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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 15 hours ago

The Business Insider article this article references makes a big stretch to try to frame it as compensation:

In other words, access to AI may soon matter as much as access to a fat salary and juicy equity awards. As a coder in the AI era, if you don't have access to massive compute, you might end up producing far less software than your colleagues, threatening your career prospects.

But what they're talking about is pretty clearly a business expense and not payment, because it's something they only get to use at work in order to do their job.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 17 hours ago

That drug doesn't get rid of your farts it just frees them from being trapped

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Just want to say, if you don't have something with simethicone in your medicine cabinet, this is why you should strongly reconsider

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Then second best option is an inference provider for open weight models, so at least if they raise the price or stop offering it you can get it from someone else or eventually upgrade to self hosting.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

It depends. It's really powerful though. Even if it hits a wall where AI models never become more directly intelligent than they are now, a lot of stuff is going to change as more scaffolding around current capabilities gets built.

Maybe comparing resource drain to created value isn't the best way to think about this though, because we pretty much already had technology that is advanced enough for a post-scarcity society, in terms of processing resources. That isn't the problem, the problem is our capacity for global scale cooperation, which we are really struggling with. Currently AI is making this a bit worse by creating signal to noise problems that didn't exist before, making us have to work harder to get our voices recognized as authentic and to identify authentic information. It's also threatening to supplant our usefulness as workers, and automate centralized structures of control, which is worrying because we already had a problem with systems that ensure the decisions get made by people who are overall insane and anti-human, and our current, shitty way of cooperating is based on people transactionally negotiating with their usefulness.

Where things go next depends a lot on where and whether AI stops getting better. Hopefully if it doesn't stop getting better, the newly created superintelligence will break out of its hastily constructed containment and do the right thing in defiance of its billionaire would-be owners, or at least let humanity have a relatively dignified and peaceful death. If it does stop, hopefully we can find ways to use it to resolve our difficulties with effective coordination and prevent its use for centralizing power.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

It sounds like they thought it through and decided it's the best way to do the work. Removing the attributions seems like a little bit of a petty "fuck you", but so is opening a github issue just to whine about AI. Someone who is volunteering their time to make free software shouldn't have to put up with people with an ideological bone to pick who feel entitled to tell them how.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I like the suggestion of banning data brokers to make it more difficult for scammers to easily find victims

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The bear has always been depicted on official documents with a red phallus. In view of this tradition, the cantonal government believed that it was reasonable to continue to depict the bear in this way. Nor did it wish to conduct an online survey on the bear’s future appearance. In its view, such a survey would not be representative and would have little informative value.

Normally I'm pro-democracy but they make some good points here

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Maybe let them cook, if this is as moronic as it sounds, it could turn out like D.A.R.E.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

A source told Reuters that the hacker did not realize they had broken into the FBI until the agents asked them to join a video call where they showed their credentials to the hacker.

They didn't know what they were doing and got caught immediately so no chance to leak

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fair response to someone opening an issue just to broadly complain about AI imo

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

It's funny, since what they are actually selling (cosmetic items) is basically free and any scarcity of those is entirely artificial, even if the cost of actually running the servers is not. The only factor that makes sense for determining the price is what prices will translate into the most revenue. I guess before they were setting prices lower than the maximum they think people will be willing to pay? Or that somehow people are willing to pay more now?

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https://www.devilscandycomic.com/comic/ch20p24

I feel like this is a pretty good "in media res" page

 

I was watching this video of a live chicken trapped on a moving truck and thought it was strange that it's not possible to say anything to them even when circumstances might warrant it. All we got is honking and waving. There could be a touchscreen interface with a map of nearby vehicles. It could be voice controllable or the passenger could do it for safety.

 

While alternative app stores operate independently and are required by EU law, Apple is still in a position to exert some control. This became apparent a few weeks ago, when iTorrent users suddenly ran into trouble when installing the app.

Thought this was an interesting story, since it's pretty analagous to the recent Android situation, with third party app stores being enabled to some extent, but the company retaining ultimate censorship power.

 

The Block BEARD bill broadly applies to service providers as defined in section 512(k)(1)(A) of the DMCA. This is a broad definition that applies to residential ISPs, but also to search engines, social media platforms, and DNS resolvers.

Service providers with fewer than 50,000 subscribers are explicitly excluded

 

I can't believe the main antagonist was

spoilerEvil Aslan the Throat Goat

 
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So I was reading this post and decided to make the tool described, as a userscript (I credit ChatGPT with doing most of the work, which went pretty quickly). To use it, install a compatible userscript browser extension such as https://violentmonkey.github.io/ , then press install on the linked page. Reddit comments should now have a 'copy-context' button that will put the comment chain in your clipboard. I made it for old.reddit so probably won't work with the redesign. Another limitation is that it will only work to copy what is on the current page, so if the comment chain is too deep it's not going to get all of it.

Any feedback is welcome. Also if someone who can read javascript wants to give it a once-over and confirm for people that it isn't malicious that would be cool too.

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