BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners 14 hours ago:
It’s going to help you reflect on that situation!
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 1 day ago:
Completely agree. The whole tone and setting changed. SC:BW went for gritty realism. Obviously, there’s a suspension of disbelief when you’ve got psionic aliens, but it felt like three scrappy factions barely surviving in the endless dark of space.
SC2 went full Warcraft. Ancient gods, portals to other worlds, all the same kitschy fantasy elements that are fine in the campy context of WC but really clashed with the established character of the SC universe. I get that they wanted to raise the stakes in the sequel, but I really disagreed with how they went about it.
And Kerrigan should have stayed evil. That’s my “Han shot first” of the franchise.
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 2 days ago:
Possibly, yes. There are models that will run on consumer-grade GPUs that you might already have or might have purchased anyway, where you might say there’s no incremental cost. But the issue is that the performance will be limited. The models are forgetful and prone to getting stuck in loops of repeated phrases.
So if instead you custom-build a workstation with two 5090s or a Pro 6000 or something that pushes you up to the 100 GB VRAM tier, then absolutely, just as you said you’ll be spending thousands of dollars that probably won’t pay back relative to renting cloud GPU time.
- Comment on Chatgpt shared link searchable 2 days ago:
Yes, Ollama or a range of other backends (Ooba, Kobold, etc.) can run LLMs locally. Huggingface has a huge number of models suited to different tasks like coding, storywriting, general purpose, and so on. If you run both the backend and frontend locally, then no one monetizes your data.
The part I’d argue that the previous poster is glazing over a little bit is performance. Unless you have an enterprise-grade GPU cluster sitting in your basement, you’re going to make compromises on speed and/or quality relative to the giant models that run on commercial services.
- Comment on Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter • Koujo Denka no Katei Kyoushi - Episode 5 discussion 3 days ago:
Lydia does seem the type to crash out hard. Excited to see just how big a fire and/or shitstorm she causes.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 4 days ago:
Yes, that’s it. A lot of AV systems are dependent on high resolution 3d maps of an area so they can precisely locate themselves in space. So they may perform relatively well in that defined space but would not be able to do so outside it.
Level 5 is functionally a human driver. You as a human could be driving off road, in an environment you’ve never been in before. Maybe it’s raining and muddy. Maybe there are unknown hazards within this novel geography, flooding, fallen trees, etc.
A Level 5 AV system would be able to perform equivalently to a human in those conditions. Again, it’s science fiction at this point, but essentially the end goes of vehicle automation is a system that can respond to novel and unpredictable circumstances in the same way a human driver would in that scenario. It’s really not defined much better than that end goal - because it’s not possible with current technology, it doesn’t correspond to a specific set of sensors or software system. It’s a performance-based, long-term goal.
This is why it’s so irresponsible for Tesla to continue to market their system as “Full self driving.” It is nowhere near as adaptable or capable as a human driver. They pretend or insinuate that they have a system equivalent to SAE Level 5 when the entire industry is a decade minimum away from such a system.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 4 days ago:
Well, the Obama administration had published initial guidance on testing and safety for automated vehicles in September 2016, which was pre-regulatory but a prelude to potential regulation. Trump trashed it as one of the first things he did taking office for his first term. I was working in the AV industry at the time.
That turned everything into the wild west for a couple of years, up until an automated Uber killed a pedestrian in Arizona in 2018. After that, most AV companies scaled public testing way back, and deployed extremely conservative versions of their software. If you look at news articles from that time, there’s a lot of criticism of how, e.g., Waymos would just grind to a halt in the middle of intersections, as companies would rather take flak for blocking traffic than running over people.
But not Tesla. While other companies dialed back their ambitions, Tesla was ripping Lidar sensors off its vehicles and sending them back out on public roads in droves. They also continued to market the technology - first as “Autopilot” and later as “Full Self Driving” - in ways that vastly overstated its capabilities. To be clear, Full Self Driving, or Level 5 Automation in the SAE framework, is science fiction at this point, the idea of a computer system functionally indistinguishable from a capable human driver.
Part of the blame probably also lies with Biden, whose DOT had the opportunity to address this and didn’t during his term. But it was Trump who initially trashed the safety framework, and Telsa that concealed and mismarketed the limitations of its technology.
- Comment on Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds 1 week ago:
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 2 weeks ago:
I mean, download xtts2 and feed a six-second clip of Mark Hamill’s voice into it. Altman isn’t wrong that it’s extremely easy these days and a massive security hole.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 2 weeks ago:
Only until you hit your data cap!
