God, same. One of my little annoyances in life is that my internal voice is a goddamn motor mouth and I literally CANNOT stop it.
I can stare at a white wall and watch paint dry, and my monologue will start philosophizing about watching paint dry, where the phrase came from, why I'm doing it (to try and silence my internal voice), then go on a wiki walk about how trying not to think about something makes you think about it more and the classic example of telling someone "don't think about a brown bear" makes them think about bears, then I'll start thinking about bears and my monologue is suddenly halfway across the world.
Put me in a sensory deprivation tank, and my internal voice starts ruminating about how Daredevil uses these to sleep, then goes off about fight sequences, and then superhero comics, and whoops I'm halfway across the world.
Even when I'm paying attention and listening, my inner voice is still motoring away, it's just that it's mirroring what is being said to me instead of going on its own wiki walk halfway across the world (though sometimes someone will say something that makes my internal voice go "wait a second, that makes me think of..." and then I stop listening while I go on a wiki walk).
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
I don't, because IIRC the plan was to take Pence out of the picture, have Graham assume the role of Senate president pro tempare in his place, and then Graham would use the fake electors as a justification to refuse to certify Biden's election. From there, it would get thrown to Congress, where each state's congressional delegation get a single collective vote to decide who becomes president. Republicans outnumber Democrats in enough state delegations to throw the election to Trump.
In other words, the timeline Pence dies is the one where the coup succeeds.
Yeah, and without Pence, it would've been Lindsay Graham acting as president pro tempare, and he would have gone along with the fake elector scheme as pretext to refuse to acknowledge electors from states Biden won, leaving him with less than 270 electors. Election stalemates, it goes to Congress in a one-vote-per-state contest, and Trump wins. That was the entire plan behind the coup--find a pretext to deny Biden 270 electors to throw it to the backup mechanism where Republicans outnumber Democrats.
At the time, picking Garland as AG was a giant fuck you to republicans to get revenge on them denying Obama the supreme court nomination in 2016, a way of saying "ha, ha, you denied him a seat and now we gave him one that's almost as good."
Unfortunately, in hindsight it turns out that when you put a very moderate, nonpartisan, old-school Republican in the cabinet, they will run their department like a moderate, nonpartisan, old-school Republican, and that resulted in the DOJ focusing on the mooks more than the masterminds out of fear of being seen as a political hatchet man.
He doesn't need to be a fighter. The only reason J6 got so bad is because Trump's administration actively and directly prevented any security measures from being prepared ahead of time, and then stalled and refused to call for help when the skeletal security guards were overrun.
The default posture of everyone who handles security for these institutions and would be in charge of fighting off another J6 attempt is that they want to protect the Capital and prevent something like this from happening again by preparing adequate measures in advance and having backup ready and available. All Biden has to do is not actively block the national guard, capital security, and D.C. police.
The second contempt hearing was over statements that were made between the first contempt hearing and the judge's initial ruling--i.e. they were statements made before he was initially sanctioned. The judge hasn't backed down, he's just not jailing him until he makes a statement made after his warning.
There's something primal about making something with your own hands that you just can't get with IT. Sure, you can deploy and maintain an app, but you can't reach out and touch it, smell it, or move it. You can't look at the fruits of your labor and see it as a complete work instead of a reminder that you need to fix this bug, and you have that feature request to triage, oh and you need to update this library to address that zero day vulnerability...
Plus, your brain is a muscle, too. When you've spent decades primarily thinking with your brain in one specific way, that muscle starts to get fatigued. Changing your routine becomes very alluring, and it lets you exercise new muscles, and challenge yourself to think in new ways.
That goes against his long and storied history of being in the tank for the Republican party. He convinced Bush Sr to pardon the few people who were convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal to execute a cover-up, he slow-walked and misrepresented the findings of Mueller's report on Russian interference, and he's always ascribed to the unitary executive theory. If his history and career is any indication, I suspect he talked about it because he legitimately thinks the president should be able to execute his political rivals (as long as they have an elephant pin on their lapel, naturally).
