atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of what I watch on YouTube are science videos, history videos, and cooking videos. I don’t get the “jailbait click bait” and I have never gotten that. My biggest problem with YouTube besides their ad BS is the random right wing propaganda videos that creep in.

  I don’t watch a lot of shorts but if I happen to see one it’s most definitely not “jailbait”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI video is invading YouTube Shorts and Google Photos starting today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean. Let’s be real here Vine did it before Tik Tok was even a sperm in Bytedance’s ballsac. And it’s not like YouTube didn’t start out with short form videos. It’s just that they didn’t make it a separate video feed until 2020.

  I can certainly understand not liking shorts (I often don’t have that kind of attention/need something more substantial than a 60 second clip). And yeah. Hatred for YouTube. I hear you. I get that too. But like this isn’t a new phenomenon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know that’s not what I’m saying. They would have been content to leave this woman without her account except that the threat of them looking worse in the media was held over their head. That’s the part that shouldn’t have happened. No company should be allowed to terminate an account used in the professional sphere while leaving no recourse to reclaim the account or appeal the decision in a straightforward and relatively low effort way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the way this article is written. There are concepts that it tries to convey that have major caveats it glosses over. Additionally it posits some ideas for alternatives that aren’t new currencies and doesn’t explain how most of them would work. It also seems to ignore the fact that content creators very often get paid in ad revenue by the very same companies that are exacerbating this problem with their GenAI models, as well as companies that are being hit hard by the lack of actual ad generated revenue due to loss of clickthroughs and impressions.

  That being said it does actually somewhat explain a lot of the problem with the internet being sustained via ad revenue and ads.

  Several of the companies who’s business model is built around ad aggregation are either investing in or developing/have launched GenAI products that are in opposition with their current business model.

  They seem content at the moment to starve other places on the internet of the very ad revenue they rely on to make money. This will hurt them in the long run but they are focused on the short term profits they will make in the meantime and they do not seem concerned about the future so long as they can be seen to be on the cutting edge of the new technology.

  I don’t really know if this will lead to a downturn in creator made content. A lot of paid creators are so invested in that eco system that they’d rather hop from one service to the next forever than give it up and go get a 9-5.

  The pay as you crawl system is going to be difficult to implement, especially when crawlers already ignore the .txt file. The startups are not in a position to necessarily pay to license data and I question if they’d be able to pay as they crawl either. Meaning there will be big conglomerate gate keepers like Meta and Google and MS. The pay as you crawl system also only works if it’s regulated in some way so that normal users and small creators don’t get caught up in being victimized by bots/crawlers ignoring such rules or laws, with those victims unable to have their case taken seriously or heard at all.

  As for determining where the information came from and providing attribution. Most people still aren’t going to click through to those pages. This is in part because a lot of them don’t want to see ads in the first place (for security reasons and because ads are an imposition on their increasingly limited time, energy, and attention). It’s also because they already have the information they need. You don’t care if Wikipedia gets your ad revenue so long as you can prove you were right about Brad Pitt’s height or his first job to your friend you made that bet with at the bar last night.

  They say sources would be compensated. By who? And how? We have already established that people don’t think there’s a lot of value in pay for chatbots. The vast majority of Gen AI LLM users have shown (through polling, and introductory costs that go up in price later) that they aren’t interested in and don’t find value in pay for them. So conglomerates (many of whom run chatbots at a loss) would be on the hook both for paying for their crawlers and for providing such services to their consumers (corporate or not)? That most definitely not sustainable.

  The other option is licensing but a lot of data has already been crawled and continues to be crawled without licensing or compensation.

