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- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 days ago:
Incorrect. The people who designed it did not set out with a goal of producing a bot that reguritates true information. If that’s what they wanted they’d never have used a neural network architecture in the first place.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 days ago:
“Unintentionally” is the wrong word, because it attributes the intent to the model rather than the people who designed it.
Hallucinations are not an accidental side effect, they are the inevitable result of building a multidimensional map of human language use. People hallucinate, lie, dissemble, write fiction, misrepresent reality, etc. Obviously a system that is designed to map out a human-sounding path from a given system prompt to a particular query is going to take those same shortcuts that people used in its training data.
- Comment on Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience 3 days ago:
I upgraded to an older car that doesn’t have any of that nonsense.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 5 days ago:
No
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 5 days ago:
If they came with the software tools and keys necessary to rip out all their bullshit and install my own OS then I’d consider takin one for free.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Autistic here. People rarely say what they mean.
Talking to people to find out their interests are and what things related to those interests they already have is a better way of figuring out what they want I leanrned the hard way that asking directly is rude.
- Comment on Perfect explanation for the unmarried 6 days ago:
I’m nonbinary, but most people assume I’m a dude 'cuz my tits are small and my moustache is fancy.
And yeah, I get that we’re rare, but I think we’d be a lot less rare if our culture didn’t still lionize the nuclear family to the neglect of all other arrangements.
- Comment on Perfect explanation for the unmarried 6 days ago:
My two boyfriends and I have been an item for over 20 years and we recently added a fourth to our household.
I don’t think monogamous folks should be throwing stones what with the prevalence of serial monogamy in our culture.
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 1 week ago:
Microsoft Recall
- Comment on It would be wrong to kill Elon musk and Donald Trump, but it would absolutely make the world a better place. Killing is wrong. But the world would be better without them. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want them dead.
I want them working minimum wage jobs with no benefits.
- Comment on If everyone at Microsoft forgot how to code, why don't they open source their stuff? 2 weeks ago:
The last half of your question is superfluous.
- Comment on If everyone at Microsoft forgot how to code, why don't they open source their stuff? 2 weeks ago:
Why should an OS kernel make money?
- Comment on It would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generate 2 weeks ago:
4,000MW / 400w per panel = 10,000,000 panels, or about 3,444 acres of solar panels. That’s about the size of a small-ish town, and 75x larger than an equivalently rated nuclear plant.
However, the initial and maintenance costs of so many solar panels are far lower than those of nuclear, or at least they were before Orange Monday.
- Comment on China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport. 4 weeks ago:
It was big news 75 years ago too.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
You can deny it all you want, but profits still = income - expenses.
Every dollar paid to a shareholder is a dollar stolen from someone who works for a living.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
You literally just did: feddit.org/comment/6103029
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry to hear that, if everything is political to you I imagine you must be experiencing a very hard life situation.
I fit the stereotype of the cynical old anarchist to a tee.
I don’t have a reason to make it all political because in my country we have a lot of support from the Gov.
So, you’re saying it is all explicitly political but you get to pretend that it isn’t because… why, exactly?
impair the creative process
Not for me. It was a tool to help me execute my creativity a lot like photoshop. I didn’t had to spend 3/4 days modeling.
Sounds to me like you missed out on 3/4 days of creating artwork and are allowing your creative skills to atrophy just like how people’s critical thinking skills deteriorate when they let LLMs do the thinking for them.
copyright infringement
Well I don’t have a word here because I pirate shows, movies, book etc. Have you ever?!
I’m a furry. We pay our artists very well for their work and get extremely pissed when corporations try to use it without permission or compensation.
asshole bosses
My boss can’t really do that in my country because we have strict labour laws and very powerful unions, if that is not your experience your country should vote better
For who? The only options on the ballot here are all anti-union.
I’d be dosappointed
well besides the fact that you suck the joy out of a fun gift,
One of my partners collects those cheap vinyl figurines that get made of everything. He has never once had fun with them.
you are focusing on the bad side of tech but a lot of good can come from it.
Ah yes, a lot of good can come from making more cheap, flammable tchotchkes to clutter up our houses with.
In the 90s we didn’t had DNA technology and new tech + great minds, turned it possible to identify dead bodies, find missing people and murderes, Identify disorders and other genetc problems, and not to mention CRISPR tech that literally cure some cancers and save people. We wouldn’t have all that with only bright minds we also need to support them with technology.
Lol, sounds like someone is wandering off topic.
Again if you experience with new tech is so negative, and if “everything is political” to you may be that it’s not a tech problem but a life problem
… Please re-read this thing you just wrote, because a “life problem” is exactly what politics is.
and I really am sorry about that, but again not everyone has the same life experience.
I already have to live in a society filled with people like you, you can tolerate a brief reminder that there are people like me. Just accept the fact that we do not share values and move on.
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s more likely that I have a fundamentally different set of values.
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 4 weeks ago:
Everything is political, especially new technology. We can’t have a real conversation about generative models without talking about how they impair the creative process, devalue the very concept of art, and are themselves the product of mass copyright infringement, to say nothing of the economic bubble of their overinvestment or all the people being put out of work by asshole bosses who still think they can replace them with LLMs and GANs.
I do genuinely hope that your brother was delighted by your gift, but I’d be disappointed in my brother if he gifted such a thing to me. A handwritten letter would show more care and attention than a computationally-derived and automatically-fabricated figurine.
- Comment on They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs. 4 weeks ago:
The Favela lifestyle would probably improve a lot of Americans. Forced to live in the cramped confines of a slum, conservatives might suddenly find out that they have bigger problems than the existence of trans people.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
Where else do you imagine dividends come from?
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
Employees and customers, just like every corporation ever.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
It’s not for the communities, it’s for the shareholders-to-come.
- Comment on Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' 4 weeks ago:
It’s not really for communities either, it’s for locking communities into a corporate platform.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 4 weeks ago:
When accused of crimes, deflect by admitting to even bigger crimes.
- Comment on What the AI Obsession Tells Us About Our Own Society 4 weeks ago:
If you could imagine it, you wouldn’t have to ask a robot to imagine it for you.
I also work in “cyber” and my mind only gets blown by how the infinite possibilities have been constrained to those which generate profits for middlemen and how the only processes that get fast-tracked are the ones designed to squeeze more profit out of the same customer base.
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 4 weeks ago:
Yup! That saddle is a shape of constant negative curvature. On a toroid, the inside of the hole would have negagive curvature and the outside would have positive curvature.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 4 weeks ago:
The UK made an invisible weapon?
- Comment on xkcd #3077: de Sitter 4 weeks ago:
Spheres are examples of surfaces with positive curvature. Negative curvature (where the angles of a triangle add up to less than 180 degrees) is represented by this saddle shape:
- Comment on Off-grid hosting 5 weeks ago:
This is entirely doable, but you may need to do some manual network configuration.
