Peanutbjelly

I'm no fan of meta, but a reminder that they are one of the best right now for keeping their AI developments more open and available. This is thanks to yann lecun and other researchers pressuring meta to keep their info on the subject more open.

Are we looking to punish them for making their work accessible?

Not to mention how important something like joint embedded predictive architecture could be for the future of alignment and real world training/learning. Maybe go after other foundation model developers to be more open, if we're complaining about the inevitably public nature of some information within the mountainous datasets being used.

Although I'm still of the mindset that the model intent matters more than the use of openly available data in training. I.E. I've been shouting about models being used specifically to predict and manipulate user interactions/habits for the better part of a decade. For your "customized advertisements" and the like.

The general public and media interaction on the topic this past year has been insufferably out of touch.

... Basically the day it was created.

I just got another 1 star review for the place I work, because some employees still choose to wear masks. If covid taught me anything, it's how absolutely idiotic and unreasonable a large chunk of our species is.

During the height of covid we had people angrily recording us while yelling at us for abusing the rights of our customers by following the provincial mandates. Local restaurant where the owner was refusing to comply got awarded with the best business owner award.

Although it's always been an industry standard to try our hardest and be yelled at and abused by the general public as if we'd spit into their coffee.

At this point I fucking hate our species.

So you also equate French nobility with nazi victims?

Nobody is being called out for their race or sexual preferences or body they were given at birth. The people being targeted here are defined only as the ones who have plundered the world to fill their pockets regardless of the cost. It is the very act of power hungry and despotic rule that leads to this call. Remember that every family member and friend we lose to the meat grinder could have lived happily if not for the ones who deem us unworthy of human treatment. Every home burnt to the ground as the fires worsen, because they refuse to let environmental care affect their overflowing coffers.

How many more people should die and suffer for their wont?

This is not a comparable situation, you silly person.

It's kinda gross. Also, not saying that shouldn't be addressed, since it should, but I'm more concerned with the state of mobile app markets. Pick an game at random and i can probably show you a plethora of ways it is specifically designed to take advantage of subconscious habits and weaknesses. Especially of the vulnerable.

I've seen children gathering and spending excessive money in the most unhealthy habitual ways conceivable, and it's bad enough for vulnerable adults who weren't trained into the mindset since youth.

People don't even understand the problem, and will defend the practice as their freedom. Who, while compelled by addiction, won't be defensive when their problem is brought to light? But it's bad enough that the popular opinion seems to be in defence of the practices.

It's just sitting perfectly within the gray area outside of people's concerns or cares. the bastards with no qualms taking advantage of the vulnerable or incapable are running away with hundreds of billions of dollars. Money out of the pockets of those who couldn't mentally compete with professionally developed and financed methods of manipulation.

Deceptive designs are bad enough. Blatant scams or unethically disturbing advertisements should have been bad enough. Blatantly manipulating should be well over the mountain of shit that needs addressing on this front.

Won't even get into the topic of roblox..

What are the odds they don't want to vaccinate their children?

Weird thing to do as well, as it seems like an invitation to retaliation. Who thinks that behaviour is tolerated? Guessing rationality isn't their strength to begin with.

Hope this bites them in the ass hard enough that their kids don't care to follow the example.

Really wish people could be baseline decent human beings.

So a platform that more heavily favours and incentivizes the information preferred and supported by those with expendable money.

Can we eat the rich yet?

Can we talk more about deceptive patterns? I had my computer go down recently, and I was reminded just how bad mobile is.

Pick a game at random and I'll show you a dozen direct and intentional manipulations to get you into the habit and environment they want you to be in for optimal resource extraction. I miss when games were an artform rather than a human habit adjusting set of professionally designed manipulations that can annoy you into the right mindset to give money. Not to mention the advertisements which range from absolute fabrication to actual scam.

I swear the actual gain from prime is virtually indecipherable. The less you understand it, the less you can actually complain about what you are paying for.

It also does not boost my confidence when they use deceptive patterns to sneak you back into prime, or keep you from leaving.

The average person doesn't give a hoot though, and will get actively upset at you for pointing out deceptive patterns when it's a brand they use, so I we can probably expect things to get worse whenever physically possible.

So we kill open source models, and proprietary data models like adobe are fine, so they can be the only resource and continue rent seeking while independent artists can eat dirt.

Whether or not the model learned from my art is probably not going to affect me in any way shape or form, unless I'm worried about being used as a prompt so people could use me as a compass while directing their new image aesthetic. Disney/warner could already hire someone to do that 100% legally, so it's just the other peasants im worried about. I don't think the peasants are the problem when it comes to the wellbeing and support of artists

I mean, chess is already obsolete, but it's also more popular than ever.

To me there is extreme value in being able to choose your endeavor vs being forced into something agonizing just to survive.

When everything is obsolete, people can create entire worlds and experiences using AI for themselves and for others who may care to experience it.

The threat of needing to find something to do is one of the most frustratingly privileged concepts.

I don't need anything to do. I just want to be alive without also being exhausted, in pain, and chastised by customers despite working my hardest.

I'd rather the struggle of finding an activity over worrying about whichever coworker is crying in the walk-in because just surviving requires more from them than they are capable of.

Being obsoleted is fine by me, as long as we have the power redistribution necessary to keep people alive and happy.

When they switched the window exiting x button on the "upgrade to windows ten!" Notification to accept the installation rather than just exit the notification.

I'd been exiting that window every day to set up our work computers, as our point of sales solution didn't support the newer version of windows.

My horror when our shop doors open and the screen turns to "updating to windows 10"

We basically lost a day of sales since we had to do thing sans POS.

When I told the owner that I definitely didn't accept the installation, he called Microsoft which told him I must have accepted the installation.