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MysticKetchup ,

Because those pages had information that wasn't on the new pages?

Just from my own experience, WotC migrated the Magic the Gathering site to a new one, and while some articles were brought over there were a whole lot of stories, strategies and event coverage that were lost or are only available thanks to Archive.org

Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira (investors.squarespace.com)

Stockholders will receive $44.00 per share in cash, which represents a premium of 29% over the 90-day volume weighted average trading price of $34.09 Squarespace, Inc. (NYSE: SQSP ), the design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online, today announced that it has entered into a definitive...

MysticKetchup ,

What's the benefit of going private for a company that's owned by private equity? Like from a regular standpoint, not being subjected to the constant growth demands of shareholders is good, but I wouldn't think private equity cares about that as long as they're making money

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Being entitled to equal rights doesn't mean they actually get them. It also doesn't account for the fact that many Palestinians are denied citizenship or remain in occupied territories controlled by Israel and explicitly not guaranteed equal rights

The comprehensive report, Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity, sets out how massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians are all components of a system which amounts to apartheid under international law. This system is maintained by violations which Amnesty International found to constitute apartheid as a crime against humanity, as defined in the Rome Statute and Apartheid Convention.

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MysticKetchup ,

That's basically what most tech companies are trying to optimize these days, the ability to make money off of other people's work. It's why they're so hyped about trying to use AI to replace the very workers it's trained on.

MysticKetchup ,

But simply knowing the right words to say in response to a moral conundrum isn't the same as having an innate understanding of what makes something moral. The researchers also reference a previous study showing that criminal psychopaths can distinguish between different types of social and moral transgressions, even as they don't respect those differences in their lives. The researchers extend the psychopath analogy by noting that the AI was judged as more rational and intelligent than humans but not more emotional or compassionate.

This brings about worries that an AI might just be "convincingly bullshitting" about morality in the same way it can about many other topics without any signs of real understanding or moral judgment. That could lead to situations where humans trust an LLM's moral evaluations even if and when that AI hallucinates "inaccurate or unhelpful moral explanations and advice."

Despite the results, or maybe because of them, the researchers urge more study and caution in how LLMs might be used for judging moral situations. "If people regard these AIs as more virtuous and more trustworthy, as they did in our study, they might uncritically accept and act upon questionable advice," they write.

Great, so the headline of the article directly feeds into the issue the scientists are warning about when it comes to public perception of AI morality

MysticKetchup ,

God they just rebranded trickle-down-economics

MysticKetchup ,

I feel the same about a lot of Fediverse apps right now. They're kinda just coasting on the fact that they're not big enough for most spammers to care about. But they need to put in solid defenses and moderation tools before that happens

MysticKetchup ,

Like what even is a legitimate use case for these? It just seems tailor made for either misinformation or pointless memes, neither of which seem like a good sales pitch

MysticKetchup ,

We've already recreated dead actors or older actors whole cloth with VFX. Plus it still seems like a niche use case for something that can be done by VFX artists that can also do way more

Reddit Is Taking Over Google (tech.slashdot.org)

Reddit, Quora, and other internet forums that have climbed up through the traditional set of Google links. Data analysis from Semrush, which predicts traffic based on search ranking, shows that traffic to Reddit has climbed at an impressive clip since August 2023. Semrush estimated that Reddit had over 132 million visitors in...

MysticKetchup ,

Google has been killing those off for a while. Nowadays it's hard to find anything that isn't just the copy-pasted SEO bait non-articles covered in ads

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Hell yeah dude

MysticKetchup ,

Wish this AI bubble would burst already

MysticKetchup ,

The issue is that ads these days are largely less about actually informing people about a product and more about a well-known brand keeping its market dominance. At this point, there's basically no one who doesn't know about McDonald's or Coke but they still advertise heavily because they want to constantly be on people's minds. They're not really concerned about a return on their advertising investment as long as they're still maintaining their position.

MysticKetchup ,

No, just that sales is probably not the only metric they're looking at when buying ads. It's about maintaining their brand image too.

We saw this with Amazon when a bunch of news articles about their union busting and poor work conditions were breaking. There were tons of ads from Amazon about how much people love working there and how great it is. They knew they needed to influence their public image and advertising is how they do it.

MysticKetchup ,

"We will coup whoever we want!" -Elon Musk

MysticKetchup ,

So Federation lets you move your data, but that's it? It still has global moderation and from what it sounds like all accounts are still dependent on the original BlueSky server to login. So if it goes down, doesn't that just take all servers with it?

MysticKetchup ,

So is there an "AI is going just great" website yet like there is for Web3?

MysticKetchup ,
  1. You're literally commenting on an article about AI image generation having to be shut down because it's not going well
  2. Pets.com also advertised at the Super Bowl, it doesn't mean much other than spending a lot of money
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TL;DR: right-wing hand-wringing over the app "turning the kids trans and lowering their IQ"

The author also has articles defending Israel and complaining about "woke ideology" if you need any more reason to skip it

MysticKetchup ,

I did read the full article and am not convinced.

  1. The entire thing is predicated on the idea that TikTok is a feminizing, intelligence-destroying superweapon that can single handedly bring down civilizations (the only evidence cited are spurious correlations that treat IQ as a real science)

  2. Even if you take that as the average view of the US in China, it's still a leap to say they are, either actively or passively, planning the downfall of the US when the two countries are so entwined. It's just more US vs China fearmongering

  3. While he does say that TikTok needs to be regulated, nowhere does he advocate for larger scale curtailing of capitalism, and in fact ties all of his negative authoritarian points to socialism. It's singling out TikTok for the larger sins of an unregulated tech industry

MysticKetchup ,

That's to be expected. What remains to be seen is how many of them will stick around after the initial surge.

MysticKetchup ,

I've been happily using Mastodon but most of the users I followed on the old site went to BlueSky instead. There's no other way to keep up with them without it, and it sure as hell is better than Twitter these days

MysticKetchup ,

CEO pay is so ridiculous, there's obviously no way they're going to self regulate so we need to either tie it to worker pay/well-being or put it under the control of their employees

Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. (lemmy.world)

People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD comic says won't pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those people only...

MysticKetchup ,

As Randall Munroe would put it, duty calls

MysticKetchup ,

I've seen estimates that it costs $30+ dollars per month per user to run these AI models. And that doesn't even include how expensive it is to build and train these systems. I imagine this is what will ruin the appeal of AI for a lot of people, as right now we're in the honeymoon phase where a bunch of it is free or low cost but as they raise prices it'll get less appealing.

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Seconding SmartTube, it's also just straight up better than the YouTube app on top of the adblocking

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