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- Comment on Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board 2 weeks ago:
The names missing from the list say more about the board’s purpose than the names on it.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 3 weeks ago:
I assumed this was always the case
- Comment on Generating (often non-con) porn is the new crypto mining 3 weeks ago:
The main issue here is user knowledge and consent. Otherwise this isn’t a whole lot different from services like vast.ai offering on demand GPU rentals or the KoboldAI Horde. Based on the incentives offered it’s clear that they’re targeting younger or less savvy users which is a problem.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 3 weeks ago:
The “why would they make this” people don’t understand how important this type of research is. It’s important to show what’s possible so that we can be ready for it. There are many bad actors already pursuing similar tools if they don’t have them already. The worst case is being blindsided by something not seen before.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 3 weeks ago:
The 8B is incredible for it’s size and they’ve managed to do sane refusal training this time for the official instruct.
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 5 weeks ago:
They’re already lying to get passed the 13 year requirement so I doubt it would make any difference.
- Comment on ‘The machine did it coldly’: Israel used AI to identify 37,000 Hamas targets 1 month ago:
I’m sure the machine running it was quite warm actually.
- Comment on Grok-1 chatbot code released – open source or open Pandora's box? 1 month ago:
It’s size makes it basically useless. It underperforms models even in it’s active weight class. It’s nice that it’s available but Grok-0 would have been far more interesting.
- Comment on The FTC is probing Reddit’s AI licensing deals 1 month ago:
I feel like the whole Reddit AI deal is a trap. If any real judgment comes down about data use Reddit is an easy scapegoat. There’s basically nothing stopping them from scraping the site for free.
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 2 months ago:
I got locked out of my now 8+ year old account because I had set it up with an old ISP provided email which has since been deactivated. I can’t migrate because I have to verify with the email and I can’t change the email without setting up security questions, which also requires the email. Support can do nothing.
- Comment on Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees 2 months ago:
I don’t think they care about the images being used, just the disruption of service. It’s pretty clear that this wasn’t a coordinated thing from Stability and was at most a lone individual acting in bad faith.
It’s pretty ironic though that the company that practices mass scraping has no rate limits to prevent outages due to mass scraping.
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 2 months ago:
Who’s dumb enough to pay for that? Everyone else is just scraping it for free.
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 2 months ago:
I’m looking forward to reading the paper
You mean the 100 page technical report
- Comment on “In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI 2 months ago:
This isn’t neccesarrily about just hardware. Current ML architectures and inference engines are far from being at peak efficiency. Just last year we saw 20x speedups for llm inference on some hardware. “a million times” is obviously hyperpole though.
- Comment on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 2 months ago:
This is why you should always selfhost your AI girlfriend.
- Comment on Vision Pro EyeSight feature doesn't really work, argues Macworld 2 months ago:
This is an article about another article, some top tier journalism. They’re right about the external display though. I’ve yet to see a positive comment about it, seems like just a weird gimmick that drains the already short battery life.
- Comment on Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? 2 months ago:
There is no such thing as “green” energy, all energy has an environmental extraction/capture cost. Crypto has insane per user power usage, AI isn’t quite as bad but it’s still much higher than normal websearch. Both should be used sparingly in cases where they actually make sense.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 2 months ago:
Just a few more parameters, then the text prediction model will become sentient.
- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 3 months ago:
The fact that you can’t buy the cable needed to unbrick a Chromebook, and have to solder it together yourself from Google’s schematics is ridiculous.
- Comment on Do you think that there will be another event like 9/11 in the next decade in the United States of America? 3 months ago:
9/11 killed more in one day than mass shootings have in the last 20+ years. statista.com/…/mass-shooting-victims-in-the-unite…
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- Comment on Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 3 months ago:
Seems kind of like phi but for writing, the smaller ones are trained with 50B tokens and the largest is only trained with 18B.
- Comment on Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream 3 months ago:
It’s not private data if you publish it online.
They already had this data, I’m not sure why anyone cares what they’re doing with it now. It’s not any worse than selling it outright.
- Comment on The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future 3 months ago:
Anywhere speculative investment is involved there are cult like patterns. If your investors don’t believe that your product is going to revolutionize its field you’re not going to get the kind of funding these startups want.
- Comment on Big tech firms recklessly pursuing profits from AI, says UN head 3 months ago:
Tech companies say they are putting in place systems to prevent AI being used for criminal or other malign purposes, and insist the new technology will create more jobs than it destroys
Automation doesn’t create more jobs than it replaces, if it did there would be no point. In some cases it removes bottlenecks which allows for greater scale which in turn creates jobs, but these new jobs often require different skillsets from the ones displaced.
You’re not really allowed to criticize them for this when your economic system encourages this exact behavior.
- Comment on A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine 3 months ago:
This isn’t shocking at all. The markets for obscure language content is incredibly small, so there’s no incentive for most to spend resources on it. I’d argue mediocre machine translation is better than nothing at all in many cases, but for unsupervised training it does pose a challenge.
- Comment on Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... 3 months ago:
600 also scales to PAL standards
- Comment on Screens keep getting faster. Can you even tell? | CES saw the launch of several 360Hz and even 480Hz OLED monitors. Are manufacturers stuck in a questionable spec war, or are we one day going to wo... 3 months ago:
It won’t matter until we hit 600. 600 integer scales to every common media framerate so frametimings are always perfect. Really they should be focusing on better and cheaper variable refresh rate but that’s harder to market.
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 3 months ago:
Very strange article. It lists several front ends, some of which are not open source, as well as some raw models without clearly distinguishing between them. RWKV was mentioned which is cool I guess.
The first option listed should have been huggingchat, followed by the various local UIs, with a separate section discussing the models themselves.
- Comment on No soap. It makes the children too slippery. 3 months ago:
I’m normally all for making fun of pedophilia in the church, but this is just gross. Using the term “sex toys” in reference to children is disgusting and negates any possible humor that this meme could have had. This post goes beyond dark humor and is just distasteful.