Grimy
@Grimy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Am I a bad friend/rude for not engaging with my friends and giving one-word responses? 4 days ago:
It seems obvious you know your behavior sucks. You can either make an effort, which most people actually do, or you can pretend you don’t understand and use it as an excuse.
Eventually they won’t be there for you. Why would they when you can’t even be polite or watch their stupid little half a minute videos.
Relationships take effort. It’s easy to notice when the effort is only one sided and it’s very hard to come back from it once it’s clear. Minimum effort or less doesn’t make for good friendships.
- Comment on Would you consider me a “dry texter”? 5 days ago:
Add exclamation points. I’d say no one really does nothing, just share honestly and ask the question back, even if it’s just cleaning or binging some movies.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 1 week ago:
Cooking up global fediverse rules specifically meant to try and exclude an instance is crossing the line imo. If you don’t like interacting with them, join one of the many instances that have already blocked them.
This kind of crusade goes against the spirit of the fediverse imo.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 1 week ago:
You guys both posted it within a few seconds of each other judging by my app updating the time. Impressive.
- Comment on Are 3D-printed objects waterproof? 1 week ago:
3d prints have microscopic holes inside, it’s porous. I wouldn’t trust it depending on the application. You can seal the outside and they also sell additives to lessen the effect (here’s a video about it: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8x-mjjT8j4) but casting resin might be better (haven’t tried).
Fiberglass if the object isnt complicated to make would be the best option. Bending and cutting pvc sheets is also an option. Soldering pvc and rolling fiberglass isn’t really difficult but they both require specialized tools/materials.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
All LLMs and Gen AI use data they don’t own. The Pile is all scraped or pirated info, which served as a starting point for most LLMs. Image gen is all scraped from the web. Speech to text and video gen mainly uses YouTube data.
So either you put a price tag on that data, which means only a handful of companies can afford to build these tools (including Meta), or you understand that piracy is the only way for most to aquire this data but since it’s highly transformative, it isn’t breaching copyrights or directly stealing from them as piracy “normally” is.
I’m being pragmatic.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
The existence hinges on the rewriting and strengthening of copyright laws by data brokers and other cancerous tech companies. It’s not Meta vs us, but Meta and us vs Google and Openai.
They are being sued for copyright infringement when it’s clearly highly transformative. The rules are fine as is, Meta isn’t the one trying to change them. You seem to imply I should go against my own interests and support frivolous lawsuits that will negatively impact me just because Meta is a boogeyman.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
Don’t give me that slop. No one except the biggest names are getting a dime out it once OpenAI buys up all the data and kills off their competition. It’s also highly transformative, which is perfectly legal.
Copyright laws have been turned into a joke, only protecting big money and their interests.
- Comment on 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders' * TorrentFreak 2 weeks ago:
Meta has open sourced every single one of their llms. They essentially gave birth to the whole open llm scene.
If they start losing all these lawsuits, the whole scene dies and all those nifty models and their fine-tunes get removed from huggingface, to be repackaged and sold to us with a subscription fee. All the other domestic open source players will close down.
The copyright crew aren’t the good guys here, even if it’s spearheaded by Sarah Silverman and Meta has traditionally played the part of the villain.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 weeks ago:
This is valid just on taste alone. The thing was ugly even before Elon started his descent into madness.
- Comment on AI Company Asks Job Applicants Not to Use AI in Job Applications 2 weeks ago:
Huge pet peeve of mine as well. No one needs my phone number.
- Comment on Ex-CIA analyst guilty of leaking docs on Israel plans to strike Iran 5 weeks ago:
We might have had ww3 without him.
- Comment on I'm Living With a Otaku NEET Kunoichi?! • NEET Kunoichi to Naze ka Dousei Hajimemashita - Episode 2 discussion 5 weeks ago:
Most go with a shade that is much too dark I think. This looks nice I think, although it depends a lot on sk8n tone as well.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 month ago:
The general scene can do much more now. It’s a tool and silly to stick your head in the sand and pretend it doesn’t exist. Understandably, it brought up the bar for entry level work but it will bring up the quality and the sheer amount eventually.
