The Spotify version is only marginally better in my experience. And both are better than asking a chatbot directly.
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I think platform holders have a responsibility here to intentionally augment the algorithm.
YouTube already does it with other content. Look into what they did years ago about videos that children upload of themselves. I’ve always suspected that action years ago is what ruined their original pure “people who like this video like these videos” algorithm.
Mark sounds like some people around here. Just saying “these things are inevitable.” “Parents should just parent.“
I have yet to see anyone propose plausible replacements beyond public private key encryption. And it wasn’t clear how those keys would be authenticated reliably.
I think there should be counter proposals. Not just anger. If anyone can link me to a concrete counter proposal that would be helpful for discussion purposes and spreading the word.
I’m frustrated with this topic because it’s bonkers how we just let things get this out of hand. (Sentiment manipulation on social media with impostors, kids mingling with adults in games and social media, kids mingling with adults on social media that allows pornography, absurd “are you 18?” gates that everyone mocks, but somehow also says it’s the best we can do. Etc.)
And I hate talking to nerds online about it. Because they are so submersed in how the web has worked and seem to just fear change. AND they rightfully fear the privacy and government control concerns.
Someone should have been building a privacy first solution this whole time. And now I don’t seem to see anyone doing that. The nerds are just screaming into their echo chambers. 😔
Edit: “parents should parent” does not address all of the issues.
The victims of child exploitation? Or the lawyers representing them? Or..?
“The kill chain is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.”
Can you imagine anyone in this administration understanding the flaws of AI and not just trusting the sycophantic models blindly?
Because you think they are conspiracies with goals to spy on you?
The meme is that those are overwhelmingly hosted by and consumed by women.
cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/37907
Some readers may recall the Lynx-R1 headset — it was conceived as an Android virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) headset with built-in hand tracking, designed to be open where others were closed, allowing developers and users access to inner workings in defiance of walled gardens. It looked very promising, with features rivaling (or surpassing) those of its contemporaries.
Founder [Stan Larroque] recently announced that Lynx’s 6DoF SLAM (simultaneous location and mapping) solution has been released as open source. ORB-SLAM3 (GitHub repository) takes in camera images and outputs a 6DoF pose, and does so effectively in real-time. The repository contains some added details as well as a demo application that can run on the Lynx-R1 headset.
The unusual optics are memorable. (Hands-on Lynx-R1 by Antony Vitillo)
As a headset the Lynx-R1 had a number of intriguing elements. The unusual optics, the flip-up design, and built-in hand tracking were impressive for its time, as was the high-quality mixed reality pass-through. That last feature refers to the headset using its external cameras as inputs to let the user see the real world, but with the ability to have virtual elements displayed and apparently anchored to real-world locations. Doing this depends heavily on the headset being able to track its position in the real world with both high accuracy and low latency, and this is what ORB-SLAM3 provides.
A successful crowdfunding campaign for the Lynx-R1 in 2021 showed that a significant number of people were on board with what Lynx was offering, but developing brand new consumer hardware is a challenging road for many reasons unrelated to developing the actual thing. There was a hands-on at a trade show in 2021 and units were originally intended to ship out in 2022, but sadly that didn’t happen. Units still occasionally trickle out to backers and pre-orders according to the unofficial Discord, but it’s safe to say things didn’t really go as planned for the R1.
It remains a genuinely noteworthy piece of hardware, especially considering it was not a product of one of the tech giants. If we manage to get our hands on one of them, we’ll certainly give you a good look at it.
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Steal it and drop it into the nearest dumpster.