arken
@arken@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 2 days ago:
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 2 days ago:
Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.
He’s so out of touch that he believes their users are going to be excited by this.
“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said. “Because some of the prompts that people do in these AIs is purely work-related. It’s not like that’s personal.”
And work-related queries won’t help the AI company build an accurate-enough dossier.
“On the other hand, what are the things you’re buying; which hotels are you going [to]; which restaurants are you going to; what are you spending time browsing, tells us so much more about you,” he explained.
The personal integrity of others is a concept completely lost on this person, it seems.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 weeks ago:
I’m guessing the reason that The Cure (debut LP from 1979) is on this list is that it was made by an american, that first heard them because of “Friday I’m in Love”?
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 weeks ago:
My brain: 4/6 of those are 80s bands
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 4 weeks ago:
Why not both?
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 month ago:
I remember listening to Nevermind for probably the first time while playing computer games. I thought the CD (new technology for me at the time) had broken and started chewing the disc like an old tape
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 month ago:
And with locked grooves, metal machine music for instance has a loop on the innermost groove on side D so it can be played infinitely. There’s also records with only loops made with locked grooves.
One band pressed the sound of a C64 BASIC program onto vinyl that could be recorded onto tape and loaded with the c64 tape deck. All sorts of shenanigans.
- Comment on Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere 3 months ago:
One of the more optimistic estimates in this thread is that it would take us ~60 000 years to travel with existing technology.
Of course, now that we have ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok we’re obviously gonna reach light speed travel within the next 10 years, so it won’t be a problem.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 3 months ago:
“Spotify managers defended PFC to staff by claiming that the tracks were being used only for background music, so listeners wouldn’t know the difference […]”
harpers.org/…/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly…
(PFC = “Perfect Fit Content”, i. e. Fake Artists)
I have a feeling this quote exemplifies the attitude the management of these platforms have towards their end users, though it’s seldom this explicitly formulated.
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 5 months ago:
Even cnailshells would have to adhere to the basic laws of conchology though
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 5 months ago:
I mean, it could be a manual photoshop job.
It could, but the double spiral in the shell indicates AI to me. Snail shells don’t grow like that. If it was a manual job, someone would have used a picture of a real shell.
- Comment on Tough Shit 6 months ago:
This seems like a good opportunity to tell the story of “Balloon man”