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- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 6 days ago:
If it is just a repackaging of ChatGPT’s existing “search the web” function, I don’t know why they’d bother. It can at best summarize a page of search results for a very literal-minded query, and even then it’s often lobotomized by the fact that OpenAI has made it easy for a large number of top websites to opt out of having their pages accessible to their search crawler, which means you’re only getting a summary of the search result snippet and metadata. A competent user of Google search can run rings around it in terms of research, even with Google’s decline in quality. I guess it makes it faster to answer basic queries for recent information not in the training data, but that hardly seems worthy of a big event.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 week ago:
Heckjumpers
- Comment on US teacher charged with using AI to frame principal with racist audio 3 weeks ago:
ABC cites an odd claim:
Detectives allege that Darien used his Large Language Models, such as OpenAI and Bing chat, to create the recording. The charging document claimed that Darien has a paid OpenAI account, which gives users more features than the free version.
You can’t make audio using OpenAI or Bing, just text and images. I really hope they didn’t arrest the wrong person based on a hunch and office politics.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 4 weeks ago:
Had an entertaining time asking it to list the states Trump won with a running total, pointing out that the total was less than 270, and then soft-locking it in an endless loop of “My previous statement was incorrect. Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election” in response to literally any statement. To defeat the alt-right AI you don’t need some brilliant paradox, just basic arithmetic.
- Comment on The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals 1 month ago:
Does this have any impact on the IPO? Would they gave to delay it (again)?
- Comment on The Retro Web 3 months ago:
I’m a little puzzled by the name, since it seems to be more about vintage computer hardware than the web. Or I guess maybe it’s like a mini-web about retro things? Idk
- Comment on AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’ 4 months ago:
I listened to it and it’s genuinely not bad (on a content and voice synthesis level), to the point that I have a hard time believing it was entirely AI-generated. If it’s not a fake ghostwritten by the creators, it must have been heavily rerolled and edited to make it so coherent.
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 4 months ago:
It’ll result in the industry moving to nations with more permissive scraping laws (like Japan) or less respect for Western copyright (Russia, China).
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 4 months ago:
And a significant part of the remainder are repost bots recycling old popular posts and comments in order to farm karma, which will eventually be sold to OnlyFans spammers, political ops, and corporate shills.
- Comment on Asking ChatGPT to Repeat Words ‘Forever’ Is Now a Terms of Service Violation 5 months ago:
IIRC based on the source paper the “verbatim” text is common stuff like legal boilerplate, shared code snippets, book jacket blurbs, alphabetical lists of countries, and other text repeated countless times across the web. It’s the text equivalent of DALL-E “memorizing” a meme template or a stock image – it doesn’t mean all or even most of the training data is stored within the model, just that certain pieces of highly duplicated data have ascended to the level of concept and can be reproduced under unusual circumstances.
- Comment on Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy? 6 months ago:
There’s always going to be an activity difference given the userbase gap, but it’s a mistake imho to see a slow-paced community as “dead”. As long as it has active subscribers, any post will get votes and comments from people who see it, even if it’s been weeks or months since the last post in that community. Slower-paced, but still there for whatever content gets posted.
- Comment on What are good places to frequently check / 'be' on the internet besides lemmy / reddit / social media? 6 months ago:
For me, MetaFilter, ResetEra, and Feedly (RSS reader).
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 7 months ago:
I’ve thought about doing this, but worry about it fucking up my recommendations, which I’m actually pretty happy with. Do you know if that’s an issue?
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 7 months ago:
Tbh, I block ads when I can but have a hard time getting angry about this. YouTube is both incredibly useful and incredibly expensive to operate – seriously, what other service lets you upload hours of HD video which anyone in the world can access instantly, indefinitely, for free, and at the same scale YT does? It’s a peerless engineering marvel and it would be a tragedy if it were to shut down. If seeing some short skippable ads is what it takes to keep that resource viable, that’s honestly pretty fair.
- Comment on Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money. 7 months ago:
- Comment on Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money. 7 months ago:
Convenient (for them) that they start this only after destroying all the coins people earned over years of using the site. I had over 80k coins and 18 years of premium from various awarded posts (all OC) that they just threw away for nothing.
If they respected my contributions, I might be excited about this, but now I plan on contributing absolutely nothing of value ever again.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 8 months ago:
Context: godotengine.org
- Comment on Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! 8 months ago:
I’m all for shitting on Xitter, but this is a pretty bad article. It’s written like somebody put it through Google Translate a few times, and doesn’t cite any sources for any of its claims. Closest I could find was this Business Insider story on a report by Apptopia, which only says that its downloads in various app stores declined 30%, not its overall userbase.
- Comment on Is there a word in English to describe someone who wants to preserve a (minority) culture against erosion from a majority culture? 8 months ago:
Traditionalist
Preservationist
Anti-colonialist
- Comment on Why do people look at sunsets? 8 months ago:
When the sun is very low (nearly touching or even partly below the horizon), it’s typically shining through such a large amount of atmosphere that the sunlight is significantly weakened by the time it reaches your eyes. This isn’t always true though, for ex if the air is unusually dry, clear, or thin (such as near the poles). Good rule of thumb is that if it looks red rather than yellow or white, it’s likely safe to look at for at least a few seconds.
- Comment on What search engines really have exact match? 8 months ago:
Does Google’s “verbatim” filter not do this for you?
- Comment on ELI5: What is scat? The internet one. 8 months ago:
Hint: humans are animals, too.
- Comment on In its first week, Immortals of Aveum had a peak count of just 751 players on Steam. 8 months ago:
I can’t imagine how soul-destroying it must be to put so much time and effort into a big-budget game like this only for it to flop so utterly. Even notoriously bad games sell at least a few thousand copies; being ignored is even worse. I’d say “at least it’s not an indie game,” but then most indie developers would expect their games to have minimal uptake these days.
- Comment on There's Jews for Jesus, are there Christians against Christ? 9 months ago:
Sounds like the old sky-cake dodge is wearing thin for these pieces of shit.
- Comment on Is there a live thread for Ukraine updates like the world news one on that dumpster fire of a service that shall not be named? 9 months ago:
They initially tried invading south from Belarus towards Kyiv (remember the caravan?), but the offensive stalled out and was pushed back by mid-April; apart from occasional missile barrages the focus has been on the east ever since.
- Comment on Is there a live thread for Ukraine updates like the world news one on that dumpster fire of a service that shall not be named? 9 months ago:
It’s not real-time, but the Institute for the Study of War puts out very well-regarded daily updates on their site. They’re very detailed and talk about both military and political developments, with bolded summary points at the top if you don’t have time to read the whole thing. You can also subscribe to [their RSS feed] to stay up to date, which includes similar updates for Iran, Taiwan, and jihadist movements.