@Gotterdammerung HuggingChat is just a wrapper on top of OpenAssistant. It's not gonna match the correctness levels of ChatGPT till it's fine tuned more. Let's wait a bit longer, it's only been out for 3 weeks.
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I get that it’s hot right now, but man, the user experience of LLMs being this bot you type text to seems like a huge step backwards compared to just integrating these AI features natively into products.
I keep cutting out things like social media from my lifestyle, but I'm finding it hard to fill the time. Reading can only go so far, there's never anything on TV, and my friends all live twelve miles away....
@aral It's more true the other way around. Department of Defense is a big contributor to open source. I express my gratitude to the federal employees whose effort into designing and developing software for mandatory access control or mix networks.
Today, both Mailchimp and Hootsuite (very popular tools which I happen to use for @thunderbird newsletters and social media) invited me to use #AI to compose Facebook posts, tweets, and emails, respectively.
I won't be using AI tools for writing. But you should know that it's starting to get exponentially more difficult knowing if the content you're absorbing is from a human or from something like #ChatGPT.
@thunderbird Sure, but it can make something somewhat close to your style. It will output much more/faster than you can, but the quality will be quite different. I edit a lot more than I write, so LLMs are a great tool for me. They're kinda useless for pure writers.
@thunderbird if you're a fiction writer, instruction-following LLMs can help you prototype possible dialogs. This is what character.ai is about now.
Perhaps you can set up a character based on your writings? #ChatGPT is more like a postal office employee. Too formal for non-technical writing IMO.
@moira That Sam guy seems to be mostly whining about how they didn't choose activitypub. He says AT protocol DIDs are unnecessary, cause there's already username@domain.com that can be used as ID. He's wrong, it's a useful feature similar to keybase, or SSL autorities, or something like Namecoin.
Free trial, then $4.99 a month. It’s an interesting concept. They use AI to pull together what they consider relevant posts based on your follow list and other secret sauces. Probably your likes, followed hashtags, boosts and lists.
A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...
Strangely enough, in this particular context, I'd say PHP is better than Rust, cause at least you get a garbage collector.
Solid logic with sticking with what you can prototype in quickly. That's a lot more important than performance. However, people hate PHP, so it's gonna be hard to find help (I assume it doesn't matter, it seems like a solo mission :)
Perhaps, this type of discussion should be avoided. Maybe some kinda FAQ section where you explain why Lemmy isn't satisfactory for you.
ernest, I like this project cause you've been so responsive and enthusiastic.
I don't like microblogging. The only good application for it is for discovery without advanced search. I'd prefer the focus to be on well written articles, engaging podcasts, and video documentaries. What's that called macroblogging? Monetization, haha? We gotta give people an incentive to produce thoughtful content. I'd recommend integrating with LBRY. That could be another NLnet project: ActivityPub to LBRY bridge.
The microblogging aspect could be automated with a summarizer, and autoposted.
This would be an awesome service for me, I'd pay $5/mo to have it.
I went to see Alexis Ohanian talk back when reddit was still small. He said they were doing it for fun, and meant it to be a small fun website. If memory serves, he called it tacky. I didn't like reddit back then, but over the years a big chunk of answers that were supposed to be on stackoverflow would show up on reddit. Google on the other hand started messing with search results to serve more ads, so appending reddit at the end of a query helped in many cases.
Making a better aggregator / search engine for the fediverse would be interesting. But its utility for the current content of microblogging is negligible. I wouldn't mind cutting out mastodon to be honest. It's just a bunch [british word for cigarettes] and hentai watching nazis arguing about which group is more retarded. It's entertaining, but it gets boring pretty much. You're guaranteed to offend both of those sides, so it's better to avoid the whole microblogging sphere. I guess Poland is a magical place where far right politicians go to anime conventions and pose for pictures with femboy attendants.
LBRY is more of a protocol like ActivityPub, but it's also a cryptocurrency. You can click download and get the file (unlike YouTube). It can distribute content in a bittorrent fashion, and that's a lot more scalable in the context of the fediverse. You need to ensure that the project gets properly funded, or it's not gonna be used. I understand your caution about crypto, but that could be a viable source of funding for this. You can buy compute with crypto, so it should cover most of your expenses.
I'd recommend you working on it alone, on the core at least. You don't need help if you're good at using LLMs. They can write most of the code for you, and even tests. Software teams of humans are slow and fragile. Single dev projects are a lot faster. Obsession moves mountains :)
I don't care much about open internet. I think it's open enough already. And most people want moderation (censorship). There is too much stuff out there, and most people are offended by a big chunk of it. It seems like the same people who want moderation also don't want the fediverse to searchable. Is that right?
A company in Germany specialised on building fences now also builds solar fences ☀️ (www.reddit.com)
Millennials and early Gen Z of Lemmy, what did you do for fun before phones became such a huge part of our lives?
I keep cutting out things like social media from my lifestyle, but I'm finding it hard to fill the time. Reading can only go so far, there's never anything on TV, and my friends all live twelve miles away....
Countries whose militaries use Dolphins (sopuli.xyz)
Murmel, a daily Twitter feed aggregator, is setting up shop in the fediverse. (masto.murmel.social)
Free trial, then $4.99 a month. It’s an interesting concept. They use AI to pull together what they consider relevant posts based on your follow list and other secret sauces. Probably your likes, followed hashtags, boosts and lists.
Kbin Roadmap 2023
A certain stage of development has ended - a prototype was created that allowed me to verify whether such a form makes sense in the #fediverse. Until now, it was a project that I developed in my free time. Now, thanks to the great people from Nlnet, I will be able to devote much more time to it. This time, we have already...