Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit and is now exploring new vistas in social media.
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What do you personally use AI for?
I really want to use AI like llama, ChatGTP, midjourney etc. for something productive. But over the last year the only thing I found use for it was to propose places to go as a family on our Hokaido Japan journey. There were great proposals for places to go....
GitHub Is Not Open Source, A Rant ( listed.to )
Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed” ( wedistribute.org )
Server indexes of places for newcomers to join can be instrumental for Fediverse adoption. However, sudden rule changes can leave some admins feeling pressure to change policies in order to remain listed.
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
Firefox plan to show ads and shopping in the near future in the browser as an opt-out ( bugzilla.mozilla.org )
First focusing on AI and now this, already cancelled my donations, do we have a good fork to move to?
Why did the other adventurers respect my boundaries?? ( lemmy.world )
Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models (arxiv preprint) ( arxiv.org )
Abstract:...
Tumblr and Wordpress to Sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools ( www.404media.co )
this could not be timed worse for Tumblr which is in huge hot water with its userbase already for its CEO breaking his sabbatical to ban a prominent trans user for allegedly threatening him (in a cartoonish manner), and then spending a week personally justifying it increasingly wildly across several platforms. the rumors had...
Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel ( matt.si )
Threativore: An anti-spam automoderator for Lemmy ( github.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15112791...
Blocking AI crawlers on the fediverse ( fedia.io )
Given how Reddit now makes money by selling its data to AI companies, I was wondering how the situation is for the fediverse. Typically you can block AI crawlers using robot.txt (Verge reported about it recently: https://www.theverge.com/24067997/robots-txt-ai-text-file-web-crawlers-spiders). But this only works per...
Every race gets one cool ability ( aussie.zone )
Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO ( www.bloomberg.com )
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media ( techcrunch.com )
Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything ( archive.is )