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chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Technology in DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK]

Lmao, even though none of that is remotely accurate, it's still creepy as hell to read. Nice work.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Technology in DuckDuckGo is down. Is there any info about it?? [EDIT: IS BACK]

Ok. I went to that site, and I'm scrolling down... I get to the video demo of their searches, and it shows the exact same thing I last searched for... in the demo video? Am I losing my fucking mind here?

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Memes in Guess I'll just burn

Only if you are blowing shit up.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

By all means, rattle off some references that will make sense in the context.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

Just tell the judge that an AI wrote your post and you can walk away scot-free.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Technology in Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.

This story is blowing so fucking far out of proportion it's honestly incredible. Just so everyone is one the same page, here is a video timestamped to the voice, and immediately following the voice you can hear the voice from Her as well.

https://youtu.be/3BWjomtK-94?si=tDu574b4GySpnPIy&t=42

They are not similar other than they are both female.

The whole "her" thing that Altman threw up on twitter is just because the goddamned movie was a touchstone for the kind of thing that they are doing. They weren't cloning the fucking voice. It's like naming your new iguana Godzilla. It's not going to destroy Tokyo any time soon, it's just a cultural reference, you know, like a meme.

As far as Johansson goes, she is falling prey to this shit just like every other celebrity that has been railing against big bad AI. There are so many sheisty lawyers trying to get their hands on the first big win from an AI suit that they will say anything to get a celebrity to sue, because if their firm wins, they become the Anti-AI lawfirm that all others will seek in the future. They will print money, but only if something sticks, and so far, nothing has. This will be another case like any other, where they take it to court, and there is no real basis for anything, and it ends up being all over the news and then disappearing like the whole debacle over Sarah Silverman's book. In three months there will be another case against AI, and again, nothing will stick, because the people putting the bug in people's ears don't understand how to use most of the functionality of their cellphone, let alone how generative AI works.

chemical_cutthroat , 4 months ago to Technology in Hello GPT-4o

It's an end-user plateau for the moment, but there are still tons of things going on underneath the hood. From the outside it may not look like things are moving, but we've gone from Model-T to Chevy Bel Air fairly quickly, and while the difference is huge, the engineers are still trying to get us to Bugatti Veyron level. Until then, we are going to have a long "80 and 90s" period of sameness.

chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Technology in Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Technology in Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it

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chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in I shaved for the first time in a while so I could update a profile picture and my chin looks like this.

Splitting the difference, then.

chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in Pls pls pls....

There are just so many to choose from.

chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in Pls pls pls....

Yeah, that one sucks. I really liked what he was doing, but... you know... those crazy South Africans.

chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Memes in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Mauritius celebrate their independence from the crown this month

Britain is the abusive relationship you finally free yourself from, only to realize they are gonna keep the mattress.

chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Technology in AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey

You know what I love about blocking people?

chemical_cutthroat , 5 months ago to Technology in AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey

"Workforce" doesn't produce innovation, either. It does the labor. AI is great at doing the labor. It excels in mindless, repetitive tasks. AI won't be replacing the innovators, it will be replacing the desk jockeys that do nothing but update spreadsheets or write code. What I predict we'll see is the floor dropping out of technical schools that teach the things that AI will be replacing. We are looking at the last generation of code monkeys. People joke about how bad AI is at writing code, but give it the same length of time as a graduate program and see where it is. Hell, ChatGPT has only been around since June of 2020 and that was the beta (just 13 years after the first iPhone, and look how far smartphones have come). There won't be a huge demand for workforce in 5 years, there will be a huge portion of the population that suddenly won't have a job. It won't be like the agricultural or industrial revolution where it takes time to make it's way around the world, or where this is some demand for artisanal goods. No one wants artisanal spreadsheets, and we are too global now to not outsource our work to the lowest bidder with the highest thread count. It will happen nearly overnight, and if the world's governments aren't prepared, we'll see an unemployment crisis like never before. We're still in "Fuck around." "Find out" is just around the corner, though.