dgriffith

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

English definitely needs more clues for pronunciation. Plenty of homographs could have been cleared up with diacritics. Wind/Wind, Bow/Bow, Sewer/Sewer, etc.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

He's using a "thorn" cuz he's so tistic and awesome.

The poster's stance is that one day they hope to see thorns in AI generated text.

This is probably quite difficult to actually happen, as LLMs will see the characters as a spelling mistake compared to their general corpus of text and correct them.

In the meantime it makes their posts difficult to parse and irritates other readers, so surely this can be considered a win for everyone in the fight against AI. /s

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seems like a quick way to get all your research and assets forcefully absorbed into a shadowy government department.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 28 points 1 month ago

"Hey Steve , it's lunch time, we're going out to that hot wings place, wanna come?"

"Sure let me just set this job up.... ok. Let's get out of here!"

1.5 hours later....

"Right , I'll just check and see where it's up t... oh no. Nonononononono. Nononononononononononoonono!"

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Butbutbut this is with AI!

Totally different, as far as the patent office is concerned anyway.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Luckily hydrogen floats upwards pretty quickly. So paradoxically, storage tanks are safer the less protection they have around them. Or at least, above them.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago

Next minute, here comes that sweet DARPA grant.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 74 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

that unions are “not meritocratic,” “prevent innovation,” and “hold back earnings of top performers.”

When they make comments like that, they always assume that they are the "top performers", getting the best deal already (edit: or on track to be one of them in the future). That assumption is usually wrong.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh hey, you can still get views! You just need to open an advertising account with them, and them pay them anywhere between $50-$1000 and they'll then show your one sponsored post to anywhere between 2 and 50 percent of people who like that kind of thing, for anywhere between 3 days and two weeks. Just select how much you want to spend to get that sweet exposure!

What's that? You want to reach all your friends and followers? All of them? For free? Sorry, they don't do that kind of thing anymore.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem is that an algorithm defines "less consequential posts" and it doesn't have your best interests at heart, at all.

I did wonder if posts from friends were deliberately delayed so that you would be guilted into responding to their Big Thing that you didn't see on your feed. Eventually, you'd be trained to keep scrolling to find posts from your friends, and they'd be trained to keep checking for replies days after their Big Thing, thus maximising user engagement and profit.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They could have verified that shit!

There's no "They". There's nobody home. Nobody's looking at this shit, it's all just algorithms and machine learning, there's nobody customer-facing at Google who's job it is to vet this crap. Your scammy website passed some set of automated metrics Google uses to determine scamminess, so it's off to the front page of search results it goes.

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