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- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 5 hours ago:
You said people yearn for “the workplace”
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 7 hours ago:
I see many issues, including following Google’s lead in building a zero-click internet for the uncurious
- Comment on How Stanford Teaches AI-Powered Creativity in Just 13 MinutesㅣJeremy Utley 7 hours ago:
Stanford?!
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 9 hours ago:
I see no reason to engage with, or trust anything created by, a bullshit generator. If Digg claims to “care” about the humans, then making the top comment into a brick wall (which has zero accountability) is a funny way of showing it.
But then again, I’m sure their privacy policy also says they care about your privacy.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 10 hours ago:
this would-be Reddit competitor, built for the AI era
Oh no…
The founders think that the internet is being flooded with bots and AI agents, which will create demand for online communities like Digg that foster real human connections.
Okay, Digg has my attention again.
Beneath posts, Digg is leveraging AI to summarize the article’s content.
And they lost me again.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 14 hours ago:
You serious?
- Comment on Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years 17 hours ago:
“Universal basic income” has become the tech bro’s thought-terminating cliché to avoid criticism. When you hear one of them say it, they might as well be saying “magic”. They’re 100% invested in the problem, but you’ll notice they’re 0% invested in that supposed solution…
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 17 hours ago:
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone say that, and actually mean it, for the past 8 years…
- Comment on Israel's spy agency used AI and smuggled-in drones to prepare attack on Iran 17 hours ago:
I haven’t seen this guy before, but a quick scan of his channel reveals he pushes multiple pro-Russia narratives, including
- Claiming it was the US and not Ukrainians who created the Euromaidan protests
- Claiming the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not Russia’s fault but America’s
- Comment on Chinese AI outfits smuggling suitcases full of hard drives to evade U.S. chip restrictions — training AI models in Malaysia using rented servers 18 hours ago:
OpenAI has gotten virtually unlimited funding for years. It has first dibs and deep discounts on Microsoft data centers.
And somehow, despite every single trade restriction, multiple random startup companies in China (that don’t even know how to secure their own databases) manage to make LLMs that outperform it.
I’m not saying that because Chinese companies are uniquely cool. I’m saying that because this whole AI thing is uniquely stupid.
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 19 hours ago:
I figured as much. Even this line…
M1’s capabilities are top-tier among open-source models
… is right above a chart that calls it “open-weight”.
I dislike the conflation of terms that the OSI has helped legitimize. Up until LLMs, nobody called binary blobs “open-source” just because they were compiled using open-source tooling. That would be ridiculous
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 20 hours ago:
I’ve been able to run distillations of Deepseek R1 up to 70B
Where do you find those?
There is a version of Deepseek R1 “patched” with western values called R1-1776 that will answer topics censored by the Chinese government, however.
Thank you for mentioning this, as I finally confronted my own preconceptions and actually found an article by Perplexity that demonstrated R1 itself has demonstrable pro-China bias.
Although Perplexity’s own description should cause anybody who understands the nature of LLMs to pause. They describe it in their header as a
version of the DeepSeek-R1 model that has been post-trained to provide unbiased, accurate, and factual information.
That’s a bold (read: bullshit) statement, considering the only altered its biases on China. I wouldn’t consider the original model to be unbiased either, but apparently perplexity is giving them a pass on everything else. I guess it’s part of the grand corporate lie that claims “AI is unbiased,” a delusion that perplexity needs to maintain.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 20 hours ago:
I would have no problem getting anyone at r/conservative to pull up similar data points and statistics to show immigrants are taking jobs, contributing to crime statistics or any other claim.
You’ll find conservatives rarely bother trying to do this because it’s simply statistically not true
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 20 hours ago:
That’s because search engines have reached the stage of enshittification where they no longer need to be good. Instead, they want you to spend as much time there as possible.
LLMs are still being sold as “the better option” - including by the exact same search giants who intentionally ruined their own search results. And many of them are already prioritizing agreeableness over “truthfulness.” And we’re still in the LLM honeymoon phase, where companies are losing billions of dollars on a yearly basis and undercharging their users.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 20 hours ago:
AI is an algorithm, humans are humans.
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 1 day ago:
If you’re talking about the distillations, AFAIK they take somebody else’s model and run it through their (actually open-source) distiller. I tried a couple of those models because I was curious. The distilled Qwen model is cagey about Tianmen Square, but Qwen was made by Alibaba. The distillation of a US-made model did not have this problem.
I don’t have enough RAM to run the full DeepSeek R1, but AFAIK it doesn’t have this problem. Maybe it does.
In case it isn’t clear, BTW, I do despise LLMs and AI in general. The biggest issue with them isn’t the glaring lies (not Tianmen Square, and certainly not the “it’s woke!” complaints about generating images of black founding fathers, but the subtle and insidious little details like agreeableness - trying to get people to spend a little more time with them, which apparently turns once-reasonable people into members of micro-cults.
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 1 day ago:
What exactly makes this more “open source” than DeepSeek? The linked page doesn’t make that particularly clear.
DeepSeek doesn’t release their training data (but they release a hell of a lot of other stuff), and I think that’s about as “open” as these companies can get before they risk running afoul of copyright issues. Since you can’t compile the model from scratch, it’s not really open source. It’s just freeware. But that’s true for both models, as far as I can tell.
- Comment on [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source 1 day ago:
DeepSeek imposes similar restrictions, but only on their website. You can self-host and then enjoy relatively truthful (as truthful as a bullshit generator can be) answers about both Tianmen Square, Palestine, and South Africa (something American-made bullshit generators apparently like making up, to appease their corporate overlords or conspiracy theorists respectively).
- Comment on getoffpocket.com, my guide to Pocket alternatives, just got a redesign 1 day ago:
You’re sponsored and accepting donations? Somebody better fork this guide before the GitHub gets yanked
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
You could have just said I wasn’t wrong about your intentions.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
I know it’s a 90% chance you don’t care how Mozilla wastes its money and are just looking for an excuse to dismiss that one.
But maybe I’m wrong.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
That Steve Teixeira guy seems all right. He successfully lead profitable division and fought against his employees getting laid off …aaaand he’s laid off too.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
Only after I make sure they’re legit by running them through FakeSpot NFT Guard.
- Comment on Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV 1 day ago:
Network TV still has a huge benefit: it’s not capable of watching you.
(Not accounting for the smart TVs, which are basically the only kind of TV you can buy now.)
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
Today [October 28, 2024] Germ announces pre-seed funding from investors K5 Global via partner Daniel Marcotte, Mozilla Ventures, Gaingels, and angel investors including Nick Sullivan, Jessica Millstone of Copper Wire Ventures, and Adam Sah.
- Comment on Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV 1 day ago:
Makes sense to me that streaming would get worse only after it managed to capture that market.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
We can cross that bridge when we get to it. In the mean time, we have alternatives. Even in a worst case scenario, Mozilla can coast for a while without more Google bucks.
- Comment on 'Laughable': Aussie artist says scammers flooding Spotify with AI fakes 1 day ago:
Spotify has flooded its own playlists with trash too. If you’re aiming at the rot, you’ve got to deal with the platform next.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 day ago:
It’s pretty tone-deaf to criticize layoffs on the same article that acknowledges their historic dependence on Google’s rapidly collapsing monopoly. Where is the money going to come from?
If you scroll up, you’ll see the part of the article that mentions Mozilla wasting tens of millions of dollars on AI.
Where is the money going to come from?
- Comment on Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project 1 day ago:
$200 million doesn’t cover the first billion in losses OpenAI inflicts upon itself, but I’m not a fan of this bailout regardless.