Posts by FediThing@chinwag.org
 (DIR) Post #Afxjr6ZfzveIgGrvlY by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       If you like silent films of the 1920s, or if you want to try watching something different, I've edited together some modern Creative Commons music along with the visuals of a couple of public domain silent films:Wings (1927) - The first ever winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, an excellent epic war/adventure/romance story set in the First World War➡️ https://fedi.video/w/mnxJLqxaS9yejUAnZPNYcHThe Phantom of the Opera (1925) - Gothic horror film which began Universal's "monster" series, it sticks fairly close to Gaston Leroux's famous novel of the same name about the Paris Opera House in the 1880s➡️ https://fedi.video/w/xAuNMvv5h2qVqtLn5b38Vj#SilentFilm #Films
       
 (DIR) Post #AjBeWeR8zaBR2NXqqm by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       Imagine a stranger spreads lies about you. They tell everyone you're doing horrible stuff, the worst crimes imaginable. They make videos, articles, livestreams, all pushing the same lies designed to make everyone hate and fear you.Would you "just block them"?What happens when other people don't block them? When other people believe them, follow them, share their lies?What if this turns into real life abuse? If someone attacks you or your family?This is what vulnerable minorities face because of badly-moderated social media:https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2022-02-20/facebook-accused-of-letting-activists-incite-ethnic-massacres-with-hate-and-misinformation-by-survivors-in-ethiopia/🙏 Please defederate threads.net or ask your server admin to do so.#Threads
       
 (DIR) Post #AmxoQfgjtG7XiDFXOK by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       It's really effing obvious LLMs are a con trick:If LLMs were actually intelligent, they would be able to just learn from each other and would get better all the time. But what actually happens if LLMs only learn from each other is their models collapse and they start spouting gibberish.LLMs depend entirely on copying what humans write because they have no ability to create anything themselves. That's why they collapse when you remove their access to humans.There is no intelligence in LLMs, it's just repackaging what humans have written without their permission. It's stolen human labour.#LLM #LLMs #AI #AIs #ChatGPT
       
 (DIR) Post #AuxWSGsWUPHAVxVgAK by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       In Nazi-occupied Europe during the Second World War, the resistance would freak the fascists out by secretly painting the "V" symbol everywhere: on roads, on walls, carved into stone etc. If a Nazi entered a bar, someone would tap under the table with V in morse code. The Nazis had no idea who was doing it and they couldn't arrest the whole bar."...the (Nazi) occupier, by seeing this sign, always the same, infinitely repeated, (would) understand that he is surrounded, encircled by an immense crowd of citizens eagerly awaiting his first moment of weakness, watching for his first failure."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#Second_World_War:_V_for_Victory_campaign
       
 (DIR) Post #B945WtU0g3VpDIROVs by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       The game publishing giant EA has been taken over by the Saudi government, Saudi Arabia now owns 93.4% of EA.LGBTQIA+ rights do not exist at all in Saudi Arabia. The penalty for homosexuality is death.If you weren't already avoiding EA, it might be a good idea to stop buying their games.cc @gaming #Gaming #EA #VideoGames
       
 (DIR) Post #B9PbytphS7M3yfMgoS by FediThing@chinwag.org
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       When the book-burning by GenAI/LLM companies was revealed, the defences of this were "oh the books aren't rare" and "oh they're only buying books from pulping companies that will be destroyed anyway".Neither of these is true. The AI companies are buying bulk orders of obscure titles from ordinary booksellers:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/15/uk-ireland-booksellers-suspect-ai-companies-bulk-orders-data-acquisitionNone of these are bestsellers, and none of them are checked to see if they are archived anywhere. But they *will* be physically destroyed by the AI companies after sucking out all the info from them.#GenAI #LLM #AI