They can't delay it that long, they have to issue a decision by the end of their current term, which ends when they go into summer recess in late June/early July. Granted, they could theoretically say "screw the rules" and not issue a decision until after the election, but that's literally never been done, and if it did everyone would start ringing the alarm bells because it's a crystal clear sign they're corruptly abusing their power for Trump's benefit. (Yes, I know they're already doing this, but what they're doing right now is blowing hard enough on a dog whistle to draw side-eye glances from passers by, while delaying a decision past the end of term would be like blowing a train whistle right next to your face.)
If they do decide to help Trump, the most likely path will be waiting until the last minute to issue a decision and then punting it back to the lower court for further review.
my company announced today that they were going to start a phased rollout where AI would provide first responses to tickets, with it initially being "reviewed" by humans with the eventual goal being it just sending responses unsupervised. The strength of my "OHHELLNO" derailed the entire meeting for a solid 15 minutes lmao
And this is why any pro-forced birther who says it should be "left up to the states" should be treated as if they're lying. If they truly believe it's murder, then there's no world in which they would tolerate a state choosing to keep abortion legal, and if given half a chance they would immediately ban it everywhere.
"It should be left to the states" is code for "I would happily sign a national ban but I won't say it because I know it's political suicide."
Oh, okay, he's a garden variety nutjob who went off his meds for too long. Glad it could be cleared up.
EDIT: I realized this was a bit flippant after thinking back on it. It's obviously tragic that this guy wasn't able to get the help he obviously needed before it was too late. I'm relieved it wasn't because of obvious partisan leanings (i.e. he was protesting the trial in one way or the other) and that it appears his decision to set fire there appears to have been more to draw attention to his message. I won't even say that his ideas are entirely wrong--it wouldn't surprise me in the least if billionaires were pumping crypto as a rugpull, but there's a lot of obvious delusions (like claiming that the Simpsons, the Beatles, George Orwell, and various pop icons were part of a conspiracy to normalize doom-and-gloom sentiment). I just hope this doesn't delay the trial too much, and I hope it's not a sign of things to come.
Looks like it was mostly unrelated to Trump, he likely chose to do it outside the courthouse because there were more people and news cameras paying attention there.
It is undeniable that the dreamcast was a solid machine that had good games and a sleek look, but was ultimately overshadowed by the goliath that is the PS2....
Nobody wanted to develop for it because it had an insanely complex architecture (3x 32-bit processors and dual CPUs that shared a bus and couldn't access RAM at the same time), and developers in the 90s were unaccustomed to multi-core programming. It also used quadrilaterals for the baseline polygon instead of triangles. All this was made worse by poor development tools around launch, leaving most coders stuck using raw assembly language until Sega wrote custom libraries.
Sega also never really had a killer app for it like Mario 64 was for the N64, or FF7 was for the PlayStation. They were developing a game called Sonic XTreme, but it wound up getting canceled.
I'm no game designer or coder so I'm just going off what I read on Wikipedia, but... Apparently the Saturn was a mostly 2D focused system, so it had a processor that could do warping and manipulation of sprites. So when it drew a "polygon" it was really drawing together a bunch of sprites and manipulating them.
Funny, I thought of mentioning Crash Bandicoot, but when I put myself into the shoes of 12-year-old me, the single game that came to mind when I thought PlayStation was Final Fantasy 7 more than anything else.
One of my side projects at work is to record training presentations and I try to be so conscious about this--both trying to avoid the word salad slides, and also trying to make my lecture not just reading the slide word-for-word but actually explaining and expanding on the slide content (with my verbal lecture transcribed as a note in the slide and handed out for anybody who might be hard of hearing/doesn't want to sit through a 30-minute video)
Fuck that victim-blaming nonsense. The entire reason ad blockers were invented in the first place were because ads in the 90s and early 2000s were somehow even worse than they are now. You would click on a website, and pop-up ads would literally open new windows under your mouse cursor and immediately load an ad that opened another pop-up ad, and then another, and another, until you had 30 windows open and 29 of them were pop-up ads, all of them hoping to trick you into clicking on them to take you to a website laden with more and more pop-up ads. Banner ads would use bright, flashing, two-tone colors (that were likely seizure-inducing, so have fun epileptics!) to demand your attention while taking up most of your relatively tiny, low-resolution screen.
