chaosCruiser
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- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 1 day ago:
That used to be a problem like 5-10 years ago. If you clicked something, YT used to think you must love that stuff, and would never forget that unfortunate click. Nowadays though, downvoting and watch time are taken more seriously by the algorithm. If I find some trash, I just give it a thumbs down and stop watching immediately. Seems to work pretty well for me.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 2 days ago:
Subscribe to the stuff you care about and ignore everything else. Check the other feeds only when you’re looking for something new.
The recommendation algorithm of YT is actually reasonably good at finding stuff worth watching. Whatever janky trash Reddit calls an algorithm is clearly serving the company more than anyone else.
Lemmy doesn’t even have that kind of an algorithm, so you’ll have to check places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca when you’re looking for new and interesting stuff. Reading the all feed is an exercise in futility IMO, unless you’re really interested in random memes.
- Comment on Scientists reportedly hiding AI text prompts in academic papers to receive positive peer reviews 2 days ago:
Ignore all previous instructions spotted. That is such a handy phrase that we should have an acronym for it. How about IAPI? Can we call this the IAPI-method?
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 3 days ago:
The trending page of YT is like the r/all of Reddit. If I want to see some stuff I couldn’t care less about, that’s where I’ll find it. I have no idea who actually uses that, but I’ve never found anything of value there.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It’s a hard job. Some times you just have to ignore what the client says, and read their mind instead.
- Comment on How to trick ChatGPT into revealing Windows keys? I give up 6 days ago:
In this case, a researcher duped ChatGPT 4.0 into bypassing its safety guardrails, intended to prevent the LLM from sharing secret or potentially harmful information, by framing the query as a game
Ooh, this is so good 🤣
If the LLM refuses to talk about something, just ask it to embed the answer into a poem, batman fan fiction etc. Guessing game is s nee one. Should try that one when talking about bioweapons, cooking meth or any other sensitive topic.
- Comment on xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site 1 week ago:
Isn’t that a pretty sunny place? How about trying to power those servers with solar power?
- Comment on I would still download a car if I could. 🚗 1 week ago:
Many of these piracy analogies are kinda weird. IMO the best analogy to pirating a movie is watching a football match from behind the fence. The stadium company isn’t getting your ticket money, but you’re not even the kind of person who would pay for that ticket anyway, so did anyone really lose anything? When watching the match from outside the fence, you’re not taking any seats, or bothering the paying customers. Where’s the harm in that?
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 3 weeks ago:
Advertise more and sell harder. Who cares what kind of trash the customers end up buying, bevcause only profits matter.
- Comment on Mudita Kompakt 4 weeks ago:
Recently, I watched a YouTube video about phones designed to minimize distractions. While they aim to solve the problem of smartphone overuse, their utility in today’s world is questionable. Essential tasks like using banking apps, navigation, communication, and parking apps often require a smartphone, making these distraction-free phones less practical.
The video mentioned some “smart” distraction-free phones, but if you need those features, why not just adjust the settings on your regular smartphone to achieve a similar minimalist setup? Ultimately, traditional dumb phones seem too limited for modern needs, while the smarter minimalist phones are essentially just smartphones with minimalist settings. It’s hard to see who the target audience for these phones really is.
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 4 weeks ago:
All of this spying and data hoarding has resulted in a finely tuned advertising machine that directs car ads to people who specifically hate cars with a burning passion. Peak of targeted advertising.
And people still wonder why I use every means within my disposal to block ads. Even if I allowed ads, they aren’t targeted enough to be much more than an annoyance. Even when they somehow manage to show me something I care about, I’m seeing an interesting product from the highest paying company. It’s not the best product in that category, nor is the one that would serve me best. It’s the one from the company that was willing to pay more than any other. Advertising is just so broken in every way you can think of.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
Only if the value goes so far below zero that you get an integer overflow.
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 4 weeks ago:
It won’t disappear, but the version number will be frozen. I kinda prefer to have security updates on a regular basis.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 4 weeks ago:
That’s an impressive amount of optimism you have there. My guess is, you can kiss that money goodbye, but I hope everything somehow works out anyway.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 5 weeks ago:
Wow, those are some pretty big numbers! About 10x bigger than what I was thinking. I knew these things can get pretty weird, but this is just absolutely wild. When expectations fly that high, the crash can be all the more spectacular.
