I didn’t watch the whole video, but I’m assuming it’s about the neural network / reinforcement learning / deep learning kind of AI, which is not GenAI. AlphaFold and such. The more recent version incorporates a diffusion model as one of the steps, which is similar to what LLMs use, but it’s not the main driver.

Even if it was using LLM technology, it was trained on a data bank of proteins, not god damn Reddit.

OpenAI, Anthropic and the like have nothing to do with it. They are just wasteful.

I have no problem with AI in general, only with the GenAI parasites.

Do people grasp just how much energy GenAI guzzles?

If it were used for cancer research, maybe I’d be down with it.

But no, it’s used by some kids to make memes, create sloppy TikTok content, rewrite emails in posh English that are harder to read, create stereotypical game and movie scripts, reject perfectly qualified people by HR automated CV sorters, dumbs students, creates more fake news, and slightly helps programmers write code faster.

It’s appalling. If everyone saw it for what it is, a garbage generator, we’d all be in a better place. But that’s not the case, so here we fucking are.

He never played Hades, huh?

Yeah, I saw the post after watching this video, and I thought “this is one of those movies!”, but I didn’t realize it’s also one of the generally bad movies.

Holy shit.

*schlong

I remember it, and I’m a sucker for any SciFi with new ideas, but the delivery on this one had the subtlety of a brick. The idea of the plot is the punchline and that’s it, no other social commentary. Justin Timberlake was mediocre at best and to me so obnoxious that it was very hard to identify with him as a justice warrior. 5/10.

“Don’t Look Up” was not subtle at all, but it had the kind of in-your-face so well done, that proofed exactly that the target audience it was mocking will not understand the direct slap they were getting.

“The Menu”, or “Parasite”, or “The Platform”, or “The Hunger Games” are also orders of magnitude better if you want to watch a “eat-the-rich” kind of movie.

I’m bad with words and not a movie critic, but hope you get the point.

Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.”

How about… the tanks could be empty?

Cards For America

They’re paying people to apologize for not voting last time. What that means is up for the reader. Not the same.

And some copyrighted shit from Dolby. Granted, header files only.

At first I was… wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!

But then I went through the Github issues (because, 6 hours since first commit and already 5 issues open?). As someone else put it, “This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i’ve seen to date.”. The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a dumpster fire. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter’s “open sourcing” of its recommendation algorithm they did last year. Not sure if I should make coffee or popcorn in the morning.

Those share buttons are trackers themselves. So it’s not about “supporting” those websites by publishing content to them, it’s about undermining the privacy of your readers and doing the opposite of what you preach, and “supporting” those websites by feeding them much more valuable user data. As another comment said, just put a button to copy the permalink and let them paste themselves if they want to share.

As for you sharing a link on the mainstream social media platforms yourself, I’d actually encourage that. Cory Doctorow auto-publishes links (not content) to his articles on as many social media platforms as he can (sorry, can’t find the article in which he describes it). The point is that he still retains control over his content by hosting it himself, he controls the (lack of) trackers and ads, and gaining traffic from these platforms is still to his and his potential readers benefit. Bending your rules a little to reach more people and maybe even convert them to be more privacy-aware is fine.

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Easy. The Wall! The Roger Waters 2010-2013 tour, not the Berlin one, lol

Passive income.

The amount of emoticons makes it feel like reading some shitty QAnon post shared on Facebook.

Note that this is an article from 2 years ago. It was also posted in News, but at least it had a link to the source.