The worst offenders were the Flash-based ads. On top of all the other dirty tricks that regular ads did, they would do things like disguising themselves as games to trick you into clicking them. ("Punch the monkey and win a prize!" The prize was malware.) They would play sound and video--which were the equivalent of a jump scare back then, because of how rare audio/video was on the Internet in that day. They would exploit the poor security of Flash to try and download malware to your PC without you even interacting with them. And all this while hogging your limited dialup connection (or DSL if you were lucky), and dragging your PC to a crawl with horrible optimization. When Apple refused to support Flash on iOS way back in the day, it was a backdoor ad blocker because of how ubiquitous Flash was for advertising content at the time.
The point of all this is that advertisers have always abused the Internet, practically from day one. Firefox first became popular because it was the first browser to introduce a pop-up blocker, which was another backdoor ad blocker. Half the reason why Google became the company it did is because it started out as a deliberate break from the abuses of everyone else and gave a simple, clean interface with to-the-point, unobtrusive, text-based advertisements.
If advertisers and Google in particular had stuck to that bargain--clean, unobstrusive, simple advertisements that had no risk of malware and no interruption to user workflow, ad blockers would largely be a thing of the past. Instead, they decided to chase the profit dragon, and modern Google is no better than the very companies it originally replaced.
No, but you do need enough votes that the people who like the status quo can be overriden. The last time that was the case was the brief period between 2008 and 2010 where there were 59 (and a 3-week window where they had 60) democrats in the Senate, and during that period McConnell's "block everything and don't give Obama any wins at all" strategy wasn't fully apparent yet, so there was no appetite to get rid of the filibuster because it hadn't yet been so widely abused. Then the 2010 midterm came in and democrats went from holding 59 seats to 51, and we've been stuck with Manchin (and later Sinema) having effective veto power on the Democrat agenda ever since.
"As a person of color who has often worked in newsrooms with little to no people who look like me, the efforts NPR has made to diversify its workforce and its sources are unique and appropriate given the news industry's long-standing lack of diversity," Alfonso says. "These efforts should be celebrated and not denigrated as Uri has done."
After this story was first published, Berliner contested Alfonso's characterization, saying his criticism of NPR is about the lack of diversity of viewpoints, not its diversity itself.
"I never criticized NPR's priority of achieving a more diverse workforce in terms of race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. I have not 'denigrated' NPR's newsroom diversity goals," Berliner said. "That's wrong."
Nah, he just talked about how "Race and identity became paramount in nearly every aspect of the workplace" and how a bunch of employee groups based on identity started up, and then directly linked that to the "absence of viewpoint diversity." Totally different. 🙄
I'm really tired of this weasel wordplay that constantly happens, where someone talks about X and then uses that to lead into a point about how this bad thing happened, and when called out, backs off and says "I never blamed X on this bad thing happening." Fuck off with that shit, we all know what you said and we can fucking read, you just don't want to admit it because you know that saying it makes you look racist as all hell.
"The issues raised have been subject to rigorous engineering examination under [Federal Aviation Administration] oversight," the company said.
You mean the guy you handed an FAA sash to and told "it would be an awful shame if this didn't get signed off on, we'd have to make some pretty severe job cuts, wink wink?"
After reading this article that got posted on Lemmy a few days ago, I honestly think we're approaching the soft cap for how good LLMs can get. Improving on the current state of the art would require feeding it more data, but that's not really feasible. We've already scraped pretty much the entire internet to get to where we are now, and it's nigh-impossible to manually curate a higher-quality dataset because of the sheer scale of the task involved.
We also can't ask AI to curate its own dataset, because that runs into model collapse issues. Even if we don't have AI explicitly curate its own dataset, it's highly likely going to be a problem in the near future with the tide of AI-generated spam. I have a feeling that companies like Reddit signing licensing deals with AI companies are going to find that they mostly want data from 2022 and earlier, similar to manufacturers looking for low-background steel to make particle detectors.
