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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
That’s a good point, I didn’t know much about the Cannes film festival, but after looking it up I agree with you.

My comment would only apply if it sees a public release.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
My guess is the audience simply won’t care and the movie will do reasonably average, depending on the script.

Sure here on a niche forum like Lemmy we care about the incredible energy waste, the artists being exploited, etc, and that “AI art” only looks good from a distance with all the little details being screwed up at a close examination. (When it’s not a lovecraftian horror right on the surface - see “bloopers” in that video in the article)

But the general public? To them “AI” is: Haha, funny Ghibli filter.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
If you have ever done a handstand then you have lifted over your head the weight that the entire mass of the earth has in your own gravitational field.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’d say that the original statement not including “sometimes” does in fact make it the ‘not a fact’ type of factoid!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say hello to Bary⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I wish that was updated for the current year (and beyond) It’s important to know when giving OP’s statement whether it’s outside the sun at the moment
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Some of them are definitely more descriptive than others.

Lemmy’s isn’t great, but at least it’s not a generic chat box or radio waves.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s been the case ever since I started using Android (and modded APKs such as old versions of apps re-signed to not update) in about 2011.

Some of the root apps back then such as Titanium Backup had features to “unhook” an app so it wouldn’t appear as installed in the store, but my experience was that it never lasted long enough to be worth doing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
That has just always been the case as long as the app in both stores uses the same package string. (Like org.blitzortung.android.app or org.videolan.vlc)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Cthulhu⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That version is probably too old and will complain

(Only partly /s)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get Clam'd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Ok. I’m ootl. Please explain?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experts warn against YouTube’s “creepy” AI age estimation system launching in the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It will be great when it says I’m under 18 while my account is over 18.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI claims GPT-5 AI model can provide PhD-level expertise.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Awesome. My only critique is that microwave ovens actually work really well in their niche. I can’t say the same for LLMs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t looked into it yet, but my guess is that this is only for new articles, but existing ones defaced by AI can just be reverted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
1. Perhaps Japan?
2. I feel like the US is getting really close to this honor, but I would still name a different one. Not sure which.
3. Germany being all anti-nuclear-powerplant without (in my opinion) good reason.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Some people call them Maurice.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Of course vulnerabilities exist. And creating a major one like this for an LLM would likely lead to it destroying things like a toddler (in fact this has already happened to a company run by idiots)

But what it didn’t do was copy-with-changes as would be required to ‘evolve’ like a virus. Because training these models requires intense resources and isn’t just a terminal command.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Why would someone direct the output of an LLM to a terminal on its own machine like that? That just sounds like an invitation to an ordinary disaster with all the ‘rm -rf’ content on the Internet (aka training data). That still wouldn’t be access on a second machine though, and also even if it could make a copy, it would be an exact copy, or an incomplete (broken) copy. There’s no reasonable way it could ‘mutate’ and still work using terminal commands.

And to be a meme requires minds. There were no humans or other minds in my analogy. Nor in your question.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oncoliruses: LLM Viruses are the future and will be a pest, say good bye to decent tech.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
If you know that it’s fancy autocomplete then why do you think it could “copy itself”?

It’s a stream of tokens. It doesn’t have access to the file systems it runs on, and certainly not its own compiled binaries (or even less source code) - it doesn’t have access to its weights either. (Of course it would hallucinate that it does if asked)

This is like worrying that the music coming from a player piano might copy itself to another piano.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what type of laugh is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Deleted? I’m seeing status 404 on that link.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The Dreaming
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
…then they built the super collider.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This is fixed now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I’d say that the one that’s written is the ‘true’ timeline in the story the same way that the reality we experience is the only one that matters.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What would happen is entirely your responsibility as the author of the scenario.

Some options may be more “realistic” than others, but since the existence of a working time machine is already beyond what seems to be feasible physics (requiring ridiculous amounts and density of negative energy for example, where not even any has been shown to be possible to make) the scenario becomes soft sci-fi, or in other words magic, and that means it’s up to the writer to make up the rules.

Here is a post I found with many of the options you can choose from.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scifi question about time travel:⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Even knowing that everything happens every way in some other branch of the wave function (other universes) doesn’t really affect our own little section of it. There’s no communications or travel, so other universes if they exist have the same meaning to us as if they don’t. Except in time travel stories like this.

Besides, the same “irrelevance” of decisions and events comes free with even one single universe given that it’s deterministic - as physics seems to be. (Yeah there’s quantum randomness, but random doesn’t help either)

That said I still believe in free will and the importance of decisions. I just think it has to be defined so weakly that it still works in a deterministic universe. (So I have free will, but so do dice and pocket calculators.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UCLA team finds high levels of dangerous air particles(PM2.5) in air near electric vehicle fast charging stations.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Were those other urban areas specifically parking lots/garages? (The places that charging stations tend to be)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Messaging used to be free on OKC too. Paid stuff was only better search placement, maybe seeing your matches immediately, etc. No idea about now, I was also found by my wife there over a decade ago.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So long as it's not poisonous, there really is an audience for any taste.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Ethanol is poisonous and carcinogenic and extremely popular. Burned nicotine also of course.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3110: Global Ranking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You know I thought of how to word that better, but wasn’t sure I could convey what I meant clearly enough. I should have just used something like ‘time lived’.