hedgehog

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 day ago

Summary of my comment: the study showed that the AI tool in question was an effective tool for the task, nothing more.

I didn’t read this particular article, but I recently read a different one about the same study. I also clicked into the study itself and read the abstract and everything else that was freely available. The study was paywalled, but as far as I could tell:

  • Performance immediately displayed a sustained increase of 24% relative to baseline while using the AI tool in question
  • Immediately after the tool was taken away (after using it for three months), performance was 20% lower than the baseline
  • The study did not check to see what level performance returned to after three months without it, nor when it returned to baseline levels
  • The study also did not compare performance drops after returning from a three month vacation
  • The study did not compare performance drops when losing access to other tools

This outcome is expected if given a tool that simplifies a process and then losing access to it. If I were writing code in Notepad and using _v2, _v3, etc for versioning, was then given an IDE and git for three months, then had to go back to my old ways with Notepad, I’d expect to be less effective than I had been. I’ve been relying on syntax highlighting, so I’m going to be paying less attention to the specific monochrome text than I used to. I’ll have fallen out of practice from using the version naming techniques that I used to use. All of the stuff that I did to make up for having worse tooling, I’m out of practice with.

But that doesn’t mean that I should use worse tools.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m not a lawyer, but I believe that if the Lemmy instance’s ToS indicates where disputes will be resolved, and either the site owner resides there or is an LLC that is registered there, that you could sue Meta in that location.

Meta is big enough that they are most likely conducting business there (even if digitally) and you could also show that the harm suffered was suffered there.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By chance did you make her unintentional malapropism a canon part of the history of the company’s name? Like Google’s backstory (it may be an urban legend, but I heard they’d intended to name it “googol” but didn’t know how to spell the word, and misspelled it as “Google” when submitting their application).

Strange, I suddenly want to have an Italian-inspired, high class restaurant in my game called “Bone Apple Tea”

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I still wouldn’t call a car an “investment” or anything, but 100% agreed. The whole “cars lose 50% of their value when you drive off the lot” thing might have been true before the Cash for Clunkers program, but it isn’t anymore. Or maybe it’s true if you’re trying to trade-in the vehicle.

If I wanted to buy the (fairly popular) car I’ve been driving for over 6 years with the same mileage, it’d cost me over 2/3rds what it cost new When I bought it, new cars were less expensive than used cars (i.e., like less than two years old with less than 25k miles) thanks to how much better the interest rates were on the loans. A couple years later, I was getting offers for more than I paid for it. And none of that is a unique experience.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 22 points 2 weeks ago

its share value has still risen 27% over the last 12 months

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Claiming that GTA is responsible for mass shootings is an example of what pro-gun activists do in order to deflect the blame off of guns.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 weeks ago

If the instance or community guidelines state “X isn’t allowed,” then it isn’t censorship to remove X. It becomes censorship when mods start removing things for reasons other than enforcing instance or community guidelines. Until that point, it’s just content moderation.

If the c/Androids community guidelines state that “This community is about human-like robots. Posts regarding the phone OS are unwelcome” and a mod removes such a post, that isn’t censorship. Likewise for spam, or reposts, or any number of other things.

On the other hand if the mods remove a post about a human-like robot built in China because they’re sinophobic, that is censorship. Likewise if the human-like robot was built by Tesla, if the lead engineer were a woman, or anything along those lines. Likewise if the post were instead critical of such a robot - still censorship (unless it’s a news only community and the post was free text or a meme).

Likewise if a community’s guidelines state that controversial statements without reputable sources backing them up, statements known to be false, or statements that have been flagged as false by a fact checker are prohibited, then removing such statements isn’t censorship. It’s moderation.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 6 points 2 weeks ago

You don’t have a moral or ethical obligation to respect their terms, but I wouldn’t go too wild with it, as using a ton of data might get noticed and fixed, causing someone else who’s benefiting from this and who can’t afford a replacement setup to lose it.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"I think we should have, like, the same concept of privacy for your conversations with AI

Step 1: Don’t use ChatGPT or other cloud AI services

Step 2: Use AI locally within FOSS applications, or not at all

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In fact, Redot has had 13 releases since the project started late last year.

With an absolutely massive number of commits since then.

An absolutely massive number of commits that were originally made to Godot, sure. Redot has 118 more commits than Godot as of the time of this writing (76,344 vs 76,266). That’s not even 1 original commit per day.

 

This only applies when the homophone is spoken or part of an audible phrase, so written text is safe.

It doesn’t change reality, just how people interpret something said aloud. You could change “Bare hands” to be interpreted as “Bear hands,” for example, but the person wouldn’t suddenly grow bear hands.

You can only change the meaning of the homophones.

It’s not all or nothing. You can change how a phrase is interpreted for everyone, or:

  • You can affect only a specific instance of a phrase - including all recordings of it, if you want - but you need to hear that instance - or a recording of it - to do so. If you hear it live, you can affect everyone else’s interpretation as it’s spoken.
  • You can choose not to affect how it is perceived by people when they say it aloud, and only when they hear it.
  • You can affect only the perception of particular people for a given phrase, but you must either be point at them (pictures work) or be able to refer to them with five or fewer words, at least one of which is a homophone. For example, “my aunt.” Note that if you do this, both interpretations of the homophone are affected, if relevant, (e.g., “my ant”).
  • You can make it so there’s a random chance (in 5% intervals, from 5% to 95%) that a phrase is misinterpreted.
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19716272

Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007

 

The video teaser yesterday about this was already DMCAed by Nintendo, so I don’t think this video will be up long.

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