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LAION reckons it's finally dealt with the CSAM
and I'm sure everyone who trained on that can easily integrate this change, right. right?
oh, right, they can't, because none of the chucklefuck shit works that way. but I'm sure they'll totes jump right onto a full retraining cycle, because they're such good and ethical people who totally live the values they claim
New piece from The Atlantic: A New Tool to Warp Reality (archive)
Turns out the bullshit firehoses undeservedly called chatbots have some capacity to generate a reality distortion field of sorts around them.
When the revolution comes, we have to cut off the hands wearing this abomination of a watch before we cut off the owner's head:
https://www.ablogtowatch.com/new-release-jacob-co-oil-pump-44mm-watch/
Price: $280k, limited to 88 pieces...
I was going to say they were cowards about this because it's powered by wind-up mechanics rather than burning droplets of black ship oil you feed into the tiny oil barrel. But then I realised that would probably waste most of the energy on heat, right on the delicate mechanisms and your wrist, and who wants to use an energy source that damages everything around it with excessive warming
Meanwhile in the LLM "search engine" land: https://a2mi.social/@dave0/113031300914816116
Surely it is helping to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful
~~You already know I can't get enough of Cyberstuck, but this is too good to not share:~~ https://www.reddit.com/r/CyberStuck/comments/1f59lj8/david_attenborough_explains_cybertruck_behavior/
Update: I was bamboozled by AI
I can't remember if a oneliner for the weekly thread title has been posted already, so I made one for GNU date:
date --date="next Sunday" +"Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending %A %e %B %Y"
Note, this is locale-dependent.
Not a sneer, but a link for Baldur Bjarnason for the week:
Why Halide’s Process Zero is an important tool for iPhone photography enthusiasts
Recommend checking it out for his high praise of the AI-free iPhone camera app, but to make it relevant to this community, I'll pull out the opening section:
Knowing how much work Lux Optics puts into their apps, Halide and Kino, I don’t think their recent Process Zero was implemented as a reaction to the ongoing backlash against “AI”. After all, now that people are increasingly negative about generative models, releasing a new photography mode that bypasses “AI” processing feels like a clever marketing stunt.
Personally, I suspect it was at least partially done for marketing purposes - beyond the wide open "AI-free" market niche, the ability to disable Apple's built-in image processing gives users plenty of control over how they can develop photos.