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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Google is a company well down the path of enshittification, they even got rid of their motto "Don't be evil". As a consumer, you're better served by using services from companies earlier in that lifecycle, where value ac
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Terms of Service that span multiple pages of legalese and require an attorney to parse, for something that is either 'free' or a few $ per month, and can result in loss of service across multiple product lines, AND has binding lop
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Care to share the comment in question with the rest of us so we can check for ourselves? :-)
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
As it turns out, IMHO, the debate in this thread is about 1 year behind the reality [1]. Personally, I was about a week behind in my reading of the landscape, so didn't realize this is all asked and answered [1]. A number of points t
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
> On the free ChatGPT you can't select thinking mode. This is true, but thinking mode shows up based on the questions asked, and some other unknown criteria. In the cases I cited, the responses were in thinking mode.
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
The founders of modern nation-states made huge advancements with written constitutions and uniformity of laws, but in the convenience of the rule of law it is often missed that the rule of law is not necessarily the prevalence of justice. T
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
> while it's true the English is a free for all (most languages are, really) ... there's an actual cost to the sloppy usage which diminishes the utility of ever even coming up with the word. Maybe the issue is that the word as
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
At this point there are enough reports of people getting these problematic responses with the paid models that it is concerning. Any chance you could post screenshots?
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
> nowhere is it clearly specified that the free model IS as capable as the paid one either. so if you have uncertainty if IS/IS-NOT as capable, what sort of scientist assumes the answer IS? Putting the same model name/number on
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
My bad; I should have been more precise: "ai" in this case is "LLMs for coding". If all one uses is the free thinking model their conclusion about its capability is perfectly valid because nowhere is it clearly specified
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Nothing so deep as that needed here to understand what is going on; it's a paid vs free issue - free versions are less competent while paid versions of the reasoning/thinking models are getting it right. Different providers may ho
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
The verbosity is likely a result of the system prompt for the LLM telling it to be explanatory in its replies. If the system prompt was set to have the model output shortest final answers, you would likely get the result your way. But then
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Yes, but the 'unwashed' 50% have pitchforks.
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
> The question is non-sensical. Sure, from a pure logic perspective the second statement is not connected to the first sentence, so drawing logical conclusions isn't feasible. In everyday human language though, the meaning is plain,
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
I wonder if the providers are doing everyone, themselves included, a huge disservice by providing free versions of their models that are so incompetent compared to the SOTA models that these types of q&a go viral because the ai hype doe
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
> No. It's because people got more creative. There are tens of thousands of us who are absolutely on fire creating new products, better versions of old products, new product categories etc. Nitpicking, but I would argue that people
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
There is definitely a middleman question. The bigger question is business model vs value-add. Copyright law draws a very direct line from value-add to compensation - if you created something new (or even derivative), copyright attaches to a
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
If an independent press is critical to open societies, perhaps some sort of citizen directed funding is needed to maintain independence from both capital and government?
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Having thought about your note some more, perhaps this would be a better encapsulation of what I was trying to say: The consumer internet has become platformized, and the dominant platforms are going through enshittification: early user sub
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
This is an interesting service, but at $10 for 10 links per month, or $100 for 500 links per month, it might be a tad bit too expensive for individuals.
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Feels like there is a case to be made here that the decline of The Internet rather precisely fits those definitions, with the exception that it is a collective of those products and services undergoing enshittification, since high-quality i
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
Interestingly, this is a specific implementation of a more general idea - leverage social media to store encrypted content, that requires decoding through a trusted app to surface the actual content. AI tools can use this as a messaging ser
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
The internet has gone from a high-trust society to a low-trust society, all in the span of a couple of decades. Enshittification strikes again. And it doesn't have appear to have any means to rid itself of the bad apples. A sad situati
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by ninjagoo 8mo ago
> Either way I'm fairly certain that blocking AI agent access isn't a viable long term solution. Great point. If my personal AI assistant cannot find your product/website/content, it effectively may no longer exist! F
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
Whether or not the Internet Archive counts as a legally acceptable trustee service is being litigated in the court systems [1]. The link is a bit dated so unsure what the current situation is. There's also this discussion [2]. [1] htt
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
If it's publicly funded, why shouldn't AI crawlers have access to that data? Presumably those creating the AI crawlers paid taxes that paid for the science.
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
I think maybe because the contents of the URL archived locally aren't legally certifiable as genuine - the URL is the canonical source. That's actually a potentially good business idea - a legally certifiable archiving software th
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
Isn't the Internet Archive such a trustee service? Or are you thinking of companies like Iron Mountain that provide such a service for paper? But even within corporations, not everything goes to a service like Iron Mountain, only paper
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
Wikipedia relies on the institutional structure of journalism, with newsroom independence, journalistic standards, educational system and probably a ton of other dependencies. Journalism as an institution is under attack because the traditi
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
> The public can still access the sites themselves. Indefinitely? Probably not. What about when a regime wants to make the science disappear?

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