LostDeer

@LostDeer@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid's going places⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad the kid didn’t p-hack the experiment 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Blocking ads is just another layer of defense in your security stack. I want to say it’s like locking your front door, but not using an ad blocker is worse than just having your front door unlocked.

  Imagine you have numerous solicitors coming up to your front door everyday and you left your front door not only wide open, but off the hinges. Who’s walking into your home with the best of intentions in that situation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait for bard to join the google graveyard with stadia once the ai fad passes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinions wanted: defederating with bot spam instances⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m at the point where I think all bot accounts need to just be banned from Lemmy. If we’re trying to build engagement, a constant stream of reposts or a straight up rss feed is not helping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocked instances question⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Exploadingheads is full of chuds and SJW is too.

  I will say it’s nice that this instance isn’t drawing lines along political leanings so I can just block the ones I don’t like to see. I’m not sure what the admins are doing otherwise.

  I’m sure the users here will start bubbling up as having more of an appetite for one side or the other and other instances will start defeding from infosec.pub.

  Honestly there is so much drama related to federating or defederating that’s it’s killing my interest in Lemmy in general.

  In anycase, is anyone running into trouble with lemmygrad or exploading heads being federated? I’ve been reading that folks at hexbear are getting harassed by other Lemmy instances and there are discussions of them going full defederated as a result. I don’t like the views on exploadingheads but so far I just block and move on, so no harm done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter is throttling traffic to websites Elon dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea a lot of the niche communities haven’t and probably won’t migrate to these smaller sites like Lemmy and Mastodon. Don’t know how to solve the issue either.

  In this case, the Orioles would have to announce they have an official mastodon to get most fans to move to it.

  Personally I’ve just stopped using the internet for checking on my niche hobbies. A good number of Reddit clones have been trying to populate communities with bots to just post links but without any discourse, it’s the same effect as just googling “topic” and filtering for links from this week. I’m sure it will get better with time. Maybe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one-page calendar will change how you view the year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a meme? I clicked on it and it took me to an article to seemed completely serious. Is this like the onion for white collar workers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gender selection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was for early demographics data collection. Same with asking about skin color, age, etc.

  (Btw I identify as “household pet walking across the keyboard - other” with pronouns get/down)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voice actors denounce exploitative AI at Comic-Con⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair that’s how I learn too! I read what others have written, watch was others do, and generally take knowledge that other people have found, experienced, or learned from other folks themselves. Also I used to never leave my room and didn’t experience life either lol.

  Anyway, it’s rare that I can sit down and poke and prod something or some subject to learn and research on my own something new, only to find that hundreds of other people have already figured that out and I just reinvented the wheel.

  I think what you were trying to get at is usually referred to the concept of the Chinese room.

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

  Regardless, the concern for me hasn’t been that LLMs can’t replace humans, it’s that they can replace writers, voice actors, extras, and programmers. (Software engineers just see AI as a new tool for the toolbox, but that’s a tangent I’m not getting into here) replacing the creatives that make entertainment is largely concerning in that like you said, the LLMs just regurgitate content that was fed into the model and new creative works can’t be created with it.

  The corporations that make money on the creatives love these new AIs as a way to cut costs. I think there is going to be an influx of cheap scripts created for sitcoms, children’s shows, and popcorn summer movies and there isn’t much anyone can do other than boycott the content.

  It’s kind of scary knowing this could shut out new writers and actors from the industry as their market effectively shrinks. Though I’m hoping that people will recognize the cheap junk food level content created by LLMs and stop consuming it in favor of content written and acted by humans.

  Luckily, the big name celebrities can’t be replaced by LLM anytime soon, but I’m sure the scripts for the superhero movies will have acts largely written by LLMs soon. I also expect something like the Simpsons to be entirely AI generated and voice acted. They have over 30 years of content to feed into the model and the show is already known for regurgitating its own jokes, stories and content.

  Thanks for listening to my TED talk.