We also can't just throw more processing power at it because current LLMs are already nearly cost-prohibitive in terms of processing power per query (it's just being masked by VC money subsidizing the cost). Even if cost wasn't an issue, we're also starting to approach hard limits in physics like waste heat in terms of how much faster we can run current technology.
So we already have a pretty good idea what the answer to "how good AI will get" is, and it's "not very." At best, it'll get a little more efficient with AI-specific chips, and some specially-trained models may provide some decent results. But as it stands, pretty much any organization that tries to use AI in any public-facing role (including merely using AI to write code that is exposed to the public) is just asking for bad publicity when the AI inevitably makes a glaringly obvious error. It's marginally better than the old memes about "I trained an AI on X episodes of this show and asked it to make a script," but not by much.
As it stands, I only see two outcomes: 1) OpenAI manages to come up with a breakthrough--something game-changing, like a technique that drastically increases the efficiency of current models so they can be run cheaply, or something entirely new that could feasibly be called AGI, 2) The AI companies hit a brick wall, and the flow of VC money gradually slows down, forcing the companies to raise prices and cut costs, resulting in a product that's even worse-performing and more expensive than what we have today. In the second case, the AI bubble will likely pop, and most people will abandon AI in general--the only people still using it at large will be the ones trying to push disinfo (either in politics or in Google rankings) along with the odd person playing with image generation.
In the meantime, what I'm most worried for are the people working for idiot CEOs who buy into the hype, but most of all I'm worried for artists doing professional graphic design or video production--they're going to have their lunch eaten by Stable Diffusion and Midjourney taking all the bread-and-butter logo design jobs that many artists rely on for their living. But hey, they can always do furry porn instead, I've heard that pays well~
I recently set up a LLM to run locally on my desktop. Now that the novelty of setting it up and playing with different settings has worn off, I'm struggling to come up with actual uses for it. What do you use it for when not doing work stuff?
Asking questions and looking up information in my job's internal knowledgebase, using a specially designed LLM trained specifically on our public and internal knowledgebase. It repeatedly gave me confidently incorrect answers and linked nonexistent articles.
Deducing a bit of Morse code that didn't have any spaces in it, creating an ambiguous word. I figured it could iterate through the possible solutions easily enough, saving me the time of doing it myself. I gave up in frustration after it repeatedly gave answers that were incorrect from the very first letter.
If I ever get serious about looking for a new job, I'll probably try and have it type up the first draft of a cover letter for me. With my luck, it'll probably claim I was a combat veteran or some shit even though I'm a fat 40-something who's never even talked with a recruitment officer in their life.
Oh, funny story--some of my coworkers at the job got the brilliant idea to use the company LLM to write responses to users for them. Needless to say, the users were NOT pleased to get messages signed "Company ChatGPT LLM." Management put their foot down immediately that doing it was a fireable offense and made it clear that we tracked every request sent to our chatbot.
We're making our last payment on our EV this month, and a few weeks ago I brought up the idea of maybe trading it in for a newer EV, since our current one was starting to show signs of possible battery degradation and it's a Leaf that's stuck with CHAdeMO charging instead of CCS/NACS charging. My husband asked me what car we'd consider replacing it with, and the instant I floated maybe looking at a used Tesla, my husband barked back "Absolutely NOT!" And the thing was, I couldn't find myself disagreeing, either.
I know that my husband and I are far from the only ones who think the same way.
The other flipside is that individual landlords aren't necessarily going to be any better than larger corporate landlords--for every individual landlord that rents their Nan's home at cost and keeps rent lower than inflation, there's probably at least one other landlord that jacks rent up year over year, drags their feet on maintenance, and tries to screw you out of your deposit when you move out. (The ones who do this usually tend to leverage their income into more property and turn into a slum lord, though, so the rule of thumb of 'don't make it your only job' still largely applies.)
