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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Zero repercussions for the senior editor involved in fabricating quotations (they neglect to even name the culprit), so this is essentially an open confession that Ars has zero (really, negative) journalistic integrity and will continue to
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
No, seed and temperature are separate parameters accepted by the inference engine. You can still get deterministic outputs with high temp if you're using the same seed, provided the inference engine itself operates in a deterministic m
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> I'm not going to argue over principles, as that's not law, > The Supreme Court declined to extend the third-party doctrine to tracking one's location via cell-phone metadata in Carpenter v. U.S., 585 U.S. 296 (2018),
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Why do you have to waste ultra-expensive engineers on it? You have agents . And verifying your product works as it is claimed should absolutely be part of your mission. How can you possibly claim that your models are revolutionising softwa
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
We were not a ChatGPT wrapper; we used a finetuned open-source model running on our own hardware, so we naturally had full control of the input parameters. I apologize if my language was ambiguous, but by "expose seeds" I simply m
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> especially if quality degrades at all It is worth noting that consumers are completely and totally incapable of detecting quality degradation with any accuracy. Which is a given since the models are already effectively random, but ther
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Why even bother responding to comments if you don't read them? > because in the course of my education I was taught to conduct experiments and confirm reality for myself. I have never once found what is written about hard science i
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> When the same professionals advocating "don't look at the code anymore" and "it's just the next level of abstraction" respond with outrage to a journalist giving them an unchecked article. I would expect t
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Your ability to check your information environment against reality is frequently within your control and can be used to establish trustworthiness for the things that you cannot personally verify. And it is a choice to choose to trust thin
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
I don't think it's besides the point at all. The Ars Technica article is an exact example of what you go on to talk about for the rest of the comment: the public internet as we knew it is dead and gone. Not in the future, it is al
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> But also, man, it seems like we’re headed in a direction where writing code by hand is passé, No, we're not. There are a lot of people with a very large financial stake in telling us that this is the future, but those of us who s
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> If you could actually detect AI content with high accuracy, you would sell it as a service and print money, What an inane comment. Much like LLMs are completely incapable of replacing me in software development, they are likewise compl
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
No, most of the spambots use proper casing. Whoever is behind this does prompt different bots to generate output in different styles with the intent to appear more conversational/human, so each bot has its own "personality" a
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Incidentally, both comments were edited after the fact. Neither my nor Dang's comment were originally of this length but we both made edits that ended up there. I did notice the irony :)
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
No, I check account history when the text is obviously LLM-generated. I mostly point it out because if I don't make it abundantly clear how obvious the spambot is by its behaviour, I will get people telling me that it could totally be
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
I am not signing up to a mini-moderator who has to e-mail dang 5 times a day. I want to not see these messages in the first place, and for that to be possible, the community needs to learn and be able to recognise this for themselves so thi
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Gotta try harder than that. There's a certain length to their paragraphs as well, you can see from their post history the general shape of their messages that will cue you off that you're probably about to read spam before you&#x2
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Astroturfing seems to be the goal. I notice sometimes there are threads in which numerous of these bots converge to promote some dubious product being shilled.
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
I suppose 15 years ago it would not have been possible to predict how fucking irritating these comments could be. I would rather have the old spambots back at this point. Please, spambots, go back to trying to sell me penis enlargement pi
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Bot account. Last active with two posts in 2017, then started spamming today with the usual HN spambot formula. As usual, doing the weird thing that only the HN spambots do where it's almost always exactly three paragraphs of 1-2 sente
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
I don't know how you can write that list and come to the conclusion that it's not winner-take-all. In their home market (US), Uber is ~75%, Lyft is ~25%, and all other competitors are sub-1% combined. Didi is similarly dominant in
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
> I don't personally think there is magic in building a Docker container. Call me old-fashioned. This seems like a false dichotomy. You don't have to do this. It is still possible to build magical things. But agents aren't
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
Sure, I guess? I feel like this is getting rather in the weeds and will not necessarily lead the conversation in any kind of particularly productive direction, but I will nonetheless take the opportunity to promote what I consider to be exc
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
For some reason people frequently suggest that my problem with LLM writing is that it's too good . Allow me to restate that I find fault with how the article is written, and that I do not in any way perceive this to be good writing. T
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
These headers are quite exhausting: > Message queues are version time capsules > Event sourcing: the version problem as a way of life > Temporal and bitemporal databases: time as a first-class citizen > Semantic drift: the type
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by anonymous908213 8mo ago
This article, despite clocking in at nearly 10,000 words, appears to have been written in only two days. In fact the author has written five engineering articles in the last week, seeming to average around 5000+ words per article. What a sp
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by anonymous908213 9mo ago
I don't know how you can write down those numbers and come to the conclusion they sound reasonable at all. Corporations literally can't give this trash away for free without consumers being unhappy about it (eg. the Copilot malwar
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by anonymous908213 9mo ago
New Reddit and Outlook.com are two off the top of my head. It is not uncommon to be looking at a spinner for several seconds. There are other websites that are not primarily for text but are still insane. Twitch.TV, an old favorite of mine,
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by anonymous908213 9mo ago
Good code was approximately never valued in enterprise. How many companies worth billions or even trillions have webpages that take 5+ seconds to load text, and use Electron for their desktop applications? In that regard, nothing has change
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by anonymous908213 9mo ago
Aww, then you missed the best part! Who wouldn't be head over heels for the opportunity to follow this financial advice and lose all of their "monopoly money" (funsie term for real cash!)? Call To Action This won&#x27

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