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- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 4 days ago:
Yeah. "EU wants this, EU wants that" - bullshit, the EU has no will of its own. A set of politicians within the EU, on the other hand.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 6 days ago:
Training LLMs is not surveillance. As long as the platform doesn't need to know who I am I'm good.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 6 days ago:
The entire sky is a carpet of stars.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 6 days ago:
I grew up in a green-ish area of this map in Norway, and in Winger it gets pitch black. If theres even faint aurora in tje North we can see it behind the house.
For sure there is some light pollution - we don't draw the curtains in the evening - but it's pitch black by any standard observable by humans.
- Comment on X fails to act on 97% of calls for violence against migrants or Muslims 6 days ago:
Launching their own nazi chatbot hardly counts as "failure to act".
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 week ago:
Yeah, it would be wonderful if that symbol could eventually be reclaimed. Seems a bit far off though. Would English speakers know what you refer to if you say hakenkreuz?
In my native tongue it's called hakekors, and I speak some German, so I'm not in a position to assess how understandable it would be to folks who only speak English.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 week ago:
Oh yeah. Circulating random swastika-labelled push notifications talking about a sickness that "aflicks (?) all Jews" is a pretty big no-no in most, if not all, of the civilized world.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 week ago:
Beware of increasingly white supremacists.
- Comment on The Substack app sent a push notification promoting a Nazi newsletter to several users. 1 week ago:
NEW - Solar geoengineering researchers conspired to hide tests to dim the Sun to "avoid scaring" the public.
aha.
Anyway, nice to see the famous Substack network effects in full swing.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 1 week ago:
Due to the risk of battery fires, Google said that devices with more than 400 charge cycles could see their capacity and charging speed drastically reduced.
Apparently they design phones that'll last just over a year before self-igniting.
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 week ago:
There's no real difference, content flows freely between the two platforms.
I'm writing this in piefed - does it make my comment "piefed content", while your comment is "Lemmy content"?
The distinction makes no sense. And that's the point - use whatever platform you prefer, enjoy the same content anywhere you go. There is no "piefed content" or "lemmy content", only content. :)
- Comment on What is piefed? 1 week ago:
You could check out another instance, for example https://feddit.online/, which is visible without signing in.
Posted.social used to be open for all, but I suspect it needed to be restricted due to AI scrapers. Not sure exactly what the reasoning is though.
- Comment on (LLM) A language model built for the public good 3 weeks ago:
Large language models and "generative AI" such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E are all just machine learning models. We do not currently have a real "AI branch" of computer science, we have a branch of machine learning that poses as AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
five minutes later
Grok: "Heil hitler!"
- Comment on 'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre 3 weeks ago:
I guess this depends on things like location, soil type, and environmentally disruptive neighbours.
I grew up in a Scandinavian forest with a well, no filtering needed. Sure, after heavy rainfall the water could end up containing a few more minerals than usual, but it would never require filtering, and the house has been standing for almost 40 years now without sediments building up.
- Comment on Microsoft shares $500M in AI savings internally days after cutting 9,000 jobs 3 weeks ago:
If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.
- Comment on (LLM) A language model built for the public good 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just find it to be a great rule of thumb. Those who understand what they are doing will be aware that they are not dealing with AI, those who jump to label it as such are usually bullshit artists.
- Comment on (LLM) A language model built for the public good 4 weeks ago:
Usually when I see this it's using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.
There's huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.
If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that's awesome, but that's very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.
- Comment on (LLM) A language model built for the public good 4 weeks ago:
Gigantic hater of all things LLM or "AI" here.
The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with "multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages" could be potentially useful.
And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that's also a good thing.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
In the sense of multiple users in Android settings? That works, it can be enabled in settings -> system -> multiple users. I haven't tested it though, as I don't have any need for that.
I use Microsoft Authenticator and Microsoft Outlook for work, and both work flawlessly with /e/OS. Thankfully I have not had any reason to test Teams, but I'm pretty sure that would work as well.
