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Avoiding em-dashes is not going to save you from being blind-sided by slop.

I'm being serious here: Looking for em-dashes is a terrible way to "scan" for slop. You need to look deeper than that and if you did, there's clearly a voice there. If you let your…

Because finishing someone else's (or something else's) "half decent work" to the point of "actually decent" becomes the bottleneck. This has always been the case for human project …

Yeah exactly. My go-to example is that if you enjoy playing guitar, you're not going to stop doing it because Suno exists now. In addition, say if you had like a guitar-playing for…

Well imho, it's a bit of a fundamental problem for a certain aspect of the meaning of "to intuit". Since we're quoting Douglas Adams in this thread, I'll mention something I posted…

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Unfamiliar with this meme. But I'd still rather read a badly human engineer written blog post than an LLM generated one.

> To be fair, the problems you describe existed before AI, though I concede it has gotten worse. I do think it's fair to say it's gotten a lot worse. Before AI-generated imagery, a…

> In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. Would you also say this about the writing? It seems to me…

Just to flip this around and widen your view, but not everybody's idea of "worthwhile work" is measured by how many customers they have. Note I can make this claim without calling …

> only thing that really changed is the initial query can be a mess of kinda nonsense Little known fact maybe, but Google (also YouTube) search has been pretty great at this well b…

I've heard great reviews about this "If we had only used this tool, OpenAI would've had to pay off another patsy for their marketing stunt" -- Huggingface "The 'S' in OpenAI is for…

So, after carrying out the single largest intellectual property heist in the history of mankind, scraping and continuing to scrape the entire Internet and whatever data they can ge…

> authoritarian regimes have stolen and used AI "we're not saying open models are stealing, but we will quote the US vice president, saying this"

> extreme data privacy requirement so I have a a few decades worth of creative coding projects, many personal notes + writing, pictures, video clips, renders, projects, backups of …

> that justifies this this is hacker news sir we don't do things because they are easy ... or because they are justified ...

> And then people are surprised and saddened when LEO start acting like robots and default to treating you as threat to be mitigated as much as legally allowed in context. yeah tha…

> appreciate the fact that you can now produce far more output. ... and then what? now you have more output and it still sucks I think the only one appreciating that fact, would be…

"Straight up disrespectful" can be made up to mean anything, but in general should refer to things that shouldn't bother police officers doing their job. They can get pissed off ab…

This is a false analogy. The cookie banner stuff is explicitly about sharing data with third parties. If that were the case in your example, it'd be a different thing, right.

> with Bitcoin alone using more energy than the entire countries of Argentina or the Netherlands Btw this particular comparison can be traced back to a single Guardian article from…

While I can't confirm comparisons to a "small/medium size bank" specifically (cause I have no idea how), I can perhaps clarify a bit Ethereum moved to proof-of-stake in 2022, and i…

It's a perfectly sensible interpretation of international copyright law. I'm not sure if you're serious with the suggestion I could sue them. These are both US corporations, that j…

the "codec" is not really the point. playing an MP3 at a venue, streaming it or distributing it is a copyrighted act because, despite not being a verbatim copy of the original mate…

There's also a difference between an MP3 and a FLAC. Again, ask DJs how well they're getting away on that distinction.