Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on C4illin/ConvertX: Self-hosted online file converter that supports 1000+ formats 1 hour ago:
Same, I’ve been looking for something like that for quite some time
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 12 hours ago:
If I had to guess, I’d say it’s not necessarily baked into the models, but rather part of a style guide in the system prompt
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 days ago:
I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.
Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.
You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.
- Comment on Get your Minitel back, the COMPUTEL videotex BBS is back! 4 days ago:
Minitel was a text only early internet that popped up in France in the 80s. You connected to it through a small terminal connected to the phone line, and had access to various commercial services such as phone book, train booking etc…
Most of those services have been shut down a decade or two ago but some hobbyists are operating new services on the network.
- Comment on Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds 6 days ago:
I think the real shocker was the step change between 3 and 4, and the hope that another step change was soon to come. It’s pretty telling that the latest batch of models was fine tuned for vibes and “empathy” rather than raw performance. They’re not getting the next a-ha moment and want to focus their customers on unquantifiables.
It seems logical that this would negatively impact performance and, well, looks like it did.
- Comment on THE 500 BILLION DOLLAR DELUSION: How the AI Sovereignty Wars Are Reshaping Humanity’s Future 1 week ago:
Nah the 500B$ is for building data centers. Well, it would be if that money existed but the truth is it was just an empty announcement.
The companies involved don’t have that kind of money, even pooled together.
- Comment on And then I'll sell my AI, so everyone can make drawings - EVERYONE can be an artist! And when everyone's an artist... no one will be 1 week ago:
I don’t know any AI artists (as in someone who prompts a model and then calls the result a work of art), although most traditional artists i know have come to incorporate AI one way or another in their process.
You don’t really hear about it because it’s all intermediate material used during the production phase. For example, as a hobbyist writer, one thing i struggle with is writing action scenes cause i don’t have visual memory and i tend to forget a lot about continuity and “spatial realism” (“this guy starts in this corner of the room so there’s no way he could grab that object at that point”, shit like that). With AI I can generate some kind of “story board” of my scene, which helps me write it much better. It’s just laid out visually in front of me and i catch a lot more details.
Sometimes when i’m toying with an idea i’ll also have a model generate a few variations on it, with different points of view, writing style, focus etc… Even if the writing is mediocre, it gives me a really good idea of how each version could pan out, and whether an angle works or not. I’ll then select the angle that works best and rewrite it entirely from scratch.
There’s nothing innovative about it, people have been using assistants to avoid tedious work forever. It’s just that before AI you had to, you know, be rich and able to actually pay for the labor.
- Comment on Advice wanted: Making reliable private cloud backups with Kopia. 1 week ago:
I am looking for a solution for a ~1TB collection, and the Glacier Deep Archive storage tier is barely above 1$/m for the lot. You may want to look into it ! If I remember correctly, the retrieval (if you one day need to get your data back) was around 20$ to get the data in a few hours, or 2$ to get it in a couple days.
- Comment on Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End 5 weeks ago:
Yeah he should be using real art like stock photos and shitty clip art
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
When you read that stuff on reddit there’s a parameter you need to keep in mind : these people are not really discussing Lemmy. They’re rationalizing and justifying why they are not on Lemmy. Totally different conversation.
Nobody wants to come out and say “I know mainstream platforms are shit and destroying the fabric of reality but I can’t bring myself to be on a platform except it is the Hip Place to Be”. So they’ll invent stuff that paints them in a good light.
You’ll still see people claiming that Mastodon is unusable because you have to select an instance - even though you don’t have to, you can just type Mastodon on Google, click the first link, and create an account in 2 clicks. It’s been ages. But the people still using Twitter need the excuse because otherwise what does it make them?
- Comment on Oh fuck no 5 months ago:
I don’t remember people being offended by the word fuck in 2000. Sure on TV it could be considered dicey but on the internet it was pretty fair game
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 months ago:
“i have collected some soil samples from the mesolithic age near the Amazon basin which have high sulfur and phosphorus content compared to my other samples. What factors could contribute to this distribution?”
Haha yeah the top execs were tripping balls if they thought some off-the-shelf product would be able to answer this kind of expert questions. That’s like trying to replace an expert craftsman with a 3D printer.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 months ago:
What kind of use-cases was it, where you didn’t find suitable local models to work with ? I’ve found that general “chatbot” things are hit and miss but more domain-constrained tasks (such as extracting structured entities from unstructured text) are pretty reliable even on smaller models. I’m not counting my chickens yet as my dataset is still somewhat small but preliminary testing has been very promising in that regard.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 5 months ago:
Most projects I’ve been in contact with are very aware of that fact. That’s why telemetry is so big right now. Everybody is building datasets in the hopes of fine tuning smaller, cheaper models once they have enough good quality data.
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 5 months ago:
Did you listen to that hardcore history episode? It was crazy
- Comment on Maybe all this AI bullshit might finally push people to touch grass and interact face to face some more 6 months ago:
That’s the problem with imaginary enemies. They have to be both ridiculously incompetent, and on the verge of controlling the whole world. Sounds familiar doesn’t it?
- Comment on 18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing 6 months ago:
But what if that money goes to art I don’t personally like?