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- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 20 hours ago:
Tennant: TERFs are whiny fucking babies JK Rowling, Court Jester: whines like baby
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 2 days ago:
I mean, my point still stands but if we want to talk about semantics - are you saying betamax wasn’t a giant?
Obviously they entered the vhs war and lost, but after that it was pretty much downhill for the rest of their company and products. They were a big name brand and crashed out by entering a war they ultimately lost. That’s all I’m tryin to get at
- Comment on Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete 3 days ago:
That’s a broad leap no? Giants rise and fall. Look at betamax, BlockBuster, Kodak, etc
There’s always going to be something better out there, as long as you’re still looking and leaving the old post. Chin up!
- Comment on International Criminal Court Members Speak Out 1 week ago:
Very interesting read. ICC seems to have no borders and is willing to go after anyone - Russia, Israel, US and they all seem to be against them.
Enemy of my enemy
- Comment on PlayStation Rolling Out Update To Allow Players To Join Discord Chat Directly From PS5 2 weeks ago:
Can’t wait to listen to fans nonstop
- Comment on LockBitSupp Denies Identification of Group ‘Admin’, Opens Contest to Find Named Dmitry Yuryevich 1 month ago:
Doubling down, perhaps to mix noise/disinfo into reports to make the feds’ jobs harder. Interesting play. Love watching this stuff unfold.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
Look man I’m an adult, you may talk to me like one
I used the term consumer when discussing things from a business sense, ie we’re talking about big businesses and implementations of technology. It’s also in part due to the environment I live in.
You’ve also dodged my whole counter point to bring up a new point you could argue.
I think we’re done with this convo tbh. You’re moving goal posts and trying to muddy water
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
I can see where you’re coming from - however I disagree on the premise that “the reality is that (rationale) the control of AI is in the hands of the mega corps”. AI has been a research topic not done solely by huge corps, but by researchers who publish these findings. There are several options out there right now for consumer grade AI where you download models yourself, and run them locally. (Jan, Pytorch, TensorFlow, Horovod, Ray, H2O.ai, stable-horde, etc many of which are from FAANG, but are still, nevertheless, open source and usable by anyone - i’ve used several to make my own AI models)
Consumers and researchers alike have an interest in making this tech available to all. Not just businesses. The grand majority of the difficulty in training AI is obtaining datasets large enough with enough orthogonal ‘features’ to ensure its efficacy is appropriate. Namely, this means that tasks like image generation, editing and recognition (huge for medical sector, including finding cancers and other problems), documentation creation (to your credit), speech recognition and translation (huge for the differently-abled community and for globe-trotters alike), and education (I read from huge public research data sets, public domain books and novels, etc) are still definitely feasible for consumer-grade usage and operation. There’s also some really neat usages like federated tensorflow and distributed tensorflow which allows for, perhaps obviously, distributed computation opening the door for stronger models, run by anyone who will serve it.
I just do not see the point in admitting total defeat/failure for AI because some of the asshole greedy little pigs in the world are also monetizing/misusing the technology. The cat is out of the bag in my opinion, the best (not only) option forward, is to bolster consumer-grade implementations, encouraging things like self-hosting, local operation/execution, and creating minimally viable guidelines to protect consumers from each other. Seatbelts. Brakes. Legal recourse for those who harm others with said technology.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
I do not want that for anyone. AI is a tool that should be kept open to everyone, and trained with consent. But as soon as people argue that its only a tool that can harm, is where I’m drawing the line. That’s, in my opinion, when govts/ruling class/capitalists/etc start to put in BS “safeguards” to prevent the public from making using of the new power/tech.
I should have been more verbose and less reactionary/passive aggressive in conveying my message, its something I’m trying to work on, so I appreciate your cool-headed response here. I took the “you clearly don’t know what ludites are” as an insult to what I do or don’t know. I specifically was trying to draw attention to the notion that AI is solely harmful as being fallacious and ignorant to the full breadth of the tech. Just because something can cause harm, doesn’t mean we should scrap it. It just means we need to learn how it can harm, and how to prevent that. Nothing more. I believe in consent, and I do not believe in the ruling minority/capitalist practices.
