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   Christina McMullen (vampiresandrobots@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:44:19 JST Christina McMullen

   • myrmepropagandist

   @futurebird Other: we were offered a free year of virtual PT through our insurance. My first "visit" was with someone over the phone, but all subsequent consultants were text based. At first it just gave me the exercises and asked me to rate my pain, etc, but then the questions started getting uncanny, asking me to tell them what I liked best, what exercises worked best for what, and none of it was conversational anymore. I stopped answering when I realized I was training the app.

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:43:55 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Nazo

     @nazokiyoubinbou @cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird

     That lossiness can be dangerous.

     Eg, you're describing the Lois Gibson algorithm. You give Lois about 0.5K of text, and she produces a 1 MB image.

     https://m.youtube.com/shorts/8khZx8W-ZH0

     But really, you're providing much more than 0.5k of text. She's interpreting your voice and your facial expressions too.

     https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/ai-cant-beat-my-composite-sketches-says-record-breaking-forensic-artist

     Danger: everyone measures the success of sketch artists by convictions. Not by accuracy.😮

     https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/may/23/eyewitness-sketches-provide-stormy-results-can-lead-false-convictions/

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:43:56 JST Nazo

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     • Cavyherd

     @cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird This gives me an idea for a new type of image compression and very possibly the worst even imaginable: store images as a seed, prompt, and model hash. You could make a huge image something like a kilobyte. And impossible to 100% reproduce. (The ultimate low quality JPEG, lol.) Plus it would require draining a lake somewhere and cutting power to several houses to show the image. But, all in the name of science or something.

     EDIT: to be clear, this was a joke post.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:43:57 JST Nazo

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     • Cavyherd

     @cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird 99.999% sure it is.

     Synthetic training ultimately results in a breakdown of a model in a generation or two. They need non-synthetic input. And what better way than to mass deploy a system where users identify the outputs so they don't have to.

     Except it's still pretty synthetic. We're being fed some pretty poorly made results and we don't understand our instructions. (Should I click this one? Will it count against me if I click it?) And of course they're low resolution too, which makes it that much harder for us to even determine what they are even supposed to be.

     So I guess the good news is we're giving it at least some bad data. 😁

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     Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:44:03 JST Cavyherd

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     @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird

     I've heard it posited that all those captchas "click all instances of motorcycles" are secretly AI training, & I find this disturbingly plausible.

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     Christina McMullen (vampiresandrobots@writing.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:44:05 JST Christina McMullen

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     • Cavyherd

     @cavyherd @futurebird I feel like at this point, all "Free virtual ____" is either shitty AI or shitty AI training.

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     Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:44:17 JST Cavyherd

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     @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird

     Oh ew. We've got "free PT" in our "health plan." I haven't tried it, but wonder if that's what it is? Ew ew ew....

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     mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 01:21:26 JST mekka okereke :verified:

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     • Nazo

     @cavyherd @nazokiyoubinbou @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird

     Yup. Sketches can launder inaccurate eyewitness testimony.

     You and I might commute to work on the same train. We see each other in crowds, but we've never met.

     You might get mugged at knifepoint by a 5'10, 230 lb Brazilian man. You tell the cops. They have a sketch artist make a drawing.

     You're still shaken up. Through no intentional fault of your own, you give a very accurate description... of me, not of your mugger!😮

     I'm 6'3, 350.

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     Cavyherd (cavyherd@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 01:21:28 JST Cavyherd

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     • Nazo

     @mekkaokereke @nazokiyoubinbou @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird

     > Danger: everyone measures the success of sketch artists by convictions. Not by accuracy.

     I could happily have gone all year without that thought in my brain. I mean, it's obvious when you think about it, but still 😬