nightsky

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[–] nightsky@awful.systems 5 points 9 months ago

screaming about “theft!” and “hacking!!”

Sounds plausible. Or maybe they will go with a don't use it, because privacy! take. Funny thing is, I actually agree people shouldn't give them their data. But they shouldn't give it to OpenAI either...

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I had to read “Uber for AI code data” so now you do too.

Wow, what a fractal of cursed meaning. I don't even understand what it really means, but it feels like understanding it any further would cause considerable psychic damage.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This shows the US is falling behind China, so you gotta give OpenAI more money!

Fear of a "bullshit gap", I guess.

Oh, and: simply perfect choice of header image on that article.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Sooner or later the only remaining source of reliable digital information will be 1990s multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedias.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 12 points 10 months ago (5 children)

various topics (e.g., AI news, crypto, fitness, personal finance)

That sure is a specifc selection of topics.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 3 points 10 months ago

Same. They've been a staple in my RSS feed list for so long (and they are one of the few sites where the RSS feed isn't just the headlines). But recently I've been thinking several times already about throwing them out.

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 27 points 10 months ago (5 children)

"Shortly after 2027" is a fun phrasing. Means "not before 2028", but mentioning "2027" so it doesn't seem so far away.

I interpret it as "please bro, keep the bubble going bro, just 3 more years bro, this time for real bro"

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

PSA: the domain shown in a google search result is not necessarily the domain it will actually link you to.

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I had no idea before. What an absolutely horrible decision from google to allow this. What are they thinking?? This is great for phishing and malware, but I don't know what else. (Yeah ok, the reason has probably something to do with "line must go up".)

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 25 points 10 months ago (6 children)

So much wrong with this...

In a way, it reminds me of the wave of entirely fixed/premade loop-based music making tools from years ago. Where you just drag and drop a number of pre-made loops from a library onto some tracks, and then the software automatically makes them fit together musically and that's it, no further skill or effort required. I always found that fun to play around with for an evening or two, but then it quickly got boring. Because the more you optimize away the creative process, the less interesting it becomes.

Now the AI bros have made it even more streamlined, which means it's even more boring. Great. Also, they appear to think that they are the first people to ever have the idea "let's make music making simple". Not surprising they believe that, because a fundamental tech bro belief is that history is never interesting and can never teach anything, so they never even look at it.

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

Ah, so Google Search runs on UDP, interesting, that must be why it's so unreliable now.

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