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- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 4 hours ago:
my one weird trick for using fandom.com is to disable javascript for that domain.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 days ago:
So much spam… internet is hardly usable after a decade of SEO and now with LLM sprinkled on top.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 5 days ago:
The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with.
My critique on this that the people who produce this stuff don’t have interest in it for its own sake. They only have interest in it to crowd out the people who actually do, and to produce a worse version of it in a much faster time than it would for someone with actual talent to do so. But the reason they produce it is for profit. Gunk up the search results with no-effort crap to get ad revenue. It is no different than “SEO.”
Example: if you go onto YouTube right now and try to find any modern 30-60m long video that’s like “chill beats” or “1994 cyberpunk wave” or whatever other bullshit they pump out (once you start finding it you’ll find no shortage of it), you’ll notice that all of those uploaders only began as of about a year ago at most and produce a lot of videos (which youtube will happily prioritize to serve you) of identical sounding “music.” The people producing this don’t care about anything except making money. They’re happy to take stolen or plagiarized work that originated with humans, throw it into the AI slot machine, and produce something which somehow is no longer considered stolen or plagiarized. And the really egregious ones will link you to their Patreons.
The story is the same with art, music, books, code, and anything else that actually requires creativity, intuition, and understanding.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 1 week ago:
The key point about codeberg as I understand it is it’s meant for foss projects. It’s not really much more complex than that. Want to host non-free software, or want to use it for your company’s private code repository? They don’t want that on their servers, so either find an alternative or self-host forgejo, which is the same code (derived from gitea) that powers codeberg itself.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 1 week ago:
Can’t read my emails on it though.
Great feature!!
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 weeks ago:
I also try, but it is invoked on my behalf. For instance, at work if I make a pull request now multiple AI bots are summoned to give an analysis of my code changes. It’s extremely verbose and annoying, and I think basically nobody reads it because all it does is just spam the comments section with way too much text.
I vehemently hate OpenAI, ChatGPT, et al. At least it’s funny when it summarizes my changes as significant improvements that improve code maintainability. I guess getting glazed by the bot in a way my manager can see is helpful to my career? Though honestly he probably also doesn’t read that shit. So glad all this energy is wasted for nothing.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 weeks ago:
“The enigma of success” whoever came up with that line has truly mastered the art of auto-fellatio.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
Why does this story magically no longer become interesting because of a group that helps defected NKs?
There is nothing magic about it. The organization that’s cited isn’t the problem. The problem is the BBC cites that org as proof that this person’s claims are true. But neither that org nor the BBC have said, “we have corroborated Jin-su’s story.” On the contrary, the BBC just admits they didn’t or couldn’t corroborate the story themselves. So in my mind I may as well have read this article on any rando’s blog post, or in the NYT in 2001 under a Judith Miller byline. It lacks credence.
I wouldn’t have had anything to say if BBC said that they reviewed some documents that showed Jin-su’s claim. Maybe a few of the “hundreds” of fake IDs that he used, for example. But instead they just read more testimonies from PSCORE (presumably) like the one that they couldn’t verify for the sake of verifying this testimony!
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
Would you expect a news outlet to be able to somehow verify the testimony of a prisoner of war before reporting on it?
“If the circumstance were different would you expect something different?” is what you are asking me. The interviewee isn’t a POW, but a defector. And not an escapee, because according to the article he was already sent abroad, so it’s not like he fled with merely the clothes on his back and a story to tell. So I would presume he would have a bit more to share with the BBC than just a story.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
You’re tedious and annoying.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
In cases like these the journalists can and often do say something to the effect of they were able to corroborate the claims. But you’re super right about being careful, because they also can mishandle the data they receive to the point where they dox the anonymous source, too. That’s what happened with Reality Winner and The Intercept. They botched it, and she was arrested.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
I’m not doubting the N Korean scheme to infiltrate IT jobs. There’s even that woman who was prosecuted (I think she lived in Arizona?) because she is one person who acted as a facilitator for this scheme. My point is the BBC ran a story with an “anonymous” source then admits in the middle that they couldn’t substantiate any of the claims. That’s the problem here.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
You’re not addressing the fact that BBC admits they didn’t/couldn’t substantiate his claims, which apparently is no problem for your own journalistic standards.
