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721.
by __loam 2y ago
Of course not. Hallucinations are the only things these models can produce, they have no mechanism to tell if what they're writing is a fact or not. They generate bullshit in the "on bullshit" by Frankfurt sense of the word.
722.
by __loam 2y ago
Raw improvements to computation aren't a guarantee that LLMs improve.
723.
by __loam 2y ago
That's a pretty big assumption. We can also assume they do not get much better and extrapolate from that, and I think that it's responsible to analyze both cases and try to ascertain which is more likely. 56% of the American econo
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by __loam 2y ago
FFT probably prevented a nuclear war.
725.
by __loam 2y ago
FFT
726.
by __loam 2y ago
We're burning long term value and the open web for shitty chat bots.
727.
by __loam 2y ago
The moral case is pretty obviously that Perplexity is preventing traffic from reaching the people who made the content.
728.
by __loam 2y ago
Why are you ignoring his main argument?
729.
by __loam 2y ago
By "my data" he means the data a site spent time and money to create and publish.
730.
by __loam 2y ago
It's a literal tragedy of the commons
731.
by __loam 2y ago
"Let us steal your content or you won't get any traffic" sounds extortionate
732.
by __loam 2y ago
The problem that Perplexity has that ad blockers don't is that they're an independent site that is publishing content based on work they didn't produce. That runs afoul of both copyright laws and section 230 which let's
733.
by __loam 2y ago
Right, if we say too much then maybe titans of industry will write another manifesto about how we're all too mean to them when we point out these businesses have negative impact on society or are completely unsound from a business pers
734.
by __loam 2y ago
Stability has almost no money left.
735.
by __loam 2y ago
I hope their capital incineration machine is discouraging to others.
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by __loam 2y ago
They raised 100m, spent it all, and gave away their product for free with no monetization plan. They're also hated by most "creative" workers, are being sued by a myriad of parties, and are under government scrutiny in a numb
737.
by __loam 2y ago
It's far less likely to completely ruin your life than in the US.
738.
by __loam 2y ago
Medical debt should not exist. Making the situation slightly less awful isn't do-gooder idealism, it's a tiny step in the direction of a sane healthcare system that nearly every other developed country on the planet somehow is abl
739.
by __loam 2y ago
Using capital to subsidize costs and sell your product for less than it's worth actually seems like a huge market failure to me, and is the consequence of huge concentrations of capital in the hands of a small and shrinking group of pe
740.
by __loam 2y ago
I feel like you've hit this industry in the nose without realizing it. How much actual value is the tech industry producing?
741.
by __loam 2y ago
There's an open source alternative to every single piece of software Adobe offers.
742.
by __loam 2y ago
Cara is an art portfolio site run by artists and volunteers
743.
by __loam 2y ago
Hope I can keep apples fingers from getting "deeply integrated" with my personal data.
744.
by __loam 2y ago
Hope we can disable all this crap.
745.
by __loam 2y ago
I agree that systems that are virtually public utilities at this point should be operated more transparently. Google can put whole swaths of legitimate businesses out of business with minor tweaks of the algorithm. We complain about SEO but
746.
by __loam 2y ago
Cara went from 100k users to 650k users in a week. It turns out that people who do creative work like to use software that caters to them and don't like software that steals their labor. Who knew?
747.
by __loam 2y ago
AI summaries are an absolute disaster for the web. It's often inaccurate, it relies on stolen content, and it puts search engine operators in the position of content publishers which is right in the crosshair of laws like section 240.
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by __loam 2y ago
Practically, engineers should never think about something like this because their environment should automatically fix it. I guess it's weird that it won't compile but there's languages that won't compile if you don&#x27
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by __loam 2y ago
Privacy doesn't matter until someone in a vulnerable group gets killed because someone doxxed them. Hell, even some semi-private people have been killed by things like swatting. Privacy matters and we should pass laws to protect it, ju
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by __loam 2y ago
Yeah you're right we should be justifying the non-consentual exploitation of millions of workers instead of saying mildly mean words.

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