From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
Who the hell did facial expressions / animations ? Its so gloriously overexaggerated and over the top! I just picket it up because it works on steam deck and im having a blast
Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI....
Absolutely. Just because Altman "wishes" a new energy breakthrough its not suddenly going to happen. And even if nuclear fusion succeed, applying them in real life in scale is another big problem...
Looking at some of the replied that tried to dismiss the issue and the general lack of concern from moderators against aggressive replies from AI apologists (in this thread but also other AI related threads) are disheartening.
On Amazon, I searched for “OpenAI policy” and boy, did I get results! I’m not entirely sure what this green thing is but I’ve been assured that it will “Boost your productivity with our high-performance [product name], designed to deliver-fast results and handle demanding tasks efficiently, ensuring you stay of the...
Apparently, stealing other people's work to create product for money is now "fair use" as according to OpenAI because they are "innovating" (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...
The absolute hubris required for OpenAI here to come right out and say, 'Yeah, we have no choice but to build our product off the exploitation of the work others have already performed' is stunning. It's about as perfect a representation of the tech bro mindset that there can ever be. They didn't even try to approach content creators in order to do this, they just took what they needed because they wanted to. I really don't think it's hyperbolic to compare this to modern day colonization, or worker exploitation. 'You've been working pretty hard for a very long time to create and host content, pay for the development of that content, and build your business off of that, but we need it to make money for this thing we're building, so we're just going to fucking take it and do what we need to do.'
The entitlement is just...it's incredible.
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20 years ago, high school kids were sued for millions & years in jail for downloading a single Metalica album (if I remember correctly minimum damage in the US was something like 500k$ per song).
All of a sudden, just because they are the dominant ones doing the infringment, they should be allowed to scrap the entire (digital) human knowledge ? Funny (or not) how the law always benefits the rich.
There is nothing "fair" about the way Open AI steals other people's work. ChatGPT is being monetized all over the world and the large number of people whose work has not been compensated will never see a cent of that money.
At the same time the LLM will be used to replace (at least some of ) the people who created those works in the first place.
Yup. I said it in another discussion before but think its relevant here.
Tech bros are more dangerous than Russian oligarchs.
Oligarchs understand the people hate them so they mostly stay low and enjoy their money.
Tech bros think they are the savior of the world while destroying millions of people's livelihood, as well as destroying democracy with their right wing libertarian politics.
People hate them not because it is fashionable, but because they can see what is coming.
Tech companies want to create tools that would replace million of jobs without compensating the very people that created these works in the first place.
It is supposedly a non-profit, and that is how the board of Open AI tried to fire Altman but than the big tech (Microsoft) intervened and wrestled the control.
This is the direct result of Google diminishing the importance of forums and blogs in the first place.
There used to be a “discussion” tab in Google search and forums used to have higher placement in Google. At some point they decided that “professional sites” are more important than discussions. Forums and blogs getting less traffic means more people decide to create content on SNS instead.
“Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games.”
What a shame. One thing I noticed on Twitter is that a lot of Japanese men have sympathy for Trump. What I did not expect is they really fell into QAnon when given the opportunity.
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....
Even though I have premium, YouTube recently has been very hit and miss. Live streams keep buffering for no reason. Some videos failed to play and needed a refresh.
Just odd behaviour all around. In their battle to take out adblockers they destroyed the average viewer experience as well.
Agreed with the tone of the videos being off and I don’t like both creators.
On the other hand, there is definitely some weird accounting going on at the charity. They are supposed to report all expenses which they didn’t. They also didn’t provide any banking statement that show the money were there all the time. If the fund is misused and then repaid later, they were still misused.
That is my observation as well. When it really comes to personal liberty they don’t really care. Remember that libertarian tech bro like Peter Thiel (who is gay btw) somehow thought the world is “too woke” and continues to fund conservative politicians taking away gay rights.
Yea, Atlas Shrugged really presented a very naive and simplistic world view that cannot work in real life. The capitalists all fuck off to build a city? Who is going to build them? Right. The workers. The workers that they despise.
Six months in, journalist-owned tech publication 404 Media is profitable ( www.niemanlab.org )
of note:...
The Cult of AI: How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future ( www.rollingstone.com )
From the (middle of the) story: The reason CES was so packed with random “AI”-branded products was that sticking those two letters to a new company is seen as something of a talisman, a ritual to bring back the (VC) rainy season.
Cant really get into Mihoyo games on my commute
Been playing mostly Marvel Snap and Match 3....
Metal Gear Revengeance - whats with their faces ?^
Who the hell did facial expressions / animations ? Its so gloriously overexaggerated and over the top! I just picket it up because it works on steam deck and im having a blast
OpenAI CEO Altman: future AI depends on energy breakthrough ( www.reuters.com )
Speaking at a Bloomberg event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Altman said the silver lining is that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, are the way forward for AI....
Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? ( joysauce.com )
I’m sorry, but I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy ( www.theverge.com )
On Amazon, I searched for “OpenAI policy” and boy, did I get results! I’m not entirely sure what this green thing is but I’ve been assured that it will “Boost your productivity with our high-performance [product name], designed to deliver-fast results and handle demanding tasks efficiently, ensuring you stay of the...
Where have all the websites gone? ( www.fromjason.xyz )
None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway ( conspirator0.substack.com )
Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic....
OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material ( arstechnica.com )
Apparently, stealing other people's work to create product for money is now "fair use" as according to OpenAI because they are "innovating" (stealing). Yeah. Move fast and break things, huh?...
What’s next for Mozilla? ( techcrunch.com )
one passage of note:...
How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT ( danluu.com )
Who’s Killing All These Stories About a Controversial Tech Mogul? ( www.thedailybeast.com )
Since this billionaire doesn’t want us to learn about what bad things he did, I figured we should let as many people know as possible:...
Sam Altman’s Knack for Dodging Bullets—With a Little Help From Bigshot Friends ( www.wsj.com )
Archive Options Failing, Text Follows:...
China announces rules to reduce spending on video games ( www.reuters.com )
“Online games will now be banned from giving players rewards if they log in every day, if they spend on the game for the first time or if they spend several times on the game consecutively. All are common incentive mechanisms in online games.”
Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content ( www.theverge.com )
Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud ( arstechnica.com )
Japanese Unicorn SmartNews failing in the US because the CEO went down the QAnon Rabbit Hole ( restofworld.org )
The investors might want a refund after seeing what the money were used for....
YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again
I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....
Activision Blizzard settles sex discrimination lawsuit for £44m ( www.eurogamer.net )
Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final ( mastodon.online )
Updates regarding the IndieLand / The Completionist charity fraud allegations
Prior discussion...
Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies ( www.vice.com )
More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....