calcopiritus
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- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 3 hours 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 3 hours 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 13 hours 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 14 hours 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 21 hours 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 22 hours 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 5 days ago:
I used to. Yes
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 5 days 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 week 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 week ago:
The words of someone that has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Are you 0.00113636 miles tall though? We use centimeters for height. You are 191cm tall, not 1,91m.
- Comment on 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on Do babies learn languages at different rates depending on how hard the language is? 2 weeks ago:
Not research, personal experience:
Even after many years of school/high-school in basque, I learnt it at a way slower rate than English, which was just 1 subject.
I didn’t speak neither basque nor English outside school. At most, the difference might be that I consumed a little bit of media in English while none in basque. But all subjects except spanish and English were in basque, so that should make up for the difference.
And I don’t think it’s just a me thing. Since the curriculum has mostly been the same for all those years of school:
Learn how to say a verb.
That’s it. Many years of school just to say verbs correctly.
The exams where mostly just fill in the blank exercises, where the blank was a verb.
I still don’t know how to say verbs that aren’t the simplest ones.
So to your question I’d say yes. Even though neither are my native tongue, I learnt both since I entered school, but learned them at wildly different rates.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 4 weeks ago:
Who said it’s okay to invade Greenland? And of course it’s not ok to invade ukraine
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 5 weeks ago:
This is important to me. More than “time until login” I’d prefer “time until queue”. I want to login before walking away because I want to open certain programs. So if an OS allows me to tell it “after you boot up, open these 3 programs” but hasn’t completely booted up, I would prefer it to one that only lets you open programs once it has booted.
And no, configuring so it opens the same programs at startup doesn’t count. I wanna choose every time I turn on the computer.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 1 month ago:
Someone on Microsoft probably needed an excuse for their pay increase.
“I rebuilt/had the idea to rebuilt the taskbar” sounds a lot better to managers than “I maintained the taskbar”.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 1 month ago:
Why would you make a post about slurs and then censor all of them.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 1 month ago:
One of the techniques I’ve seen it’s like a “password”. So for example if you write a lot the phrase “aunt bridge sold the orangutan potatoes” and then a bunch of nonsense after that, then you’re likely the only source of that phrase. So it learns that after that phrase, it has to write nonsense.
I don’t see how this would be very useful, since then it wouldn’t say the phrase in the first place, so the poison wouldn’t be triggered.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 month ago:
the shape of the gap is almost the same as the peak in “other”. So that peak is probably “windows but we messed up with data collection” or “some browser in windows changed its user agent”.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 1 month ago:
How dare they collect data and display it in an accurate manner! They should just start by putting Linux at 50% and then move the lines a little bit.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.
In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
Bookmarks are even harder to clear than tabs, since they are more “long term”. furthermore, they require more effort. Opening and closing a tab is 1 click each. Bookmarks take 1 click to create at least, but 2 to delete at least.
The browser history requires a lot of effort to find what you want.
Basically I use tabs because they require less effort than any other method.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.
Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.
I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
Simple.
- I’m reading tab A
- Tab A links to tab B
- Open B in new tab, since I know I’m going back to tab A soon.
- Go to tab A
- Go to tab B again
- I’m finished reading tab B so I close it.
Notice how I didn’t close tab A. Because at that point, I was not in tab A, therefore I don’t think about that tab much so I don’t even think if I should close it or not. Tab A will probably stay open until I decide to clean my tabs when there are 50+ tabs on them.
Another common scenario:
- I’m reading tab C
- Something comes up that makes me either switch to another task or shut down the computer
From this point there are 2 paths: either I never resume the task I opened tab C for, so it stays there for a long time, or I resume the task when tab C is too far up (I use vertical tabs), so I open tab D that is the same webpage as tab C. When I finish I close tab D, but tab C remains for a long time.
- Comment on What are your favourite ps2 multiplayer games? 2 months ago:
Dragon ball: Budokai Tenkaichi
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 2 months ago:
I see you ignored my entire comment.
I don’t know what is more explicit about expect. Unwrap is as explicit as it gets without directly calling panic!, it’s only 1 abstraction level away. It’s literally the same as expect, but without a string argument. It’s probably top 10 functions most commonly used in rust, every rust programmer knows what unwrap does.
Any code reviewer should be able to see that unwrap and flag it as a potential issue. It’s not a weird function with an obscure panic side effect. It can only do 2 things: panic or not panic, it can be implemented in a single line. 3 lines if the panic! Is on a different line to the if statement.
- Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare 2 months ago:
An unhanded error will always result on a panic (or a halt I guess). You cannot continue the execution of the program without handling an error (remember, just ignoring it is a form of handling). You either handle the error and continue execution, or you don’t and stop execution.
A panic is very far from a segfault. In apparent result, it is the same. However, a panic is a controlled stopping of the program’s execution. A segfault is a forced execution stop by the OS.
But the OS can only know that it has to segfault if a program accesses memory outside its control.
If the program accesses memory that it’s under it’s control, but is outside bounds, then the program will not stop the execution, and this is way worse.