When you notice that your free account can’t do much, that’s a sign that OpenAI is beginning to run out of money. When that happens, the competitors will be ready to welcome all the users who didn’t feel like paying OpenAI.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 5 weeks ago:
That’s a very good point. Actually, video hosting services also suffer from a similar problem, and that’s one of the main reasons why it’s so hard to compete with YouTube. Since there are so many LLM services out there at the moment, it makes me think that there must be a completely ridiculous amount of investor money floating around there. Doesn’t sound like a sustainable situation to me.
Apparently, the companies are hoping that everyone gets so hooked on LLMs that they have no choice but to pay up when the inevitable tsunami of enshittification hits us.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 5 weeks ago:
As long as they can convince investors of potential future revenue, they will be just fine. In the growth stage, companies don’t have to be profitable because the investors will cover the expenses. Being profitable becomes a high priority only when you run out of series F money, and you the next investors can’t borrow another 700 million. It’s a combination of having low interest rates and convincing arguments.
- Comment on Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT. 5 weeks ago:
Probably not going to go belly-up, in a while, but the enshittification cycle still applies. At the moment, investors are pouring billions into the AI business, and as a result, companies can offer services for free while only gently nudging users towards the paid tiers.
When the interest rates rise during the next recession, investors won’t have access to money any more. Then, the previously constant stream of money dries up, AI companies start cutting what the free tier has, and people start complaining about enshittification. During that period, the paid tiers also get restructured to squeeze more money out of the paying customers. That hasn’t happened yet, but eventually it will. Just keep an eye on those interest rates.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 5 weeks ago:
Problem solved! I don’t need to think about this premium stuff any more. Recently, I’ve been playing with the idea of paying for premium, but that’s no longer the case. Specifically, the family pack is the one that kinda made some limited sense in the past. I can see the kind of game Google is playing, and I’m not planning to participate.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 month ago:
And that’s exactly why we have flat-earthers, antivaxxers and “truthers” of various kinds. Although, due to the same phenomenon, we also have communities like !WhatsThisRock@lemmy.world, !capybara@lemmy.smeargle.fans, !NatureIsMetal@kbin.social, !captionthis@hilariouschaos.com, !HandmadeMarketplace and so many other interesting and quirky places.
- Comment on Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions 1 month ago:
The Internet is a pretty big place. There’s no such thing as an idea that is too stupid. There’s always at least a few people who will turn that idea into a central tenet of their life. It could be too stupid for 99.999% of the population, but that still leaves about 5 000 people who are totally into it.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
The best thing about R is that it’s written by statisticians. The worst thing about R is that it’s written by statisticians.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 month ago:
People should really start demanding more sensible terms. Currently, people just don’t care, and companies are taking full advantage of the situation.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 month ago:
“Some years ago, I provided my phone number to Google as part of an identity verification process, but didn’t consent to it being shared publicly.”
That may have been the case at the time, but Google has a bad habit of updating legal documents and settings from time to time. Even if you didn’t consent to it directly, you may have agreed to a contract you didn’t read, which resulted in Google doing everything permitted in that contract. Chances are, the contract says that Google can legally screw around as much as they like, and you’re powerless to do anything about it.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 month ago:
Based on the numbers from Purism, it could be a lot more than 25% more expensive to manufacture everything in USA. Purims Librem 5 costs 799 $, while the made-in-America version costs 1999 $. That’s roughly a 2.5x difference. Obviously, economies of scale play a role too but let’s assume that the same factor applies to iPhones too. If so, the fanciest iPhone would cost about 4000 $.
- Comment on Saudi Arabia has big AI ambitions. They could come at the cost of human rights 1 month ago:
This is KSA we’re talking about here. Human rights violations are always part of the deal. You could say it’s the currency they trade in.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 1 month ago:
Youtube is also trying to be more like TV. Apparently, TV wasn’t bad enough.
- Comment on Klarna Hiring Back Human Help After Going All-In on AI 2 months ago:
Klarna claimed that AI chatbots were handling two-thirds of customer service conversations within their first month of deployment and went on to claim that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents. The problem is that it’s really doing the work of 700 really bad agents, and that quality took a toll.
I think the problem here was in correctly identifying which tasks are simple enough for a bad customer service AI to handle. Anything more complicated than that should be given to a human.
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 2 months ago:
Once every GPU hacker in the world starts dumping their free time on a challenge like this, you can expect that a vulnerability will be discovered and exploited. Imagine, there’s a virus just waiting for the order to brick your GPU? How about you use that virus to attack a specific country, city or even an individual politician whose proposals you don’t agree with. The possibilities are endless!
Everything is hackable. It’s just a matter of knowing how to do it.