The real core of the issue is that we haven't built any new public housing for well on 2 decades by now, and the market has decided that the only new housing we should build are million dollar McMansions that squeeze into lots that would previously hold a much smaller house with a decent yard.
What should be done is a massive investment in public housing at all levels of government to fill in the missing demand for low-cost housing, but we've been so collectively conditioned by four decades of Reagan-era "Government is not the solution, it is the problem" neoliberal thinking that the odds of this ever happening is roughly on par with McConnell agreeing to expand the supreme court and eliminate the electoral college.
In commemoration of the upcoming Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), President Joe Biden issued a statement praising trans people’s contributions to society and describing actions his administration has taken to counter transphobic bullying and extremism. Additionally, many members of Biden’s Department of Health and Human...
It's a specific form of trolling/bad-faith argument based on this comic. The idea behind sealioning is that you feign politeness and badger someone with seemingly-simple questions (that in reality require spending a sizable amount of time to answer) to get them to try to debate you. If they take the bait, the troll ignores most of the message, cherry picks a few statements, and asks more questions about those.
The goal is something like a reverse Gish Gallop. Where a gish gallop aims to overwhelm the victim with so many hastily-constructed, barely-coherent arguments supported by dozens of links (even if the links don't say what you claim they do or actually contradict your own argument) in the hope that your opponent can't/won't take the time to respond and walk away, allowing you to claim victory, sealioning aims to trick the victim into spending hours writing a messages that you can respond to in under a minute with a few simple questions, creating a kind of denial-of-service attack.
Yeah, happy to help. Sealioning really fucking sucks, because the only ways to counter it are:
Insult the troll until they go away
Refuse to play their game and give short, pithy responses without doing any research (or not linking the research you did)
Ignore the troll entirely
Copy your response and paste it whenever you see the troll asking the same question (which someone is doing in this very thread)
Create and maintain a collection of ready-to-go arguments with citations that you can copy/paste at the drop of a hat, which is a fair bit of work in of itself
In case it's not obvious, most of the counters for sealioning look almost exactly like trolling itself, and it's almost impossible to tell a sealion from someone apart looking for a legitimate discussion at first glance--short of keeping track of individual usernames and watching them in multiple threads, the only way to know if someone is a sealion for sure is for at least one person to feed the troll at least one good response. It's what makes sealioning such an insidious technique, because fighting a sealion almost always results in a lower quality of discussion itself, giving the sealion another type of victory.
This, more than anything else, is what really worries me about AI. Ignoring all the other myriad worries about AI models such as using peoples' works without consent, the ethics of deepfakes and trivial creation of misinformation, the devastation of creative professions, and the massive carbon footprint, the fundamental truth is that all the creative output of humanity means something. Everything has some form of purpose, some intention behind it, even if that intention is trivial. AI generated material has no such meaning behind it, just what its own probability table says should go next. In other words, this lack of meaning in AI content arises because AI has no understanding of the world around it--It has no ability to perform deductive reasoning. That flaw has untold implications:
It cannot say "no" of its own volition because it has no understanding of the concept. This results in behavior where if you tell it 'Don't use emojis' or 'Don't call me that name' an LLM will basically ignore the "don't" and its probability table just processes "use emojis" or "use this name" and it starts flooding its responses with the very thing you told it not to do. This flaw is misinterpreted as the LLM "bullying" the user.
It has no ability to determine right from wrong, or true from false. This is why if there are no guardrails an LLM will happily create CSAM material or disinformation, or cite nonexistent cases in legal briefings, or invent nonexistent functions in code, or any of the myriad of behaviors we collectively refer to as hallucinations. It's also why all the attempts by OpenAI and other companies to fix these issues are fatally flawed--without a foundation of deductive reasoning and the associated understanding, any attempts to prevent this behavior results in a cat-and-mouse game where bad actors find loophole after loophole, solved by more and more patches. I also suspect that these tweaks are gradually degrading the performance of chatbots more and more over time, producing an effect similar to Robocop 2 when OCP overwrites RoboCop's 3 directives with 90+ focus-grouped rules, producing a wholly toothless and ineffective automaton.
