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Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AIāAnd Remote Work Is Why
Thatās another great benefit of remote work, then.
Also imagine ā¦
work-life balance [ā¦] was more important than winning
ā¦ saying this unironically.
I wrangle code, draw pictures, and write things. You might find some of it here.
Eric Schmidt Says Google Is Falling Behind on AIāAnd Remote Work Is Why
Thatās another great benefit of remote work, then.
Also imagine ā¦
work-life balance [ā¦] was more important than winning
ā¦ saying this unironically.
This has to be hands down the absolute dumbest take Iāve seen from Musk ever. Dude has the mental capacity of a boiled pear.
I remember 15 years ago when I read about a Japanese man marrying a character from a dating sim game (source, archive link).
The internet clowned on him, but he was very serious, and it was the first time when I realized that these āanime waifuā people probably arenāt all just taking the piss.
Thereās a whole socio-economic angle there, of course, which I donāt think I wanna get into here, but to me this whole āAI girlfriendā market really seems like a low-effort take on ādating sim as a serviceā with as much game removed as possible but the exploitative nature turned up to fucking eleven.
I honestly thought that when they published an article about Yud in Times Magazine last year would be that moment. It should have had enough reach to trigger something, at least, and it was crazy enough as well. It was certainly the moment where I thought, holy shit, the weirdos have hit mainstream.
Theyāve given me a strange vibe for a while. I suspected they might be in the TREACLES sphere, so I guess at least I finally have confirmation.
Also, the amount of āChatGPT is basically AGI alreadyā people in the comments is alarming.
Fair points, I guess. When I speak of advertising, I meant specifically that āad-tech-driven surveillance economyā, not the ability to post (or spam) your product down any given channel. I should have said targeted advertising specifically.
People who remember Usenet fondly either only hung out in the good parts (heavily moderated technical newsgroups) or are perfectly fine with defining online discourse as being text-only and gated by access.
I guess I am in that bubble, yes. I remember Usenet mostly as being rather heavily moderated as I mostly stayed away from the scary parts of the alt. hierarchy (esp. alt.binaries), and most of my interactions were with creative communities in the form of writing and fan-fiction on rec, as well as what I perceived as early safe spaces for discussions of LGBTQ issues on soc (especially SSYGLB). There were also some groups in my native language that catered to both of these interests in some of the language hierarchies outside of the Big 8.
But I suppose itās the same romanticized idea that Gemini follows and only appeals to me because I have somewhat positive memories. Idk, I guess Iām just kinda fed up with the modern internet, especially because I also see a lot of that ad-tech crap at work which doesnāt leave me with a lot of hope that it wonāt get worse.
Iām probably gonna show my age by saying this, but in my opinion we already had the near-perfect federated discussion platform over 40 years ago, and that was Usenet.
On a philosophical level itās not too different from what the Fediverse is trying to achieve. However, because it is a protocol and not a software, you arenāt bound to specific implementations. Everyone can implement the NNTP protocol because it operates on the same principle idea as email. And just as not one organization āownsā email or HTTP, no organization can own Usenet.
Itās also more of a āverseā than the Fediverse because itās really fundamentally a different thing than the internet (as in the HTTP internet), and not a software layer on top of it. By that virtue, you donāt even have to bother with shit like tracking, advertising, or even large-scale data scraping because the protocol just doesnāt allow for it. (Doesnāt mean it couldnāt, of course. Iām sure a Google would come up with NNTP2 and enshittify it if it gained enough traction, but hey.)
In terms of moderation, on Usenet a mod is really someone who pre-reads messages and either approves them or not. You can implement the same tech that powers email junk filtering for that, and it works generally pretty well. Itās way more hands-off than anything Reddit or Lemmy or forums offer. Sure, for large enough groups this becomes a chore too, but Iād still rather work through a bunch of what basically amounts to emails than some convoluted mod interface on a website.
The only downside is that itās not as easy to use, at least not for people whoāre used to modern apps. On the other hand, everyone whoās ever written an email im Outlook or Thunderbird shouldnāt have a problem, and Iām sure someone could cook up a pretty smartphone app, too.
Really? Most Iām seeing lately is obvious bot spam with content thatās not only blatantly against the rules but outright disgusting.
And thatās not even the worst ones. Iāve seen some which mention and promote CSAM. Reporting these seemingly does nothing.
