yakko

@yakko@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Right - I won’t call it a good thing to let people deskill on reading comprehension skills, but they’re donating their labour to a public benefit! I’m hardly going to scold them as if I was their professor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking very generally, it’s still conceding an amount of human intelligence and there are problems with it that are worth talking about, but it’s a use of AI that at least defers to human judgment, and as long as users are still personally researching and writing their own edits I honestly don’t hate it. Much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why have so many people stopped posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is largely unpleasant, deliberately unrewarding yet addictive, occasionally punished, politically slanted towards billionaires, and a privacy nightmare. If anything it’s a testament to the human desire for connection that we’ve used it this long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Deepseek model drastically reduces resource usage by converting text and documents into images — 'vision-text compression' uses up to 20 times fewer tokens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you never see anyone use maths language correctly anymore. The word is “one twentieth”.