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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it’s driven by real creative intent and doesn’t result in something that looks low quality. But it’s not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is accurate. You’re also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don’t have fine control over because you can’t do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World Has a Serious Coal Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like an ethics-optional group that wants to really end the use of coal could run a campaign of breaking into or drilling down to the most profitable commercial coal seams and lighting them on fire. More Centralia, Pennsylvanias, especially in populated areas, would probably permanently dampen the domestic industry and drive prices far upwards leading to the faster growth of alternatives. The obvious tradeoff is, those seams your group lit are going to burn for a very very long time, so you’re causing some emissions in exchange for a global reduction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨im frend :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He brought an antipasto salad and everything too 💔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve run across at least three separate articles now of researchers from across the world discovering plastic eating bacteria in the wild. Short plastic. Its days are numbered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innocence⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re magnitudes more likely to lose an arm operating a lathe or cutting wood professionally than pushing paper in a camo outfit, which is what over half of US military personnel actually do all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators during stress-testing scenarios⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not “learning” anything. It’s a computer program outputting text it was modelled to output.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moving away from physical currency has been very detrimental to the homeless industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In India, this kind of thing is very common, especially when the beggars are children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t understand what they’ve written

  Well first of all, they didn’t write it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not expensive, assuming you don’t mind giving someone else your microplastics. In fact, you can get paid about $100 to do it in most places. How? Apharesis is exactly what is performed when donating plasma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone wearing a mask tries to kidnap you, draw your handgun and put a hole in their face. I’m surprised this exact situation hasn’t landed in the supreme court yet. Pretty sure it won’t be favorable to the masked goons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least with social media, you can choose what content to engage with or scroll past. A lot of TV news is fear mongering non-news entertainment. I don’t care that someone got arrested after a high speed chase. I don’t care about someone’s dog charity. What your local Sinclair is peddling, let alone Fox, is just about getting you to come back over and over for the ads, and it’s a continuous feed of trash somekne else is deciding to put in your face and dub important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In this day and age is it possible to create a commune? With majority of vegetables coming from one acre and all put in to get wifi to our subdivision? So the bill is not that high?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Try looking for crops to grow that are nutritious but relatively low maintenance. Sweet potatoes, sunchokes, groundcover strawberries, asparagus, cherry tomatoes, etc. Bonus if you can grow excess to sell at local farmers markets for some extra income, though the easiest the grow ones probably won’t fetch a great price. Also, look for native options. Less maintenance, and local pollinators are more likely to help out.

  If you’re not squeamish, rabbits breed very quickly and just eat grass. Chickens are good for eggs and meat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WADA calls on US to stop 'dangerous' Enhanced Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody is forcing athletes competing in this event to seek medical approval and prescription for the use of performance enhancing drugs by physicians with no moral qualms doing so. Witka is not any athlete’s personal physician, and is not qualified to speak about medical concerns. WADA’s role is to serve sporting events by preventing performance enhancing drug usage that those events consider unfair during competition.

  If someone is choosing to take a performance enhancing medication and is harmed by it, that’s between them (or their estate 😂) and their doctor, and whatever malpractice suit is brought about to a court of law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wikimedia Foundation Pauses an Experiment That Showed Wikipedia Users AI-Generated Summaries at The Top of Some Articles, Following an Editor Backlash.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Summarization is one of the things LLMs are pretty good at. Same for the other thing where they talked about auto-generating the “simple article” variants that are normally managed by hand to dumb down content.

  But if they’re pushing these tools, they need to be pushed as handy tools for editors to consider leveraging, not forced behavior for end users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PLASTICMAXXING⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just donate plasma. Works great, gives some other schmuck your plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit strange to think about, but our brains seem to have adapted to information accessibility today by more readily remembering how to find the information instead of the information itself. (See Betsy Sparrow et al)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans apply judgment, because they have emotion. LLMs do not possess emotion. Mimicking emotion without ever actually having the capability of experiencing it is sociopathy. An LLM would at best apply patterns like a sociopath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I’m not into bracelets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check out this alpha male⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  gotta blast

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man sleeps through massive container ship running aground on his front lawn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Oi mate you can’t park there”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is people who are drug heads always caught with guns? I have done my fair share of weed mushroom X and such but it never crossed my mind to say hey right now i need a gun.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re involved in drugs, you are pretty likely to regularly interact with sketchy people who make you feel unsafe for one reason or another. That goes for both dealers and consumers, though moreso on the dealer side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Persuaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah, they have no natural aversion to lying and manipulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic apologizes after one of its expert witnesses cited a fake article hallucinated by Claude in the company's legal battle with music publishers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it legally doesn’t. That is why AI has not taken over in high liability fields. Morons are testing the waters and learning that AI mistakes make no difference in a court room, and if anything are grounds for further evidence of negligence.

  The big bet now, I think, is whether those popup insurance policies regarding coverage for losses relates to AI usage end up profitable. If so, that is what will lead to truly dystopian stories like “AI piloted passenger jet crashes, United Airlines fined x million dollars but happily continues using AI pilots because insurance covered the fine and it’s just a cost of doing business”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, but I use Boost and added some keyword filters. Stuff like “trump”, “musk”, “israel”, “slam”, etc. And any time I still run across political crap, I either block the community or the user. Lemmy has been great now afterwards, no politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe creating an ocean of AI disinformation so large it dilutes all verifiable truth is the key to getting people to unplugged.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Social media has been a toilet for a decade, but people keep drinking the shitwater. Making it more turd flavored will do nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every day reading the news makes me feel like I'm Adam de la Peña from the 2003 scomedy central show, I'm with Busey.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop it, you’re only encouraging them with your eyeballs that translate into ad dollars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mayne pedantic, but:

  Everyone seems to think CEOs are the problem. They are not. They report to and get broad instruction from the board. The board can fire the CEO. If you got rid of a CEO, the board will just hire a replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoa I never considered AI inbreeding as a death for AI 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is the village depopulated, if there’s a huge industrial zone nearby presumably with lots of employees? I was thinking workers might want to buy or rent low cost housing near their workplace if the land is zoned for it and you could get electric and a well. But if they’re not buying in the village, might not be a great idea unless there’s something wrong or lacking with available properties in the village.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI nurses reshape hospital care, human nurses are pushing back.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why don’t I just Google. It’s the same data after all.