All facets of gen ai are a real boon for things like indie video games and animations once you get past the constant pessimisme. I’m insanely excited for llm driven npcs and things of that nature as well.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
I don’t either hut the alternative is much worst in my opinion. It would mean the algorithms are so advanced they are predicting conversations instead of listening to them.
- Comment on In Germany, a Man Who Was Stabbed by a Jihadi Has Been Fined for Criticizing Islam 2 months ago:
No, but I know a dog whistle when I see one.
- Comment on In Germany, a Man Who Was Stabbed by a Jihadi Has Been Fined for Criticizing Islam 2 months ago:
There is a lot of hate in that article. It’s basically just bashing Islam and pretending it’s news. If these are the kind of authors defending him, he probably deserved the fine.
Just copy paste “religion of peace” for like 5 paragraph instead.
- Comment on EA makes more patents public in commitment to improve gaming accessibility 2 months ago:
This is to give legitimacy to their other patents which aren’t open source. Most things they try to patent have existed for a long time and will mostly be used as an intimidation tactic. Patents in gaming are a cancer.
EA is trying to build what Nintendo has in Japan.
- Comment on Got electrocuted today 2 months ago:
Sounds like you got lucky tbh, 220v can easily kill.
- Comment on Got electrocuted today 2 months ago:
Start taking pictures of all the damages before it heals and get a lawyer.
- Comment on Earth is becoming ‘increasingly uninhabitable,’ scientists warn 3 months ago:
What are you even on about? Each time I see your username, it’s always just the worst take possible.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 months ago:
It’s 400 hours of audio, the transcripts ended up being 5 million words, and only snippets of it are useful.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 months ago:
These important limitations highlight why it’s still important to have humans involved in the analysis process here. The NYT notes that, after querying its LLMs to help identify “topics of interest” and “recurring themes,” its reporters “then manually reviewed each passage and used our own judgment to determine the meaning and relevance of each clip… Every quote and video clip from the meetings in this article was checked against the original recording to ensure it was accurate, correctly represented the speaker’s meaning and fairly represented the context in which it was said.”
It’s literally the paragraph right after.
They verify it.
- Comment on How The New York Times is using generative AI as a reporting tool 3 months ago:
I was actually thinking of setting up something similar for the mountain of ufo related docs they keep dropping every few months. They tend to use obscure words and even slip in typos so just searching through them doesn’t work very well.
- Comment on Supercomputer firm ParTec sues Nvidia in UPC, seeks 18-country patent injunction against AI chip giant; previously sued Microsoft in U.S. 3 months ago:
publicly-traded German high-performance computing (HPC) firm ParTec AG, whose CEO Bernhard Frohwitter has considerable expertise in patent monetization.
“Patent monetization” is an interesting way to put it.
As a side note, I love how the article is structured.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 3 months ago:
Whispers been known to hallucinate during long moments of silence. Most of their examples though are most likely due to bad audio quality.
I use whisper quite a bit and it will fumble a word here or there but never to the extent that is being shown in the article.
- Comment on How can we get to Mars faster 3 months ago:
You would need a pretty good thickness of water and it becomes complicated shipping it up into space.
- Comment on Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro 3 months ago:
“I’m usually turning around and stopping the operation to see a CT scan; looking to see what happened with the endoscopy [another small camera that provides a closer look at organs]; looking at the monitor for the heart rate,” Horgan says.
Horgan says that wearing headsets during surgeries has improved his effectiveness while lowering his risk of injury.
Just if it wasn’t clear to anyone else.
- Comment on Show your face and AI knows who you are. 3 months ago:
Such measurable biometric characteristics include facial features, gait, voice, or patterns in the iris of your eye.
It is when you are using neural networks to do the matching. It’s one of the main point of the Europe Unions AI bill which outlaws the use of machine learning tools like these on citizens by goverments or compagnies. There’s a couple of exceptions mostly when it’s a national security issue.
- Comment on Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law 3 months ago:
Using public facing data to build machine learning model is not against copyright laws. There is a transformative clause for a reason.
Strengthening copyright laws will only hurt the open source scene and give companies like openai and google a soft monopoly.
Not only that but the money is going to go to data brokers and platforms like reddit and getty. Individuals aren’t getting a dime.