Iām really not a fan of Python (in general; the whole philosophy of that language is kinda opposite to my idea of programming) but I have to admit the project does look interesting at first glance.
And after glancing at the Lemmy codebase a few times I think that an alternative or at least competition is a good thing.
Hell, I really hope itās scraping the comments too.
With what an absolute fucking trash fire YouTube comments are at the moment and Google being suspiciously silent about it, Iām sure that wonāt cause any issues at all.
Quick personal sneer: I just had a call with a company trying to sell us their SaaS password/secrets manager solution because weāre trying to force everyone to use one instead of using hunter2
everywhere.
Anyway, after going on for 30 minutes about their amazing integrations with every platform on the planet and their super duper security and how their systems are rock solid and never fail, the marketing dude finished off by trying to sell ChatGPT integration as a feature. Not for actual passwords, thank fuck, but in order to quickly produce integrations between their APIs and other systems. He proudly proclaimed that āUsually thereās no security issues with just copy-pasting the code from ChatGPT.ā
Usually.
Thankfully, some individual instances (like awful!) seem to get it, but for the most part the poison is already baked in, and itās hard to unbake a cake and begin again.
I think the biggest problem is either the lack of active moderation or, if present, moderators which are too lenient. Not that I blame anyone who thinks that removing the fifteenth racist asshat for the day is not the best use of their time, but the best communities are the ones that to make the effort to keep it clean.
This has been true since the days of Usenet. The good groups were completely moderated to the point where some person had to manually approve every single posted article. It worked (as long as the mods werenāt racist asshats themselves, which is a different problem), but in contrast, almost the entire alt. hierarchy was an unmoderated cesspit and to anyone who doesnāt know how that turned out long-term: good for you.
Luckily I think we are seeing a rise in moderated communities again. After Usenet and dedicated forums it somehow fell out of fashion (with 4chan and Reddit being the pinnacle of using but muh free speech! to give bigots a platform). Maybe itās confirmation bias, but I do see many fedi instances who have stricter rules again and seem to enforce them in an attempt to create welcoming communities for everyone. I hope this trend continues.
(So this also means a large percentage of the people now left in sneerclub will be the worst, so it might finally morph into the boogyman the Rationalists always made it out to be).
Some people seem to be genuinely happy itās back, but that could just be the honeymoon phase, so letās see. I might even post there now and then since I still use my Reddit account because I stuck around thanks to discoverability in the Fediverse being just awful which means I havenāt found a good replacement for a bunch of communities I like.
There are many good reasons to be critical of copyright, especially because it has been abused so much. Allowing big tech grifters unlimited access to everything everyone ever puts online because they promise to ādemocratize artā when all they really do it feed it into their spicy autocomplete engines which then flood the internet with AI sludge is not one of them.
Especially when the same fucking people then do a 180 and want protection for the shit their roided Clippy puked out.
Well, history sure does fucking repeat itself again, doesnāt it?
At its low point, some computer scientists and software engineers avoided the term artificial intelligence for fear of being viewed as wild-eyed dreamers. (New York Times, 2005, at the end of the last AI winter.)
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lol
Hereās Friendās advertisement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_Q1hoEhfk4 . The music choice and general vibe isā¦ unsettling.
This hast the same vibe as a trailer for shows like Black Mirror. I actually feel sad for the people theyāre targeting with this, holy shit.
Yep, exactly the ones I was thinking about. They lobbied over there a while back with āprominent supportersā like Yud and Hinton. Luckily the general consensus was that they were full of shit, so the mod shut it down.
That place is an absolute fucking cesspool.
May I suggest /r/artisthate which is Sneer Club for artists sneering at exactly this type of content, and itās hilarious sometimes (albeit quite large at this point, so your fair share of doomsday rats have sneaked in trying to co-opt the movement and the moderation is quite lenient).
Iām still waiting for even one argument for the usefulness of AI image generation that isnāt fucked up. Just one.
Grok seems so support nudity and deepfakes too according to some news articles Iāve seen because of course nothing screams more free speech than plastering the face of your favorite actor or political opponent into a porn scene, so now letās see how long it takes the first bluecheck fucker to try and create CSAM with it, because I suppose thatāll be the point when it gets too hot even for Elon.