BCOVertigo
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- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 day ago:
Sure, I’ll line up our talking points with a keyboard and elaborate.
People use ai as a blanket term and don’t understand the difference between an LLM and GAN or any of the dozens of other kinds of models.
When I say “These models aren’t actually intelligent, talk about specific technologies and models without lumping them all together under AI.” I am met with scoffing saying that everyone knows AI is just the name of the field so I should stop being pedantic. Now you’re painting the opposite picture that a person like me lumps them together because of ignorance, and that’s frustrating. Maybe some of those assholes you encountered are exhausted because the artificial cheers for this technology are inescapable and that’s coloring their interactions with you. I don’t feel like it’s a fair point to call people ignorant for having to wade through manipulative marketing language to have a discussion. Hopefully you can sympathize with that a little.
The anger of people decrying the death of artistic beauty on subs that prominently feature ms paint stick figure drawings and shitty distorted images makes no sense to me. This isn’t costing anyone’s job.[…]The people that decry the death of art have never bought anything in a gallery, they were fine with artists getting paid fuck all before ai. They weren’t contributing to artists’ living in any meaningful way.
I’ve paid artists for art related to tabletop RPG campaigns in the past (some but not all). Now everyone shows up to games with genai character portraits and I believe my artist is going to have to quit or at least scale back because of lack of demand. I would ask that we keep in mind how gig work, commission, and subscription models form the basis of most modern artist’s income. Anecdotes aren’t data, but data doesn’t give you an email thanking you for your support while giving up on its dreams. The taste in my mouth just didn’t go away when genai invaded shitposting too. Does that make some sense?
They’re not rational. There are many valid criticisms of the tech, but you can’t even talk to these people about addressing them. Because a lot of the criticisms can and should be addressed. They won’t hear it.
I don’t think the tech is being used well by the largest actors wielding it. I don’t think genai can be secured or patched in the traditional sense because its not deterministic, so prompt diddling will always be a cat and mouse game. I don’t think that hallucinations will ever be meaningfully solved. I’d love to learn that the overall adversarial success rate has lowered from 95% since the study I read last year! It’s not that I won’t hear solutions, I just have very little confidence in them given how this saga has developed over time.
Please spare a little charity for how rattling this shit is to regular people. I believe you that you’ve talked to some absolute dipshits, and I hope you get fewer in the future. I also hope that maybe you can reinterpret some of that vitriol in light of how these systems might have resulted in them being laid off or otherwise maligned. Maybe it’s not that irrational even if they can’t articulate their feelings well. Personally, I’m stifling irritation at an executive who asked me to replace a technical team with an agentic framework (behind their back) despite the technology being wildly inadequate. I hope none of that overflows onto you.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 days ago:
I’ve commissioned paid art for rpg campaigns, and I can’t draw a distinction between AI and LLMs because I get yelled at by people saying, “Its just the name of the field! Nobody thinks the Sims games are actually intelligent!”
So am I allowed to draw that line now? And do you see that me using a comfyui on my local machine does actually mean an artist won’t get paid? This position isn’t 100% strawman.
My main issue is that I think maybe they can’t be patched because they’re not deterministic systems, and I have personally been asked by an executive whether a team could reasonably be replaced by LLM agents behind their backs as soon as the tech was available. How was I supposed to form your opinion given those experiences and why do you think that I’m rage addled rather than just tired?
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 days ago:
Treehouse of horror 28: “The worst thing Homer’s ever done”
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 days ago:
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 4 days ago:
- Comment on Go on, git. 6 days ago:
You are in for a fucking treat, this is 'Godzilla as natural disaster" in a big way and I loved it.
- Comment on Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome 1 week ago:
If the worst happens and the dome is punctured, 2,000 tonnes of CO2 will enter the atmosphere. That’s equivalent to the emissions of about 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. “It’s negligible compared to the emissions of a coal plant,” Spadacini says. People will also need to stay back 70 meters or more until the air clears, he says.
- Comment on Monke 1 week ago:
Elden ring cosplayers, ugh.
- Comment on Thank you for the shitposts, y'all kept me sane. 1 week ago:
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- Comment on GPT 1 week ago:
Powerful rage comic energy
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- Comment on This is why we can't have nice things 1 week ago:
There is a correct amount of doom each person can engage with before it negatively impacts their mental health so much that they will be less effective at doing anything to make the world bette.
I don’t presume to know what that is for you, or anyone else, I just know that if we let Lemmy bucketize things in line with its design then people can opt in and that self determination will do a better job than either of us.
I don’t even think that there should be a rule against politics here, but people posting an article that’s not a shitpost in any sense are getting more upvoted than things that are clearly shitposts because people viewing from their subscribed feed upvote before noticing the com. The pinned post’s ratios are very telling to me that the people clicking the com vs the general public are voting much differently and I have no idea how to fix it.
Maybe we require a minimum bar of editing (ignoring quality of edit obviously) for pictures of certain topics, and block URLs from OPs? Clearly there are some shitposts that are political and fantastic, but ffs it was getting bad enough for this backlash.
- Comment on You'll doom us all! 2 weeks ago:
Corn is the natural enemy of news and political posts.
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- Comment on I am here once again to post shit 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
2 weeks ago:
I weep for the poor bastards trying to secure these things.
- Comment on New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
2 weeks ago:
LMAO it worked 8/10 times against the same model. owl owl owl wolf owl owl fox owl owl owl. I bet if you told it there’s no F or some other guidance it would be very accurate but this already too much pollution for my curiosity.
This was ‘owl’, and required some additional prodding mentioning animal, but the numbers were generated after a single web search so I bet that could be tightened up significantly.
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- Comment on New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed
2 weeks ago:
This is super interesting from a jailbreaking standpoint, but also if there are ‘magic numbers or other inputs’ for each model that you can insert to strongly steer behavior in nonmalicious directions without having to build a huge ass prompt. Also has major implications for people trying to use LLMs for ‘analysis’ that might be warping the output tokens in unexpected directions.
Also, this comment was pretty good.
- Comment on ChatGPT Is The Most Blocked Bot And .Christmas Is The Most Dangerous Domain 2 weeks ago:
I might make another attempt to read this later but I stopped at that exact spot with an irrepressible urge to call bullshit.
Here’s the Cloudflare link they’re pulling from in case people want to go straight to the source radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025
- Comment on This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off 2 weeks ago:
Yeah and that was in the article as well, but by flexibility I meant non-android.
- Comment on This rugged phone lets you hot-swap batteries without turning it off 2 weeks ago:
Thermal and nightvision cameras are kind of neat… I’d love to see some info about OS flexibility.
- Comment on My next edc pocket knife 3 weeks ago:
I think it came off more like an ad and so no one clicked it. I bet if you pulled the images out and did something creative you’d get some love. Also that Weiner warrior knife lmao
- Comment on My next edc pocket knife 3 weeks ago:
The corn will continue until morale improves.
- Comment on Ope 3 weeks ago:
Correcting, thanks!
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- Comment on Corn? Beans? Why not both? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #2 3 weeks ago:
You have it backwards my droog, this uprising is approaching the threshold where it becomes a newsworthy event.
- Comment on Ope 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s because it’s slightly edited from the original image, giving her a more pronounced smile and changing her eyes and the shape of her face. Maybe a cage transform or some other warping was used on too large a portion of the image after the caption was put on?
- Comment on Jake would be very happy with current meme trends on lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Floop those pigs
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