Hackworth
@Hackworth@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 20 hours 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 1 day ago:
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 1 week ago:
- Comment on Are you not entertained? 1 week ago:
Cyberpunk Circuses
- Comment on The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame 1 week 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. 1 week 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? 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Gish gallop
- Comment on Lemmy be like 3 weeks ago:
Spoilers: We will not
Generative inpainting/fill is enormously helpful in media production.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 4 weeks ago:
Nah, it’s from wikipedia.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 4 weeks ago:
Good catch, edited the comment to include limes.
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 4 weeks ago:
Probably Nausicaä, although it woulda been the ~85 English dub Warriors of the Wind.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 5 weeks ago:
The UK food laws may be partially to blame. But American junk food has also degraded over the decades. A twinkie from the 30’s-70’s didn’t taste the same as a modern twinkie, with some unknown portion of its sugar replaced by HFCS. But at least sugar is still the first ingredient in a twinkie. Plenty of other iconic junk food has been engineered into nonsense and just rides on the fumes of its former glory.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 1 month ago:
From the chaote perspective, any dynamic system with chaotic properties can be used for divination. But a science? Nah.
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 1 month ago:
industry associations and individual businesses [,] argued the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule. The judge panel has agreed with them.
Three judges — two appointed by President Trump, one by President George H. W. Bush — found that the FTC’s rulemaking process was flawed and did not include early analysis of the rule’s possible economic effects. 1
“the law”
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 month ago:
It’ll last 6 months easy in the fridge. But try to get most of the solids out with a fork when it’s still hot. And when ya use it, don’t double dip - new spoon/knife each time ya need some.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 month ago:
intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value
Advertising and politics?
- Comment on Fun!!!! :) 1 month ago:
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 1 month ago:
Choose another tool.
- Comment on Everybody talks about beliefs like they're this big important thing. 1 month ago:
Belief is a tool for achieving effects; it is not an end in itself. -Pete Carroll
- Comment on DIY 4th of July 1 month ago:
You can also do this by blowing out a match and putting it under an upturned glass shortly before microwaving it. Turns the carbon vapor into plasma, or some such. Though the time I tried it, it escaped the glass and melted the microwave’s lining. Don’t recommend if it’s an appliance ya care about.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 1 month ago:
And in that environment, everyone who actually understands how things work quits or gets quit. It’s my understanding that there are large sections of code bases that MS just doesn’t touch, because everyone who understood how they functioned is gone. Continuity of institutional knowledge is difficult in the best cases and impossible under leaders that discourage dissenting perspectives. /gestures about wildly
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 months ago:
352413, I mean, clearly.
