ebu

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[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago

if you put this paragraph

Corporations institute barebones [crappy product] that [works terribly] because they can't be bothered to pay the [production workers] to actually [produce quality products] but when shit goes south they turn around and blame the [workers] for a bad product instead of admitting they cut corners.

and follow it up with "It's China Syndrome"... then it's pretty astonishingly clear it is meant in reference to the perceived dominant production ideology of specifically China and has nothing to do with nuclear reactors

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

A WELL TRAINED AI can be a very useful tool.

please do elaborate on exactly what kind of training turns the spam generator into a prescription-writer, or whatever other task that isn't generating spam

Edit: to add this is partly why AI gets a bad rap from folks on the outside looking it.

i'm pretty sure "normal" folks hate it because of all the crap it's unleashed upon the internet, and not just because they didn't use the most recent models off the "Hot" tab on HuggingFace

It's China Syndrome but instead of nuclear reactors it's AI.

what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???

[–] ebu@awful.systems 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

f4mi's channel is fantastic btw, fun little deep dives on old hardware and games. highly recommend checking her stuff out

[–] ebu@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago

i went and bought it, and yup, the revisited version is the one i was thinking of. time to walk around inside a picture of Sam Altman so i can absorb his raw intellect and business acumen

[–] ebu@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

goddammit! you have no idea how many variations of "first person walking simulator projected image texture trippy visuals" i slapped into every search engine!

but yes, that was the one i was thinking of

[–] ebu@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah, that "most of the internet will be Al-generated" nonsense is tanking my ability to take them as domain experts seriously.

still, something gets me about completely generated, transient-when-you're-not-looking, constantly shifting worlds. might have to collect more examples

[–] ebu@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

maybe i'm a weirdo but i actually really like this a lot. if there weren't armies of sycophants chanting outside of all our collective windows about how AI is the future of gaming... if you look at this "game" as an art object unto itself i think it is actually really engaging

it reminds me of other "games" like Marian Kleineberg's Wave Function Collapse and Bananaft's Yedoma Globula. there's one other on the tip of my tongue where you uploaded an image and it constantly reprojected the image onto the walls of a first-person walking simulator, but i don't recall the name

[–] ebu@awful.systems 26 points 3 months ago

because it encodes semantics.

if it really did so, performance wouldn't swing up or down when you change syntactic or symbolic elements of problems. the only information encoded is language-statistical

[–] ebu@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

oh gods they're multiplying

[–] ebu@awful.systems 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

"blame the person, not the tools" doesn't work when the tools' marketing team is explicitly touting said tool as a panacea for all problems. on the micro scale, sure, the wedding planner is at fault, but if you zoom out even a tiny bit it's pretty obvious what enabled them to fuck up for as long and as hard as they did

[–] ebu@awful.systems 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

i used (and use, until the shutdown) cohost as my primary social media site. i'm not surprised, but i can't say it hasn't been disappointing. for all the issues it has (and it did have a lot) it was pretty much the only site that felt somewhat cozy to use for me. stings quite a bit

[–] ebu@awful.systems 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I didn't read the post at all

rather refreshing to have someone come out and just say it. thank you for the chuckle

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