calcopiritus
@calcopiritus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Don't be a coward 1 day ago:
Funny how that only works one way. It’s never “they are gonna tax me anyway, so I’ll pay double the taxes”.
If you are not fine with paying more than you should, why are you fine for prices increasing more than they should?
- Comment on Don't be a coward 1 day ago:
So everyone is either a farmer, a thief, or an unethical food-obtainer. Got it.
Always fun to find out other people’s values and ethics.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 1 day ago:
These are not losses. They’ll just push up the price of goods based on their chance of being stolen.
You’re not stealing from the store, you’re stealing from everyone else that actually pays for the products.
Unless you’re stealing from a small shop that doesn’t have the time and resources to calculate price based on theft. In which case, you are an asshole for stealing from a small business.
- Comment on Don't be a coward 1 day ago:
So every working person is an asshole and the only ethical way to obtain food is to steal it?
Doesn’t seem too ethical to me. Sounds like a justification for being an antisocial asshole.
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 4 days ago:
A LOT of people out there just read whatever tho google AI tells them on their search. They’ve been trained that the answer is always the 1st non-ad link on Google. And now the thing at the top of a Google search is their LLM answer.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do what you do. You just asked why someone would be against doing an image post when it could be a text post and I answered.
What you are doing cannot be done with text posts because of reason 2 and 3.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It’s a hyperbole. It’s not unethical. But many people don’t like it/hate it.
- An image is just more expensive than text. Text is usually ~1 byte per character. An uncompressed image is ~3bytes per pixel. Of course, most images are compressed, and compression does a lot of heavy lifting. But still. Also, you don’t need to uncompress plain text. More amount of bytes means more storage expense, more network expense, and worse user experience due to latency.
- We have plenty of tools that work for text. You can copy-paste it. You can easily edit it with just a keyboard. It is easily configurable via fonts and font sizes.
- Accessibility: text can be read by screen readers. Images (without alt text) cannot. Maybe there are some fancy screen readers that OCR images, but then it’s the case of point 1.
- Text is easily indexable. Which means that it’s searchable. If the reddit search tool were any good, it could find the post. Not for images. Alternatively, 3rd party search tools such as google and DDG work.
There’s probably many more points.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
They are the ones in charge of making sure bitbucket stops working every other Thursday.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
I’m kinda glad they won’t. If I tell you how easy it is to install an ad blocker and you don’t, you’re just funding my leeching through your data and time that you claim has no value.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not a movie, but death note.
If the dude didn’t take the obvious bite every episode there’s no way of catching him.
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 2 weeks ago:
Shocking. A generation that was told since childhood that gender roles are so important that they actually change your gender gives importance to gender roles. Absolutely no one could see it coming.
- Comment on Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war' 2 weeks ago:
Yes it is. In Spanish it is “No a la guerra”. I found it weir that they translated the quote but didn’t just change 4 for 3.
- Comment on Spain's Pedro Sánchez hits back at Trump threat to sever trade saying 'no to war' 2 weeks ago:
Minor nitpick. But it seems the actual article has been edited and no longer says “four words” for obvious reasons. Could update the summary too.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 3 weeks ago:
You went through my comment history and quoted me, to just not read the whole quote.
Here, I’ll help you:
It’s fine if someone already answered with what you were going to answer. You can just upvote that guy and move on.
As I said, there are already 3 top comments explaining to you why you’re being downvoted. I don’t need to explain myself when I mostly agree with them, I just upvote them.
If everyone had to explain every downvote, we would have hundreds of comments on each post, and most of them would say the same thing.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 3 weeks ago:
There are at least 3 comments with well laid arguments (hint, they have way more up votes than the post). You have answered to none of them.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
Well yes, the LLMs are not the ones that actually generate the images. They basically act as a translator between the image generator and the human text input. Well, just the tokenizer probably. But that’s beside the point. Both LLMs and image generators are generative AI. And have similar mechanisms. They both can create never-before seen content by mixing things it has “seen”.
I’m not claiming that they didn’t use CSAM to train their models. I’m just saying that’s this is not definitive proof of it.
It’s like claiming that you’re a good mathematician because you can calculate 2+2. Good mathematicians can do that, but so can bad mathematicians.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
We have all been children, we all know the anatomical differences.
