Nahvi
@Nahvi@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI Generated QR Codes with Stable Diffusion and ControlNet 1 year ago:
Did you try shrinking the photos a bit? I narrowed the browser to shrink them and my phone camera picked up 11 of 12 of the ones in a grid.
- Comment on New Study: 54% of American Adults Read Below 6th Grade-Levels 1 year ago:
Nuance.
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
I am not a fan of this idea, but there are instances with no down vote button. If you prefer it no down vote button, it isn’t too hard to find those instances.
- Comment on This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! 1 year ago:
basic HTML Gmail is dying in early January 2024
- Comment on This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! 1 year ago:
I can’t speak for others, but I typically don’t use email on the PC. When it is more convenient to use the PC, usually because of an attachment, I will log into the browser version.
- Comment on This week’s dead Google products: Google Podcasts, basic Gmail, and more! 1 year ago:
Agreed. I’ve reverted to HTML mode recently when tethering from my phone. The signal is bad enough sometimes that it makes a world of difference. Gmail was virtually unusable until I realized HTML mode was still an option.
Really just time to bite the bullet and acknowledge that it is worth the hassle to switch away from a company that I don’t like or trust.
- Comment on Google kills Jamboard 1 year ago:
Ah good catch. I wonder if I saw it out of the corner of my eye and thought I had a sudden “brilliant” idea.
- Comment on Google kills Jamboard 1 year ago:
I don’t know how long this has been around, but I feel like they missed a good opportunity to call this the Google Graveyard.
- Comment on John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
Thank you for the response. I am not sure I agree with your exact stance, but you make several compelling points along the way.
Using the Fair Use doctrine is definitely a good way to narrow down where the dividing line is. I think we can easily agree that making a GRRM specific AI to make derivative, non-parody, commercial works would definitely be on the wrong side of the line.
When I was picturing the bots, I was picturing something more along the lines of AI bots that had consumed all human literary works, or at the very least all modern English literary works.
ChatGPT write me a short story where the Main Character is a Magical Golem that follows the Three Laws of Isaac Asimov. It should be written in the style of a Greek Tragedy but set in Feudal Japan. The Main Character should be able to gain in magical power until he eventually attempts to break into the Heavens. There should be gods trying to interfere in his ascension but not in ways the MC cannot resolve. Base the gods off of archetypes from Norse Mythology, but name them after characters from GRRM’s game of thrones based on similar personality types.
Such a work would both be wholly derivative and yet wholly unique. Despite swiping GRRM’s unique names this work should be perfectly fine in my mind.
- Comment on John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
Like the other commenter, I would be genuinely curious to here your thoughts on that fundamental difference.
I am by no means an AI expert, but my impressions is that AI sill needs to process each book and incorporate the new knowledge into its existing knowledge. Which at least from a surface level sounds a lot like what I do when I read a new book.
The fact that each AI is effectively a non-sapient slave of a person or corporation really doesn’t change my opinion.
Have you ever had a reason to read much in a new or developing sub-genre? As a fan of LitRPG, a genre that virtually didn’t exist 10 years ago, I can tell you with some certainty that everything is a derivative work of something. It is amazing how as soon as one author pulls in and idea from another genre, the next 30 novels that come out will have some variation of the same idea, and the 300 that follow it will each have variations of those.
- Comment on John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
I am with the authors more like 80% here.
Authors read each others works and are influenced by them and we don’t expect them to go back and buy special licenses for each work that might have influenced their current novels. Art as much as any field stands on the shoulders of mice and giants alike. Pretending that AI language models shouldn’t “read” as many novels as possible to assist their own growth is a preposterous idea.
Should they have to buy a copy of the book like everyone else? Sure. Should they get bent over without lube by publishing companies? Well that is a bit more complex.
In my opinion there is no “right” answer right now. We as a society need to decide what we are okay with.
Furthermore, there are a lot of really good books out there that would be truly great “except”. Except what? That depends. Maybe it has annoying side characters, or maybe it is littered with plot holes, maybe there are outdated social norms that distract from the real point of the book, or maybe the fact that not one character in the book looks or talks like you and your friends.
It would be wonderful if we could use AI to adjust or even personalize those books.
Can you imagine a Harry Potter that isn’t just translated into other languages, but has each of the characters localized as well. Neither Harry Potter being British nor being male is fundamental to the story. There is no reason the French, Aria Potter couldn’t save the world through the power of her mother’s love, and with the help of her friends. Well except the fact that it would likely make JKR lose her mind, since she doesn’t even tolerate fan fiction.
Is it possible to make these changes now, sure? It just isn’t really practical for even really big name authors, much someone who only sells a few thousand copies of each book.
- Comment on John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
I get the logic, but I think it is a more complex issue than that.
How many writer’s have read his works and been influenced by them? Did they just buy a proper license or just buy/borrow the book from somewhere?
- Comment on John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
I was just thinking the opposite. Maybe we can get AI to give us that last book that we are otherwise may never see. Especially if it actually does end as poorly as the TV series did.