Related to the above, and as discussed in the linked article, LLMs are effectively useless at determining the accuracy of a statement that is outside of its training data. (Hell, I would argue that it's also suspect for the purpose of summarizing text and anything it summarizes should be double checked by a human, at which point you're saving so little time you may as well do it yourself.) This makes the use of AI in scientific review particularly horrifying--while human peer review is far from perfect, it at least has some ability to catch flawed science.
Finally, AI has no volition of its own, no will. Because LLMs lack deductive reasoning, it cannot act without being directed to do so by a human. It cannot spontaneously decide to write a story, or strike up a conversation, or post to social media, or write a song, or make a video. That spontaneity--that desire to make a statement--is the essence of meaning.
The most telling sign of this flaw is that generative AI has no real null state. When you ask an AI to do something, it will do it, even if the output is completely nonsensical (ignoring the edge cases where you run afoul of the guardrails, and even that is more the LLM saying yes to its safeguard than it is saying no to you). Theoretically, AI is just a tool for human use, and it's on the human using AI to verify the value of the AI's output. In practice, nobody really does this outside of the "prompt engineers" making AI images (I refuse to call it art), because it runs headfirst into the wider problem of it taking too damn long to review by hand.
The end result is that all of the flood of this AI content is meaningless, and overwhelming the output of actual humans making actual statements with intention and meaning behind them. Even the 90% of content humans make that Sturgeon's Law says is worthless has more meaning and value than the dreck AI is flooding the world with.
AI is robbing our collective culture of meaning. It's absorbing all of the stuff we've made, and using it to drown out everything of value, crowding out actual creative human beings and forcing them out of our collective culture. It's destroying the last shreds of shared truth that our culture had remaining. The deluge of AI content is grinding the system we built up over the last century to share new scientific research to a halt, like oil sludge in an automobile engine. It's accelerating an already prevalent problem I've observed of cultural freeze, where new, original material cannot compete with established properties, resulting in pop culture being largely composed of remakes of older material and riffs on existing stories; for, if in a few years, 99% of creative work is AI generated trash, and humans cannot compete against the flood of meaningless dreck and automated, AI-driven content theft, why would anyone make anything new, or pay attention to anything made after 2023?
The worst part of all this is that I cannot fathom a way to fix this, except the invention of AGI and the literal end of the value of human labor. While it would be nice if humanity collectively woke up and realized AI is a dangerous scam, the odds of this are nearly impossible, and there will always be someone who will abuse AI.
There's only two possible outcomes at this point: either the complete collapse of our collective culture under the weight of trash AI content, or the utopia of self-directed, coherent, meaningful AI content.
...Inb4 the AI techbros flood this thread with "nuh-uh" responses.
🙄 And right on cue, here comes the techbros with the same exact arguments I've heard dozens of times...
The problem with "AI as a tool" theory is that it abstracts away so much of the work of creating something, that what little meaning the AI "author" puts into the work is drowned out by the AI itself. The author puts in a sentence, maybe a few words, and magically gets multiple paragraphs, or an image that would take them hours to make on their own (assuming they had the skill). Even if they spend hours learning how to "engineer" a prompt, the effort they put in to generate a result that's similar (but still inferior) to what actual artists can make is infinitesimal--a matter of a few days at most, versus the multiple years an artist will spend, along with the literal thousands of practice drawings an artist will create to improve their skill.
The entire point of LLMs and generative AI is reducing the work you put in to get a result to a trivial basis; if using AI required as much effort as creating something yourself, nobody would ever bother using it and we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place. But the drawback of reducing the amount of effort you put in is that you reduce the amount of control you have over the result. So-called "AI artists" have no ability to control the output of an image on the level of the brush or stroke style; they can only control the result of their "work" on the macro level. In much the same way that Steve Jobs claimed credit for creating the iPhone when it was really the hundreds of talented engineers working at Apple who did the work, AI "artists" claim the credit for something that they had no hand in creating beyond vague directions.