Again, it was an off the cuff response, I made a lot of presumptions about their views without ever having actually asking them to expand/clarify and that was ignorant of me. I will update/edit the comment to improve my statement.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I agree with your example - it’s more like giving the owners of the donation the ability to choose WHO they are donating to. That means choosing not to donate to companies that might take your food donation and sell it as damaged goods for example. I wouldn’t want my donation to be used that way. Thats how I see it anyway
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
question
Couldn’t these owners dictate how their creations are used? If you don’t own it, you don’t even get a say.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
So does that mean anyone is allowed to use said content for whatever purposes they’d like? That’d include AI stuff too I think? Interesting twist there, hadn’t thought about it like this yet. Essentially posters would be agreeing to share that data/info publically. No different than someone learning how to code from looking at examples made by their professors or someone else doing the teaching/talking I suppose. Hmm.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
idk if you can call image generation derived from colored static based on preexisting statistically common knowledge/examples “planning” per se xD
Humans have come up with plenty worse, this is just more of the same at worst imo haha
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
Factual haha. Tbf I’d be a bit disturbed if the AI was good at drawing dead bodies tho
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Well I suppose in that case, protesting via removal is fine IMO. I think the constructive, next-step would be to create a site where you, the user, own what you post. Does Reddit claim ownership over posts? I wonder what lemmy’s “policies” are and if this would be a good grounds (here) to start building something better than what SO was doing.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Instead of solely deleting content, what if authors had instead moved their content/answers to something self-owned? Can SO even claim ownership legally of the content on their site? Seems iffy in my own, ignorant take.
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
The double tails things is sometimes normal, but that missing end quote fs tho. Still, pretty good all things considered. Wonder what model was used
- Comment on Too soon? 1 month ago:
This is AI, right? Some much cursed shit when you zoom in lol
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
They had an impact because people allowed themselves to take their fear mongering seriously.
It’s regressionist and it stunts progress needlessly. That’s not to say we shouldn’t pump the brakes, but I am saying logic like “it could hurt people” as rationale to never use it, is just “won’t someone think of the children” BS.
You don’t ban all the new swords, you learn how they’re made, how they strike, what kinds of wounds they create and address that problem. Sweeping under the rug/putting things back in their box, is not an option.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
You’ll notice I used the lower case L which implies I’m referring to a term, likely as it’s commonly used today, because that’s how speech works.
Further, explain to me how this is different from what the luddites stood for, since you obviously know so much more and I’m so off base with this comment.
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
People have severe allergic reactions to peanut butter which means it “could be used against people” as a weapon
- Comment on OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn 1 month ago:
I guess we should ban peanut butter and bee cultivation too while we’re at it.
I don’t think anyone should take luddites seriously tbh
- Comment on There used to be a point were I was mostly too young to get the joke. Now I'm mostly too old to get the joke... 1 month ago:
Brain rot flavor of the generation, be on your way
All is as it ever has been and ever will be imo
- Comment on We can dream right 1 month ago:
I really really want a super 8 sequel or triology in general (so 2 more movies)
Think it could be pretty good but maybe they didn’t think it out that far.
Anyone got a list of sci fi movies based off a book series that just never made another movie after the first before I ask GPT? lol
- Comment on We can dream right 1 month ago:
But that’s where all the rich people pour their money dude
WON’T SOMEONE THINK ABOUT THE RICH PEOPLE
- Comment on God help us. 1 month ago:
Is it? I feel old if so. Sunshine was one of the best imo
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 1 month ago:
I agree, maybe I’m a bit too gung-ho, but to say that I’m ignoring the complexities of the problems is pretty ignorant and, ironically, hypocritical of you.
In fact, I’ve repeatedly mentioned the complexity behind what the police have to do and what they’re supposed to be doing, and the complexities of threats both foreign and domestic.
You strike me as older and more on a high horse than I do in this last comment here specifically. To assume I’m incapable of understanding the complexities of the world around me, solely based off perceived age, is no less ignorant/presumptuous.
Have a good day.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 1 month ago:
Yeeeeeahhh, not sure if I agree with this one. To me it feels sort of lazy and skirts around the true nature of accepting people for who they are and learning to be more tolerant of people not exactly like us
Sorta feels lazy to say, well let’s get rid of what makes us different/unique.
Nature doesn’t really believe in the homogeneous, I don’t see why we should strive to make it so
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 months ago:
To my knowledge no. I asked and was downvoted to hell for trying to prevent disinformation (yet again) before an election to verify.
And then the person (mod of Midwest social Ohio or something) posted another picture w/o source
shrug take that as you will
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 2 months ago:
Yes absolutely. These are most definitely actionable and are also excellent conversational pieces that can be discussed further, which was all I wanted instead of outrage commenting basically.
I think healthcare in general (including mental health) services would be hugely impactful to the general population.
I also think our educational system is being eroded and a lot of kids are pushed away from continuing education (in any form, not just traditional university which fails a lot of people) in favor of blue collar work
Now I’m not saying blue collar work is bad, but I do think continuing education is important, especially as our life expectancies are increasing. It’s important people stay educated and continue to practice things like the scientific process so that we don’t lose that information and become disinformation spreaders.
Without solid education, we can’t possible expect a “bright” future imo.
What did you mean about the homogenous society? In what ways? Looking forward to any examples/explanation you could give!