AlienRobot

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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Have you ever use an AI chatbot? It's basically a democratized scraper. Type something stupid, it "visits" 200 websites and regurgitates some random gibberish.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Please understand that when you think of artists as "creative content authors" you are already off-base so any argument you make based on that is going to be incredibly wrong.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
A piece of wisdom I read here is that "install any operating system like you can with a [PC]" is something that you can only do with a PC. PC's are the exception. Every other device is controlled by the manufacturer.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Do you think people just spawn out of nowhere the instant you interact with them or did they have a life before you met them?
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
David Revoy isn't a random artist on social media. He's a featured artist on Krita and creator of various Krita brush packs and tutorials. None of these accusers seem to have done the bare minimum of Googling the artist's nam
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
I think your assumption that HN hates X "because of wrong-think" is clouding your judgement. There is a long list of reasons to hate X. For example, paying users get top spot in replies to tweets, which instantly meant spam bots w
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
That sounds like bad design. If you get hit by a car once, that doesn't mean you want to get hit by a car more times in the future. What ends up happening with this algorithm is that the "for you" page is dominated by posts a
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
You are literally replying to a thread that has an example of a game where the position of the window matters.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Google calls it "layout shift" in its web tools.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Somehow we managed to live this whole time without generative AI. Why do we need it now?
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
I think by "disruptive" you mean "annoying" There is negative value in wasting vertical space to put an irrelevant prompt output in an article. It makes me question the sanity of whoever is doing this stuff. Doubly so if
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's incredible that an LLM can do this, and at the same time it's ridiculous to expect it to be capable of doing it, even thought it clearly can do it?
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
This is why I like python. str is a duck.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
It's only script kiddie hacking if you get the exploit from someone else. If you program it yourself, it's normal hacking.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
What I think it's interesting is that with the total lack of common sense the AI just goes on random tangents to achieve the target in a "monkey paw" way. Can you imagine if this happened: User: what is the shortest route fro
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
It was the same thing with TikTok, wasn't it? It's bad for TikTok to be controlled by a Chinese company because Americans access it. The solution is to make it US-controlled. The rest of the world? Who cares.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
I don't trust anyone who is against "relevant ads," because I always think what they want isn't "irrelevant ads," they want "no ads." But no ads isn't an option.
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Exactly. Nobody wants to go to a news website/entertainment website/informational website that relies on ad revenue because they will get bombarded by banners and then by a huge number of ads that were increased because those bann
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
Idea for a captcha Are there infinitely many primes p such that p − 1 is a perfect square? In other words: Are there infinitely many primes of the form n2 + 1? Answer: [ ] ( ) I don't know
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by AlienRobot 2mo ago
rel="external" solves this.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I agree, and I don't even know math. Most of things that are impenetrable in programming aren't about... programming. They are about some actually complex field like math being applied to programming. For example, a library that d
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
The value of LLM's come from replacing what generated its training data. If the distilled model is cheaper, then it's just LLM's getting LLM'ed.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
The difference in cost is pretty incredible.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
The ease of abandonment is real. 1. Generate function with AI. 2. Generate tests with AI. 3. Modify function with AI. 4. Tests no longer pass. 5. Delete all tests. 6. Generate tests with AI.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
Extremely interesting article. I didn't know empire had that meaning, thanks.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
Come on, there is no such thing as "trace amounts of AI" in a photo of a building.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
Me on Windows 7: I don't want to use Linux, you have to keep configuring every single thing so it works. Me on Linux: I don't want to use Windows, you have to keep configuring every single thing so it doesn't show ads.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I have an LG monitor and I think I managed to avoid this by using Linux.
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by AlienRobot 3mo ago
I don't have a problem. It's YOUR problem, actually. I do have a problem, but problems are good if you think about it. No matter how many problems I fix, there is always a new problem... These problems aren't that problematic

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