Telorand
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- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 days ago:
I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.
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- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 days ago:
Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.
Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 4 days ago:
“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 4 days ago:
Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 4 days ago:
I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.
- Comment on Unexplained U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requests suggest Department of Homeland Security using AI to flag visa applicants 4 days ago:
“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”
Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.
- Comment on AI Social Media. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
Oh, you sweet summer child.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.
In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.
If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
Nope. If you intentionally cause harm to others with said rights. See my reply to someone else who made a similar assumption.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.
I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.
Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
Oh? I’m not that familiar with his comedy, but I probably should get to know it. What little I know I like!
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
I prefer the platinum rule of humanism, but essentially, yes.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
All rights are privileges, if we’re going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn’t have to fight tooth and nail for them.
I’m a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don’t feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
Good. Privacy is a fundamental right, but since that platform is regularly used to doxx people who are simply trying to exist, in addition to platforming and incubating some of the most harmful ideologies, they’ve relinquished any claims to those rights to privacy, as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
We need a single source of truth for this.
So distribute it, like DNS. Have the CVE Foundation be the final authority, but relying solely upon them makes me uneasy.
The CVE Foundation might currently be independent from the US government, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still subject to its whims. I think people underestimate just how awful things are or could get here, and “why is the government doing that stupid/heinous/bizarre thing” has become a daily mantra for many.
CVE needs better protection from hostile governments, and distributing the system seems like the only way to achieve that
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 week ago:
That’s good, I guess, but decentralize it. It’s a tool used globally with global ramifications, so other countries should be able to run their own instance of it. That way, if an instance goes down, nobody else is left without it.
Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.
Hopefully that includes decentralization on the roadmap.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
It’s not mentioned at all in the article, so what you inferred from the headline is not what the author conveyed.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
Sure, and I’m sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who’s more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 1 week ago:
The lede is buried deep in this one. Yeah, these dumb LLMs got bad training data that persists to this day, but more concerning is the fact that some scientists are relying upon LLMs to write their papers. This is literally the way scientists communicate their findings to other scientists, lawmakers, and the public, and they’re using fucking predictive text like it has cognition and knows anything.
Sure, most (all?) of those papers got retracted, but those are just the ones that got caught. How many more are lurking out there with garbage claims fabricated by a chatbot?
Thankfully, science will inevitably sus those papers out eventually, as it always does, but it’s shameful that any scientist would be so fatuous to put out a paper written by a dumb bot. You’re the experts. Write your own goddamn papers.
- Comment on OpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platform | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
God, it’s blockchain and Metaverse all over again.
Give it up, already. Nobody wants your solution to a problem nobody is having.
- Comment on FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink 1 week ago:
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr told the Financial Times that “allied western democracies” needed to “focus on the real long-term bogey: the rise of the Chinese Communist party.”
And who was it that shat on their allies, asked ChatGPT to come up with tariffs, then gave a giant middle finger to the entire world by defunding science, removing humanitarian aid, kidnapping and sending innocent civilians to a gulag without due process, and made literal Nazi salutes—all of which created a power vacuum that China was happy to fill? Oh yeah, it was you fascist dumbfucks.
You fucked around, and now it’s time for y’all to find out.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
You wouldn’t use a typical SFX power supply for something where size matters; you’d likely use a Flex PSU, which are often long and thin. If you got a lower-power CPU with integrated graphics, you could manage a case that’s not much bigger than the motherboard or much thicker than the IO shroud.
Lemmy doesn’t have a lot of SFF or Ultra SFF content yet, but getting the most out of limited space is definitely a thing people are into, and they can get quite creative.
The final product is often portable but still rarely as tiny as a mini PC or NUC-like. Depending on your needs, someone might be better off making a Steam Brick.
- Comment on Meta AI will soon train on EU users’ data. 1 week ago:
Convince your friends to leave, and tell them about Friendica as a way forward.
- Comment on Lemmy.World no longer participates in this community 2 weeks ago:
Read the allegations. There’s a good reason for it.
- Comment on Lemmy.World no longer participates in this community 2 weeks ago:
Seems like that would be up to the mods. They can pick any instance they want.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a way to do distributed parallel computing using consumer-grade hardware. I don’t actually know a ton about them, so you’d be better served by looking up information about them.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you want something like a Beowulf Cluster?
- Comment on My favorite song of recent years I can't stop crying to on repeat was AI generated for my own pleasure. Crazy times. 2 weeks ago:
Because it doesn’t just “cannibalize shitty pretenders.” It steals from quality artists as well. This is not moral virtue signaling, it’s a fact, and if you don’t like that fact, take it up with reality.
It’s not about whether AI can make good art. It’s about how it got to that mediocre point in the first place. It’s about how nobody is offered the chance to opt out. Do you need to memorize, store, and reference every Studio Ghibli art piece to figure out how to paint or draw in that style? Probably not.
And if you want to pull rank, I got my studio art degree decades ago. Don’t pretend that just because “you’re an artist, too” (or that you’re learning about art) that it absolves you of your complicity in supporting open theft—by billionaires, no less. And if you plan to become an artist someday, don’t be so naive to think that you’re somehow better than those “shitty pretenders” or that it won’t affect your livelihood, too.
- Comment on My favorite song of recent years I can't stop crying to on repeat was AI generated for my own pleasure. Crazy times. 2 weeks ago:
Oh but it actually is, and there’s been loads of studies on exactly what combinations of chords and transitions people generally find pleasing to listen to.
Okay, pedant. Perhaps I should have been more specific by using the word “melody.” But those chords you mentioned aren’t all the same. They might be the same notes, but they’re all played differently, with more or less expression, with varying tempos, etc. There is math and theory and even marketing studies involved, but Music is more than just notes strung together in a pattern.
It’s a sad reality of the industry, like it or not.
Okay, but I’m not talking about the industry. I’m talking about music in general, of which the industry is a single part. AI might sound similar to or use some of the same pattern-following as mainstream music, but that doesn’t make them equivalent, just nominally parallel.
And focusing only upon mainstream music discounts the vast array of non-mainstream music. There are countless musicians that try new things, that don’t follow the mathematical patterns, that tell “stories.” Most of them don’t make it onto the radio or into movie soundtracks, but that doesn’t make their art less valid or varied, especially when comparing it to AI slop.