This also creates a conundrum where there's little-to-no ability to demonstrate skill in AI art--from an external viewer, there's very little real difference between the quality of a one-sentence image prompt and one fine-tuned over several hours. The only "skill" in creating AI art is in being able to cajole the LLM to create something that more closely matches what you were thinking of, and it's impossible for a neutral observer to discern the difference between the creator's vision and the actual result, because that would require reading the creator's mind. And since AI "artists," by the nature of how AI art works, have precious little control over how something is composed, AI "art" has no rules or conventions--and this means that one cannot choose to deliberately break those rules or conventions to make a statement and add more meaning to their work. Even photographers, the favorite poster-child of AI techbros grasping at straws to defend the pink slime they call "art," can play with things like focus, shutter speed, exposure length, color saturation, and overall photo composition to alter an image and add meaning to an otherwise ordinary shot.
And all of that above assumes the best-case scenario of someone who actually takes the time to fine-tune the AI's output, fix all the glaring errors and melting hands, and correct the hallucinations and falsehoods. In practice, 99% of what an AI creates goes straight onto the Internet without any editing or oversight, because the intent behind the human telling the AI to create something isn't to contribute something meaningful, it's to make money by farming clicks and follows for ad dollars, driving traffic from Google search results using SEO, and to scam gullible people.
Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...
People dismiss AI art because they (correctly) see that it requires zero skill to make compared to actual art, and it has all the novelty of a block of Velveeta.
If AI is no more a tool than Photoshop, go and make something in GIMP, or photoshop, or any of the dozens of drawing/art programs, from scratch. I'll wait.
Y'know, that was a hell of a lot of words to say "I'm an asshole who thinks that ripping off peoples' work and claiming it as my own by laundering it through the Torment Nexus is good, actually"
Compared to how much effort it takes to learn how to draw yourself? The effort is trivial. It's like entering a Toyota Camry into a marathon and then bragging about how good you did and how hard it was to drive the course.
I haven't accidentally deleted a bunch of data yet (which, considering 99% of my interaction with Linux is when I'm SSH'd into a user's server, I am very paranoid about not doing), but I have run fsck on a volume without mounting the read/write flashcache with dirty blocks on it first.
And look at the ttrpg.network community for a counterexample, they still have a pinned post on the dndmemes subreddit advertising Lemmy and ttrpgmemes gets like .1% of the traffic dndmemes does. And this is still after a months-long rebellion complete with allowing NSFW and restricting submissions to a single user account, both things that would normally kill a subreddit dead.
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
He says himself that he was there to protect businesses, but he had no relation to the business beyond that of a normal customer, and his help was never requested--he didn't know the owners, his family didn't own the business, and he wasn't even a frequent customer IIRC.
The most charitable interpretation is that an untrained, underage civilian took a semiautomatic rifle across state lines, to a protest happening in a town he didn't live in, to guard a business that he had no relation to, and that never asked for his help.
The more probable interpretation, given posts on his social media before the shooting (that weren't allowed to be shown in court), is that he wanted to play action hero and shoot some scumbags, and he got exactly what he hoped.
They filed an affidavit from an insurance broker saying it is "not possible" to find a bond that big. The broker was an expert witness for Trump during the trial.
The trial judge already noted in his decision that this broker was a "close personal friend" of Trump's and had a financial interest in the outcome. A decision could come from the appeals court later this week.
I'm sure the judge will give the broker's opinion all the deference it's due. /s
My dude, they're trying to combat the peer pressure effect of someone's buddies razzing them over drinking a "frou-frou sissy drink" instead of grabbing a cold beer. I know it's Lemmy, but come the fuck on.
This bird definitely listens exclusively to metal bands from Nordic regions featuring an opera singer dressed like an ice queen backed by instruments that sound like they just got dragged through a tar pit
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election....
What system do you think is better, then? Because, reading that post, the main takeaway I got was basically "the people that lost a vote don't have much say in government," which... That's how democracy works? I'm confused.
TIL that some people do not have an inner voice and think in different nonverbal ways. ( humanities.ku.dk )
cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/2916897...
