froztbyte

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froztbyte,

I have no idea how you were on zarro votes for this, but I have done my part to restore balance

froztbyte,

and yet if you actually read the very visible timestamp on the shared image, you’d see “11y ago”, which would tell you fairly clearly what is what

pretty equal hypotheses indeed! you’re a master cognician!

froztbyte,

pretty moderately sure you won’t just get downvoted for this

froztbyte,

ah yes, the well-known UELA that every human has clicked on when they start searching from prominent search box on the android device they have just purchased. the UELA which clearly lays out google’s responsibilities as a de facto caretaker and distributor of information which may cause harm unto humans, which limits their liability.

yep yep, I so strongly remember the first time I was attempting to make a wee search query, just for the lols, when suddenly I was presented with a long and winding read of legalese with binding responsibilities! oh, what a world.

…no, wait. it’s the other one.

froztbyte,

you completely missed the point, you fucking dipshit

froztbyte,

legal garbage at you when you set stuff up,

for phone setup, yeah fair 'nuff, but even that is well-arguable (what about corp phones where some desk jockey or auto-ack script just clicked yes on all the prompts and choices?)

a perhaps simpler case is “this browser was set to google as a shipped default”. afaik in literally no case of “you’ve just landed here, person unknown, start searching ahoy!” does google provide you with a T&Cs prompt or anything

I have to wonder though if the fact Google is generating this text themselves rather than just showing text…

indeed! aiui there’s a slow-boil legal thing happening around this, as to whether such items are considered derivative works, and what the other leg of it may end up being. I did see one thing that I think seemed categorically define that they can’t be “individual works” (because no actual human labour was involved in any one such specific answer, they’re all automatic synthetic derivatives), but I speak under correction because the last few years have been a shitshow and I might be misremembering

in a slightly wider sense of interpretation wrt computer-generated decisions, I believe even that is still case-by-case determined, since in the fields of auto-denied insurance and account approvals and and and, I don’t know of any current legislation anywhere that takes a broad-stroke approach to definitions and guarantees. will be nice when it comes to pass, though. and I suspect all the genmls are going to get the short end of the stick.*

(* in fact: I strongly suspect that they know this is extremely likely, and that this awareness is a strong driver in why they’re now pulling all the shit and pushing all the boundaries they can. knowing that once they already have that ground, it’ll take work to knock them back)

froztbyte,

“the murdermachine can’t help but murdering. alas, what can we do. guess we just have to resign ourselves to being murdered” says murdermachine sponsor/advertiser/creator/…

froztbyte,

slightly more certain of my earlier guess now

froztbyte,

Ah, how thoughtful and concise an attempt at backtracking from how thoroughly you put your foot in it

Doesn’t seem to have been successful though

froztbyte,

[✔️ ] marked safe from the basilisk

froztbyte,

sorry could you try this comment again but, like, making sense the next time?

froztbyte,

joke’s on you, I clown on them while loafing on grass!~

froztbyte,

this backlash is against arguably the best voice they have at their disposal

…lol

lolololololololol

“the best voice they have at their disposal”

the hyper-grainy artefact-present voice that is ACTUALLY FUCKING WORSE than a number of current offerings. “the best”.

jesus h tapdancing fucking christ do you fucking read your own words before you send them?

but remember folks, any day now chatgpt is going to be our god

froztbyte,

Could I dare you to make a halfway good post instead?

froztbyte,

When OpenAI issued a casting call last year for a secret project to endow OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT with a human voice, the flier had several requests: The actors should be nonunion. They should sound between 25 and 45 years old. And their voices should be “warm, engaging [and] charismatic.”

One thing the artificial intelligence company didn’t request, according to interviews with multiple people involved in the process and documents shared by OpenAI in response to questions from The Washington Post: a clone of actress Scarlett Johansson

link (archive]

gotta love the lucy-football here. “no no, we never requested that it sound like her!”

sure leaves out whether it was chosen to be that. of all the voice actors out there, they just happened to stumble over and choose the exact one that had a voice like scarjo? happens to everyone, all the time. just like forgetting your keys as you walk out the front door. perfectly normal. pay no attention to the other attempts to get legal cover on delivery day…

froztbyte,

in advance of asking this I’ll cop to not actually having followed Wright’s insane arc in detail much the last few years on account of life yaks, but

why the hell is he even trying? is there a big pile of seized bitcoins that he believes he can get access to if only he managed to dupe people?

like I’m not trying to legitimate any views or valuations here, but it’s just so … wat

froztbyte,

I wonder if at any point anyone involved (no matter how tangentially) in this process ever went “uh… guys…” and got (metaphorically) defenestrated for trying to pull the eject handle

froztbyte,

one of the things that I really love about this is that, while there are indeed some nuances you can get into (platforms/archs, number theory, internal representations, …), it’s one of the rare computerwords in english that you could viably reason about on first principles without knowing much and get a sortacorrect answer

and yet

froztbyte,

“my computer’s so secure! it does mean I can only use 32-bit applications on this 64-bit cpu, but alas. all for security!”

froztbyte,

(even typing that made me wince. I hope anyone who had to deal with 32->64 in any capacity some years ago doesn’t get hurt reading this)

froztbyte,

wake up babe, new level of steelmanning just dropped

froztbyte,

I have worked with a couple of these eager shitwits over the years, and they are awful. they’ll effortgraft waaaay into a thing that they think is totes the solution, “deliver” it as “done” (aka “here’s a branch that already does all that, we can take it live now”), which all so handily allows them to frame any questions/criticism/etc as “don’t you think we need ${problem} to be solved?”

the. fucking. worst.

froztbyte,

sudden flashback to when $eagerdev pushed a branch that implemented test-infra steered by ansible… in which you needed to write secondary, entirely separate, roles/specs for the test-infra thing to “verify”

(didn’t even try to hook ansible definitions (frankly I wouldn’t want to either (but if ansible weren’t so fucking shit at what it does _that whole thing wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place)))

froztbyte,

I started pre-hurting in 2018-2019 when I saw SoC vendors pitch things as AI chips because you could natively run accelerated models on them for speech and image recognition. Yes, really, that was the total pitch. It’s AI because you could run models. Where to train the models, what the total scope of capacity was, total execution space, total throughput, etc? No no, not practically touched at all in those docs

And where I said pre-hurting? At the time I thought “oh god”….you can imagine how quaint that memory feels in retrospect right now

froztbyte,

not much of a sneer but a passing chuckle:


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my spamtrap addresses get these every now and then. I’m still amazed that I get that type of subject line in tyol 2024 - spammers are usually far more agile

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