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@eniko Except they still ship LLM integrations in all their OSes this year.

@inthehands I don’t think it’s entirely fair to put full responsibility on the “reply guy”. OP knows what kind of platform they post on. They are aware that there will be a Reply button under their post.

If OP doesn’t want a reply they should use a medium that doesn’t provide an opportunity for reply. A blog with disabled comments, a static web page, or even an offline medium like a paper journal. Or be ready to ignore all replies to that post.

We can blame platform’s affordances all we want but we can not deny that the choice of platform is entirely on the OP and they are at least partially responsible for the outcomes of that choice.

@inthehands @twsh I’m not convinced this framing is useful.

I agree with points 1 and 2, and even accept 3 as a logical conclusion. But there’s a counterexample: AIs produce coherent language. It’s often hard to tell the nature of the author of a piece of text produced by a LLM, sometimes impossible. So from the reader’s point of view the text says things. The fact that AI has no communicative intent, or that it has no coherent world model is irrelevant.

This is not unique to AI. People on a regular basis gleam meaning that was not intended by a speakers/writers.

@viq @ryanc @rysiek AI even without quotes is a marketing term. We have a perfectly serviceable term for useful AI systems: Machine Learning. ML reflects the nature of the thing much better, in my opinion. We throw a bunch of data at a machine so it learns the patterns and produces similar output. There’s very little intelligence in matrix multiplication.

@ryanc @rysiek Well… Waking up The Great Dreamer to be consumed first is basically the basis of AI accelerationism movement (they call it themselves).

And to the point about safety: it’s basically the main argument of AI doomers (they don't call it themselves but seem to get into the name as of late). It's important to get AI right the first try because we might not get a second chance. Where AI is often AGI (which is a stated goal of OpenAI and Meta, at least) but doesn't have to be. Bringing an existential threat onto everyone might be not as easy as 7 words but all these AI systems are released as if it's completely impossible.

@ryanc @rysiek If that's your wish I hope it’ll come to be but what if… it decides to spare only you and worship you as you're technically its creator? These days it's not easy to get what you want from an AI, not on your first prompt, anyway.

@ryanc @rysiek And that’s, kids, how Skynet became conscious.

@h3mmy @skaverat I guess the question refers to how some systems treat missing data as 0 and if this has any effect.

There was a few stories about similar things.

A guy got a license plate NULL and started getting tickets to random people from all over his state.

Another person got harassed for stealing phones because tracking system put a pin on map at their house. Turns out the system didn’t have more precise data than a country so it put the pin at a geographic center of the USA which happens to coincide with that house.

Also, Null Island. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island

@mattly
I am not a supplier: https://softwaremaxims.com/blog/Not-A-Supplier

Google operated on the social contract of providing traffic to sites in exchange for content. Now that #Google is switching to #AI answers synthesized from the content and effectively cutting traffic is there even a point in participation?

Google will keep bringing load to the sites without providing any traffic.

I suspect we are about to see first robots.txt snippets banning Google crawlers like other AI bots really soon. And eventually outright banning Google ips altogether.

I wonder whether we’re also about to see a surge of old-school search engines. With modern technology it’s feasible to run a small search engine from a living room (e. g. https://kukei.eu) on an off-the-shelf hardware and open source software. It doesn’t take the whole Google to operate a decade-old (feature wise) Google search engine. It might be feasible to run a good search engine on small resources that can be paid by simple ads or small subscriptions.

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

#Chromium (and #Chrome) begins phasing-out Manifest v2.

https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html

This means, among other things, that uBlock Origin is about to be disabled in Chrome. Google will choose a different extension to recommend but it can not be as effective as #uBlock Origin.

Following #Google's example, may I instead recommend you switch to #Firefox.

Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2, and consequently uBlock Origin and other extensions that can not be implemented with Manifest v3.

Happy browsing.

@technomancy @ehashman It appears to be either very well optimized or surprisingly undemanding. I played on 1080ti (almost 8 years old gpu) at a decent resolution and fps and I’ve seen it played on 5 years old MacBooks.

@technomancy Why did they cancel it the first time?

@james Toots alignment 🤌