kescusay

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

I mean, we're watching it happen. I don't think it's hypothetical anymore.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It's already happening. GPT 5.2 is noticeably worse than previous versions.

It's called model collapse.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Oh, the guy from Hermit Tech! He's great, and his blog is hilarious and poignant in turns (though sometimes both at the same time).

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 72 points 4 days ago (5 children)

You wanna know who really bags on LLMs? Actual AI developers. I work with some, and you've never heard someone shit all over this garbage like someone who works with neural networks for a living.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I won't link directly to the video, because it does show an extremely violent brawl (and a man's final conscious moments; to be clear, I'm not celebrating his death and never would). But the Wikipedia article on it links to news sites and analysis, and several of those have the video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Quentin_Deranque

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I don't see how this could even be in question. The sequence of events in the video is absolutely plain as day. Nazis picked a fight and got their heads kicked in for it, case fucking closed.

He's never gonna be their Charlie Kirk, as if that would even be something to aspire to.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They're also not providing a large language model, so they actually did have a path to profitability. It's keeping LLMs updated and running that costs so much money that companies trying to do so are losing billions, and Midjourney doesn't have that problem.

It's just that their path to profitability was built on plagiarism on an astonishing scale. You're spot on, they should have been utterly destroyed right at the start.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Dare I ask... Is that real?

Ugh. I hate what we've become.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 122 points 5 days ago (39 children)

And it's not even working. Not one of the AI companies is profitable. So they're putting the hope for profits some time in the future over sanity and safety.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

May? They definitely don't. Vibe coders are producing lots of garbage code they can't possibly have reviewed, at breakneck speed.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (16 children)

The weirdest thing about all this is that by sheer accident, the QAnon freaks actually managed to find a tiny sliver of truth: There really is a cabal of powerful child abusers. It's just that they got every single other detail, including who the child abusers are, insanely wrong.

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a work-supplied laptop with Windows on it. I use it maybe once or twice a month, just for the things requiring a VPN. The rest of the time it sits there gathering dust while I get real work done on my Linux laptop.

The specs on the work laptop say it should be a performance beast, but my Linux machine (with half the RAM) runs circles around it.

 

Hi there,

I'm the mod for !nottheonion, and I'd like to unban someone. Unfortunately, the user I want to unban doesn't have any content in the community anymore, and I can't find a way to do it.

Help?

 

Look, I get it. The gargantuan shit-show that is U.S. politics and the American descent into fascism is on everyone's minds. It's certainly on mine.

But the point of this community is to highlight weird news stories that make you go, "By golly, I thought I was reading a headline from The Onion. You know, America's finest news source." A lot of stories being posted lately don't even remotely fit that.

That doesn't mean political stories aren't allowed here, but they must have headlines that would make people pause and wonder if it's a story from The Onion. Straight up regular, non Onion-y headlines don't fit.

 

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.”

For the record, Trump is 78 years old. Assuming he survives and manages to stay in office, he would be 86 when we're finally rid of him.

 

I can't find any content from this user from which to access the famous three-dots menu to unban them, and the post that resulted in their ban is already long gone, so I can't do it from there.

Could an administrator please unban the user?

 

The end of an era in Eugene. :'(

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case made public Friday a heavily redacted trove of documents that provide a small glimpse into the evidence prosecutors will present if the case ever goes to trial.

The nearly 1,900 pages of documents collected by special counsel Jack Smith’s team were initially filed under seal to help U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan decide what allegations can proceed to trial following the Supreme Court opinion in July that conferred broad immunity on former presidents for official acts they take in office.

That's gonna be some serious reading over the weekend.

 

Hey everyone, just a quick PSA: Oregon ballots are in the mail as of today. (Oct. 16th, 2024).

Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/MyVote to find out when yours will be in the mail!

Go to https://oregonvotes.gov/Counties if you have any issues or concerns to bring up with your county elections office!

VOTE!

 

Just spotted that we made this list on Forbes last week. We're famous!

 

I hate the fact that it's almost fall now, and we're seeing temperatures around 100 degrees fahrenheit and smoke from first fires. In September.

 

The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US elections by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation, six sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

It’s expected the US will make a series of moves on Wednesday aimed at addressing the Kremlin’s efforts including the White House publicly condemning the actions and the Justice Department announcing law enforcement action targeting the covert Russian campaign, the sources said.

 

Just a heads up, there's a severe thunderstorm alert right now:

https://g.co/kgs/7NQdqAJ

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