- Comment on Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps 4 weeks ago:
I believe /e/OS supports a broader range of devices, and it's also pretty great in my experience. The focus is on getting rid of google (replacing all services with MicroG and nextcloud integration) and blocking trackers while providing a smooth user experience, so it's security features are not as over the top as Graphene. It's still a huge freaking improvement over stock Android though, and I find it to be a joy to use.
On devices supported by the online installer it can be up an running in like 30 minutes, no technical skills required. :)
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 4 weeks ago:
As long as it's based on software rather than hardware I think it's safe to assume it will be lost.
You can reinstall some things (such as the default camera app) from apks you find online, and apps such as Google Maps can be downloaded from the app store (which contains all apps from the play store). But by default it strips away everything that is installed on the phone by default and replaces it with a degoogled ecosystem, and I don't think it differentiates between different devices.
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 4 weeks ago:
Pixel 6 is supported through a community port, but unfortunately it is not supported (yet?) by the online installer tool. So it's for people who are a bit more willing to get their hands dirty.
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 4 weeks ago:
If you own a Fairphone (3-5), Pixel (4, 5, 7 or 8) Nothing phone (1) or OnePlus (7 or 8), it's super easy to install /e/OS using this online installer. Most android apps work well out of the box, but all Google stuff has been stripped away and replaced with MicroG where necessary.
I'm never returning to Google anything.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 4 weeks ago:
For most jobs it's hard to do a hiring process without in-person interviews, or at the very least video calls. So I'm not really sure how one could realistically get rid of biases. But I completely agree that whenever there are too many applications to interview everyone individually, the initial screening of applicants should be completely anonymized and rely only only technologies where biases can at least be understood.
For the final step I'm afraid we'll have to try to train people to be less prone to biased decision-making. Which I agree is not a very promising path.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 4 weeks ago:
It's not men against women, it's people against billionaires.
It's not the fact that these people are men that I take issue with, it's that they are hypocrites trying to capitalize of feminist sentiments without making any actual effort towards real change.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 4 weeks ago:
At least where I'm from, it's pretty well know that the education system is better suited to girls than boys, probably because it needs a reform
I didn't say it doesn't, clearly there's a problem when half the population is systematically favoured.
To paraphrase: women can get pregnant and can't work and it's the man's fault
Where the fuck did I say that it's the man's fault? It's a societal problem, doesn't mean it's anybody's fault.
What I observe in society are a huge increase in the amount of advertising aimed at women with a feminist message because women are being programmed to flock to such messages
I'm the first to criticize corporate feminism (just like greenwashing and pride washing), but I suspect feminist messaging appeals to women because they are sick of the patriarchy, not because they are programmed by marketing agencies. The fuck are you on about.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 4 weeks ago:
At least where I'm from it's pretty well known that girls outperform boys in school, probably because their brains develop slightly faster in some ways useful to perform in a class room.
This could give women a head start and very well lead to them on average performing better in work life, until they are forced to choose between careers and families while they partners continue to advance their careers at full speed not worrying about being pregnant.
But that's a different discussion. We should avoid biases in hiring because biases suck and make for an unjust society. And we should stop pretending language models make intelligent considerations about anything.
What's fascinating here is that LLMs trained on the texts we produce create the opposite bias of what we observe in society, where men tend to get preferential treatment. My guess is that this is a consequence of inclusive language. In my writibg, whenever women are under-represented, I make a point out of defaulting to she and her rather than her and him. I know others do the same. I imagine this could feed into LLMs. Whatever it is that causes this, it sure as fuck isn't anything actually intelligent.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 4 weeks ago:
the AI considered
Sorry to break it to you, but the "AI" does not "consider" anything. They are talking about a language prediction model.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
European legal systems are largely built around the idea that courts are apolitical, and that judges make their decisions neutrally based on the word of the law and the facts of the case.
This is of course impossible, but some people—especially judges themselves—are afraid that the system would collapse if the public learned how political the work of courts really is. So when France started publishing all the judgments of their courts to the public, they also forbade the public from studying individual judges.
It's pretty funky.