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by Barbing 5mo ago
If that’s a requirement, aren’t LLMs driven by pretraining which was human driven? Who decides at which the last point it’s OK to provide text to the model in order to be able to describe it as creative? (non-rhetorical)
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by Barbing 5mo ago
> relatively technically trivial for $GOVERNMENT_AGENCY to just monitor all the prompts + context we send I take this for granted given Room 641A https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Thus, I’ve pondered whether a
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Force Zuck to take FB to a sole proprietorship Only if we want a utopia
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Randall’s eagle eye friend and fellow US-based sysadmin notices attacks on his own server, reports it to his congressperson, and the fed stands up protection for the whole fediverse in short order. The government in the US will prevent othe
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by Barbing 5mo ago
What a thread (Mozilla). Thank you much. > If this ships, this is what we think we'll be facing, but in reverse. Your rendering would become the defacto default. Does this help see where we're coming from? One side cares about
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Strongly ranty! Happy to praise anything good Google does (speedy, reliable YouTube delivery). When they don’t get buy in first, I’m suspicious. They know, but should also care about how bad it is for the web for sites to dictate the browse
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Insightful in spite of that difficulty :)
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Eps?
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Thanks for the delightful Velocipedia
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by Barbing 5mo ago
What do you think was perceived wrong with the old title?
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Google Cloud accidentally deletes $125 billion Australian pension fund - May 2024 https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/google-cloud-ac...
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Tried this demo in Safari: https://arrival.space/htmlcanvas Looks very cool, and showed a pretty message indicating there's even more: HTML IN CANVAS NOT SUPPORTED Use Chrome and enable chrome://flags
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by Barbing 5mo ago
non-twit links from page: https://compiz-web.vercel.app https://arrival.space/htmlcanvas
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Predictions are like exit polls, aren't they, in that they're both able to provide a check on official election results? Think that's outweighed by the negatives?
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Easy phrase for rude folks to trot out when someone raises ethical/moral/legal concerns. Quick little rationalization: _other person says they care about thing I don't that admittedly does sound good, so it has to be wrong to
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Any changes since acquisition? Looks like they were sold at the beginning of the year to a company without a Wikipedia page whose parent company doesn’t have one either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markmonitor Acq
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Any privacy-respecting way for these big labs to keep selling their generators while minimizing e.g. political deepfake harms? > Social media platforms can identify, ban, and report abusers. & do but Americans nonetheless argue with
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by Barbing 5mo ago
I love this point
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Are there other politicians? Do disgruntled employees have bosses? Ex partners? A national news story in the US tonight, Lyft driver caught faking photos of his messy car. Not the most intelligent fraudster as he left the Gemini logo on the
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Political deepfakes on the mind here more than weird stuff.
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by Barbing 5mo ago
> Big 3 This is why Elon’s appealing. I thought they surely had the talent to be considered a fourth at this point. (Oh someone mentioned they’re politically unpopular at work.) Mistral is super welcome competition, good luck!
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by Barbing 5mo ago
I wonder if they could’ve caught up to Qwen & Gemma by now by now distilling them? If their best cloud-run offering is far more intelligent than the laptop Gemma / Qwen than nevermind
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by Barbing 5mo ago
The privilege stuff feel zero sum?
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by Barbing 5mo ago
People don’t realize how hard it can be to throw an election or impugn an adversary with manipulated imagery Then they ask us to do it by hand?!
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by Barbing 5mo ago
I had to think about it, how about if the claim were: If you take a photograph that is misidentified as AI generated, you can “preserve the historical record“ by using this tool before publishing the image. (Anyone know the false positive r
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by Barbing 5mo ago
I’d make assumptions about how the cheapest and fastest possible flash model optimized for being extra cheap and extra fast would get something wrong based on its limited context (which can be very incomplete summaries of search results)
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by Barbing 5mo ago
They are showing billions of people a big bold answer at the top of all their pages. What a wildly irresponsible company
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by Barbing 5mo ago
> How old is photoshop and why is it exempt? How does today’s maximum theoretical disinformation output per minute compare to 2021 Photoshop?
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Touchbar users, check BetterTouchTool for tons of options
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by Barbing 5mo ago
Searching “invest $10[0]k into USA index funds low fees”, the Vanguard funds that come up! (Vanguard sounds a little special, maybe they do good marketing. Ah, per Wiki: “Vanguard is owned by the funds managed by the company and is therefor

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