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GossiTheDog, to random
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Google search thinks you should use glue to stick together a pizza as its AI is trained on Reddit, where 11 years ago a user called “fucksmith” posted suggesting it was a good idea.

BartV, to random
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Training your AI on Reddit data, what could go wrong?!
https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/112489808575968529

liamcollod, to random
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Oh no it's spreading all around Microsoft software
(yes it's lazily using OpenAI's ChatGPT and you need to enter your own API key to use it)

scy, to movies
@scy@chaos.social avatar

TIL: The girl playing young Ellie Arroway in Contact (1997) is Jena Malone. She is also starring in Consecration (2023), and there's an homage to the famous mirror shot from Contact in that movie.

Credit: @ShikharVerma on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HlsKp2cJKek

thomasfuchs, to random
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OpenAI just outright stole Scarlett Johansson’s voice.

Microsoft is a major investor in theft.

If you work there, you enable this.

stephen, to random
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Talked to a very smart person this afternoon who reminded me: climate fatalism ("it's too late") is a soft form of denialism.

Everything we do from here is worthwhile. It counts, it makes a difference. No matter what damage has been done, we can still make things better than if we had done nothing. We can still look after the world, look after our friends and family. Action has results.

Quinnypig, to random
@Quinnypig@awscommunity.social avatar

I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

TheodoreKim, to random
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Hey Graphics Folks, ever wonder who the “Phong” was that invented Phong shading?

Turns out his last name wasn’t Phong, that online picture of him isn't even him, and his death is connected to the U.S. military’s use of chemical weapons during the Vietnam War.

Dr. Oh, Dr. Tran, and I wrote about it here:
https://time.com/6974656/toy-story-vietnam-war/

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Mexico is suffering historic droughts and heatwaves. Mexico City is sinking because the aquifer is drying up.

Meanwhile, there is a "boom" in water intense data centers. The poor are going thirty, while the data drinks its fill.

"The data center market in Mexico is booming, with direct investment projections in excess of US$7 billion and an expected expansion of installed capacity from 81 MW to over 1000MW."
https://www.inprogroup.net/en/mexico-data-centers/

WearsHats, to random
@WearsHats@realsocial.life avatar

I finally did it. I used an LLM. A couple of months ago, MS added its Copilot to Windows. I turned it off. But the latest update shoved it back in my face and tried to get me to let it use my data. So I asked it a question: How do I get rid of Copilot? It suggested I uninstall it like any other program, but MS removed that option. But Copilot went on to tell me the exact registry key to change to block it from loading, and now it's gone.

protonprivacy, to Youtube
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Spot on! – If you have an IP address based in one of these countries, you can watch without ads: https://mastodon.social/@hypertesto@mastodon.uno/112444992606022277

Connect to them with : https://protonvpn.com/vpn-servers

akshatrathi, to random
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2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade.

2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020.

Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires new data centers built out of carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-15/microsoft-s-ai-investment-imperils-climate-goal-as-emissions-jump-30

brody, to gamedev
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I'm not a "Linux Guy" really but I started re-evaluating it lately, and I think it might not just be for the Tech Weirdos anymore. It can absolutely be a daily driver for a lot of game developers now!

https://brodybrooks.com/posts/2024-linuxgamedev/

evacide, to random
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If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

Blender, to random
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Blender Extensions is now available as beta! 🚀

You can now browse, install, and update extensions such as add-ons and themes within the upcoming Blender 4.2 LTS.

Read more https://code.blender.org/2024/05/extensions-platform-beta-release/

davidho, to random
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Is this a safe space to point out that the largest direct air capture plant in the world — designed to remove 36,000 tonnes of CO₂ each year — is a time machine that takes us back 28 seconds in a year? 🥲

https://wapo.st/3UTqMwC

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."

AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030

Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/world-all-news/1042696/chatgpt-consumes-25-times-more-energy-than-google

VeroniqueB99, to random
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Useful stuff

yiningkarlli, to random
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Vue and PlantFactory are being discontinued, but as part of being discontinued, you can now download and use them for free.

This is the end of an era; Vue has been a mainstay in building 3D terrain and environments as long as I can remember.

https://www.bentley.com/software/e-on-software-free-downloads/

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

molly0xfff, to random
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"[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." – @ben

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

h/t @dangillmor

mike805,

@shom @molly0xfff @ben @dangillmor Ever heard of low-background steel? Various instruments are made out of world war 2 and earlier battleship steel, some recovered from the bottom of the ocean, because all post-1945 steel is radioactive.

Pre-2023 Internet content is going to be a precious resource like low-background steel someday, the way things are going. Archives will be valuable, especially if one has the legal right to use them. (Although that will NOT deter people, they will obfuscate.)

18+ philipdrobar, to random
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Here's what people seem to realize only now: If you work for / use a product made by a publicly traded company, you're at risk. Always.

A publicly traded company has one goal above all: Fiduciary duty to shareholders.

Meaning: Not just making money, but making increasingly more money.

This goal is more important than:

  • Treating workers well.
  • Delivering a good product / service.
  • Building a sustainable business.

I've seen a lot of posts in disbelief about so many recent layoffs or business decisions, but if you consider the fiduciary duty, these are no surprise. The Microsoft layoffs prove this once again.

We've seen countless examples recently:
Publicly traded companies are bad for workers.
Publicly traded companies are bad for consumers. (enshittification anyone?)

It's the biggest red flag. 🚩

I know it's hard to avoid working with/for or using products by publicly traded companies, but there are alternatives out there. The sooner we seek them out, the more resilient our lives will be.

MrBeam, to unrealengine
@MrBeam@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

Moved my Unreal, Blender and Krita tools to my repository for easier access.

https://codeberg.org/MrBeam

Unreal

  • VAT Import Setting Script
  • Light Ray Tool
  • Custom Primitive Data Widget
  • Static Mesh Build Settings
  • Reparent Blueprints

Blender

  • VAT Exporter
  • Shapekey Creator
  • Sharp Seams
  • Skin Weight Tool
  • Flip Book Vertex Painter

Krita

  • Separate To RGB Channels

Have a look, maybe you'll find something useful.

ben, to random
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Stack Overflow announced that they are partnering with OpenAI, so I tried to delete my highest-rated answers.

Stack Overflow does not let you delete questions that have accepted answers and many upvotes because it would remove knowledge from the community.

So instead I changed my highest-rated answers to a protest message.

Within an hour mods had changed the questions back and suspended my account for 7 days.

Diff view of a stack overflow question showing it being changed from the original text to a protest message, then being changed back again by a mod. Protest text reads: Why does OpenAI get to profit from our work? I have removed this question in protest of Stack Overflow's decision to partner with OpenAI. This move steals the labour of everyone who contributed to Stack Overflow with no way to opt-out. OpenAI has a history of flooding the web with inaccurate information and have explicitly stated that they will never pay creators for their work.

ben,
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Thank you for the replies. As someone pointed out, anything posted on Stack Overflow is covered by CC BY-SA 4.0.

Under this license all usage must attribute the author and must have a similar license. Neither of which OpenAI fulfills.

Screenshot from Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license with the following text: Under the following terms: Attribution — You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

GameFromScratch, to gamedev
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e-on's VUE, PlantFactory and PlantCatalog have all been made available for free as Bentley Software discontinues development.

Think Gaea and Speedtree in terms of what these applications do. Available for Windows and Mac.

https://gamefromscratch.com/e-on-vue-plantfactory-and-plantcatalog-now-free/

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