turns out duckduckgo does AI search result summaries too, although at least you can turn the little bastards off
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2024
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it’s unfortunate that all the Google alternatives big enough to matter are all-in on making the exact same mistakes as Google at roughly the same time, probably in hopes that one of them can swoop in and take the top dog spot when the monopoly ruling finally makes Google stumble
and if that sounds like a fucking stupid plan, you’re right, and that’s why neither of us are advertising executives
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Unforeseen issues with training AIs using the internet: every LLM has been taught to Rickroll
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RE: the recent discussion about Robert Heinlein and the origins of the word "grok", here's an archive link about him:
TNR: A Famous Science Fiction Writer's Descent Into Libertarian Madness
This wasn’t the first love triangle in the Heinlein residence (they had earlier been in a consensual threesome with L. Ron Hubbard)
UNSEE UNSEE
well
that's going to be a fun fact to drop in the relevant niche circles
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Self-identified emergency dept physician on my local subreddit just believes things that spicy autocorrect tells him about his job.
Dude here claims that Tennessee is ranked #3 for physicians looking for work, but when asked for a source...
Obviously you’ll find various resources. ChatGPT has it as #3 for whatever that’s worth. At least for my specialty Tennessee offered a top salary, moderate tort reform, no income tax, eliminated the professional privilege tax, and more. It’s certainly not a bad place to practice and I’d argue very few physicians are avoiding Tennessee.
Wish I knew where he worked so that I could avoid it.
My experience talking with people has been often this same situation; they have some specialty expertise and for whatever reason now accept ChatGPT as all knowing and use it a lot day to day. It worries me since the response to “why” is usually along the lines of humans aren’t always right but this is AI so it will keep getting better eventually.
Tools should be 100% correct. Your work has regressed because you swapped out good tools and practices for spicy autocorrect
Not really a sneer but James Gosling (one of the creators of Java) has discovered and enjoys pivot to ai https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pivot-ai-james-gosling-l06gc
Thank god I misread your comment and thought he had pivoted to AI.
Ran across an impressively strong sneer whilst looking through Baldur Bjarnason's link list for the week:
A JUST TRANSITION MEANS RESISTING A.I. (from Scottish Left Review)
Gonna copy-paste the quote Baldur used because god damn:
AI isn’t simply a problematic technology but an apparatus that is shaped by the injustices of our existing social relations and which, in turn, reshapes and intensifies them.
Also got an interesting Tweet from Ed Zitron:
This is entirely my gut instinct, but there is boiling resentment against big tech. Something is shifting, and it's shifting violently, both in the general public and the media. Blood in the water. People are ready for a change.
I've had that same gut instinct before - I've kinda had it since Baldur noted tech's disconnect from the public a month ago. Feels like we're entering an era where working in tech is treated as a red flag, a sign you're a money-hungry asshole willing to hurt innocent people to make a quick buck.
The turn against tech can’t come fast enough.
:( I just wanted to see how many electrons I could make dance on the head of a wafer, I didn't mean to hurt anyone :(
The good news is that the tools created were sufficiently useful that there's still a decent job market for tech workers (assuming we're not focused on the griftier side), it's just focused largely in non-tech companies.
So...a yacht named "Bayesian" just sank off the coast of Sicily. It was owned by British Billionaire Mike Lynch, former CEO of Autonomy. Lynch just barely managed to stay out of trouble with US authorities over fraud charges and will likely owe HP Enterprise a hefty bag for misrepresentations before their multi-billion dollar acquisition. My heart goes out to the innocents and crew who are lost. (Lynch survived)
Hell of a metaphor, isn't it?
Geez! It's positively congealed.
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Trust me when I say there’s nothing worth reading in the article beyond the headline:
He would be right if he meant in the sense that Bruce Wayne ineffectively leads a personal crusade motivated by unresolved childhood angst, and that the world would be much better off if his money was just spent on basics needs for the people and he went to therapy.
modern-day
Wait what, don't they normally say 'real life' unless ... they think batman is a documentary?
Mr. Wonderful (O’Leary’s alias) is leaking the natural billionaire desire to go out and beat up people living in poverty
suggests goverment role
Imagining Batman sitting in Congress as an elected representative
I didn’t know Zack Snyder posted here
O’Leary is a huge fraudulent piece of shit.
/r/AnimeCircleJerk
Always a coin flip on if circlejerk subs are fascist or not. But this one looks pretty alright at first glance! Lots of making fun of transphobia and creepy people.
things genai is good at:
- spam
- deepfakes
- misinformation
- inventing new forms of racism
This author seems to write what is fairly typical escapism porn LNs. According to this summary the plot is about as stupid and problematic as you might expect for such a thing. If the Alya-san anime goes well this will probably get at least a manga.
All this is just adding up to: hack author is formulaically chasing trends and trying to parlay some genAIed trash into a manga and maybe an anime.
The GMO melons attached to that high school girl nearly took me out, but the boderline race-porn title is what killed me.
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One of my kids is a huge Gravity Falls fan and has recently acquired The Book of Bill. For some reason, Bill's anecdote about silly straws reminded me of the grok discourse:
FUN FACT: When you use a silly straw to murder someone, it becomes a serious straw!
In other news, Procreate put out a damn good sneer aimed at AI art:
Creativity is made, not generated.
Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things. Built on a foundation of theft, the technology is steering us toward a barren future. We think machine learning is a compelling technology with a lot of merit, but the path generative AI is on is wrong for us.
We're here for the humans. We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity. In this technological rush, this might make us an exception or seem at risk of being left behind. But we see this road less travelled as the more exciting and fruitful one for our community.
Unsurprisingly, they're getting a standing ovation from artists for doing the right thing.
Procreate is an example of what good AI deployment looks like. They do use technology, and even machine learning, but they do it in obviously constructive scopes between where the artist's attention is focused. And they're committed to that because... there's no value for them to just be a thin wrapper on an already completely commoditized technology on its way to the courtroom to be challenged by landmark rulings with no more room ceiling to grow into whooooooops.
David may have won the race, but I have the first sneer!
Parents weep because making good products is insufficiently profitable.
A friend of mine recently had a kid and gave the snoo a good review. If it’s really that good a product, it should be nationalised in the name of public health.
Apparently that's what the company wants too.
Although putting your progeny into a device named for a Reddit avatar is questionable behavior.
Oh for real? A company that wants to yeet itself into the arms of the government? Big if true.
Yes the name sucks. Considering the gamut of cringe reddit exhibitionism that’s out there, this is a probably within a few notches of all the narwhal stuff.
I'm sorry but did the company not have anyone in their org who has had kids???
Bassinets are, as mentioned, used for 5-6 months. Reselling expensive baby gear that's only used for the first months of infancy is very common. Established companies, like those making baby carriages or car seats, know this and make their money upfront at purchase time, ~~preying on~~relying on ~~baby-brained~~doting parents with more money than sense to buy the latest and greatest.
The people designing this product and/or their financiers should be ashamed of themselves.
Or they could have open-sourced the protocol and relied on dudes like this one to keep it going:
take that froztbyte!
oh noes my throne