Hackworth
@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Notepad gets AI features like Summarize, Write, and Rewrite, using local and cloud models. 6 days ago:
More tech that does not need the internet at all would be great.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 1 week ago:
Need is a strong word. There are much more efficient ways to cool data centers. They’ve just chosen the most wasteful way because it’s the cheapest (for them).
- Comment on Toxic “forever chemicals” found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S. 1 week ago:
Oh, PFAS, yeah. We passed the planetary boundary with that a few years ago.
levels of PFOA and PFOS in rainwater often greatly exceed US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lifetime Drinking Water Health Advisory levels
Here’s a map of the known concentrations. But they’re in everything now, including our blood.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 week ago:
I’m a video producer who occasionally needs to code. I find it much more useful to write the code myself, then have AI identify where things might be going wrong. I’ve developed a decent intuition for when it will be helpful and when it will just run in circles. It has definitely helped me out of some jams. Generative images/video are in much the same boat. I almost never use a fully AI shot/image in professional work. But generative fill and generative extend are extremely useful.
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s morph cut in Premiere, which they added a decade ago. There’s also generative extend, which is the more recent AI addition.
- Comment on "Behavioral Conditioning Methods to Stop my Boyfriend from Playing The Witcher 3" 2 weeks ago:
Like Cyberpunk 2077
- Comment on Vimeo is getting acquired by Bending Spoons, the parent company of Evernote 2 weeks ago:
Been uploading to Vimeo for 20 years. This does not sound like good news.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 2 weeks ago:
Great resources! I’d like to add the ALPR Map of Flock Cameras, DeFlock.
- Comment on How could AI be better than an encyclopedia? 2 weeks ago:
In much the same way people think of digital storage as external memory, I think of generative A.I. as external imagination. Of course, human memory doesn’t work like a hard drive, and LLMs don’t work like our imaginations. But as a guiding metaphor, it seems to work well for identifying good/bad use cases.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Anthropic’s news page is educational in every sense of the word.
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oppression.jpg 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 3 weeks ago:
It’s such a shame that UHD isn’t easier to find. Even the ones you can find are poorly mastered half the time. But a good UHD on an OLED is chef’s kiss just about the closest you can get to having a 35mm reel/projector at home.
You are absolutely on point with 4k streaming being a joke. Most 4k streams are 8-20 Mbps. A UHD runs at 128 Mbps.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 4 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk Circuses
- Comment on The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame 4 weeks ago:
One of the few reliable uses of an LLM is brainstorming, as a wall to bounce ideas off of, or more accurately a semantic mirror. In low-stakes situations (like a writer thinking about their story from a different perspective), you’re essentially probing the higher dimensional latent space for connections between meetings. But training usually pushes an LLM to respond with the most generic shit you can think of. Well, it’s generic because it’s common. It has an oft-traveled path of meaning, so those connections are the first to surface. If the writer wants to tease through more surprising possibilities, they’ll quickly learn to direct the model to less well-worn territories. It rarely even requires anything approaching jailbreaking methods like U$1||G 7117 5P34K.
The Childlike Empress makes no distinction between good and evil beings of Fantastica, as they all must live in the imaginations of mankind. In high-stakes situations, this kind of imaginitive freedom can have (and does have) enormous consequences. If we think of an LLM as something akin to an external imagination, we can interpret interactions with it with some maturity and honesty. If we think of an LLM as an oracle, or a friend, or a lover, or what have you - we’re signing a contract with the Fae Folk.
I see some similarities in the way that the “Doom Caused Columbine” conversation happened early on. And just as that resulted in the establishment of the ESRB, hopefully this incident (and others like it) will lead to some reform. But I don’t know exactly what that reform needs to look like. I think education is helpful, but I don’t think it’s enough. We largely know about the harms of social media and it is no less of an issue. Guardrails can kind of be set up, but the only way to do it presently (technically speaking) is hamfisted and ineffective. And adults are no more immune to the potential harms of abusing an LLM than they’re immune to being influenced by advertisements.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 4 weeks ago:
One may draw upon the dark arts with any degree. -BA in Film, make ads
- Comment on If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit? 4 weeks ago:
The similarities between (particularly early) image generation and dream imagery probably aren’t coincidental. Maybe it’s just that they’re both generated from latent spaces.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Generative inpainting doesn’t typically employ an LLM. Only a few even use attention transformers. It costs in the range of $100,000 - $10 million to train a new diffusion or flow image model. Not cheap, but nothing crazy like training Opus or GPT 5.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
The different uses of AI are not inexctricable.
Many generative inpainting models will run locally
Continuing to treat AI as a monolith is missing the point.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
The different uses of AI are not inexctricable. This is the point of the post. We should be able to talk about the good and the bad.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
I don’t see the relevance here. Inpainting saves artists from time-consuming and repetitive labor for (often) no additional cost. Many generative inpainting models will run locally, but they’re also just included with an Adobe sub.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Gish gallop
- Comment on Lemmy be like 1 month ago:
Spoilers: We will not
Generative inpainting/fill is enormously helpful in media production.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 month ago:
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 1 month ago:
Probably Nausicaä, although it woulda been the ~85 English dub Warriors of the Wind.