Chat GPT write me a final novel for ASOIF in the style GRRMartin but with a better ending.
- Comment on Adblock 1 year ago:
Not sure. I only have a vague memory of it.
- Comment on Adblock 1 year ago:
It shows up more than once, but I think the first time is shortly after the girl goes to see Picard. Probably episode 2 or 3. There were workers and machines in the fields and I remember thinking, why even have the people if the machines beam the grapes right off the vines?
- Comment on Adblock 1 year ago:
I think of it like a homemade carrot cake versus a store bought individually wrapped slice.
Technically that factory made carrot cake is perfect every time. It is the same recipe, color, and quality as the one next to it and the one you bought last year. That said I would nearly always prefer a homemade or bakery made carrot cake more. Nothing wrong with grabbing the “perfect” one in a pinch, but it is missing something that I can’t quite describe. Maybe it is a more generic recipe, or maybe it is the preservatives, but there is a difference.
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
There are a lot of good points here. There would definitely be a weight and fragility issue. Maybe I am just too attached to the idea.
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
more likely stretch it out to be both thicker and wider
I think there would be a large market for a wide device that needed two wrist straps to hold it in place. Hard to tell sometimes though. It would either become super trendy or only for super nerds. Either way, I would probably scoop it up.
In any case, I am pretty sure the phone companies want us to have a watch also, not instead, and will suppress any development that changes that mentality.
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
perhaps the watch becomes the phone rather than an accessory to one.
I was hoping for something like this when the Apple Watch came out, but they were clearly very against the idea.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
What did I do to deserve this treatment?
No Jamaharon for the rest of the day!
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
Sci-fi phones are the best. I like the slide ones alright, but I was always a huge fan of the mid-air projections. Seems like we are decent way off from either right now.
Also, I keep hoping we get a short term pair of glasses or ultra light weight VR/AR goggles before we figure out projection anywhere tech.
- Comment on Print failed successfully! 1 year ago:
I had no idea this was a thing despite also having it directly on my walls.
When I read your statement, I was like wait… I think that is what my wall says and had to go check.
The lady that lived here before me put that and some other weird word art on the walls. Been meaning to get around to peeling it off and repainting, but keep finding other priorities.
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
I don’t object to them as an optional feature, but they are about as useful as optical drives to the typical user.
- Comment on Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans 1 year ago:
Personally, I would like to see miniaturization become the the trend again.
I haven’t been interested in a new release since phablets became the standard. I don’t need my phone to replace my PC. It just needs to be able to run a web-search in a pinch.
I was really hoping the Apple Watch was going to be the next leap forward, but they were very careful about making sure most people didn’t replace their phones with them.
- Comment on US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins 1 year ago:
You have a bigger problem with the slowly dying Microsoft pushing Bing on Windows than the market leading Alphabet pushing Google on Android?
Even if you want to look at browsers, the Chromebooks are even more integrated with Chrome than Edge on Windows.
They should be the same problem, but if one was worse based on the impact, then it should almost certainly be Google/Chrome.
- Comment on US to argue Google abused power to monopolize internet search as antitrust trial begins 1 year ago:
More like Google had the better product a decade ago. It has pretty well been crap that was just being defaulted to for most of the last decade. Which is exactly why it is ripe for an antitrust claim.
- Comment on Important knife sharpener review 1 year ago:
Probably, though the scene that came to mind for me was from the DS9 episode where Worf, Kor, and Dax find the sword of Kahless.
- Comment on Important knife sharpener review 1 year ago:
Like you guessed it is a cultural icon. The emperor the united their home world used it.
In Star Trek lore, the Klingon Kahless created the bat’leth around CE 625. According to Klingon mythology, he formed the blade by dropping a length of his hair into some lava from inside the Kri’stak Volcano, then cooling, shaping, and hardening it in the lake of Lursor.[5] He then united Qo’noS, the Klingon homeworld, by killing a tyrant named Molor with the weapon, which became known as the Sword of Kahless.
- Comment on Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall 1 year ago:
I still might choose to take a picture of my buddy’s cool drawing that he bought rather than buying my own copy. Though I agree that I am certainly not entitled to a free print at the author’s expense.
Conversely, if I bought that drawing myself and it came with reflective glass glued to the front, so that pictures turned out blurry, I might be a little annoyed. Now I can’t roll it up and put it with my other drawings without special accommodations. Also, I bought it and if I want to take a picture of it or wipe my ass with it then that is my choice. Making the life of your customers more difficult so you can make a little extra money is going to lose you some of those customers.
Not that I begrudge someone for making good money, but that dude said he is making $40k a month from his Patreon for DLSS3 mods. Does he really feel like he isn’t get paid what his time was worth, or is he just getting greedy in a community that is usually more aligned with FOSS concepts?
- Comment on Well...that was anticlimactic 1 year ago:
For that matter Zuckerberg and the exec from Tik Tok are both walking free.