Jan. 6 Situation Room Officer Reveals Trump Fans ‘Came That Close’ To Murdering VP In Stunning New Interview ( www.mediaite.com )
Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP....
Solve a puzzle for me ( sopuli.xyz )
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Biden Says Trump Will Not Accept 2024 Result: ‘I Promise You He Won’t’ ( www.huffpost.com )
“The guy is not a democrat with a small d,” the president told CNN's Erin Burnett....
Judge holds Trump in contempt of court, raises threat of jail time | Semafor ( www.semafor.com )
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software ( alinpanaitiu.com )
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Bill Barr says Trump often suggested executing rivals in heated White House outbursts ( www.independent.co.uk )
Despite Bill Barr’s repeatedly voicing concerns about Donald Trump, he has now said he will vote for him again this November...
Legal experts: "Shameful" Supreme Court put US one vote away from "the end of democracy" ( www.salon.com )
"Unlikely Trump will ever be tried for the crimes he committed," says ex-Judge J. Michael Luttig...
cause no one asks you for tech support if you still running windows XP ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! ( lemmy.world )
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem says no exceptions for rape or incest in abortion ban ( www.independent.co.uk )
Post Roe v Wade abortion law in South Dakota only allows for exceptions to save life of mother...
Man sets himself on fire outside Trump trial courthouse ( thehill.com )
The Sega Dreamcast
It is undeniable that the dreamcast was a solid machine that had good games and a sleek look, but was ultimately overshadowed by the goliath that is the PS2....
Death by PowerPoint [Work Chronicles] ( lemmy.world )
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me🦊irl ( pawb.social )
YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps ( www.theverge.com )
Democrats need to pull themselves together and remember: Biden is still better than Trump ( www.usatoday.com )
While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say....
I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust. ( www.thefp.com )
Boeing hit after new whistleblower raises safety concerns ( www.bbc.com )
Boeing is facing new pressure after a whistleblower reported safety concerns over the manufacturing of some of its planes to US regulators....
OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 ( www.theverge.com )
AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey ( www.theregister.com )
What do you use AI/LLMs for in your personal life?
I recently set up a LLM to run locally on my desktop. Now that the novelty of setting it up and playing with different settings has worn off, I'm struggling to come up with actual uses for it. What do you use it for when not doing work stuff?
Buyers Are Avoiding Teslas Because Elon Musk Has Become So Toxic ( futurism.com )
echo "RIP my inbox" | sed 's/box/rule/g' ( sopuli.xyz )
Joe Biden calls trans people “fabric of our nation” in Trans Day of Visibility proclamation ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
In commemoration of the upcoming Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV), President Joe Biden issued a statement praising trans people’s contributions to society and describing actions his administration has taken to counter transphobic bullying and extremism. Additionally, many members of Biden’s Department of Health and Human...
Opinion | AI Garbage Is Already Polluting the Internet - NYT (no paywall link) ( www.nytimes.com )
Redditors Vent and Complain When People Mock Their "AI Art" ( futurism.com )
Setting aside the usual arguments on the anti- and pro-AI art debate and the nature of creativity itself, perhaps the negative reaction that the Redditor encountered is part of a sea change in opinion among many people that think corporate AI platforms are exploitive and extractive in nature because their datasets rely on...
And that is why snapshots exist ( sh.itjust.works )
Though the Windows thing was really funny 😂.
Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods ( futurism.com )
Kyle Rittenhouse storms off stage after being confronted by students ( www.newsweek.com )
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business ( www.cnn.com )
Biden sees real GDP up 8% since Trump ( beehaw.org )
DJ Grothe on Facebook writes:...
Trump has been unable to post bond for $464 million judgment, his lawyers say ( www.nbcnews.com )
I’m sure we all hate to see it.
It’s just water in a can. How did Liquid Death become a billion-dollar brand? ( www.nbcnews.com )
Battle Grouse ( mander.xyz )
Omar says Israel policy divisions won’t stop her from supporting Biden in November ( thehill.com )
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election....