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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

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(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

EDIT: The post's been deleted, and the Substack's been seemingly abandoned.

Starting this Stubsack off, I found a Substack post titled "Generative AI could have had a place in the arts", which attempts to play devil's advocate for the plagiarism-fueled slop machines.

Pointing to one particular lowlight, the author attempts to conflate AI with actually useful tech to try and make an argument:

While the idea of generative AI “democratizing” art is more or less a meme these days, there are in fact AI tools that do make certain artforms more accessible to low-budget productions. The first thing to come to mind is how computer vision-based motion capture give 3D animators access to clearer motion capture data from a live-action actor using as little as a smartphone camera and without requiring expensive mo-cap suits.

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

gigabyte selling shovels (and not even just random shovels, specialty shovels that need a fixed type of mobo to use)

not gonna spend much effort on it now but if someone runs into an actual worthwhile review showing training performance numbers I'd be keen to see (my expectations are that it still does not do very much, and that runtime quality still underperforms relative to VC-subsidised platforms)

[–] nightsky@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fascinating how that product page is full of marketing fluff, but nowhere does it say what this actually is...? What does it do? It's some kind of.... memory expansion? But what's beneath the big heatsink then? All they say is that it's somehow amazing:

In the age of local AI, GIGABYTE AI TOP is the all-round solution to win advantages ahead of traditional AI training methods. It features a variety of groundbreaking technologies that can be easily adapted by beginners or experts, for most common open-source LLMs, in anyplace even on your desk.

A variety of groundbreaking technologies, uh huh, okay then. In so many ways this is the perfect companion product for AI.

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