p03locke
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks ago:
Ha! I jumped into Reddit to get away from Fark, many many years ago.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 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 3 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.
- Comment on UnitedHealth's Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet 3 months ago:
It’s one-letter away from Opium.
- Comment on Man who won art competition with AI-generated image now says people are stealing his work 5 months ago:
You can convince people that AI is capable of original works, or you can convince people that AI is nothing but a tool to remix and mashup other people’s artwork.
What is original and what is a remix and mashup of other people’s artwork? For every example of “original artwork” you could provide, I can show you how it’s derivative of other people’s artwork.
We’ve been copying and remixing creative ideas for centuries. There’s no such thing as “original works”.
- Comment on X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist 5 months ago:
So, what’s the fine here? $350?
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 5 months ago:
while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it.
Based on what? Distributing numbers in a big database doesn’t infringe on copyright, and downloading a web page or image doesn’t either.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 5 months ago:
And I am of the opinion that spreading access to knowledge is vastly more important than copyright laws made decades before the internet was a thing. Especially when is comes to US copyright laws being forced upon the rest of the world.
Breaking the law is not how you change copyright laws. Ironically, AI is the best way to crack copyright laws like an egg, but everybody seems to be vehemently opposed to it.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 5 months ago:
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It’s completely accurate.
They pushed this “digital library” idea to even beyond their own definition, got punished for it, and now they are at-risk of losing their core function. Corporations and alt-right shills would love to get rid of any trace of accountability, and this is one avenue that calls them out on the bad shit they post online.
- Comment on Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here 5 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October 6 months ago:
Can’t we just have it not available? At all? I don’t think people want a bunch of screenshots getting stolen.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 6 months ago:
“Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week”
Yes, you’re right. There isn’t a thing that requires this. You shouldn’t be required to do so.
The problem with naming a company an idiotic name like “Nothing” is that it’s so easy to make who’s-on-first jokes.
- Comment on The FCC proposes requiring robocallers to disclose when they’re using AI 7 months ago:
Let’s go one step further and require robocallers to disclose that they are robocallers.
- Comment on It May Soon Be Legal to Jailbreak AI to Expose How it Works 8 months ago:
I’m sure they will take this opportunity to expand the DMCA to unbelievable levels.
- Comment on Judge says FTC lacks authority to issue rule banning noncompete agreements 8 months ago:
- Comment on Japan achieves staggering 402 Tb/s data rate with commercial optical fiber — record-breaking performance tapped into unused wavelength bands 8 months ago:
Not enough RAID? Insert more RAID!
- Comment on Microsoft open-sources infamously weird, RAM-hungry MS-DOS 4.00 release 10 months ago:
Even if they were, it would be easy to just decompile and figure it out. Even DOS 5.0 would make more sense to open-source.
This is just another argument to revert copyright laws back to 25 years, and give this tech back to the rightful owners: public domain.
- Comment on Generating (often non-con) porn is the new crypto mining 11 months ago:
Ahhh, yes, this damned 404 Media article again. I’m not going to re-hash my arguments here.
- Comment on NYC’s AI Chatbot Tells Businesses to Break the Law 11 months ago:
LLMs are still good for the kind of flowery language you need in HR, but not for any sort of fact-based generation.
Think of it as being creative, not logical.
- Comment on U.S.: Responding to the “gunshot detection” tool ShotSpotter, a Chicago police officer opened fire on an unarmed teenager 11 months ago:
I know they aren’t from the US, because an American wouldn’t ask such nationally-ignorant questions.
