Posts by datarama@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #Ad6V7rANrHc6bWbp68 by datarama@hachyderm.io
2023-12-23T14:31:29Z
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@tante The only kinds of AI imagery I've seen that *haven't* been mind-numbingly dull have been the ones where there was some human input *aside* from the prompt (and, of course, the billions of human-created images in the training set!). Where something like Controlnet is used to constrain and guide the diffusion algorithm.Because in pure-prompt systems, cherry-picking is literally all you have. Your entire "workflow" is collapsed into undo/retry.
(DIR) Post #Ad6xaRvHad4RQXy5HU by datarama@hachyderm.io
2023-12-23T19:50:38Z
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@selea -groan-Generative AI is basically the information equivalent of a child's notion of how the bad guy might operate a "pollution factory".
(DIR) Post #AdFdikZhsP0avoCE0e by datarama@hachyderm.io
2023-12-28T00:00:28Z
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Move carefully and fix things.
(DIR) Post #AdMgc44DCQTjSWvKc4 by datarama@hachyderm.io
2023-12-31T01:00:45Z
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@mhoye I've used Firefox since back when it was named Phoenix, and I'll continue to do so for as long as I can.My own frustration with the Mozilla leadership is about specifically this: I *want* to keep using Firefox (and I *don't* want to use Chrome!), but they seem to keep making decisions that make me worry they're going to destroy it.
(DIR) Post #AdgujAC5JuC7Hw5EVk by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-01-09T22:55:45Z
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@benno In a sense, this is a revealing self-own.If it isn't possible to train an AI without shoving a large fraction of the entire written cultural output of the (Western, admittedly) world into it, but a small child can learn to read through simple imitation, what does that say about the intelligence of an AI vs. that of a small child?
(DIR) Post #AhJJWMyC4HBEQXXdyK by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-04-27T10:19:46Z
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@foone I've said it before, the biggest mistake of all was the cloud.We put the computers in places where we can't easily get to them with hammers.
(DIR) Post #Ahir1uZ2jeaGNsfgCu by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-05-09T18:04:22Z
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@clive I fluctuate between "they have made a perfect anti-advertisement against not only themselves, but the entire tech industry" and "they have made a perfect advertisement for Enoch-branded sledgehammers".
(DIR) Post #AiC9O6rN8N05eFoiRc by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-05-23T21:16:52Z
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@selea @mttaggart The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: now is the Year of the Linux Desktop.
(DIR) Post #AiGJad4ay4LZClRyTo by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-05-25T21:25:15Z
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@foone Isn't it a bit ambitious to try to archive Google?*drumroll*Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
(DIR) Post #AiI4OQI9YKUF5pQvEu by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-05-26T17:48:45Z
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@aral @peteriskrisjanis @hannu_ikonen By making the service they provide so poor that it no longer serves as a good source of surveillance data.(There's a way to go before Google hits that point.)
(DIR) Post #AiOMNJV0HpPBrLp9lY by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-05-29T18:38:38Z
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@Wolven I doubt they're going to walk this one back. I remember Wave and Google+ too, but I don't think they've ever gone as absolutely all-in on anything in their graveyard as they now have on generative AI.
(DIR) Post #AiWl7UMNrTGSb4uxPc by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-02T19:53:39Z
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@Wolven I doubted you, but this was entirely because I had no faith that Google leadership would actually be able to recognize how ill-advised this was.
(DIR) Post #AicNSxlfVL99zQZmZU by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T12:56:41Z
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@aral I had a conversation today about how horrible it must be to be a person with a conscience across pretty much every industry. You work in advertising? You're manipulating people for profit. You work in garments? You're creating mountains of pollution heaped onto the Global South. You work in journalism? You're writing manipulative clickbait.And you're probably a good person, anyway. Your work got turned evil by economic forces outside your control.
(DIR) Post #AicRJEufIvCY5LP46K by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T13:00:43Z
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@aral Perhaps it's just because software is my own trade, but I think the software industry has been uniquely disgusting in this process. *Why* does that poor journalist have to produce shitty clickbait? *Why* is advertising now synonymous with surveillance? Because of the software industry.Software did eat the world - and in the process, it unsurprisingly made the world into shit, half-digested by software.
(DIR) Post #AicRYIwkabpswHYv1U by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-05T13:42:14Z
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@aral In fairness, I picked that phrase because it's a direct quote from Marc Andreessen - a uniquely reliable source of psychopathic language.
(DIR) Post #Aim4EaiGTCZ4sr16K8 by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-06-08T14:02:38Z
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@fkinoshita "Computer science is the study of self-inflicted problems."-- my old theoretical CS prof.
(DIR) Post #Al69y52PVvjg5R1OIy by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-08-18T17:25:11Z
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@dalias I've used gotos much like this in lexers, and a few other state machines. When what you actually mean is "nonrecoverably transfer control to somewhere else", they're often the best you can do for readability in a langauge that doesn't have tail-call optimization.
(DIR) Post #AlE6G9KvQQUq4xinh2 by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-08-22T13:27:08Z
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@futurebird For obvious reasons, my impression has an overrepresentation of Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.But trying to filter from that, your view matches mine - except I'd swap French and Dutch.
(DIR) Post #AlEZ3RvFuQQid20kfQ by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-08-22T18:50:10Z
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@futurebird Something that plopped into my head almost immediately after playing Stardew Valley for the first time: A similar theme, except in a world similar to that in Simon Stålenhag's two first artbooks (Tales from the Loop / Things from the Flood).Cozy, 1980s Scandinavia, except with weird technology and time-travelling dinosaurs.
(DIR) Post #AlWh0b71a7rQjwwhLE by datarama@hachyderm.io
2024-08-31T11:41:17Z
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@amoroso A few years ago, I spent a summer reading all of them. Good times. :-)