p03locke
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- Comment on Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 enters final weeks of support 4 days ago:
This is a falsehood, because they are relying on an unreliable source: Statcounter.
- Comment on Imgur is now geoblocking the UK 1 week ago:
What the hell is this website? Why isn’t this a news link?
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
People are using it every day. You might be using LLMs or generative models without even knowing it. There’s all kinds of tools, plugins, and features in photo editing, video editing, audio work, programming, image scanning/sorting. Half the time, I find that Kagi’s AI agent is more productive than trying to waste time with stupid forum posts for an hour trying to troubleshoot a support issue.
Just because you don’t know how to use it doesn’t mean “no one ever knew how to use it”.
- Comment on Former Facebook Exec Warns AI Industry Is Entirely Built on "Vibes" 1 week ago:
To be fair, so was many of the internet industries. So much social media out there, like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, without any sort of real profit model, yet propped up by their parent companies or venture capitalists.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
Not going to happen. You’d have a better chance of all of social media suddenly disappearing overnight.
- Comment on Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies 1 week ago:
It’s not trash. It’s just not the “replace every worker in every industry” hype bullshit that psychopathic CEOs are peddling to their rich friends every chance they get.
I use LLMs just about every day. They are useful tools that save time, if you know how to use them right, employ proper review, and verify important information. It is not a wizard, and it will not replace a functioning brain.
The Gartner hype cycle doesn’t crash to zero. It stabilizes. I think people have been too conditioned by actual garbage technologies like NFTs, blockchain, and to some extent, crypto. And true driverless cars have such a high barrier to entry that it’s difficult to reach any sort of “good enough” point with them without another few decades of innovation, so people ignore that tech, too. Nowadays, people are so conditioned to expect every new tech to just disappear after the hype cycle and life just continues as normal.
But, that’s not how this works.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
No, you didn’t. You were literally arguing for a binary choice.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
Whichever choice we make here, the other one is relegated to a limited, auxiliary role in generation, and can never reach its full potential.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
I don’t think the GOP is racing to build coal plants. They just use coal as a political tool to win votes. And when they win, the idiots that think Republicans are going to save their coal jobs get what they deserved.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 1 month ago:
No one ever warned us that our energy needs have been climbing steadily for decades, and we need to stop being afraid of nuclear power? Really?
What rock have you been hide in?
- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 1 month ago:
So few people understand this that it’s infuriating.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 2 months ago:
Well, it seem damned easy for Amazon to just delete the fridges, so it being on two different continents really didn’t matter, did it?
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 2 months ago:
I’m talking about the general sentiment from articles like this, not the article itself. The content of the article doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things.
It’s the Constant. Fucking. Beratement. of the technology.
Like, we fucking get it: You’re a technophobe and hate technology, and love to write articles that shit on LLMs, because that’s what gets clicks. And judging from the votes from this forum, most everybody falls for the clickbait, which then generates even more hateful articles because they know it gets them views.
Meanwhile, out there in the real world, people go to work, and use this sort of technology in their day-to-day jobs. There’s this extreme and jarring disconnect between public opinion, what the news report, and what’s actually happening in real life. I feel like I’m watching Fox News half the time. It’s like all of these haters of LLMs suffer from a massive cognitive dissonance when they are in the workplace. Or they are so behind the times that they aren’t using this technology. Or they don’t even realize the things they use are using this technology behind the scenes.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 2 months ago:
Exactly. There’s a finite amount of time available to teach somebody all of the useful skills needed to live life and build skills for a career.
Schools are no longer teaching cursive, or if they do, they don’t spend a lot of time on it. Same thing with all of the manual math operations. Learning algebra is more important. Hell, learning how to use a calculator is more important.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 2 months ago:
Calling it cheating is about as dumb as when math teachers called calculators cheating. If everybody has access to a calculator that can process any division math problem you throw at it, learning how to do long division is suddenly not very useful.
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 2 months ago:
Imagine it’s the late 90s to early 2000s, and millions of people are on this anti-Internet bandwagon, while scores and scores of articles (on paper, of course) are always pushing this negative slant towards the Internet. People reading this shit about how the Internet is going to doom us all, and we should reject it in favor of traditional media and research.
This is what these last few years feel like. Just an outright rejection of useful and life-changing technology, while the corpos embrace it. The complete 180 to how the late 90s actually turned out, when corpos were slow on the uptick with this whole Internet thing.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 2 months ago:
“I put my carton of eggs in the fridge, and the fridge fell over, breaking all of my eggs.”
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 2 months ago:
That’s not true. If you give it context, it understands and retains context quite well. The thing is that you can’t just say “write code for me” and expect it to work.
Also, certain models are better than certain tasks than others.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 2 months ago:
Yep, and the general public is too stubborn to accept a little thing like nuance. Neither are the CEO assholes that can’t stop talking about layoffs and replacing jobs, out in the open.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 2 months ago:
State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don’t think an industry is profitable, the government’s job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That’s how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn’t fucked with by Republicans).
The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.
Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 2 months ago:
Copyrights exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.
So, fuck them. Let AI destroy the fabric of copyrights.
- Comment on President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak 2 months ago:
It’s also a dumb fucking argument in general.
LLM models are not magic. They don’t store the entirety of human history in a 10-20GB file. That’s a fucking stupid idea. They look at something, process some weights, and move on to the next thing.
It’s like going on Google Image Search, and seeing all of the copyrighted images on your browser. You didn’t “steal” those, just because it was downloaded. That’s not how copyright works.
Please stop parroting this stupid fucking argument.
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 2 months ago:
I completely forgot that Holden was part of that commune of, what, eight mothers?
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 2 months ago:
It’s a shame, because ComfyUI can be so much more than just image generation. And just because there’s a lot of string processing for LLMs doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to capture in an I/O interface, especially when it comes to preserving chat history. Save data, load data, ask new questions, etc.
ChatGPT is pretty damn powerful, I’ll admit. But, all of its components need to be localized, especially since something like a Mixture of Experts model could be split down to base models and loaded/unloaded as necessary.
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 2 months ago:
ComfyUI is just a bunch of Python code tied into I/O nodes. I’m surprised there isn’t a good set of nodes for SGLang yet.
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 2 months ago:
Have you used any good ComfyUI workflows specifically for chat LLMs?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode 2 months ago:
Yeah, no. Not buying that Elon is trans.
- Comment on The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work 2 months ago:
My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.
We’re already heading there. But, it’s not going to happen by sitting on your hands and waiting for the billionaires to hand you these local models on a silver platter. You honestly believe the overlords that own your phone will give you shit for free? They want you hooked on subscriptions, that send all of your personal data and social security numbers to their huge databases, until the day you die. And then they’ll sell that data to your children and your grandchildren just to make even more profit.
You have to take it. You have to find it yourself. You found Lemmy. Good. So, go find other shit. Discover open source. Discover piracy. Discover Linux. Stay on top of it.
Google just killed uBlock Origin, but I’m using Firefox, because the writing was on the wall at least a year ago.
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 2 months ago:
I stared at it for 10 seconds, which is double the advertised time it’s expected to explode. I want a refund!
- Comment on This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action 2 months ago:
Lies. I see no self-destruction in action here.