- Comment on 'The Next Level': Ex-KADOKAWA Chairman Says Generative AI and Short Anime Will Drive Japanese Content Forward - Anime Corner 3 weeks ago:
Every time I’m watching a low budget anime with terrible CGI, I think, wow, if only we could add AI into the mix too.
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 3 weeks ago:
Aw, c’mon. There are a lot more reasons not to buy a Tesla than just this.
- Comment on Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 2 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit that was dark.
- Comment on "The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten" Season 2 New Visual 4 weeks ago:
Went into S1 with no expectations and was really impressed. Great romance anime with believable character development and zero cringe. Excited for the follow up.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 1 month ago:
Yeah, let’s a technology already known for filling in gaps with invented nonsense and use that as our new training paradigm.
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 2 months ago:
Bastion is a 6/10 beat-em-up with 10/10 art, music, and voice acting. I enjoyed that game a lot (and still listen to the soundtrack on road trips), but boy does the atmosphere carry the weight of an otherwise average game.
Pretty forgivable since it was their first effort. Hades feels nice and crisp while keeping all the other points strong, too.
- Comment on Don't Look Up 2 months ago:
If I were a betting man, I’d wager this woman spends a lot of time scrolling through right-wing posts on Facebook about the “invasion” of Britain. A Brexit type, if you will.
That’s just speculation in this specific case, but the amount of fear-mongering right-wing content on social media is absolutely a contributor to this kind of worldview more broadly.
- Comment on The Beginning After the End • Saikyou no Ousama, Nidome no Jinsei wa Nani wo Suru? - Episode 9 discussion 2 months ago:
Did this show get any better?
Apparently, the source material is supposed to be good. I gave it three episodes but was pretty disappointed by the animation quality and pacing.
Wondering if anyone who stuck with it thinks it’s worth it.
- Comment on AI model collapse is not what we paid for 2 months ago:
Unstable, yes. Equilibrium… no.
She sometimes maintains coherence for several responses, but at a certain point, the output devolves into rants about how environmentalists caused the California wildfires.
These conversations consume a lot of our energy and provide very limited benefit. We’re beginning to wonder if the trade-offs are worth it.
- Comment on AI model collapse is not what we paid for 2 months ago:
In an AI model collapse, AI systems, which are trained on their own outputs, gradually lose accuracy, diversity, and reliability. This occurs because errors compound across successive model generations, leading to distorted data distributions and “irreversible defects” in performance. The final result? A Nature 2024 paper stated, “The model becomes poisoned with its own projection of reality.”
A remarkably similar thing happened to my aunt who can’t get off Facebook.
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 2 months ago:
Terrible journalism. The author entirely neglects the fact that lemurs possess fingers even smaller than those of Chinese women. Why not have lemurs manufacture iPhones, given the particular daintiness of their digits? A true investigative journalist wouldn’t leave such crucial avenues of inquiry unexplored.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 2 months ago:
I’ll bet they don’t really like the Sex Pistols, either.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 2 months ago:
If Apple is the importer of record for its products, then it does incur and pay the tariff to the U.S. government. But obviously that gets passed along to consumers as no company will simply eat the cost.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 2 months ago:
$3,500 according to one estimate.
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 2 months ago:
The reaction to Clair Obscur has been wild. I had a friend I haven’t talked to since high school - when we were both big Final Fantasy fans - reach out to ask if I’d played it. A bunch of guys at work are talking about it who I didn’t even know were gamers. I hope we see a lot more of these passionate, creative projects and the infrastructure to support them.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 months ago:
Well, I’ve been across the horizon and back a few times and I never came back a cunt. But I also never came back a Nazi billionaire, and then I’m making no promises.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 months ago:
Depends on the ketamine levels in his blood at any given moment. Sometimes, you edit your prompts from a k-hole, and everyone knows you can’t authorize your own actions when you’re fully dissociated.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 months ago:
Yo ho ho (and a bottle of rum)!
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 months ago:
Yeah, 100%. “Review bombing” suggests that people are leaving disingenuous bad reviews due to some personal or political axe to grind with the developer. This just looks like a game that got a lukewarm reception, but at least the information in the article doesn’t suggest that any review bombing is occurring.
I’m a big Ori fan, and I wish Moon Studios the best. But the games market is oversaturated right now, and it’s a tough time for all indie devs. It doesn’t necessarily mean that someone is out to get them if their game isn’t an overnight success.
- Comment on Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X 2 months ago:
There are enough fan boys still salivating over the fascist prick that it doesn’t necessarily have to be him.
Also I’m not sure Lemmy has a large enough audience to satiate his endless need for external validation.
