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colonial Aug 13, 2023

Intentionally corrupting LLM training data?

Intentionally corrupting LLM training data? - Lemmy.world

Inspired by the comments on this [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/openai-details-how-to-keep-chatgpt-from-gobbling-up-website-data/] Ars article, I’ve decided to program my website to “poison the well” when it gets a request from GPTBot. The intuitive approach is just to generate some HTML like this: <p> // Twenty pages of random words </p> (I also considered just hardcoding twenty megabytes of “FUCK YOU,” but that’s a little juvenile for my taste.) Unfortunately, I’m not very familiar with ML beyond a few basic concepts, so I’m unsure if this would get me the most bang for my buck. What do you smarter people on Lemmy think?

colonial Jul 9, 2023

Found this blast from the past (2015) on an old hard drive

https://lemmy.world/post/1279525

Found this blast from the past (2015) on an old hard drive - Lemmy.world

I was 11 when I took this screenshot - Ubuntu 14.04 running on my very first (incredibly bad) PC. As I recall, I couldn’t install Windows 7 without a DVD drive, and that was out of my budget :p Pretty sure I had it riced out with the Compiz cube and everything.

colonial Jun 27, 2023

Should I donate to my instance or the project itself?

https://lemmy.world/post/670783

Should I donate to my instance or the project itself? - Lemmy.world

Hey all, I just hopped on the Lemmy train, and needless to say, I’m hooked. It’s a breath of fresh air compared to the corporate hellhole that Reddit has become, and I’d like to at least pay a little bit for it. Unfortunately, I’m a broke uni student with enough subscriptions as is, so I can really only justify a buck or two a month. This is where my indecision arises - should I donate to the instance that my account lives on, or to the LemmyNet project itself? I’ve been digging around, looking at operating costs and such, and I can’t figure out which one needs it more (for want of a better term.) So, what are your thoughts? Or am I just wildly overthinking this?