  I’m not sure that changing this business model will lead to anything good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For it to have happened as a matter of course, and not when they faced the prospect of bad press over it, for a start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube prepares crackdown on 'mass-produced' and 'repetitive' videos, as concern over AI slop grows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re targeting actual creators rather than AI Slop though. Lots of creators have been talking about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I already have some issues with my public tone sounding… Too official. Using the em-dash just makes it seem like I might be a bot. I’m not going to bother with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Desktop Linux distros similar to Steam OS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like the em dash and am very upset that AI has stolen it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Get Your Parents Off the Meta AI App Right Now-This is bad, folks. Very bad.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s just parents falling for this or older people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. That no upvote rule. I’ve heard tell the corporate overlords don’t like Luigi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What “don’t upvote” rule?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rofl… Oh. They’re serious. Well. I’m that case. Rotflmfao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At one point the IT department where I work were asking questions about why I tether my phone to my work laptop when I’m out of the office (working from home). I told them very specifically that I would not connect any device I didn’t have administrator control over to my home network. They didn’t ask anymore questions after that. I have a work phone and work laptop for work things. I use both only for work things. I have two personal computers, and two personal phones (one for messing with roms). I don’t need their hardware for anything in my personal life. Nope. Not even a Google search.

  They also asked me if I wanted my personal phone logged into the wifi and I gave them serious side eye before saying no thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh the third hand, Google fomented the scam ads that then took over that they are now using their AI tool to solve, and it’s come very late to the table to do so. They shouldn’t have to rely on AI to clean up their mess. They should have been facilitating protocols to vet ads long before now. At best the AI might be faster, but those results will still more than likely need to be checked by people (at the very least, appeals will be, but perhaps most of these scam ad companies won’t try to appeal).

  With the use of AI to deny or approve healthcare insurance claims etc, this is exactly why we should be pushing for legislation that regulates AI. There’s too many people who are all “cats out of the bag” and not enough people going, we should be regulating this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech tariff exemptions are only temporary, according to Trump’s commerce secretary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The sarcasm lost on you, or?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech tariff exemptions are only temporary, according to Trump’s commerce secretary⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, did the market tumble again after he said this nonsense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting to see if the prices still go up, because between this and the fact that windows 10 support is ending in October, I’m sure these companies are still going to try to gouge people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know. This sounds like some shit Terry Pratchett wrote about in “Making Money”. Product is making money hand over fist, but never turns a profit so they sell it to themselves with its own money or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok ban loses momentum as fewer Americans view it as a security threat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of people who literally won’t look at their threat model and admit that this app could even potentially be a threat to them in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much will the uncomfortable truth of a former employee cost Meta?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The book has some pretty damning first person accounts of several times Meta broke national and international law. The main problem is that currently the US justice system has been castrated and the most egregious of the international law breaking happens in places that don’t have strong government to oppose them (Myanmar etc). This is just from what few excerpts I’ve found online surrounding the controversy of meta trying to silence the author.

  The fact is, meta’s money over everything modus operandi is what got us the current administration in the first place and they’re unlikely to face consequences from that administration as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] The Steam Spring sale is live, what games are you buying for your Deck?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aestik it’s been on my wishlist for awhile and I don’t see a reason not to pick it up at the current sale price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit hints at expanded AI-powered search⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I read your comment and thought I missed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit hints at expanded AI-powered search⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Google and Reddit had a deal to allow Google to use Reddit’s data for training Gemini. Why would they stop Google from scraping new posts, and when did that happen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. I did this with two different handhelds. The main problem that I’ve run into is that the built in controls don’t work as well as if they had been natively supported and I would be more than willing to have a fix for that with an official steam OS distro if one was available. The point is, a closed mouth don’t get fed. If they don’t think people want this they aren’t going to dedicate time and resources to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I don’t see how this could be a bad thing for steam OS and the naysayers are out in force.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok's Future: New Owners, Even More Censorship.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that all these people seem to think that Tik Tok’s stay of execution isn’t going to lead to any changes. It’s even more humorous to me that they seem to think Trump is doing anything to save it. He has an ulterior motive and it’s not going to be good for the platform. Suppressing information about Tik Tok censorship and or Trump’s involvement in its sale to a different company is silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it. But I can understand why people would want it. It often brakes when it feels I’m not braking enough etc but I’m keeping track of what’s in front and behind me and I would prefer that it didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux. They should do Steam OS. Their main downfall right now is windows and the price point. But for the price they often offer better hardware. Steam OS is a much better experience than Nintendo’s ecosystem and the dockability of these handhelds is already on par with the switch. They can do a lot more than the switch and switch two will be able to do with more game availability and game streaming as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goldman Sachs Starts Process of Replacing Bankers With AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they’re upgrading the whole computer system to do this?