JohnEdwa

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And just like spam detection, as the AI detection tools are looking for artifacts and glitches that are the result of the generation, the only way to get around them is to improve the output to be cleaner and more human-like.

The end result is either hitting the limit with generation and being able to block most of it, or surpassing the ability for content detection, making it essentially indistinguishable from real content. Which is either a great, or a really horrible result, depending on your stance on listening to AI music, i.e do you dislike it because it current sounds bad, or on principle because it wasn't made by a human no matter how good it is.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't know if it's different where you are, but here in Finland the generics (in store brands) are actually quite often made by the same big local brands, but depending on your food label laws it can be impossible to determine. Here they need to tell the country and actual manufacturer in the packaging making it easy.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It actually kinda is, the price has been $29 since 1995, adjusted for inflation they should be asking for $64 today.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Question the artificial instead. It can mean man made, but can also mean fake, and LLMs are definitely excellent at faking being intelligent.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yet extremely understandable. On the global market, a phone without WhatsApp is basically a phone that cannot text people. For example, in Germany or Spain, 90% of internet users also use WhatsApp.

It would be like trying to sell a streaming box/tv and deciding that because Google is evil it doesn't support YouTube.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Technically, they are buying manufacturing capacity. Datacenters don't use consumer DDR5 sticks with epic RGB lighting, they use server grade hardware, and are contracting the manufacturers to make stuff for them at high premiums. That means they either aren't making consumer hardware at all - causing shortages - or if they are, they are asking a premium because they could be using the time better making the server stuff.

Kind of like a medieval baker - if the king offers to buy 1000 cakes from you at a ridiculous price, you aren't going to be spending time baking any bread for the peasants to eat.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've been thinking of buying a slingshot and some paintballs. For another, completely irrelevant purpose though, obviously.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

An alternative way to look at it is that we should focus on the solutions that actually make sense. Carbon capture is like plastic recycling, the solution to it isn't to try to recycle harder, it's to reduce the use of plastics so we don't have anything to recycle.
Also, do you know what the majority of the captured Co2 is currently used? To extract oil.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In theory. Nobody actually manufactures it yet in any quantity, and it will take a long time to be able to replace even a measurable fraction of the 30 billion tons the world uses annually.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Australia isn't exactly going to be running out of space for forests any time soon. They are going to run out of forests if they keep it up though, cutting roughly 55 million tonnes of co2 worth of trees annually.

Kinda doubt it makes much sense to be building 22 000 carbon capture plants a year just to break even, instead of replanting the trees.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Making a cubic metre of concrete creates almost half a ton of Co2, so it will take years if not decades for the plant to even make up being built. A tree starts capturing immediately and keeps doing so for decades all by itself.

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