David GerardAI Proves Popular With Specific Group of People
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Casually: a video game, technology and infosec enthusiast, with a love for sci-fi (Star Trek especially).
Professionally: a lawyer. I do law stuff. We don't need to talk about that here. None of my posts are legal advice, and you are not my client.
Professionally: a lawyer. I do law stuff. We don't need to talk about that here. None of my posts are legal advice, and you are not my client.
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@GreatestTrek I can't buy Second Contact Tour streaming tickets, the Shopify form hits an error when I click the purchase button. Tried it in two different browsers, with credit card and with paypal, and with ad blocker turned off. Below is the error from the console, which seems to be the source of the mischief.
I'm quite sure this is not you're fault, but maybe you know to whom to complain.
Some academics took the "it's bullshit" characterization of LLM output that I also happened upon a bit further https://mastodon.social/@TorontoWill/110442918559022576 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way indifferent to the truth of their outputs. We distinguish two ways in which the models can be said to be bullshitters, and argue that they clearly meet at least one of these definitions. We further argue that describing AI misrepresentations as bullshit is both a more useful and more accurate way of predicting and discussing the behaviour of these systems.
@GreatestTrek Not nostalgia. Nausea. Enterprise was my first Star Trek show that I really *remember* watching when new (I was VERY excited for the premiere), so I had plenty of misty-eyed nostalgia watching it again--but none for the theme song, it's insufferable.
I'd gone 10 years without hearing it, and couldn't last 10 seconds before furiously rummaging through my couch cushions to find the remote to hit "skip intro".
William PietriOk, so first, content creation. That seems positive, right? Wrong! The best way I've seen of explaining this: "Why should I take the time to read something nobody took the time to write?"
I think this one is a huge net societal negative. The people out there who want instant "content" are almost entirely not readers. They're people who want something to run ads against. They're people who want the credit for writing without doing the work. They're people who want to sell you something without understanding the something or whether or not it might be good for you. In short, they're people with various levels of contempt for their readers.
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Eugen RochkoIt’s hard not to say “AI” when everybody else does too, but technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing. There is no intelligence there, and it’s not going to become sentient. It’s just statistics, and the danger they pose is primarily through the false sense of skill or fitness for purpose that people ascribe to them.
@GreatestTrek Oh thank god you updated the pre-roll. I've been re-watching TNG, and have been subjected to Adam's 90-seconds-of-yelling pre-roll at least 20 times.
@GreatestTrek I stumbled onto an Adam Ragusea video the other day totally by chance (I never watch cooking stuff on YouTube, but the algorithm nailed my interest with a recommendation). It wasn't until I was 8 minutes into the video, looking for the like button (it's a GREAT channel), that it struck me. A guy whose name I've heard hundreds of times on #GreatestTrek, and whose voice I just listened to for an hour on a recent ep.
Like seeing your teacher at the mall, it doesn't compute at first.
I started watching #Loki season 2, and in addition to the storytelling being totally incoherent, I'm really distracted with the muddy cinematography. Like this is from the trailer, by design it *should* have loads of contrast, and yet they've totally flattened it, and saturated it with orange tint. It looks like ass.
