We are doing all the AI thing wrong. We were supposed to be replacing hard repetitive manual work with technology. Not replace the art creation.
puts on Obi-Wan's beard
"Technology, you were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the need for work, not join them! Let us focus on culture and enlightment, not leave us with the hard manual work!"
If you are craving chocolate, you are probably craving magnesium. Unless you are really looking for an excuse to eat chocolate (not going to judge you), you can try to eat something else magnesium rich (or even a magnesium supplement) and that should do the trick.
Curious take by Oracle after its very recent campaign trying to push out their Java competitors by saying Java 21 is not going to be LTS so you can't trust it. Well, maybe not your Java 21, Mister Oracle. Talk for yourself. Not very FOSS-like attitude.
it's annoying that it's not been trained to appreciate this limitation of itself.
Well, ChatGPT (and the likes) are designed exclusively to pass the Turing Test. They have to appear human. That's the only goal. And that goal is clearly done.
I'm also switching to Kbin (subscribed to lemmy instances too) where I spend most of my time now. I miss my thematic subreddits, but experience says it is a matter of time until I build a good network here. Mastodon took me 6 months to be able to replace Twitter almost completely (there are a few individuals I still have to find somewhere else).
I blocked reddit from my DNSs and I only enter via Infinity mobile app every now and then to vote on the polls to "keep the blackout" or "only allow John Oliver shenanigans".
Yes but actually not. Federated, yes. Everyone contributing, yes. Paid for access... that's a path I prefer not to walk into. Payment should be voluntary.
I am gladly paying for my mastodon account and I will gladly pay for my kbin account when/if recurrent payments are possible. But I understand I am a privileged one. 20€ a year for me is easy at this point of my life. But not everyone earns money. Not everyone lives in a country where 20€ a year is small change. 10 years ago I wouldn't have been able to pay that easily.
A world in which we federate and each of us contribute and pay, if we can, the amount we can, that makes sense to me.
A world in which you can't access the good parts of the internet unless you pay for it, that's scary to me.
I haven't tried it yet, but is the fediverse indexable?
Yes, it is. At least mastodon allows you to select on the profile if you want to appear on search engines or not. So I understand the rest can implement the same thing.
I definitely moved to DuckDuckGo the moment I realized Google was ignoring the text I was writing on the search box. I was searching for a bug fix in my code for weeks, something very niche and difficult to find. When I finally got the answer and moved on to the following bug, Google kept mixing my previous bug with the new one, making it impossible to find the right answer. It got so used to me being focused on that niche thing, it couldn't believe I moved past it.
DuckDuckGo forced me to write "smart queries" again, giving context on the search text. But it gave me the results I needed. Not the ones Google googlexplained me I needed.
If our hope is on ChatGPT and its friends, we are doomed.
In a couple of years there will be entire webpages automatically generated with content no human has reviewed. Not even read. And they will be so optimized for SEO, they will be the first results on most search engines.
And the content of those webpages will be crappy. Elegantly written, yes, perfect English. No grammatical errors. But it will tell you the recipe of gazpacho is done with hot spicy tomato sauce and that the acne you have can be cured by sleeping naked under the moon the second Thursday of the month.
I already miss the human-generated internet and we are still here!
I know augmented reality is "one step behind" from a full virtual reality, but it drags the same issues with putting in front of your eyes things that move and glitch without your brain fully understanding why and what is happening.