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by coldpie 8mo ago
> It seems a lot of large AI models basically just copy the training data and add slight modifications Copyright laundering is the fundamental purpose of LLMs, yes. It's why all the big companies are pushing it so much: they can fin
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I've gone back to shopping pretty much exclusively offline. Shifting through the garbage was too much work even before the AI slop flood. I'd rather pay a little extra to a local retailer so I know what I'm actually buying
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> a long-time public advocate of free speech What? I thought she was associated with & supported by Republicans.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
On Tuesday, when they get back to work.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
The Verge is definitely on the upswing right now. I started a paid subscription to them earlier this year.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I would like to give a small defense of Benj Edwards. While his coverage on Ars definitely has a positive spin on AI, his comments on social media are much less fawning. Ars is a tech-forward publication, and it is owned by a major corpor
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Others have given suggestions, but I'd also like to suggest evaluating what value you are actually getting from these devices. Would your life be made vastly worse if you just, didn't have them at all? They may have some real util
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> which is kinda annoying Set up an email filter based on the Subject line to trash them.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
The one thing that keeps me going through the fall of the US is the knowledge that despite all, there are still lots of happy people in Russia and China. People live their lives under those single-party authoritarian regimes, and many of t
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by coldpie 8mo ago
It's a term-of-art that means to use the tools that are already available on the target machine. So rather than shipping a custom binary/shellcode/etc which exfiltrates data or whatever, you string together existing powershe
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by coldpie 8mo ago
The common thread that resolves this apparent conflict is, of course, billionaires. 100% of Republicans and ~60% of Democrats are in office primarily to serve at the whims of billionaires. They will pursue whatever policies will give more
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I don't think that's true? Rather, stores must not sell to anyone under 21. I'm almost 40 and rarely get carded these days.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
No need to be mean. It's not living up to the marketing (no surprise), but I am trying to find a way to use these things that doesn't suck. Not there yet, but I'll keep trying.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Yeah, I'm definitely guilty of not being motivated to use these tools. I find them annoying and boring. But my company's screaming that we should be using them, so I have been trying to find ways to integrate it into my work. As I
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I dunno. At some point the people who make these tools will have to turn a profit, and I suspect we'll find out that 98% of the AI industry is swimming naked.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Eh, there's a new shiny thing every 2 months. I'm waiting for the tools to settle down rather than keep up with that treadmill. Or I'll just go find a new career that's more appealing.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I try them a few times a month, always to underwhelming results. They're always wrong. Maybe I'll find an interesting thing to do with them some day, I dunno. It's just not a fun or interesting tool for me to learn to use
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> Then, you might even tinker with some AI stuff on your own terms, you never know Indeed! I'm not like dead set against them. I just find they're kind of a bad tool for most jobs I've used them for and I'm just so go
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I try these things a couple times a month. They're always underwhelming. Earlier this week I had the thing work tells me to use (claude code sonnet 4? something like that) generate some unit tests for a new function I wrote. I had a nu
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I'm so glad I'm nearer the end of my career than the beginning. Can't wait to leave this industry. I've got a stock cliff coming up late this summer, probably a good time to get out and find something better to do with m
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I don't know their working hours, we've got staff all over the globe and people work whatever hours they like. I have no expectation for anyone to check work communications outside of their working hours, and it's bonkers to
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I see this in the opposite direction at work. I'll send someone a chat message after their working hours and they'll actually reply apologizing that can't look now and will reply tomorrow. Or that they're just waking up
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I don't think that's likely, claiming forged historical footage is real would be a very stupid way to torch one's reputation in a niche field. But it is a bit concerning that the author doesn't declare the source of the
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Yeah probably! Do you have any ideas for how we can reduce the amount of power individuals like Bezos have over our society?
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Good questions! A United States where all of our public policy is not controlled by a couple dozen billionaires who are trying to increase their personal high score is so different it's hard to know how things would shake out. As an ex
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> This comment is repeating a political slogan with no consideration of the content of the article. Bezos was able to purchase one of the nation's most important news outlets because he is a billionaire. If his wealth was capped at
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Sure, I'm open to softening the edges a bit if you have suggestions there. Good incentive to plan your partners in advance ;) But yeah, in the end, if you own $100M of a company, I bet you'll still land on your feet even if it all
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> What does that change when the CEO is still commanding a trillion dollars in capital? Their incentives. They've already hit the wealth cap, they can't make their high score any higher. The incentive to steal from their worker
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> So if you build a company that all of the sudden everyone wants a piece of, you aren't allowed to keep it You're allowed to keep $100M of it! That's seriously a lot of money!
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I also strongly support enforcing our existing antitrust laws, yes. > Someone is going to have control of it, if it exists Sure, a board, no member of which may be worth more than $100M.

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