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gibbitz

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    Comment #49216883

    Tell them instead that every time they use GPT for a paper they're killing education.

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    Comment #49216655

    Even as a developer who uses RPI skills with models, I watch them write utilities that already exist, make inline functions when a utility class that it would logically fit in goes…

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    Comment #49203256

    Meanwhile in the US the laws are being changed to protect the wealthy, while the current administration is siphoning value of national assets into their own pockets. The poorer the…

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    Comment #49203197

    In this case it's like cable TV. Only not a monopoly if you look at the whole country...

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    Comment #49203168

    Or is it all a nice story that matches the scifi we have been consuming for the past 50+ years. If these LLMs are all trained on the same data, what do they gain from "sharing info…

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    Comment #49135922

    Will the original artists come for royalties or will OpenAI? Or both? Facebooks motto was "move fast and break things" the AI industry motto should be "break things and make fixing…

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    Comment #48997756

    ...Or how stupid tariffs led to burning down the rest of the Amazon.

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    Comment #48997718

    > Why it matters: It is the latest sign that capable AI models can pose serious cybersecurity risks even when they're being tested for defensive or research purposes Or that these …

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    Comment #48960264

    This whole article leads one to ask what the business model is for selling consciousness? The reason these tools sell is because they do the generative tasks that are valuable and …

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    Comment #48959408

    It must be nice to choose this approach to life. For most people it is hoisted on them. You want to have a place to live you take a job the job doesn't pay enough, you take another…

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    Comment #48928860

    I think while reading this I realized why I'm so unhappy. I've been trying to drive on a road where everyone else is trying to manage the curves and trying along with them when wha…

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    Comment #48826208

    Anthropic should have source access through contracts for service with microslop. TBF, with source access, this is really disappointing considering the hype that Fable has been end…

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    Comment #48826033

    My thoughts exactly. I guess if you only read WSJ, you're still tokenmaxxing your employees and never thought about what comes next...

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    Comment #48826000

    The character design is nice on it's surface. Not sure if I want the character to feel plush or smooth. Much of the world has a photographic burned edge look that suggests weatheri…

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    Comment #48740792

    This is what happens when the president was a reality TV star and a Fox News host runs the military. We usually have competent and qualified people making these decisions.

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    Comment #48726973

    Did they all buy cars with bad transmissions that the women in their lives told them not to buy?

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    Comment #48726687

    If you want to be moral you should stop using tech all together. From the materials used to make it to the labor practices used to fabricate and assemble it to the corporate decisi…

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    Comment #48711589

    Exactly. Tools by definition have users. LLMs (real things) are tools. AI (science fiction) is a "person". When the "AI" demands a wage, I'll consider it real. Until then it's an L…

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    Comment #48711505

    I was wondering the other day why we didn't put this level of effort into building a highway across the Atlantic and the Pacific. It seems to me if we just piled bricks made with a…

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    Comment #48711405

    Those employee wages for a product is a 20th century way of making money. Taking investor cash and paying it back with supplier "investments" is how "capitalism" works in today's e…

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    Comment #48503690

    I have been thinking about the similarities between economics and religion since I was in middle school. I believe if our current civilization continues for another millennium we w…

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    Comment #48502558

    Muzak isn't what most people choose to listen to. I'm not bemoaning the use/existence of the tool, I'm bemoaning what it did to the internet and taste making. We accept boring comp…

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    Comment #48497263

    Tailwind is the latest bootstrap. These frameworks were designed to allow people with no skill in design/UI to produce something that passed for attractive. Since most clients are …

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    Comment #48454281

    Can we stop anthropomorphizing this product? People don't dislike AI because of money. The fundamental disconnect is about value and quality. The value of human efforts and IP is p…

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    Comment #48393069

    The acting is only as good as the prompter. This isn't a collaboration. A movie isn't just the work of the director, it is the work of everyone involved. This looks good for what i…