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Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.

Spent many years on Reddit and then some time on kbin.social.

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None of this is AI-specific. Youtube wants you to label your videos if you use "altered or synthetic content" that could mislead people about real people or events. 99% of what Corridor Crew puts out would probably need to be labeled, for example, and they mostly use traditional digital effects.

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If you're careless with your prompting, sure. The "default style" of ChatGPT is widely known at this point. If you want it to sound different you'll need to provide some context to tell it what you want it to sound like.

Or just use one of the many other LLMs out there to mix things up a bit. When I'm brainstorming I usually use Chatbot Arena to bounce ideas around, it's a page where you can send a prompt to two randomly-selected LLMs and then by voting on which gave a better response you help rank them on a leaderboard. This way I get to run my prompts through a lot of variety.

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But only sometimes. Not often enough that I don't still find it more useful than not.

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I'm a good programmer and I still find LLMs to be great for banging out python scripts to handle one-off tasks. I usually use Copilot, it seems best for that sort of thing. Often the first version of the script will have a bug or misunderstanding in it, but all you need to do is tell the LLM what it did wrong or paste the text of the exception into the chat and it'll usually fix its own mistakes quite well.

I could write those scripts myself by hand if I wanted to, but they'd take a lot longer and I'd be spending my time on boring stuff. Why not let a machine do the boring stuff? That's why we have technology.

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I haven't had to edit the registry in as long as I can remember. Not just for this specific thing. What stuff are you talking about?

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I work for a big giant corporation and plenty of its computers don't run Enterprise Windows.

A lawsuit would come in the case that Microsoft was lying about whether you could disable those features. Microsoft has put toggles for them into the settings, if it turns out that those toggles don't actually disable the things they claim to disable then that's where Microsoft is going to face legal issues. Do you really think Microsoft cares enough about the tiny portion of their customer base that's going to change the default settings that they would risk that sort of lawsuit to "spy" on them?

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But this really isn't a registry key or tool, though. Did you click my link? It's a simple on/off toggle in the system settings menu. You just open the settings and click "off." I don't see how much simpler they could make it.

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Nothing will be here in a billion years. Setting aside the fact that no species lasts that long anyway, Earth only has a few hundred million years of habitability left, if "nature" has its way. The sun's steadily brightening as it ages and tectonic processes are causing changes in Earth's atmosphere that will eventually prevent photosynthesis from operating, at which point Earth become the domain of a few hardy strains of bacteria again.

That is, unless humans (or our very distant descendants) decide to do some meddling to keep Earth alive. There's various ways to do that, from solar shields reducing the solar influx to moving Earth's orbit farther out to stripping material from the Sun itself to moderate its output.

"Gaia" has no foresight. She will sorely miss humanity's technological descendants once the planet gets in that situation, there's nothing she can do about it herself.

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"Humanity survives adversity well" is not not something I would think of as "unfortunate."

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On two occasions I have been asked, – "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question"

-- Charles Babbage

This confusion would appear to continue to this day.

Why is it even remotely surprising or unexpected that an AI that's summarizing web search results for you can sometimes give false, misleading, or dangerous answers? The search results contain false, misleading, and dangerous answers sometimes. The problem is not the AI. It's doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing.

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Only to the extent that Google's search results already had Reddit data in them. This AI is summarizing the search results it's being given, not making stuff up on its own.

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The patents on sildenafil expired in 2020.

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The place I know about off the top of my head is https://academictorrents.com/ where you can find lots of large data sets useful for academic research. The torrent files themselves are small, so I'm sure they can be found in other places too.

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Reddit already has your comments. So does everyone else who might want to train an LLM, for that matter, there are archive dumps that anyone can torrent and those aren't updated "live" every time you vandalize your old comments. The only people that are inconvenienced by replacing your comments with gibberish are humans that may find that thread later on looking for information.

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So a few hundred Sherpa (profession) would be completely unable to find other jobs, like their hundreds of thousands of bretheren have somehow managed to do.

Look, I don't want people to die on Everest. But nobody is forced to go there, not even the Sherpas. They choose to go there. They know what they're getting into and what the risks are. If you're going to feel bad for them then you should also feel bad for the climbers, and vice versa.

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Perhaps the Sherpas shouldn't be enabling them.

And actually, my point is just that you should feel equally bad for them. They're both people who chose to be there and they're both people that died. If you don't want to feel bad for them then that's fine too.

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I have a surprise for you: there were big updates to Paint in Windows 11. Most notably AI image generation features. So that may affect your girlfriend-drawing endeavours.

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Back on Reddit it seemed like a standard pattern that every once in a while some particular subject would come up that was popular to dislike, and a generalized negative sentiment would wash gently across the zeitgeist for a while before eventually receding. My theory is that being part of a mob is fun, it lets you unleash righteous anger and feel validation along with the rush of endorphins, so it's a self-perpetuating pattern.

Here on the Fediverse it feels more like a steady lashing storm of waves. Right now Windows 11 is hated. In most threads it's impossible to say something that is insufficiently negative about it without getting tons of downvotes.

Oh well. If Karma was meaningless on Reddit, it's doubly meaningless here. So I'll just keep on saying my thing.

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Image-generating AI is capable of generating images that are not like anything that was in its training set.

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Russia made it through WWII solely because of US aid.

That aid is now flowing into Ukraine.

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In terms of what matters most in finally achieving financial stability, 42% say it would take spending less money than they make

It baffles me what the remaining 58% think.

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And then whenever the Gazans did anything to threaten the luxury homes or utility corridor, oh what a shame, need to push them back further to establish more of a safe buffer zone.

Oh look, that freed up some more room to build luxury homes!

Rinse and repeat.

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I didn't say anything about burning out. A job can be too big or difficult for a person without them burning out.

Ultimately, it's just a question of results. If kbin.social is working poorly but other alternatives are doing good, I move on. That works well in the Fediverse especially, as evidenced that I am commenting from fedia.io.

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No, he's not. Kbin was recently down for a week. Then voting and comment counts broke. Before all that I had to get into the habit of reloading the page I was on every time I wanted to vote on something. It's a terrible user experience.

That's not to say I don't like him or he's not a good dev or whatever. Just that people have limits and it sure seems like he's bumping against his.

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The reason it worked is because sometimes burnout is a real problem, and getting extra help is a real solution. The fact that this was exploited in one situation doesn't mean that all of a sudden there isn't any real burnout or genuine offers to help any more.

A project can sometimes benefit from help even if there is no burnout. People have limits.

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