LePoisson

I get it. There's a lot of propaganda out there (that goes both ways) about China.

For better or worse they're going to lead the charge into the 2100s, this is the dawn of the new Chinese century and the USA is busy handing them the reins as we implode our country.

I think China is a little friendlier overall in their foreign relations and while freedom of expression is important I would not say their society as a whole is better or worse than all the rest of the world. It feels like sometimes, from what I've heard and seen, China is "more" free in certain aspects compared to the USA (and definitely less free in others)

I'm not the commenter you replied to but I read their view more along these lines. That no large online video provider gives a good experience and while this is more competition for YouTube it's kind of like comparing two piles of shit - both stink.

Which idk never used it but yeah China has its own brand of suck compared with the West. Still, I agree it'd be good to have more cultural exchange - that's the sort of thing that over time leads to better relations between nation states and decreases the likelihood of war.

You know the older I get, the lesson of "there are no good guys" really keeps getting hammered home. This is just a reminder of that.

It's China they very much don't give a flying fuck about international copyright law, at least from what I've seen. Maybe I'm wrong about that.

What about this guy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fang_Zheng

I'm pretty sure multiple eyewitness accounts corroborate the use of armored vehicles, tanks or APCs, running people over?

What should they be in control of then? That’s the default market hegemony

Nothing. The default market hegemony is fucked.

I know you don't. Just musing "out loud" for whoever is wasting their time reading these godforsaken comments.

I just hope your attitude and demeanor offline are better than what you put out on Lemmy otherwise you're gonna make life harder for yourself than it needs to be.

I'd say I mostly come by it naturally but sometimes it's the drugs which, I guess, means it's also on purpose. So both.

I still can't decide if you're an AI bot, a collection of users in a Russian (or other country) troll farm, or just a teenage / early 20s edgelord who's lost their way looking for 4chan.

Like, honestly, it's almost impressive how good you are at rage baiting folks. So far i'm going with your username being an intentionally ironic joke.

Do you have any good takes or is your username meant to drip irony and that's the point?

I'm pretty sure the fucking economist you're replying to is not "teach(ing) something different from the mainstream" that's the whole point of their post.

The whole point is the AI tools are hallucinating* completely incorrect answers and that students trying to use them as study aids and tools to learn with are going to have a lot of fake and wrong information to sort out and good luck to them knowing what is or isn't incorrect or wrong when they're just trying to learn a subject they know nothing about.

The only reason you or I or anyone else knows when AI hallucinates in its output is because we know stuff from our prior knowledge and can catch it that way. If you're ignorant to a subject and trying to learn stuff you're not going to know off hand the AI is lying to you if it sounds convincing enough for a layperson to accept.

*which I kind of hate that term because to the AI there's no difference between truth and hallucination - it's just output as far as the robot is concerned

The trick that AI pulls is just that it is really good at appearing competent

Yeah it's almost like the AI is an unthinking machine trying to model what a person would answer to the question (prompt) provided to it.

I'm so goddamn tired of people (not you) acting like an LLM "knows" anything nevermind whether it's right or wrong or could even tell you if it didn't know the answer. It's not like a person that can say, "I don't have that knowledge so I know any answer is likely wrong" the machine is going to give you an answer every time. That answer will never be "idk" it'll be whatever hallucination it's confident enough is right based on the model and training.

I do think there are use cases for it and the technology is cool but the vision being sold and propping up our economy with a venture capitalist circle jerk is so far removed from reality.

Our forefathers who came here to escape religious persecution so they could practice their own religious persecution probably have something to do with it.

Interesting, as an American our road signage is similar to the standard the other person commented. I've only ever seen signs that indicate what is not allowed with a very prominent slash through it though - not just a circle