DandomRude

@DandomRude@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look really says it all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You must have a very fragile personality if you interpret this post in this manner. Your response to my comment only confirms this: truly pathetic!

  If I, as a man, have anything to be ashamed of, it is people like you who, for whatever reason, feel the need to defend the scum of humanity, which is exactly what the two men pictured here are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The look really says it all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Here we see two completely degenerate men. And your comment makes it clear that you identify with them. That says everything there is to know about you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are significant differences: Radio works according to the sender-receiver model, whereas with social media, anyone can be a sender - and that is just the fundamental difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kim Jon Un would do the same. And billionaires get away with abusing children, even though there is hard evidence against them. That doesn’t seem like much progress to me in 400 years. Call it what you will, but the balance of power hasn’t really changed all that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t it?

• If social media apps had existed in 1933, history would not have unfolded differently. If anything, it would have been significantly worse.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confused over here⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Before Santa Claus took over, Germany had the Christkind, a little girl who brought gifts to children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just like nonna used to make⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Straight to jail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We still have debtors prisons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One reason for this may be the fact that prisons in the US are run as a business in which private companies earn billions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How Spotify’s $109 Billion Market Cap Stacks Up Against Other Music and Entertainment Companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nevertheless, Spotify makes more profit than any music label, even more than all the remaining music labels combined. This is how it works today: music, literature, journalism, and art no longer exist according to this logic - only content. And as disrespectful as the term sounds, that’s how it’s paid for - with scrabs because that’s the business model.

  Your pirate approach is no longer up to date, because it is no longer directed against large corporations, but robs artists of the little they have left. This will only accelerate the trend: no one will try to make a living from art anymore. If you think that people will do it anyway because they want to express themselves, I think you are absolutely wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spotify absolutely deserves to be singled out for its exploitative practices, especially since this company is largely responsible for musicians not being paid fairly for their hard work. It’s just a shame that there’s hardly anything to steal here other than people’s hard work, to which Spotify has contributed nothing - but that applies to all companies that are successful on the internet today. Without exception, all of these companies are built on the same platform logic: the content that these companies exploit is paid for with starvation wages, if at all (not at all in the case of LLMs).

  Therefore, I cannot see anything positive in this because it does not change the underlying problem in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those responsible for the Antisemite award deserve other awards themselves. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz, one of the few media outlets there that still retains a spark of humanity, hints at this in the following opinion piece: This Is the ‘Crime’ That Got Ms. Rachel Nominated for ‘Antisemite of the Year’

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ignorance has always been one of humanity's greatest problems - and it still is⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s exactly what I mean by ignorance. It only occurred to me later that the term has a much more international meaning in my native language (German): what I meant was not so much a lack of knowledge, but the deliberate ignoring of facts, expert knowledge, or scientific standards out of selfish arrogance. I believe in English this is called willful ignorance - this distinction does not exist in German; for us, ignorance always means that someone deliberately ignores things because they simply do not suit them. And I think that this, or rather the fact that we allow it, is responsible for the precarious situation our world finds itself in today: people could and do know better, but they ignore the facts out of selfishness.

• Ignorance has always been one of humanity's greatest problems - and it still is
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but culture has also been a business for a long time. What you see and hear is the result of this, because there are media that reinforce your awareness of your senses. If you think that you would remain unaffected by this, you don’t understand my point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is dictated make-believe still culture? I don’t think so, but that’s what it boils down to.

  Honestly, I can’t understand how you can’t see that, because it’s been the case all over the world for a very long time. Take a look at the so-called social media applications. Do you seriously believe that what people see there has anything to do with who they really are? With their every day lives? What they understand as culture based on their experience there?

  Yes, of course, the real world still exists, but do you really think it’s independent of what people see online?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The question is what the future will look like when culture is created by machines. This is already very evident today with all the social media bots and the logic that directs the attention of the remaining human users. The result is already quite dystopian, don’t you think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I can turn it into a business. With LLMs, that’s hardly a problem anymore. Don’t worry: I’ll do it alongside my job - just a hobby that brings in some nice extra income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am neither a musician nor a particularly good writer, but I am somewhat good with LLMs. Thank you very much for your encouragement. That removes all my ethical doubts about closing this chapter. If it has always been this way, then I don’t need to worry about it anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What makes you so sure, when there’s not even the prospect of making a living from it anymore? Do you think most artists do it as a hobby?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are many people who make a living from it. Where else do you see them earning a living?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture no longer exists in our reality today because the actors responsible for it most of it have long been deprived of their livelihood.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t seem to understand what I mean at all. I mean people who try to make a living from their creative work. Do you think that’s still possible?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you, I really appreciate that.

  Figures and/or examples would be very interesting for:

  1. The statement that LLMs will continue to develop rapidly and/or that their output will improve in quality. I currently assume that development will slow down considerably—for example, with regard to hallucinations, where it was assumed for some time that the problem could be solved by more extensive training data, but this has proven to be a dead end.

  2. The statement that the value of the companies involved can be justified in any way with real-world assets. Or, at any rate, reliable statements about how existing or planned data centers built for this purpose can be operated economically despite their considerable running costs.

  3. How you justify your statement that it would be realistic to replace human workers on a large scale. Examples where this is the case would be interesting (by this I don’t mean figures on where workers have been laid off, but examples of companies where human work has been (successfully) made obsolete by LLMs – I am not aware of any such examples where this has happened in a significant way and attributable to the use of LLMs.

  4. I am aware that the technology is being used in warfare. I am not aware of its significance or the tactical advantages it is supposed to offer. Please provide examples of what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering what LLMs are useful for, I wouldn’t say so. But in terms of how it’s all being marketed, how it’s being pushed on consumers for no apparent reason, I definitely agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have any sources that cite figures that would suggest this? To be honest, I have my doubts—except for the statement that money is being shifted back and forth; however, I don’t understand why massive investments in data centers would make sense in this context if it’s not just making a profit for Nvidia and such.

  As I said, I don’t consider LLMs and image generation to be technologies without use cases. I’m simply saying that the impact of these technologies is being significantly and very deliberately overestimated. Take so-called AI agents, for example: they’re a practical thing, but miles away from how they’re being sold.

  Furthermore, even Open AI is very far from being in the black, and I consider it highly doubtful that this will ever be possible given the considerable costs involved. In my opinion, the only option would be to focus on marketing opportunities, which is the business model of the classic Google search engine—but this would have a very negative impact on user value.

• What makes LLMs interesting to investors is not so much their usefulness, but the fact that the technology goes very well with the "just believe in me" approach.
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