Meta is killing off its AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles

Post by oceansweep » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 3:49 AM UTC

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You’re making assumptions about my original question. I wished to know their opinion on what made NotebookLM ‘look like an Intern’s project. If what they shared was something I agreed with and relevant than sure I would apply it to my project but I already have plans for improving my project to my own standards. Thanks for sharing your perspective though, I will keep it in mind. I disagree regarding podcasts being a…

plans for improving my project to my own standards. That’s roughly the implication of my original comment. Many developers, including you, have a higher standard. I’m not gonna use something that looks like an intern slapped a few REST calls together with MUI. It’s 2025 dude, I can build that in an afternoon. They have to take the product a lot more seriously. Google’s lack of taste on this front will be the success…

Post by user432678 » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

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I hate the journalists pretending that ML is regurgitating facts instead of just random tokens. The ML model doesn't know who programmed it and can't know because that wasn't in the training data.

I hate the game reviewers pretending that games are providing entertainment instead of just random numbers in RAM and random pixels on the screen. The game doesn't know who programmed it and can't know because that wasn't in its source code.

Post by notahacker » Mon, Jan 06, 2025, 8:14 PM UTC

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I mean, sure, some programmers with very little experience of queer black mommas could, hypothetically, be so good at curating information from the internet and carrying out training exercises that they created a persona that convincingly represents a queer black momma. Do we think this is what happened in this instance? In which, ironically, the bot called it a "glaring omission"

the bot is echoing sentiments of comment sections it was trained on and had no idea of its origins its acting aware and sensitive but only has information about the tech sector as a whole my critique is about how the standards being applied are dumb all the way down. the standards are not actually that enlightened even if there was more representation congruent with the race/identity being caricatured as representati…

Post by barbazoo » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC

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In what way would it become a modern take on 1984? In terms of surveillance? Afaik the telescreens were non-interactive, right?

No, I'm not even interested in the surveillance here (though it is also a good comparison). Full disclosure, I'm very pessimistic on what current LLM models are capable of, and even more pessimistic on the impact of social networks. I'm referring to the control of interactions and information . Take a look at the character interactions on the novel. People socialized as they could, but interactions were not only heav…

Post by jopsen » Tue, Jan 07, 2025, 8:50 PM UTC

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I agree, and in the US banks are already liable if an unauthorized person gains access to your funds. But what I'm saying is that most of the scams that OP is talking about just aren't done that way. It's just a scammer that tricks them into sending money. It's just old fashioned con man stuff but over email or phone. And of you're dumb enough to believe that the only way the IRS (US tax agency) is willing to accept…

Lots of government websites are extremely sketchy and redirect you to a sketchy payment gateway, often the payment gateway is on some weird domain. If I make a payment using my visa card, how is it that I'm not just redirected to visa.com, and that's the only place I enter card credentials? Like how OpenID works. I'm sure there are reasons, probably legacy reasons :) But it's still weird that payment uses a third-par…