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I am guessing there is some kind of political incentive to create stealth inflation (though it's literally 'deflation'), which is largely unrecorded, vs. traditional inflation, whi…

Sometimes AI's contributions may be diffuse, and more akin to the suffusion of a tea-bag, or even a drop of tincture, than the addition of an extra cookie on the plate. In such cas…

Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43678144

I understand the anger. But I wish I were better able to resist fixing the world with code in this way, as I really am supposed to be working.

Yes, LLMs certainly learned these tropes somewhere. I'm just surprised that different models and different pre-processing methods arrived at the same dominant cliches.

I don't know - the 'great enshittification' of Substack seems an inevitable event, for which reason I have stayed away from using it as a platform, except for a few experiments. It…

Yes, it was polluted with multiple 'Not just [x] but [y]' examples - the most obvious tell of AI-generated text, among other aggravating examples. It was hard to read, but I was in…

Agreed. I always hated the 'two part', 'payoff'-based drama of titles like these, even before the LLM era. If it was lazy before (it was), it now comes off as 'one-click' lazy. Sad…

This is interesting. Until autumn of 2024, when the company was subsumed into a better-heeled AI-VFX concern, I worked for probably the best-known and earliest all-AI VFX house, wh…

Reminds me of 1990s multi-CD Mac games.

This is a chronic LLM style, particularly the multipart dramatic flourishes and the Haiku paragraphs. But at this stage, there's a good chance that LLM re-diffusion of this style i…

Well, neither am I - I am talking about my own peer group, non-tech types just fine with computers.

> 60 year people can't user your fancy site because then don't have an internal model of how a computer works. I think this is a bit outdated. I'll be 60 in a month, and have been …

But these figures measure exposure, not integration. Ach, it's probably a mostly human-generated piece, but any time I see the 'Not [x] but [y]' formulation, I tune out.

Nothing to see here. The title suggests some hidden trick or tech wizardry, but the two people referenced were just...well, dumb: using Gmail in the first case, and retaining his i…

I used to see AI generated images with lots of unintelligible writing or misspelled words in slides, but the speaker left them in anyway. “Good enough” is not customer obsession. T…

I need Photoshop for an almost vanishingly small subset of all the things it is capable of, and this holds true for nearly all 'full-fledged' software that I use. So what may not b…

Sorry for the dumb question, but why is there an archive.today link for this? Is BBC news now paywalled in some regions or under some conditions? I'm guessing that the Beeb can han…

In the UK in the 1980s (and with more difficulty in the 90s) I would phone the theater and ask when the film actually starts, even though it was almost always 20 minutes after the …

I use subdomains on an OVH VPS, since I want to access the services outside the network, so I can use freshrss.mydomain.com. But anything that can rationalize port number sprawl is…

Not so for this port, which, besides not remembering sessions, crashed very early, and made me return to BBEdit.

Not really understanding the negative trend of comments. As someone who accesses multiple Windows machines on a LAN via a MacBook Air, I'm glad to have as many common GUIs as possi…

For the first time in twenty years, I find myself regularly using an alternate search engine in search of the 'simple and obvious' results I could once get from Google. I don't lov…

Drove a no-tech tractor working on a farm in Tuscany in the early/mid-90s. Best driving experience ever.