- Comment on North Korea sent me abroad to be a secret IT worker. My wages funded the regime 2 weeks ago:
The BBC cannot independently verify the specifics of Jin-su’s testimony, but through PSCORE, an organisation which advocates for North Korean human rights, we’ve read testimony from another IT worker who defected that supports Jin-su’s claims.
oh. ok.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 weeks ago:
I have long contended that the computer industry is course-correcting with Android/iOS/mobile. They realized their prior “mistake” of letting people actually own, control, and modify their devices. Apple and iPhone is the worst in this regard.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 3 weeks ago:
It’s like he selectively forgot about the Snowden leaks
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 3 weeks ago:
Love to expand my business infrastructure in a country that’s actively perpetrating a genocide. Very cool.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 4 weeks ago:
More necessary than that, really.
- Comment on OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers 5 weeks ago:
don’t run untrusted scripts from the internet on your computer.
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 5 weeks ago:
CEO Sam Altman warns that the rollout presents unpredictable risks.
But that doesn’t prevent his profit motive from consuming untold amounts of electricity to shove this into your face. They know what they’re doing. They know their product is used primarily to generate spam, and secondarily is designed to form addictive faux-relationships with their users.
Burn in hell. Actually, given the direction this is all going, we will all be burning in hell within generations.
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 1 month ago:
Your last paragraph implies that I’m naive for believing that complaining about it will make it go away, but I’ve done no such thing.
the market will sort that out
This is the naive statement.
- Comment on Marginalized Americans are highly skeptical of artificial intelligence 1 month ago:
I’m overtly anti-llm. I don’t think it’s dramatic at all to be so.
Enough has come out about how much power and water datacenters used to train and run it consume, people being driven insane by it, investors hoping to displace jobs with it, how over reliance on it diminishes your mental faculties, people from minors to adults using it to create deepfake porn of minors (literally it’s on lemmy rn lemmy.ml/post/32581009), its use in overt misinformation (particularly from our modern warzones and disaster areas), overt theft of writing and artistry to train these things, and last but not least: limitless spam.
I’m affected by most of those things indirectly, but the spam affects me daily. Can’t search for something on the net anymore without being served f-tier LLM-produced garbage.
So what are the good parts? Doesn’t seem like they outweigh these bad parts, whatever they are.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 month ago:
No kidding on the ads. I shared this experience not long ago.
lemmy.ml/post/31496834/19167708
And the tragic thing is there was another news site that I did the same thing with afterwards, and it was literally 2.5x worse than what I documented with The Nation.
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 1 month ago:
I remember the wonderful feeling when Discord had a redesign in like 2017 or 2018 where they undid that awful gray-on-white design trend and made the text actually have contrast. These days the annoying trendy design thing is articles/blogs with extremely narrow width.
no i do not want to read paragraphs that are this wide. this is making it way more annoying to read. please stop doing this.
at least Firefox has Reader Mode.
- Comment on How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying 2 months ago:
It’s so annoying when you try to discuss this because often a gaggle of idiots come out and point, superficially, that water gets recycled into nature. They always ignore the cost of making that water fit for human usage.
- Comment on Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations 2 months ago:
It’s gonna be funny when stuff like mid-level tech companies are fully integrated into Github Copilot and then whoopsie doopsie time for a 50% price hike.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 2 months ago:
On the one hand he’s supposed to be a very serious business genius at the forefront of the next wave of technological advancement. On the other, he’s just advertising to people how stupid he is.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 2 months ago:
What am I dogwhistling? A dogshit, decrepit capitalist society designed to exploit poor people?
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 2 months ago:
Online sports betting through apps on your phone is just yet another example of everything sliding toward degeneracy
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 2 months ago:
extremely non-zero chance the entire site and payment system was coded by morons with chatgpt