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- Comment on Grok Claims It Was Briefly Suspended From X After Accusing Israel of Genocide 2 days ago:
So few people understand this that it’s infuriating.
- Comment on AWS deleted my 10-year account and all data without warning 1 week 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’ 1 week 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’ 1 week 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’ 1 week 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’ 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Lies. I see no self-destruction in action here.
- Comment on AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand 4 weeks ago:
AI existed before LLMs. People called NPCs and enemy character patterns “AI”.
- Comment on 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' 5 weeks 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' 5 weeks 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 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months ago:
Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 3 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!