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by gdulli 2mo ago
Maybe their goal is to be able to point to the untrustworthiness of the source material as cover when they're accused of hallucination.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
People who are trying to sell you AI and people who are now dependent on it are desperate for you to believe in its inevitability.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
It's amazing how people think Apple has a clean reputation because they've added a thin layer of indirection to their participation in the surveillance ecosystem.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
We were warned very early on, by people more prescient than me, of all the secondary harms to society like this one that were going to come with LLMs. We can't be surprised.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
Right, an individual viewing of an individual work can be only entertainment and there's no shame in that. Sci fi in its totality has greater meaning and subtext, and fully ignoring it or misunderstanding it is not ideal and does say s
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by gdulli 2mo ago
It doesn't sound like it used to be any better. Maybe we don't need to complain about AI destroying things that already sucked, like billboards or Linkedin.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
Enough of this passive aggressive quoting. If you have something to say, man up and say it.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
It's becoming a central tension of our time: people want to create with AI but don't want to be downstream of anyone else creating with it.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
It's a failure of the mindset that now that almost anything can be automated, it will be automated. Often as cheaply and carelessly as possible.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
Excessive automation is terrible, yes, but also people choose their actions and the accountability stays on them.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
Are you making the argument that surrendering general thinking, problem solving, research, and creativity is nothing more to be concerned about than no longer memorizing URLs and phone numbers?
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by gdulli 2mo ago
"Reuters analysis finds map image carries OpenAI watermark"
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by gdulli 2mo ago
I don't know why that premise was ever accepted. The same tool has been used for both good and evil since rocks and sticks.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
I don't even understand the mindset of the question. It's like asking, if ingredients were added to the recipe, why did it get worse?
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by gdulli 2mo ago
They realized they need to keep one on staff so there's someone to fire if/when AI does destroy the world.
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by gdulli 2mo ago
I read his take as not that "we've solved prose", but that we've created the McDonald's slop food version of prose, and people who are undiscerning will cause it to succeed and dominate the culture. While the effect
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by gdulli 2mo ago
Exactly. Hypertension, emphysema, people who don't smoke not wanting to be anywhere near you,
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by gdulli 2mo ago
A big reason that political discussions here get so silly is because so many people here believe that the world can/should work like code, and that the right algorithm/data structures could solve everything. The ambiguity and subj
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by gdulli 2mo ago
Displacing a vast amount of labor is what makes the numbers make sense. We don't know if they'll succeed or not, but it's obviously what they're chasing. In addition to actual lost jobs, replacing a skilled white collar
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by gdulli 3mo ago
The best concert I ever went to was one I only knew about from a TV commercial. Somewhere along the way I started blocking ads and commercials aggressively and in hindsight I've noticed that (for example) there's fewer movies&#x2F
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by gdulli 3mo ago
The tech giants owe their success to people accepting this new business model in which revenue can scale without the company having to scale headcount proportionately. In other words, automated customer service, automated everything.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Most people don't want to think any more than they absolutely have to.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
My idea of an alternative to a modern phone would not let Meta/Google anywhere near it. I'm curious how many people would go out of their way for this kind of hardware but still use those. I thought the point should be making your
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by gdulli 3mo ago
How could you think that anyone would argue that arbitrary doses of any medication are safe? Drinking too much water will kill you.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
You're never going to watch it, but you're waiting for it to be on Netflix? You can start not watching it already.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
It's hard to believe that in the late smartphone era there are people who think they're not online enough already, and want smart glasses so they can be even more online.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Something I appreciate about Samsung phones is that having a Samsung account is completely optional. I've never had one. If I accidentally click on one of the dumb AI features I'm not even allowed to use it without an account.
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by gdulli 3mo ago
Steam gave me similar problems. In the process of trying to get in for the first time in a while to delete my account, I completed a successful 2FA but still couldn't log in because I had to prove I owned the account by providing extra
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by gdulli 3mo ago
What could be more representative of this community than the hubris of believing a simple algorithmic change could fix something that's actually deceptively complex and better off living with?
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by gdulli 3mo ago
People are so desperate for this to be true. Maybe it comes from a subconscious recognition that their own self-imposed deskilling will inevitably catch up with them.

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