BreadstickNinja

@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a plausible way they actually ban the use of VPNs? Like, they can make it illegal on paper, but even in China, which has long had strict restrictions on internet use, I’ve heard that VPN use is widespread.

  It just all seems like performative whack-a-mole to me. The only people who can control what a kid sees online are their parents or guardians. A child is not buying themselves a laptop or an iPad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump is building ‘one interface to rule them all.’ It’s terrifying.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cat ears and butt stuff. Might as well save them some CPU cycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s like complaining that a hammer isn’t good at turning a screw. There’s a whole trend of Chess content creators featuring games against ChatGPT where it forgets the position or plays illegal moves, and it just doesn’t mean anything. ChatGPT was never designed or intended to be able to evaluate a chess position, and incidentally, we do have computer programs that do exactly that and have been better than any human player since the 1990s. So what is even the point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Integers are days in Excel, no? So I think 2+2= 12:00 AM Jan 5, 1900.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume the top-level takeaway is that we’re all getting pushed to Linux, but just on slightly varying timelines. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Particularly apt given that may of the biggest problems with social media are problems of capitalism. Social media platforms have found it most profitable to monetize conflict and division, the low self-esteem of teenagers, lies and misinformation, envy over the curated simulacrum of a life presented by a parasocial figure.

  These things drive engagement. Engagement drives clicks. Clicks drive ad revenue. Revenue pleases shareholders. And all that feeds back into a system that trades negativity in the real world for positivity on a balance sheet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the last version of Windows I’ll ever install, so the statement was accurate but incomplete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to show ads in Grok chatbot's answers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But maybe it will hallucinate ads for non-existent products, like Dr. Zhivago’s Peanut Butter Enema Cannon, which could be fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Jim was just in a really good mood after all his hair spontaneously grew back. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partners⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to help you reflect on that situation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit that was dark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten" Season 2 New Visual⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.