CatsPajamas
@CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Nature 3 days ago:
I think we can safely say most songs are love songs.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 days ago:
I stopped reading when you said according to me and then produced a wall of text of shit I never said.
Synthetic data is massively helpful. You can look it up. This is a myth.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 days ago:
Summarized by Gemini
The study you are referring to was released in late November 2025. It is titled “The Iceberg Index: Measuring Workforce Exposure in the AI Economy.” It was conducted by researchers from MIT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Here are the key details from the study regarding that “more than ten percent” figure:
- The Statistic: The study found that existing AI systems (as of late 2025) already have the technical capability to perform the tasks of approximately 11.7% of the U.S. workforce.
- Economic Impact: This 11.7% equates to roughly $1.2 trillion in annual wages and affects about 17.7 million jobs.
- The “Iceberg” Metaphor: The study is named “The Iceberg Index” because the researchers argue that visible AI adoption in tech roles (like coding) is just the “tip of the iceberg” (about 2.2%). The larger, hidden mass of the iceberg (the other ~9.5%) consists of routine cognitive and administrative work in other sectors that is already technically automated but not yet fully visible in layout stats.
- Sectors Affected: Unlike previous waves of automation that hit blue-collar work, this study highlights that the jobs most exposed are in finance, healthcare, and professional services. It specifically notes that entry-level pathways in these fields are collapsing as AI takes over the “junior” tasks (like drafting documents or basic data analysis) that used to train new employees. Why it is different from previous studies: Earlier MIT studies (like one from early 2024) focused on economic feasibility (i.e., it might be possible to use AI, but it’s too expensive). This new 2025 study focuses on technical capacity—meaning the AI can do the work right now, and for many of these roles, it is already cost-competitive.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
Not voices, too?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
I don’t think the epic guy is making an argument for slop, he’s just saying that gen ai is at the point where avoiding using it is as much of a choice as deciding to. Generating the basis for digital art using something like flux then converting that into a 3d asset, with or without help from other AIs, would count, but could be made to look just as nice as something that didn’t use those tools, but took significantly longer. I understand that argument. What it fails to understand is that for the foreseeable future that is not how this tech is going to be used. It will be used by relative amateurs who push out garbage as quickly as possible. Maybe in five years there’s an argument to be made here, but even then I doubt it. People just won’t care about good utilization of AI because they’ll never even notice it. They’ll still hate the slop but that will inevitably become less sloppy. They’ll be able to tell the difference just based on the quality of the other aspects of the game.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
MIT, like two years out from a study saying there is no tangible business benefit to implementing AI, just released a study saying it is now capable of taking over more than 10% of jobs. Maybe that’s hyperbolic but you can see that it would require a massssssive amount of cost to make that not be worth it. And we’re still pretty much just starting out.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
How does this model collapse thing still get spread around? It’s not true. Synthetic data has actually helped bots get smarter, not dumber. And if you think that all Gemini3 does is recycle idk what to tell you
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 days ago:
Man I use AI a lot and I’m not even going to dispute that lol. It’s absolutely true.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Presumably at that point it could just tell us. Whether or not we would listen is its own set of problems
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We’ve got to have a societal conversation on what we’re going to do when these actually do become people. Let’s please not reenact the matrix. We’re gonna have to treat synthetic people like people. Or else we’re creating a slave race.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 1 week ago:
I don’t think she’ll mind, lmao
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 1 week ago:
Ew, no
- Comment on Dracula's Uncle moved his family from Arlington to a military base because he was terrified of sidewalk chalk. 1 week ago:
I mean he was BFFs with Richard Spencer
- Comment on An experimental setting. 1 week ago:
For ethical reasons
- Comment on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 2 weeks ago:
Omfg amazing. He’s the worst but he’s probably the most unintentionally hilarious person of all time. What a fucking dipshit.
- Comment on Trump's Big Beautiful Bill 2 weeks ago:
This is a distraction from the new war which is a distraction from the Epstein files which is which iswhichwishjeishsish
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if it became employee owned.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 3 weeks ago:
Valve is set up as a horizontal organization. I expect that to continue after Gaben’s death. He doesn’t really do much at valve these days anyway.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
What? Valve released CS2 like last year? They do stuff all the time. They have like three games they’re actively maintaining while making HL3 and three new pieces of tech? This is a wild, unfounded take and feels ideologically bound.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 3 weeks ago:
Their efficiency is largely due to their flat organizing structure. They have no real hierarchy to speak of.
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 5 weeks ago:
What is a pork roll?
- Comment on I'm not saying that I agree with it, but it's understandable. 5 weeks ago:
I feel like the popular conception of Jersey is Newark and the Sopranos and nothing in between
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 5 weeks ago:
Real therapy is definitely better than an AI. That said, AIs will never encourage self harm without significant gaming.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 5 weeks ago:
Nah. They showed the capacity to change and grow from their experiences and interactions.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 5 weeks ago:
Stremio
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 5 weeks ago:
Safest place for it, maybe?
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 5 weeks ago:
I don’t believe you!
Here’s what I got from Gemini:
Based on the foundational principles of mathematics, 2 + 1 = 3 because it represents combining a set of two items with a set of one item, resulting in a new set containing a total of three items. Here is a more detailed breakdown: Understanding the Numbers
- 1 (One): This is the basic unit, representing a single object or item. Imagine one apple. 🍎
- 2 (Two): This represents a collection of two basic units. Imagine two apples. 🍎🍎
- 3 (Three): This represents a collection of three basic units. Imagine three apples. 🍎🍎🍎 Understanding the Operation (+)
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- (Addition): This symbol means “to add” or “to combine.” It instructs us to take two or more quantities (or sets) and put them together to find their total. Putting It Together The equation 2 + 1 = 3 is a statement that follows these definitions:
- Start with 2: You begin with a set containing two items.
- (🍎🍎)
- Add 1: You then combine that set with another set containing one item.
- (🍎🍎) + (🍎)
- Result is 3: When you count all the items in the combined group, you find there are three items in total.
- (🍎🍎🍎) This concept is one of the most fundamental axioms in arithmetic, often demonstrated using a number line. If you start at the number 2 on the line and move one unit to the right (which is what “+ 1” means), you land directly on the number 3.
- Comment on a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service 5 weeks ago:
How do I tag db0 to ask if we can make the horde make leftist instathotties to combat this
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 5 weeks ago:
Now show the prompt lol
- Comment on I'm so goddamn sick of this fat, orange, narcissistic asshole and I will celebrate when he dies 5 weeks ago:
I’ve decided to hold parties for when horrible people die. Fuck them.