happybadger
@happybadger@hexbear.net
Working class employee of the Sashatown Central News Agency, the official news service of the DPRS Ministry of State Security. Your #1 trusted source for patriotic facts.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Own AI Chatbot Claims He Spreads 'The Most Disinformation' On X 4 days ago:
He can’t even buy a chatbot’s love with 44 billion dollars.
- Comment on “Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X 2 months ago:
say-the-line-bart-1 “say the line Sartre”
say-the-line-bart-2 Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
- Comment on OpenAI releases o1, its first model with ‘reasoning’ abilities 2 months ago:
“The model is definitely better at solving the AP math test than I am, and I was a math minor in college,” OpenAI’s chief research officer, Bob McGrew, tells me. He says OpenAI also tested o1 against a qualifying exam for the International Mathematics Olympiad, and while GPT-4o only correctly solved only 13 percent of problems, o1 scored 83 percent.
That’s still unreliable enough that I wouldn’t trust it to actually do anything. If it scoured its database for a trigonometry textbook and cited a solution for a problem which was as correct as any web calculator, cool. That’d be as useful as google was in 2010. 83% is the kind of score I get on advanced mathematics tests when I have no idea what I’m doing but half-remember the basic steps to get an answer.
- Comment on Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour 4 months ago:
- Comment on AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says 5 months ago:
Student programmers are the only group I’ve seen that seem to consider it useful. It’s useless in plant science without the rigid sourcing that academic/STEM work requires. Everything it says is a surface-level formulaic response which is clearly mixed together from a dozen unreliable blogs/reddit posts/random articles. It’s just having a clueless coworker that googles things for me, but I still have to type in the same prompt I’d google and read an untrustworthy answer of similar length to a good one.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 6 months ago:
The money that’d be putting food on their table is going to those bombs. They’d be extra mad if they had access to that information.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 6 months ago:
68 percent of ACP households stated they had inconsistent or zero connectivity prior to ACP.
We gotta prevent people from knowing about the genocide.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 6 months ago:
I hope that catches on. I hate that my phone is 80% as good as my $500 DSLR but has absolutely no depth perception. Software fills in the background with a shitty bokeh effect that ruined my favourite wildflower photo I’ve taken. If we get a trend of actual lenses then maybe that will start to go away.
- Comment on Reddit may need to ramp up spending on content moderation, analysts say 7 months ago:
And the moment they recognise it as work, they’re forced to recognise how much work goes into a large subreddit. When I was a r/todayIlearned mod at 1m subscribers, 1/35th of its current userbase, it was a professionalised thing with its own meta subreddits/mod chat channel/scheduled shifts to ensure that there was someone on at all times. r/Askhistorians has to fact check every comment in every thread or else it’s overwhelmed immediately. 90%+ of the posts on r/modernart were from people who have no idea what that term means despite it being plastered all over the subreddit, and the moment you allow anything made after 1985~ it’s immediately filled with spam. Even at 20-100k subscribers, r/fifthworldproblems had so many low effort posts that it burned out every mod I had trying to decide whether something was both funny and non-referential or not. Doing the job well in any of those subreddits only rewards you with more work while any spurned user is potentially trawling your profile to dox you for removing their post.
The only way I could see them trying to pull it off is through enshittification. I could see them making users pay a subscription fee either for the reddit account or for individual subreddits, especially as a public company legally bound to maximise quarterly shareholder earnings. The userbase is nuked, mods get a fraction of a pool that amounts to less than minimum wage and no worker protections as independent contractors, and every month brings more things making the website worse.
- Comment on Reddit may need to ramp up spending on content moderation, analysts say 7 months ago:
I don’t see them shifting to paid mods or offering adequate compensation for the current ones. It’s a 24/7 customer service job for countless little cliques with their own subcultures/agendas/ideological leanings.
If you flatten that to generic spam removers, automoderator already does that and the website is horrible despite it. If you have official power mods, the guy tasked with censoring all leftist dissent in r/worldnews is also tasked with knowing what modern art is in r/modernart and the ages of anime characters so nobody posts CSAM in those subreddits. If I’m running a subreddit for free and someone else is getting paid to, I’m no longer bothering to. If I’m about to create a subreddit and know reddit will steal it and give it to the censorship squad once it’s large enough, I’m making that on Lemmy instead.
They build their entire company on the backs of volunteer exploitation and there is no unfucking that without revealing how fragile reddit is.
- Comment on Reddit faces new reality after cashing in on its IPO 7 months ago:
I finally offboarded r/modernart to lemmy.ml/c/modernism today in anticipation of the IPO launch. Already reddit heavily censors and recuperates anything radical. That’s only going to get much worse along with advertising and bots. I can’t see the website lasting in its current form and that’s already pathetic. Lemmy is poised to really take off as reddit ratfucks itself.
- Comment on EVE Online dev CCP's blockchain "survival experience" Project Awakening is getting a closed playtest in May 8 months ago:
CCP’s CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson was a lot more down-to-Earth when Jeremy spoke to him last October. In particular, he offered the following, spirited defence of the game’s blockchain functionality, which can sort of be boiled down to “trust me, bro”, but is at least upfront about the many bad uses to which blockchain and cryptography technologies have been put.
“People do stupid things with everything. Like in the 1700s in Holland, people made [speculative] bubbles with tulips. Are tulips bad? The tulips are not to blame. People are to blame. People do stupid shit with new things all the time. It’s just what we do. Look at any industry; there are people doing bad things, people doing nefarious things, people doing stupid things, and people doing very cool and wholesome things. I just don’t care how bad people have used [blockchain] in the past. If people hate me for something they’re assuming I’m going to do that I’m not doing. Not my problem; it’s their problem.”
I love when crypto dipshits can describe how irrational it is but are so blinded by greed that they’re oblivious to that. Yes, the blockchain is analogous to the tulip mania. What happened to the people who built their business off tulip speculation? At least the farmers had a pretty flower to sell for a few pennies after the bubble burst and all the fetish value was lost. Anything crypto is completely alienating to normal people because it’s a clear scam being artificially soypoint-1 hyped by the most obnoxious weirdos on the internet. I won’t want to play a blockchain game because it’s a game despite the blockchain features, and I won’t want to engage with the blockchain features because you’re selling me overpriced tulips through an overly-convoluted system. If all crypto and NFT shit is stripped out and it’s selling the blockchain to non-crypto people as a public ledger, that has no use to me in a survival game and I’d just play EVE if I wanted to look at numbers.
