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Re: Leaked deck reveals how OpenAI is pitching publisher partnerships

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Post by toss1 »

hitpointdrew wrote: post #2

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Seems the "Deck" in this context has an implied following phrase "of index cards", as in "the deck of index cards containing the salient points in the presentation"?

Although I'm usually rather strict on language, this doesn't bother me, because it is not skewing a term but using it effectively with an implied context. Plus, that ship seems to have sailed.

OTOH, despite the ship definitely having sailed and over the horizon, using "impacted" for "affected", "hit", "struck", etc., as opposed to "embedded" (as in an impacted tooth), still grates like grinding gears every single time I hear it, so I can sympathize.

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Post by arcticfox »

LegitShady wrote: post #8
dag11 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does presentation "deck" not come from when presentations were piles of slide cards? A "deck" of slide cards? Resembling a deck of cards? Do you also go into skateboard shops with this rant when they refer to their boards as decks? Edit: Actually I don't care, this is just normal (and wrong) Internet Pedantry™ but I'm just taken aback by how out of place and violent it is!

where do you buy your slide cards? they don't exist. its not a deck.

definition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck

Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

arcticfox wrote: post #12
LegitShady wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where do you buy your slide cards? they don't exist. its not a deck.

definition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?

I was having some bad mental health last week and I noticed myself wanting to drop more zingers like that during that time. I got really cynical! Luckily I got over the illness that gave me fatigue and did a big bike ride yesterday. That helped a lot!

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Post by tempest_ »

arcticfox wrote: post #12
LegitShady wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where do you buy your slide cards? they don't exist. its not a deck.

definition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?

In this case I would assume it is from someone who has never looked at an actual slide or slide projector or knows that the software terminology is rooted in things that came before it.

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Post by infecto »

arcticfox wrote: post #12
LegitShady wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where do you buy your slide cards? they don't exist. its not a deck.

definition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?

Not only that but with so much passion. Why? Slides have been called decks for at least 15-20 years.

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Post by Animats »

nickff wrote: post #5
hitpointdrew wrote: post #2

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How did you arrive at this conclusion? 'Deck' seems to be a widely used and accepted term: "Collectively, a group of slides may be known as a slide deck." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_slide

Look up "Overhead projector", a dead technology.

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Post by DougBTX »

arcticfox wrote: post #12
LegitShady wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

where do you buy your slide cards? they don't exist. its not a deck.

definition 5 - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deck Pedantry like this always intrigues me when it's so clearly wrong both in daily use and formal sources...like where is it coming from?

There is literally a whole bunch of people very focused on narrow definitions. It seems like cognitive dissonance trying to square the idea that a dog which can fetch a ball is intelligent but a computer which can write poetry isn’t.

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Post by beeboobaa3 »

BlackJack wrote: post #9

Guaranteed value is a licensing payment that compensates the publisher for allowing OpenAI to access its backlog of data, while variable value is contingent on display success, a metric based on the number of users engaging with linked or displayed content. ... “The PPP program is more about scraping than training,” said one executive. “OpenAI has presumably already ingested and trained on these publishers’ archival…

> OpenAI has presumably already ingested and trained on these publishers’ archival data

So they're admitting to copyright violations and theft?

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Post by ahartmetz »

nerdjon wrote: post #7
hitpointdrew wrote: post #2

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Meanings of words change over time. Maybe they just gain a new meaning at some point. A "Steam Deck" matches none of those for example. This is a very well understood and established term. I fail to see what you made this comment.

It was called a deck in Neuromancer. Maybe that is the origin of that usage?
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