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frog ,

Yeah, I mean bad guys are going to commit murder too, doesn't mean it shouldn't be illegal.

frog ,

Making sure their turnover also gets split into hundreds of companies seems like an administrative nightmare though. And I suspect the EU regulators are smart enough to see through such a ruse - eBay would still be one website, not hundreds, after all.

frog ,

Yeah, I think the fact that the Fediverse is genuinely and legitmately multiple small websites, each of which can be proven to be run by different people with no connection to each other, would mean it's exempt.

frog ,

That would probably work in the US, but I'm not so sure it'd work in the EU. Even the UK is capable of cracking down on "freelancers" who are obviously just regular employees with bosses trying to dodge regulation.

frog ,

Very good read!

As someone with a complicated medical history, including a very rare complication arising from a medication for a rare condition, I have serious reservations about the use of LLMs in medical contexts. It's not that humans can't get it wrong, but my experience with medical professionals is that if they're not certain about something, they will go check with a colleague or look something up in a textbook/online resource (and honestly I'm reassured when a doctor does this! It shows self-awareness and humility to admit they're not experts on everything and they'd rather be careful than protect their ego.) An LLM will just confidently bullshit a diagnosis. That might be fine for someone with a straightforward medical history suffering from a common, easily treated condition. It could be deadly for someone whose medical history is more complex.

frog ,

Wouldn't a corporation rep say that corporations are not evil and are the only way the brighter future can be achieved? That the problem is regulation is making it impossible for the corpo to usher in utopia?

frog ,

As an artist who is sick of the same argument being made about AI image generators, I 100% agree. Definitely in favour of developer and artist solidarity on this issue, because at the end of the day, we're all workers whose livelihoods are at stake.

frog ,

The answer to "neurodivergent people and low wage workers can't learn to code/do art" is not using LLMs to destroy the livelihoods of those who did learn how to do these things. All that does is create even more low wage workers. It doesn't boost anybody up, it just drags the rest down. It's like saying the solution to some people not having legs is chop everyone else's legs off.

frog ,

And I'll just add the Lovecraft Investigations to the list. Absolutely brilliant series.

frog ,

Agreed with this. Even if one leaves the high performers out of the equation, if someone is consistently shirking work, and others are having to pick up the slack in order to make sure deadlines are met or that quality standards are reached, then that's a recipe for resentment if pay is the same. I don't think everybody on the team has to put in exactly the same level of work, and in a good working environment people tend to be pretty understanding of variances in output (both quality and quantity) as long as everybody is trying their best. Unless you've got someone that does significantly less than everyone else. To deal with that, you either need to have really good management, or pay rates need to reflect the actual work done.

You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

frog ,

Back in the early 00s (I think), there was a running joke about how the search engine Ask Jeeves had one purpose, and one purpose only: to amend any search to "where can I buy...?" Because no matter what you searched for, it would inevitably prioritise adverts and online shopping.

That's what Google is now.

I also use Ecosia now. It's powered by Bing on the back end, I believe, but the results are consistently better than what I get from Google. And it's like... okay, yes, this is the world we live in now, where Bing is more useful than Google.

frog ,

I'm going to give Kagi a try, thanks to this comment - I didn't know there was a free trial.

frog ,

I honestly do not understand moving support pages and forums to Discord. All it achieves is guaranteeing a thousand different people with the same problem will all ask exactly the same question over and over again, because they're unable or unwilling to scroll back through hundreds or thousands of messages in a Discord channel. It might seem like less effort than setting up support pages with answers to all the common problems, but it's actually more effort in the long run because so much work is duplicated just by the nature of the format.

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