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Cake day: September 13th, 2023
  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•From downtownEnglish
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    1 day ago

    So do you earnestly think a person who did not know who Charlie Kirk was before he died has an opinion on his death that should be treated with equal weight to the people whose lives he directly or indirectly impacted, or do you disagree that the majority of people who were talking about Charlie Kirk’s death were either celebrating or trying to profit off of it?

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialtoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•From downtownEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Right, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret.

    When people say “everyone” in a context like this, they do not literally mean all 7,999,999,999 people on Earth speaking with a single unified voice. This is safe to infer because all 8 billion people having the same opinion about anything is not something that happens. They mean the majority of people, and they mean the people in their social sphere.

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialtoComic Strips@lemmy.world•didn't think soEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The sort of AI that reads radiology scans has almost nothing in common with the sort of AI that develops drugs has almost nothing in common with large language models. A key difference is that the first two require orders of magnitude less processing power. If that was all AI was used for, we wouldn’t be claiming people’s houses under eminent domain in order to build beefier power lines for AI datacenters, and the EPA wouldn’t be loosening environmental regulations on power plants devoted exclusively to AI datacenters. We would also be able to afford computer parts.

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingEnglish
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    3 days ago

    …So you insist that AI power use isn’t a big problem right now, but your best case scenario for the future is that humanity gets nuked out of existence. By nukes that were designed using help from LLMs, which they haven’t been shown to be able to help with.

    You seem like a very serious person who is worth debating.

    As for the data use thing, firstly, I don’t know why the choices are between the actual work and hearsay. I don’t know where you got those two options from. I also don’t know what would be producing the hearsay (human? LLM? If the latter, are we straight up admitting to copyright laundering? Also, I thought training LLMs on output of previous LLMs caused model collapse). I especially don’t know why you’re asking me to speculate on what creatives want immediately after attacking my ability to speak on behalf of creatives. But since you are apparently asking me to do that, I think they’d prefer the hearsay, since the point is that they don’t want the model to be able to imitate their work for anyone who asks for cheap, and in so doing, put them out of a job. Or worse, have the model agree to a job they would have said no to, and damage their credibility and brand.

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•David Revoy (open source comics artist) is tired and frustrated of people calling his human art, AI-generatedEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Pro tip: when copying a link to a Lemmy/Piefed/Kbin/etc post, please make sure you use your instance’s option to copy the link to the post on its original instance (the instance the post was made on), rather than simply copying the link to the post on your instance out of your URL bar. On your instance’s web interface, that option is in the More drop down next to the Boost button, just below the post title. (On a Lemmy instance, the link to the original post is the Fediverse icon right next to the upvote and downvote buttons, and you can right click and Copy Link from there).

    Obviously, when you open a post in the browser on an instance that isn’t yours by clicking a link (for example, this link to this same post on my instance, which is a vanilla Lemmy instance), you can’t interact with it, because you aren’t logged in, because you don’t have an account on that instance. To interact with it, you need to open the same post through your own instance.

    If you have a link to a post on the instance it was created on, you can simply paste that URL (the whole thing) into your instance’s search bar to open it on there, so you can vote/comment/etc. Some mobile apps can even do this automatically. However, this doesn’t work if you paste a link to a post through an instance other than the instance it was created on. In order to interact with the post you just linked to, people have to click the link to open the post on your instance, then click the button on there to copy the original link, before pasting it into their own instance. It’s polite not to make them go through that extra work.

    Judging by your account age, it seems you’re new to Lemmy, so you probably didn’t know that. Just something to keep in mind for future. :)

  • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Not the Same 🥸English
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    3 days ago

    It is on paper. You can host your own PDS (low-resource-requirement server that stores your posts). in practice, well over 90% of users use the default PDS, and even if you don’t, you’re subject to the whims of the relay (big-iron datacenter type server that retrieves posts from every PDS and aggregates them into a single stream for appviews to then display) that other people use to look at your posts. Bluesky is the main relay, and they have been known to censor people for the crimes of speaking out in favor of trans people in sports, or being Palestinian. Blacksky, a competing relay, seems to be a bit better, though I don’t personally know much about it. But the fact remains that running a relay server is really expensive, therefore few people can afford to do it, and a relay server is a gateway through which all posts must pass before they can be seen, therefore it’s a censor’s dream, and those two facts together make Bluesky de facto centralized.