NaibofTabr
@NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
- Comment on In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat 3 weeks ago:
What happens in the abyss stays in the abyss.
- Comment on In 2025, People Will Try Living in This Underwater Habitat 3 weeks ago:
Hmm… maybe not? The low density of helium at 1 atm is what causes the amplification of higher frequencies in the voicebox, but in a pressurized container the gas would be higher density so it might offset the effect… I think?
- Comment on Behold, world class engineering from Tesla 3 weeks ago:
Wow that is quite a collection of flammables… race fuel and camp fuel and fireworks all piled in together? WTF was going on with this guy?
- Comment on 25 Years Ago, A One-of-a-Kind Movie Captured the Hearts of Star Trek Fans Everywhere 5 weeks ago:
but the fans failed to notice
Why do you think this?
- Comment on AI-Generated Fake War Images Passed Off as Real 1 month ago:
We are on the verge of being completely snowed under by generated trash.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 1 month ago:
I mean… yes, sort of? I actually have a couple of those, I just put together a bonsai tree set from “JIANPINWORLD” a few days ago. It’s a nice set design, but the quality is… not good. The fit of the pieces reminds me of Megablocks sets from the 90s, which is to say that the brick tightness is very hit-or-miss. The set involved putting little flower pieces onto sticks, but the holes in the flower pieces varied considerably, sometimes too tight to fit on the stick and sometimes too loose to stay attached. There were small hook parts, two of which cracked in half while tying to connect them, and there were no spare parts included. The coloration of the pieces is inconsistent. The instructions are also poorly laid out and badly printed.
The sets you’re talking about are very much an example of “you get what you pay for”.
- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 1 month ago:
Hmm, this set is US$679.99 and 9090 pieces. The average for new sets is US$0.10/piece (ten cents per brick, expect higher rates for licensed IP), so at ~$0.074 per this set is actually beating the ratio. Yes it’s expensive but it’s probably priced fairly given the size.
- Comment on The Official Trailer and Poster for Star Trek: Section 31 Are Here 1 month ago:
“It’s worse than you thought.”
“This is gonna be bad.”
Going for the direct approach in the trailer. I can appreciate that.
- Comment on Infectious 2 months ago:
A fecal transplant is cultural appropriation.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
I mean… the Pokémon kind of get forced into combat for your entertainment… so more like cockfighting?
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
Jenny’s number: (area code) 867-5309
Of course it probably doesn’t matter if you also use a credit card to make the purchase - every single purchase is fed into your personal consumer profile.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
You probably agreed to it when you installed the app.
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 2 months ago:
AI learning isn’t the issue, its not something we will be able to put a lid on either way.
So… there is no Artificial Intelligence. The AI cannot hurt you. It is just a (buggy) statistical language parsing system. It does not think, it does not plan, it does not have goals, it does not understand, and it doesn’t even really “learn” in a meaningful sense.
Either it destroys or saves the world.
If we’re talking about machine learning systems based on multi-dimensionl statistical analyses, then it will do neither. Both extremes are sensationalism and arguments based on the idea that either such outcome will come from the current boom of ML technology is utter nonsense designed to drive engagement.
It doesn’t need to learn much to do so besides evolving actual self-agency and sovereign thought.
Oh, is that all?
No one on the planet has any idea how to replicate the functionality of consciousness. Sam Altman would very much like you to believe that his company is close to achieving this so that VCs will see the public interest and throw more money at him. Sam Altman is a snake oil salesman.
What is a huge issue is the secretive non-consentual mining of peoples identity and expressions.
And then acting all normal about It.
This is absolutely true and correct and the collection and aggregation of data on human behavior should be scaring the shit out of everyone. The potential for authoritarian abuses of such data collection and tracking is disturbing.
- Comment on You did it. You broken the conditioning. 2 months ago:
With a lirpa, apparently:
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week 2 months ago:
that bug was so egregious, it demonstrates a rare level of incompetence
I wish so much this was true, but it super isn’t. Some of the recent Cisco security flaws are just so brain-dead stupid you wonder if they have any internal quality control at all… and, well, there was the Crowdstrike thing…
- Comment on World Without Corporations 2 months ago:
Counterpoint - if everything was FOSS it would be absolute chaos with no direction, conflicting goals, incomplete projects, and limited oversight.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 2 months ago:
There’s a very good reasons why people and organisations will pay for proprietary software when there is a free alternative available.
Yup… risk transfer
- Comment on flourine 2 months ago:
I really hope there isn’t a lot of publicly accessible fluorine…
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture — The Director’s Edition’ Score Reissued on Deluxe Vinyl 2 months ago:
- Comment on Kill it with fire! 2 months ago:
Especially with all the deadly spiders and wasp nests and scorpions that come in Temu orders and shit.
Is this actually a thing? or hyperbole?
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 months ago:
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 months ago:
Yeah there definitely won’t be enough room in there.
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 2 months ago:
I see, so your argument is that because the training data is not stored in the model in its original form, it doesn’t count as a copy, and therefore it doesn’t constitute intellectual property theft. I had never really understood what the justification for this point of view was, so thanks for that, it’s a bit clearer now. It’s still wrong, but at least it makes some kind of sense.
If the model “has no memory of training data images”, then what effect is it that the images have on the model? Why is the training data necessary, what is its function?
- Comment on Leaked Training Shows How Doctors in New York’s Biggest Hospital System Are Using AI. 2 months ago:
the presentation and materials viewed by 404 Media include leadership saying AI Hub can be used for “clinical or clinical adjacent” tasks, as well as answering questions about hospital policies and billing, writing job descriptions and editing writing, and summarizing electronic medical record excerpts and inputting patients’ personally identifying and protected health information. The demonstration also showed potential capabilities that included “detect pancreas cancer,” and “parse HL7,” a health data standard used to share electronic health records.
Because as everyone knows, LLMs do a great job of getting specific details correct and always produce factually accurate output. I’m sure this will have no long term consequences and benefit all the patients greatly.
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 2 months ago:
We’re not talking about a “style”, we’re talking about producing finished work. The image generation models aren’t style guides, they output final images which are produced from the ingestion of other images as training data. The source material might be actual art (or not) but it is generally the product of a real person (because ML ingesting its own products is very much a garbage-in garbage-out system) who is typically not compensated for their work. So again, these generative ML models are ripoff systems, and nothing more. And no, typing in a prompt doesn’t count as innovation or creativity.
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 2 months ago:
And what is it you think I don’t understand?
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 2 months ago:
Oh this is just nonsense. This isn’t “gatekeeping being an artist”. You want to be an artist? Great! learn some skills and make some art (you know, your own art, which you make yourself). And yes I know “all art is derivative”. That is entirely beside the point.
Machine learning is a vacuum connected to a blender. It ingests information which it combines with statistical analyses and then predicts an output based on an algorithm generated from the statistical model. There is nothing “avant-garde” here because all it can do is regurgitate existing material which it has ingested. There’s no inspiration, it can’t make anything new.
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 2 months ago:
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 2 months ago:
If 1 motherboard can make 1 babyboard in 9 months, can 3 motherboards make 1 babyboard in 3 months?
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 2 months ago:
plagiarism != art
No matter how many artists’ work is collected, combined, and regurgitated as algorithm puke, it’s still not art and never will be.
