Post AqZblgnemPIREZXePg by inaction_figure@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #AqZ9dUnEju44xjeMAC by jimsalter@fosstodon.org
       2025-01-29T06:34:53Z
       
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       I'm very glad that some Chinese folks figured out how to make an artificial hallucinating idiot much more quickly and cheaply than we made our own artificial hallucinating idiots.The correct answer here was either "I don't know" or "extremely old cartoons which have entered the public domain, typically from the dawn of modern animation in the 1930s."#DeepSeek (DerpSeek?)
       
 (DIR) Post #AqZBSz4u04rbc21oXY by MixMistressAlice@todon.eu
       2025-01-29T06:55:20Z
       
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       @jimsalter These drawings are lovely. Now I wish I knew who has made this animation ;-)
       
 (DIR) Post #AqZY0Ko6Qn1LYGTiRk by f4grx@chaos.social
       2025-01-29T11:07:51Z
       
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       @jimsalter GUS, generic uninformative slop.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqZblgnemPIREZXePg by inaction_figure@fosstodon.org
       2025-01-29T11:50:06Z
       
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       @jimsalter What if DeepSeek is just a big call center staffed with underpaid workers on chat clients?
       
 (DIR) Post #AqZjJ9mijcjsMf0eIq by jimsalter@fosstodon.org
       2025-01-29T13:14:35Z
       
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       @inaction_figure the allegory you're looking for is "mechanical Turk," but where are you going to find a call center full of underpaid domestic Chinese workers capable of not only flawless English, but flawless English *perfectly in the style of a large language model?*I don't think I could staff a call center full of people who could pull that off if I were paying $60K salaries and recruiting in the USA. 😅
       
 (DIR) Post #AqZjWtE75vIf43N2eG by jimsalter@fosstodon.org
       2025-01-29T13:17:04Z
       
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       @MixMistressAlice that particular one looks like proto-Disney from here, but I might be wrong. I don't recognize those characters specifically, but they look to be drawn in the style of the Disney animation in the pre-Mickey era. Those videos I refer to in the post mostly use extremely early Disney and Looney Tunes for their backing visuals, but you do get some studios that didn't even exist by the fifties sometimes also.
       
 (DIR) Post #AqZjjCOndcD209Eqjg by jimsalter@fosstodon.org
       2025-01-29T13:19:18Z
       
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       @MixMistressAlice one obvious reason to use such ancient cartoons is that they entered the public domain in the United States. But another, even more important one is that those very early cartoons were usually set to music themselves, in part because looping a few frames into a constant "dance" was a way to save on the time and expense of adding more frames--which makes it easy to sync them up with new music at the same BPM!