maplethorpe

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by maplethorpe 6d ago
Yep. It's worth checking out GPT-6 to see what state of the art actually looks like. https://m.youtube.com/shorts/sJl1KoSL_o8
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by maplethorpe 7d ago
If you ditch generative AI you go back to needing to pay an artist/designer for their work, and they likely charge more than ChatGPT because they might have rent/bills and that sort of thing to cover.
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by maplethorpe 7d ago
I don't think the people pushing that narrative genuinely believe what they're saying. They're just influencing public opinion.
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by maplethorpe 13d ago
> But don’t be the out of touch Kung Fu master, heir to lifetimes of tradition, that gets mauled by an amateur MMA fighter. I have an issue with this analogy, since a professional MMA fighter is a highly skilled individual who has honed
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by maplethorpe 13d ago
Well no I, wasn't doing that either. Because it would be kind of silly to take someone else's code and say "I made this" just because I ran some build script, wouldn't it?
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by maplethorpe 14d ago
You could do this before AI, though. Just download a big repo off github and build the binaries yourself. Or is that not enough obfuscation to convince yourself you made it?
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by maplethorpe 14d ago
> we cannot RSI Speak for yourself.
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by maplethorpe 19d ago
You could train an LLM on a dataset that intentionally excludes certain data, and see if it is able to extrapolate outside of its dataset and come up with those excluded items independently. For example, remove all code from your training d
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by maplethorpe 23d ago
Yes, things are really great everywhere else.
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by maplethorpe 1mo ago
You're speaking directly to his marketing trap.
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by maplethorpe 1mo ago
I don't post there anymore but I do still check my DMs once a week, because every now and then someone will find my work through there, and I need people to find my work in order to survive. I unfortunately can't easily trade that
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by maplethorpe 1mo ago
I know you're being facetious, but I genuinely think Thomson Reuters should be investing in NFTs as much as it is in AI. NFTs (while some of the shine has admittedly worn off) are an emerging infrastructure for digitally native ownersh
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by maplethorpe 1mo ago
> I hope that we’ll collectively decide that it’s rude to pass off LLM writing as your own, but I wouldn’t bet on it. I think it could happen. When everyone first started tagging each other's face and location, I immediately hated i
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by maplethorpe 1mo ago
> I'm intrinsically motivated to work on my software projects because I want them to exist Isn't that extrinsic motivation? You're motivated by the desire to bring something outside of yourself into existence. The software
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by maplethorpe 2mo ago
I'm choosing to (mostly) switch off the news and continue learning things I find interesting anyway. Maybe the world will punish me for it at some point, but I guess I'll have to deal with that when it happens. The alternative is
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
Costs will continue to come down. That's how technology works. They will continue to come down further and further until they cross the threshold and become negative, and when that happens, instead of it costing you money to use GPT 5.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
Why are the leading models capable of regurgitating full copyrighted works such as "Harry Potter" and "On the Road"? Did they hire someone to type those out for them? https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
I wanted to know my real score so I intentionally picked the answer most likely to be wrong in those instances.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
Not always. I once got accused of cheating at University because my take-home assignment was so much better than my in class work. At home there was no pressure to perform. I could practice and try things.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
It was a "Keurig", and I had to put a pod in it and wait a few seconds. Is that not espresso? I make espresso at home by grinding/tamping it myself so I admittedly don't know much about the pod version or whether that st
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
I did go to an American coffee house while I was there. It was called something like "Phil's" and there were no lattes to be had.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
Really? The Last time I was in an American office, there didn't seem to be any milk around. They had an unrefrigerated bottle of "creamer" next to the coffee machine, but I was too scared to try it. I'm still not sure wh
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
> I’ve been trying to ask people a different question: sure, we’re more productive now but to me, the AI era is only serving to plunge us deeper than ever into producing more, more, more, faster, faster, faster. And for what? What’s it a
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
On the other hand, one of my recent launch posts received comments such as "this is the sort of thing that is now possible with AI!", when I didn't use any AI at all.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
This still means that 40% of consumers aren't turned off at all. That seems promising for AI bulls.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
The fact that anything I post online will now get slurped up by a machine and regurgitated for people who have no idea it was my work that made their prompt come to life.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
I get where you're coming from, and I agree to some extent, but I do think our tendency to weight criticism more favorably than praise (as if praise is "chaff" and criticism is automatically valuable) can be dangerous. This n
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
I'm sorry to hear that. If it's any consolation, people often say I act like an alien pretending to be a human. Maybe it's just the price I pay for being an inquisitive person.
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
One time a project I made appeared at the very top of the front page. It attracted many negative comments. Some saying it was barely usable. Others saying I'd built it wrong, and offering half-baked advice on how I should have done it
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by maplethorpe 3mo ago
I might be the only person at my job that doesn't use it, but it feels like I'll be found out by upper management sooner or later. Maybe I'll need to use a library I'm unfamiliar with, I'll take longer than expected

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