I could have heard their voice. Even if just for a moment.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

I did not expect to read something so heavy. Maybe add a trigger warning? I'm okay, but damn is this sad.

Never kill yourself, but especially never kill yourself before confessing your pain. It's incredible, how different people's perceptions can be. You might just save your own life, and that of your loved ones too.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago

Remember when Trump advocated for Hillary to be put in jail and it triggered a whole investigation into her.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago

The situation in Ukraine is quite different from WWII bombing raids. Russian attacks are spread out, less targeted, and generally less devistating in secure, Ukrainian held territory. I disagree that Ukrainians should be sheltering at all times, or that if they choose to leave the house they are less deserving of anyone's pity when they are murdered.

You would almost certainly be walking to the corner store, or attending a social event if you lived there.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this seems to be using the Xbox play anywhere system. So people who have a PC and an Xbox have thier saves synced. I'm sure it will not work steam.

[-] peanuts4life@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

Interesting! I didn't follow this case, but I do remember Kevin spacey posting a very strange video a ways back in which he acted... Very creepy about the situation.

Anyone following the case have any thoughts?

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Yes, I know that it still exist, and yes, decentralized currency which utilizes distributed, cryptographic validation is not actually a strictly bad idea, but...

Is the speculative investment scam, which crypto substantially represented, finally dead? Can we go back to buying gold bars and Pokemon cards?

I feel like it is, but I'm having a hard time putting my finger on why it lost its sheen. Maybe crypto scammers moved on to selling LLM "prompts?" Maybe the rug just got pulled enough times that everyone lost trust.

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