Notices by bedast (bedast@beige.party)

@howisyourdog I'm not a Firefox user so I haven't really dug into the latest in being upset with Firefox making an AI plugin, but it seemed like they were making an LLM to summarize pages. These have been known to get things very wrong. I don’t know if it's on-device or if it uses ChatGPT.

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

This is not generative AI.

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.

#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility

@mcnado My dad was healthy when he caught the flu and it irreparably damaged his heart. He was on a transplant list for years after that, but did not survive. He did not see the age of 40 because of the flu.

This year will mark 30 years since his passing. I’m in my 40s now.

This is why I hate “it’s just the flu” and why I get vaccinated.

@dashrb @VE2UWY There’s a lot more in the telematics. Like…a lot.

@tknarr As a long time sysadmin, this is absolutely true. It’s always baffled me when people use work resources for personal use and got in trouble for it, then complained their companies were spying on them.

It’s just that I really don’t think people understand as all of these technologies grow and expand, surveillance will run deeper and deeper. And it’s all intentional. Especially in the age of sucking up as much data and content for training broken AI.

If you're surprised Tesla takes and keeps recordings from their cars after seeing the news about the Cybertruck in Vegas, you shouldn't be. This is not something new. Tesla has been taking and storing media for many years, claiming it's used to train their AI capabilities. You can't opt out either.

And Tesla employees do access it, make fun of you, make memes, and share the content internally, without any legitimate reason to access the content.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/tesla-workers-shared-images-from-car-cameras-including-scenes-of-intimacy/

While this is about Tesla, this is a growing problem across this and other industries.

#Tesla #Surveillance #Privacy

@tinydoctor Never really been into rye whiskies. Cheers, though!

Cracked open one of my bottles of Nikka Coffey Malt (Japanese whisky).

I have a few on hand. It’s not super cheap, but it’s my favorite to go to if I want something nice but not necessarily celebrating anything.

2024 isn’t something to celebrate. 2025 won’t be either.

But right now I just want to feel good.

The thing to keep in mind about Large Language Models (LLMs, what people refer to as AI, currently) is even though human knowledge in the form of language is fed into them for their training, they are only storing statistical models of language, not the actual human knowledge. Their responses are constructed from statistical analysis of context of prior language used.

Any appearance of knowledge is pure coincidence. Even on the most “advanced” models.

Language is how we convey knowledge, not the knowledge itself. This is why a language model can never actually know anything.

And this is why they’re so easy to manipulate into conveying objectively false information, in some cases, maliciously so. ChatGPT and all the other big vendors do manipulate their models, and yes, in part, with malice.

#LargeLanguageModels #LLM #AI #NotAI #ChatGPT #ChatGPTIsNotAI #MaliciousAI #NotIntelligent #ArtificialIntelligence

I am being informed that it is time for cheese.

#Greyhounds #GreyhoundsOfMastodon #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #SeniorDogs #Benson

@Ooze I don’t know what this means.

Apparently Discord is down.

#Discord