Notices by Anthropy :verified_dragon: (anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz), page 3

As someone who really loves (proper, morally correct) AI: stop calling things that are clearly a piece of dumb deterministic code or some statistical algorithm "AI", please, for the love of god, you're ruining it for everyone on both sides of the fence

https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/
a EU citizen's initiative to tax the rich more so that we can take more action against global warming and social inequalities.

It currently has 100k+ total votes, but we need a lot more to make it work. France already has 130% of the needed votes (76k out of 55k), but e.g the netherlands only 2% (400 out of 20k).

I just voted as dutch citizen, but if you know anyone that would also be interested in this, please do refer them to the website!

OpenAI: wE cAnT cReAtE AI wItHoUt cOpYrIgHtEd wOrKs

Open License Corpus with 228B tokens: *exists* https://huggingface.co/datasets/kernelmachine/open-license-corpus

various open licensed AIs and datasets: *exists*
https://medium.com/@bnjmn_marie/silo-a-new-llm-exclusively-trained-on-open-text-a6f4e1bf5243
https://huggingface.co/search/full-text?q=open+license&type=dataset

Hell you can even get pure chat/roleplaying datasets if you want something to typefuck with in terrible grammar (oh god why): https://huggingface.co/datasets?sort=trending&search=roleplay

It's also funny how people never complain when Google has to adjust Android to meet EU guidelines, but when it's about Apple, shills crawl out from under every rock on the planet.

I saw someone on twix whining about the EU improving the iPhone,

with some insane hypothetical iphone with a punchcard and floppy reader, and I just couldn't help but think "yea this is an apple device I would actually buy, unlike literally any other iphone"

@ziphi
I have good and bad news

For everyone in the EU currently being spammed with black friday sales:
Check if they hiked the price to fake the sale

If they did, they're violating an EU mandate that started this year, that the "before price" HAS to be the lowest of the last 30 days. Fines can go up into the millions, so you really don't want to mess this up :>

Feel free to send them a gentle reminder if they do. I have zero sympathy for the practice or the companies doing it. Stop leaning on psychological warfare for sales

@captpackrat @zorinlynx typical friday afternoon behavior tbh, people must have nothing better to do :laughcry:

Occasionally I see videos of people rapidly doing things, like doing work, sorting stuff, chopping/building/crafting things, using calculators/devices, and I realized one thing is absent there

Computers. Anything that runs a full operating system.

Why?

Because they SUCK, developers all massively assume that it's okay for an animation to take sometimes even SECONDS, that it's fine to not preload things because "humans aReN't fAsT eNoUgH", etc.

We need more programs that aren't SLOW as dogshit

Blocking adblockers is going well I see

YouTube shows ads for ad blocker, financial scams | Malwarebytes
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/uncategorized/2023/11/youtube-shows-ads-for-ad-blocker-financial-scams/amp

stolen from twixr. idk why this commercial has such detailed anthro animal models but I'm not even mad

poorly trained early day LLMs: YES I KNOW EVERYTHING HERE'S THE ANSWER TO XYZ *10 actually completely wrong creative ways to accidentally create deadly gasses*

current LLMs: *sweats* oh that thing yea that's actually really really complex but what I do know is *infodumps like an anxious ADHD person*

Something I really need people to understand is that, there is no way in hell a product that was barely turning a profit because of its business model, is going to stay the same when purchased by a big investor-backed corporation, because not only do they need to turn a big profit to fund the management and changes made, they also need to pay the investors MORE than the investors put into it (why else would they invest?).

Big corporations buying smaller companies is basically always bad news 🫠

@LexYeen RIGHT? This is like deus ex machina meets cyberpunk meets every other scifi that tried to make sense of implants by making up some scifi plot device to stabilise the body and prevent infections, but no, turns out you can just get the body to grow bone around your material and heal everything around the prosthetic? I'm still trying to understand how they pulled it off honestly

Here's the original article with all the scientific data. The fixtures appear to be made of titanium, which is nothing too special in the medical world, it does not require any external large batteries, and has actually been used for 3 full years, still using it today.

Also here's the pics again but with the full scientific context added as alt text
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adf7360@@#

Hoooly 🥞 I had not expected them to have this much success just grafting metal into bones. The bone actually grew around it, does not seem infected, and the bone mount is actually so strong the bionic hand can just be attached to it. Look at these x-rays, this is like right out of a movie, if we can replicate this to other people it's going to change prosthetics/augmentation forever.

Revolutionary Bionic Hand Fuses With Woman's Bones, Muscles, And Nerves : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/revolutionary-bionic-hand-fuses-with-womans-bones-muscles-and-nerves

@ipg isn't that earth

A what

What's up with telegram becoming more and more bloated, paywalled, and now "stories"? Who the f asked for that