p03locke

@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. There are other ways of influencing the numbers that tools use. Most of them have their own internal voting systems, so that humans can give feedback to directly influence the LLM.

  Diffusion models have LoRAs, and the models themselves can be trained on top of the base model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your co-worker is bad at his job, and doesn’t understand programming.

  LLMs are cool tech, but I’m gonna code review everything, whether it comes from a human or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. As much as everybody wants to shit on Zuckerberg, you can’t recreate exact copies with LLMs of any sort. You can’t claim that a 12GB image creation model somehow houses the entirety of all human-generated images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, a smart watch with no display. Very cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, now apply that argument to the next levels upstream, the ISP, backbone providers, CDN providers, the domain name holders, the SSL certificate trust companies. They all earn money with it.

  You see how ridiculous that argument becomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they had confidence in their reporting, they wouldn’t post this in their Opinion section.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them “Hey, morons, go download the goddamn link!” saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.

  If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.

  Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They 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.

  As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure he dangled it, and then handed it over, like the traitor he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shit take.

  I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because AI and LLMs especially have become the new bogeyman to blame what amounts to technological shifts that society has not adapt to. All AI has done has made technology more accessible and available to the common man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. This used to be something only rich people or corporations could do. Now, anybody can do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sound-alikes have been around for as long as there has been voice actors.

  John Kricfalusi did the voice for Ren during the first season of Ren & Stimpy, got fired, and then Billy West took over the job. Nobody noticed the change. Did John consent to the change? No, of course not.

  This shit happens all the time with music and singers. It’s just that now the availability has increased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still don’t understand why that’s the barrier to entry for many people. It’s like people want to be enslaved to a monopoly on purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The more effort we put into making Bluesky and Threads good

  While I somewhat agree, I don’t think we should be putting “Bluesky” and “Threads” in the same sentence.

  Also, I think Threads is a cautionary tale around this whole protocol argument, where a federated technology does not automatically mean it’s safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! I jumped into Reddit to get away from Fark, many many years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is more of a personality problem than an issue with AI itself. StackOverflow has been doing people’s homework for decades now.

  If the talent is crap, then you tighten the hiring process. Never hire a developer without a series of code tests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Better question: Why the fuck are you still on Twitter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Data structures called hash tables”? Editor thinks this is some arcane little-used data technology.

  Hashes are used in literally every programming language that’s worth using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia VPN Crackdown Revelation - VPN Sites Hide Their IP Addresses⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia having a blocklist full of Cloudflare IP addresses is almost normal too.

  Sure, let’s just block all of Cloudflare. Or Azure. Or AWS. I’m sure that won’t end up blocking half of the internet at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of embracing this gift of open-source, they desperately cling to the old monopolies.

  Fuck them. AI is in the people’s hands now. OpenAI is old tech now.

  Why should mega-wealthy investors pour billions of dollars into this shitty old technology that doesn’t turn a profit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Google will drag this around until the end of January, when suddenly they don’t have to do anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why people keep harping against pineapple on pizza, which works well as a sweet/salty contrast, but completely ignore when America was obsessed with anchovies on pizza.

  If anything, that would be a topping that even less of the population would agree on being good on pizza.