Feyd
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- Comment on How did websites like TinEye recognize cropped photos of the same image (and other likened pictures), without the low-entry easyness of LLM/AI Models these days? 7 hours ago:
What you’re looking for is the history of “computer vision”
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 7 hours ago:
Like most things, there isn’t an a/b divide but a spectrum between the two, and in this case it’s even more complicated because a society could take a collectivist view about one thing and an individualist view about others.
- Comment on Japan using generative AI less than other countries 10 hours ago:
Weird how you say collectivist like it’s a bad thing
- Comment on Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show 1 day ago:
Yeah there’s the difference. I’m not convinced there is a robust poison but I’d love to be wrong
- Comment on Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show 1 day ago:
You’re completely talking past me. Everyone knew it was a flimsy baracade and that if the LLM companies hadn’t circumvented it they would soon. That doesn’t stop people from continuing to innovate. Publishing the results mean there is a public solution anyone can use.
Do I think it’s the worst thing that could happen? Not really, but your security through obscurity argument makes no sense in this context and it would probably be better if it wasn’t done and published so every bad actor can use it with minimal effort.
- Comment on Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show 1 day ago:
This will be a never ending arms race. There isn’t going to be a permanent obstacle, so all this did was help the bad guys move to the next stage.
- Comment on Tech to protect images against AI scrapers can be beaten, researchers show 2 days ago:
Of course it can be beaten. All that happened is these university employees did big tech’s work for them and they’re try to spin it like they’re on artist’s side anyway
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
Huh? I’m definitely not hyping AI. If anything it would be the opposite. We’re also literally in the comment section for an a study about AI productivity which is the first remotely reputable study I’ve even seen. The rest have been rigged marketing stunts. As far as judging my opinion about the productivity of AI against junior developers, why don’t you bring me one that isn’t “we made an artificial test then directly trained our LLM on the questions so it will look good for investors”? I’ll wait.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
That said, this year’s crop of interns at work seem to be thin wrappers on top of LLMs and I worry about the future of critical thinking for society at large.
This is the must frustrating problem I have. With a few exceptions, LLM use seems to be inversely proportional to skill level, and having someone tell me “chatgpt said ___” when asking me for help because clearly chatgpt is but doing it for their problem makes me want to just hang up.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
I would say that “replacing with AI assistance” is probably not what is actually happening. Is it economic factors reducing hiring. This isn’t the first time it has happened and it won’t be the last. The AI boosters are just claiming responsibility for marketing purposes.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
Now, as for AI, it’s currently as good or “better” than about 40% of brand-new fresh from the BS program software engineers I have worked with. A year ago that number probably would have been 20%. So far it’s improving relatively quickly. The question is: will it plateau, or will it improve exponentially?
LOL sure
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
It is based on my experience, which I trust immeasurably more than rigged “studies” done by the big LLM companies with clear conflict of interest.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
The point is that comparing AI tools to junior engineers is ridiculous in the first place. It is simply marketing.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
People specifically hate having tools they find more frustrating than useful shoved down their throat, having the internet filled with generative ai slop, and melting glaciers in the context of climate change.
This is all specifically directed at LLMs in their current state and will have absolutely zero effect on any research funding. Additionally, openAI etc would be losing less money if they weren’t selling (at a massive loss) the hot garbage they’re selling now and focused on research.
As far as worker protections, what we need actually has nothing to do with AI in the first place and has everything to do with workers/society at large being entitled to the benefits of increased productivity that has been vacuumed up by greedy capitalists for decades.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
AI tools are way less useful than a junior engineer, and they aren’t an investment that turns into a senior engineer either.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 3 days ago:
Fun how the article concludes that AI tools are still good anyway, actually.
This AI hype is a sickness
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 5 days ago:
Lol this is ridiculous.
- Small changes across many people add up. IE meatless Monday has a positive effect even though it’s not full abstinence.
- If someone truly can’t economically afford to change their eating habits I’m not talking about them. You’re extrapolating to them in order to make a bad faith argument against anyone making any positive change. (Though beans and rice is cheaper than beef lol)
- Corporate America, while it can’t be controlled exclusively by people’s habits, actually is able to be influenced by enough people’s spending habits. It has to make money after all.
Have fun completely abdicating your agency and making absurd rants though, I guess
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 6 days ago:
How dare you ask people to change literally any habit they have! It’s obviously someone else’s responsibility to change!
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 1 week ago:
Like cool you feel that way about windows I guess but you’re spreading misinformation
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 1 week ago:
The fact they keep trying harder and harder to make me switch off a local account is reason enough.
- Comment on AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators 2 weeks ago:
Exactly to create a story. It’s marketing.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 2 weeks ago:
Lol
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 3 weeks ago:
You are correct that renewable energy would help but if huge amounts of power are specifically being drawn for AI data centers that is part of the equation. Just like it’s reduce/reuse/recycle in that order for handling items, it should be reduce/renewable for power, and we should have to build the renewable infrastructure before building more data centers.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 3 weeks ago:
You can’t even replace junior devs with AI. This is a completely false narrative intended to demoralize workers into not exercising their market power.
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 3 weeks ago:
Can we quit posting this baseless fear mongering? It is simply powerful people trying to demoralize workers and acting like it is legitimate news is playing into their hands.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Corporate greed.
- Comment on What anime do you regularly rewatch? 4 weeks ago:
And konosuba for the same reason!
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 4 weeks ago:
Why give air to this shameless marketing
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
This actually probably make sense, but they could still be cool and have pixel drivers be open source in a different repo if that was the only reason.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 4 weeks ago:
Anything being less open is sad regardless of your opinion of the hardware.