mrnarwall

@mrnarwall@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Trek: Lower Decks Poster Collection⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fantastic. I never realized how connected they all were. Thank you for sharing this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Is Faking AI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to do mechanical turk jobs for some quick and easy pocket money. There were several types of tasks you could do, and there was a sort of ranking system to dissuade anyone from just inputting junk instead of answering seriously. I usually stuck to surveys and things I would describe as fancy captchas. I recall a few jobs where the task was to record yourself in different environments reading the same script of text. I can’t see that type of job for being anything other than training data for AI/ML

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Robots.txt is a file that is is accessible as part of an http request. It’s a backend configuration file that sets rules for what automatically running web crawlers are allowed. It can set both who is and who isn’t allowed. Google is usually the most widely allowed domain for bots just because their crawler is how they find websites for search results. But it’s basically the honor system. You could write a scraper today that goes to websites that it is being told it doesn’t have permission to view this page, ignore it, and still get the information