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restingboredface ,

Thr problem the AI tools are going to have is that they will have tons of things like this that they won't catch and be able to fix. Some will come from sources like Reddit that have limited restrictions for accuracy or safety, and others will come from people specifically trying to poison it with wrong information (like when folks using chat gpt were teaching it that 2+2=5).
Fixing only the ones that get media attention is a losing battle. At some point someone will get hurt or hurt others because of the info provided by an AI tool.

restingboredface ,

I wonder if Open AI or any of the other firms have thought to put in any kind of stipulations about monitoring and moderating reddit content to reduce ai generated posts and reduce risk of model collapse.

Anybody who's looked at reddit in the past 2 years especially has seen the impact of ai pretty clearly. If I was running open ai I wouldn't want that crap contaminating my models.

restingboredface ,

They must have fucked up some mundane detail like misplacing a zero or something.

restingboredface ,

They cut thousands of jobs in the name of efficiency, then roll out an AI customer service bot to replace people in managing problems with their flashy new AI tool that is glitching out, more expensive and delivering worse results.

Surely nobody saw this coming right?

restingboredface ,

For real. If ever there were a time to hop on an Amtrak, I think this would be a good one.

restingboredface ,

Preach, friend. I'm so sick of seeing how everything is getting some useless AI service jammed into it for no reason. At best its just a pointless feature that can be ignored. At worst it's a data and memory vacuum that mines people's activity in the name of "product improvements".

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

restingboredface ,

What I don't get is how no company seems to have worked out a legitimately good service and maintenance model for tech products. Fairphone hasn't invented the wheel here. They're going to make money on maintenance, parts and repair.

I would think there would be lowered costs involved in not having to push out a new product every 6 months and market it to customers who just bought something less than a year ago.

restingboredface ,

Interesting that so much of the creative industry is supportive of the bill, but that the MPA isn't (or at least hasn't explicitly come out in support). I'm guessing that is reflective of the production companies' interest in using AI trained on creative content to eliminate the reliance on talent.

restingboredface ,

I still don't understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.

I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I'd also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.

restingboredface ,

I do this. All programs I access regularly are shortcuts on the desktop. Everything else I can get to with folders or launchers like steam.

restingboredface ,

Also, nothing the Google llm said was in any way specific to brother. I'm wondering if that's by design and they made it brand-agnostic to appease advertisers.

restingboredface ,

I have withings watch and it's pretty great. I think it's less well known than a lot of other brands because they primarily make health tech (which is also good btw).

I love that the watch has a traditional dial and looks really classy rather than just looking like a piece of plastic tech. I get compliments on it all the time and nobody guesses that it's a smart watch. It has a small smart screen under the 12 that shows steps, o2 levels, and heart rate. I track sleep and workouts on it, and I think you can get call notifications on it but I don't really use that. All the info is synced to an app and if you have other devices like the scale and blood pressure cuff you can track all of it and create a report to take with you to your doctor. The company has a solid privacy policy which makes me feel better about using it.

Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business | Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..." (arstechnica.com)

Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business | Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..."::Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..."

restingboredface ,

"Interestingly, the percentage of daily average unique visitors who are logged out of Reddit versus those who are logged in has increased slightly. This is important because Reddit doesn’t make as much money off of people who look at its site or app but aren’t logged into Reddit."

So remember kids, if you want to avoid supporting Spez and Reddit but still occasionally need to use it, don't log in.

Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base' (www.404media.co)

Reddit said in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission that its users’ posts are “a valuable source of conversation data and knowledge” that has been and will continue to be an important mechanism for training AI and large language models. The filing also states that the company believes “we are in the early...

restingboredface ,

Don't forget about the 10 or so lines of "69" followed by "Nice"

restingboredface ,

I was looking through comments to see if anyone noticed this part. I have to believe that he doesn't really think world leaders are actual lizards and its actually more of a performance art piece or something.

If he's serious about it... I just don't know how humanity went so wrong.

restingboredface ,

"with some residents rendering them immobile by putting orange cones on the cars’ hoods in protest. "

Could someone explain this? How does an orange cone on the hood immobilize these things?

restingboredface ,

Is this in response to the antitrust stuff they've been dealing with in Europe? I thought they had tried to split software into different "services" before to avoid oversight (I think they did it with their web browser).

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

restingboredface ,

It's a great way to make a fat pile of cash though.

restingboredface ,

So, they want to make an app or service where people just talk to bots all the time without knowing it?

Sounds like Reddit.

New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs (mitechnews.com)

New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs::Artificial intelligence is still costly to replace most human jobs, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.The MIT Beyond AI Exposure study said, "Machines will steal our jobs" is a sentiment frequently expressed during...

restingboredface ,

This isn't a great example of ROI calculations. When companies calculate staff costs they factor in benefits, shared services costs (HR, IT Helpdesk, etc). Even if the ai wasn't cheaper than the salary alone, benefits put that much higher.

However, it doesn't really matter. Low or no ROI isn't going to stop the AI cult from selling snake oil products to companies with the promise of "savings", real or not. C suite types will say its a better long term investment in new technology and tools, or that multiple applications of an ai service allow costs to be spread across the business.

restingboredface ,

They said this about the equivalent breach, and yet here we are.

restingboredface ,

I don't get why HP continues selling in the consumer market if they are struggling so much to make a profit.It seems like they are trying to force a business model on the wider market that doesn't work.

The subscription model makes more sense in the B2B world where companies just want fixed costs without doing too much shopping around (for things like printer cartridges anyway).

restingboredface ,

JFC, talk about blast from the past. this is all I will hear for the rest of the day now.

restingboredface ,

The one thing where I agree with cable companies about is the risk to consumers accidentally canceling all or multiple services when they intend to just cancel one. It will be hard to explain that a package price will no longer apply if one part of the package is canceled.

However- it can be addressed with a well-designed cancelation instruction screen. This is a constraint to the communication and process design; it is not an insurmountable barrier like the cable companies are suggesting.

restingboredface ,

Okay I'm not very technical but I hate Microsoft with every fiber of my being and want desperately to break from them but can't bring myself to switch my regular and gaming PCs to Linux. It just feels like too much work like I'd be starting over and most of all I just fear change. Is there a good YT series/channel or blog or something I can check out that might make things a little less intimidating?

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