It’s not like children are alien, most differences are just “this is smaller and a slightly different shape in children”. Many of those differences can be seen on fully clothed children. And for the rest, there are non-CSAM images that happen to have nude children. As I said earlier, it is not uncommon for children to be fully nude in beaches.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
What you don’t think?
Why does being a parent give any authority in this conversation?
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
The wine thing could prove me wrong if someone could answer my question.
But I don’t think my theory is that wild. LLMs can interpolate, and that is a fact. You can ask it to make a bear with duck hands and it will do it. I’ve seen images on the internet of things similar to that generated by LLMs.
Who is to say interpolating nude children from regular children+nude adults is too wild?
Furthermore, you don’t need CSAM for photos of nude children.
Children are nude at beaches all the time, there probably are many photos on the internet where there are nude children in the background of beach photos. That would probably help the LLM.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
Did it have any full glasses of water? According to my theory, It has to have data for both “full” and “wine”
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
Tbf it’s not needed. If it can draw children and it can draw nude adults, it can draw nude children.
Just like it doesn’t need to have trained on purple geese to draw one. It just needs to know how to draw purple things and how to draw geese.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
I used to. Yes
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 1 month ago:
I used to be shoes on.
You just wake up, put on underwear, pants, shirt, socks and shoes, in that order.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 month ago:
4k is noticeable in a standard pc.
I recently bought a 1440p screen (for productivity, not gaming) and I can fit so much more UI with the same visual fidelity compared to 1080p. Of course, the screen needs to be physically bigger in order for the text to be the same size.
So if 1080p->1440p is noticeable, 1080p->4k must be too.
- Comment on Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' 1 month ago:
The words of someone that has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Are you 0.00113636 miles tall though? We use centimeters for height. You are 191cm tall, not 1,91m.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
What a weird argument. There is no practical difference between 180°C and 180,5°C. No need for ovens to have decimal precision.
Thermostats do have increments lower than 1°C though. My car’s AC increments in 0,5°C steps.
- Comment on With all this talk about Ai not being profitable why aren't we using it in video games? I dont mean replacing developers I mean in NPCs in the game. I make them more realistic. 1 month ago:
First of all, I’m going to replace AI with LLM, since that’s probably what you meant.
There are 2 distinct questions asked in this post:
- Why not use LLMs to provide different levels of automation? (Like, manual, medium, auto)
Answer: you don’t need LLMs for that. You can just code it in like any other feature. It’s not particularly hard, game developers know how to do it since they are used to programming automation for NPCs.
- Why not use LLMs to procedurally generate NPC dialogue?
Answer: games are primarily a form of art. NPC dialogues are written with a purpose. Different characters have different personalities. Some dialogues are meant to drive the plot. Other dialogues are meant to teach the player how to play. Others are meant to show the player things that they may have missed, or things that are interesting.
Procedural dialogues removes all the control from artists. They would all be generic npc n#473, with the personality of the LLM, maybe slightly varied if the developer writes a different prompt for each character.
Procedural dialogues would have the same issues as procedural world generation or photorealistic graphics, it would just not be interesting.
There is a practically infinite amount of Minecraft worlds, yet they all feel the same way. The thing that differentiates a Minecraft world from another is that which the player has built. The only part of the world that wasn’t procedurally generated.
There is a great amount of photorealistic games. And they all look very similar. You may only distinguish one from another by looking at their handcrafted worlds or their handcrafted characters. But not by staring at a wall. You can stare at a wall in non-photoreslistic games and know what game it is.
So if you put procedurally generated dialogues, no one will read them, since you’ll be bored by the time you read the same thing being said by 5 different NPCs from 5 different games.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 month ago:
Because the British empire was absolutely huge. Which lead to many countries having English as an official language. Which means those countries would conduct trade in English. Followed by American dominance, which also has English as its main language.
And that American dominance includes dominance in media, especially films because of hollywood. Technical documents, research and especially computer-related technical documents are mainly in English for the same reason.
Sure, English is not that hard of a language. But it’s not the easiest either.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 1 month ago:
It didn’t make me repeat the curriculum. The curriculum is the same for everyone.
I didn’t use basque outside school, but I barely used English. Inside school, it was ~7 hours every day of basque. And ~3h per week of english.