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GeePawHill, to random
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Have you thought at all, for even a minute, about the business model of OpenAI?

In one sentence: "We will take every actual human-created content, the golden egg, from everyone, without permission, and then we will use it to sell plausible made-up shit, simultaneously choking out the creation of all new human-created content, the goose."

Ponzi was vastly more sophisticated than this.

I've long regarded extractive capitalism as corrupt, but I had no idea they were all so stupid.

dexterous,
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@hazelweakly @GeePawHill

I feel like LLMs are our age's manifestation of "a hundred monkeys at a typewriter writing Shakespeare." Except it's non-deterministic automatons, an oxymoron if we needed one, spewing cheap, user aggrandizing knock offs.

exchgr, to random
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🙃 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Milken

Milken was indicted for racketeering and securities fraud in 1989 in an insider trading investigation. In a plea bargain, he pleaded guilty to securities and reporting violations but not to racketeering or insider trading. Milken was sentenced to ten years in prison, fined $600 million (although his personal website claims $200 million)[7] and permanently barred from the securities industry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. His sentence was later reduced to two years for cooperating with testimony against his former colleagues and for good behavior.[8] Milken was pardoned by President Donald Trump on February 18, 2020

dexterous,
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@exchgr it's all gambling in the number-go-up game.

exchgr, to random
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yaccarino seems like someone who does not live in reality. or at least is unaware of it

dexterous,
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@exchgr nah, just a boat-load of willful ignorance that will eventually manifest in moderatly plausible deniability.

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@exchgr oh, just you wait and watch, my friend. I have confidence in corporate America yet!

exchgr, to random
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perfect forest bathing album

https://music.apple.com/us/album/something-anything/1084074389

dexterous,
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@exchgr are you trying to imitate @RikerGoogling ? 😄

dexterous,
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@exchgr Stop ruining my silly jokes with your impeccable logic! 😡

exchgr, to random
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i’m just trying to watch a stupid little youtube short, and the ui persistently covers just about a third of the video. and that’s not even counting the stuff on the sides and top. no way to dismiss any of it. try any of the usual taps and you might accidentally like the video.

yeah ok, i get it youtube, you feel like you have to directly copy everything tiktok and instagram do or risk falling into obscurity. but you know what they say about good artists and such

dexterous,
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@exchgr I find it even more amusing when people post TikToks as YT shorts but still have the TikTok UI bleed through. This one time I couldn't make sense of why there was more than one like button. 😏

dexterous,
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@exchgr it feels like UI/UX design has taken a back seat lately, if no entirely shoved out the back door.

shanselman, to random
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The Frasier reboot is…good!!!

Season 2 Episode 3 GIF by Paramount+

dexterous,
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@shanselman @bradwilson

Well, TBF, David doesn't really get any better in the next few episodes; I'd argue he actually gets more annoying. But, then again, it's just the first few episodes of the revival, so I'm inclined to stick around to see where it goes... even if I'm not currently impressed.

dexterous,
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@shanselman @bradwilson

Ok, Episode 6 is a marked improvement. Definitely more… Frasier-ey.

dexterous,
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@bradwilson @shanselman
Oh yeah, Ep5 was a disaster, but safe to skip. Has no bearing on any continuity.

exchgr, to random
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me: get up off the couch
my brain: shh shhh close your eyes and i’ll take you to bed. but first we must categorize these dragons

dexterous,
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@exchgr

Hey, are you borrowing my brain... or am I borrowing yours? 'Cause... 😶

georgetakei, to random

Umm, he does what now? https://www.comicsands.com/johnson-son-monitoring-porn-usaage-2666168119.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

dexterous,
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@georgetakei

The responses to the criticism are just as bonkers.

https://twitter.com/MajesticResists/status/1721410077276446869

georgetakei, to random

I don’t know the answer to many of the world’s great problems. But have they tried diverting all power to the forward array? That worked for us often.

dexterous,
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@georgetakei Deus Ex Deflector

exchgr, to random
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drones & choppers

dexterous,
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@exchgr https://media.tenor.com/Iwgypq5HuxcAAAAC/arnold-schwarzenegger-predator.gif

sdw, to random
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want to feel old? here’s a 15 year old Apple Store

dexterous,
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@sdw

I like to ask people if they remember that there was actually a touch-screen smart device that you could not make phone calls or send texts from.

timbray, to random
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Pleasantly surprised at the social-media traffic around :

  • Not seeing anyone trying to justify Hamas’ theofascist thuggery
  • A little bit of pro-Bibi kill-all-the-Gazans snarling
  • A whole lot of realism - Hamas are assholes, but let’s not pile another war crime on top of theirs, and Gaza is prison with abusive jailers, and the current Israeli govt is full of genocide-curious stone racists
dexterous,
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@timbray

That "service" is leaning into the "echo-chamber" model like it's a business goal.

molly0xfff, to random
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it was the fuck aroundiest of times, it was the find outiest of times

dexterous,
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@FuckElon @molly0xfff .... and to so many points of time in history.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Which of these arithmetic operators do you prefer?

dexterous,
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@evan @steevc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Sheeran#Discography

exchgr, to random
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reddit is just privatized usenet. slack is just privatized irc. streaming is just privatized piracy. social media is just privatized blogging

dexterous,
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@exchgr in its current state, I'd say it's just a taxi service without the necessary regulation. Anything else just hides the ugly. It has come very-very far from its roots as a ride-share service, a business model that was never really about "business" and more about "decongesting roads" and "reducing emissions".

dexterous,
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@exchgr I remember a phase where literally every hackathon and launchpad in my hometown of Pune would have at least 2 ride-share apps and I was always the "asshole" that asked them to demonstrate some semblance of a business model.

dexterous,
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@exchgr @bytebro @HarryLeRoy Mastodon is waaay too young to tell. Twitter was a free, micro-blogging platform when it started; they even called themselves as much, but then again, the term "social media" hadn't been invented yet.

exchgr, to random
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if there’s one thing i’ve learned from a decade in tech, it’s that optimization and automation are forms of ossification. to me, AI seems like an extreme example of this

dexterous,
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@natevw @exchgr it's funny how people who claim extreme outlier status are so eager to promote a solution that essentially works by reduction to the mean.

dexterous,
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@exchgr @natevw Martin Fowler has some thoughts.

https://michaelfeathers.silvrback.com/prompt-hoisting-for-gpt-based-code-generation

GossiTheDog, to random
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Microsoft quietly snuck out a blog yesterday to say that Office 365 got compromised by China and used to steal emails. Thread follows. https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/microsoft-mitigates-china-based-threat-actor-storm-0558-targeting-of-customer-email/

dexterous,
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@GossiTheDog "Micro$oft has mitigated the acquired MSA key…" but has the underlying security issue that allowed such cross-service access also been "mitigated"?

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