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Thorry84

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  • 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed

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  • I feel it's a vaguely Australian term?

  • If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?

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  • Interesting point. I don't really know what would be fair.

    On the one hand you are right, if someone puts in a lot of time and effort to create a book. And it becomes a hit and gets a movie deal, I do believe they should be rewarded for that.

    On the other hand, out of the tens of thousands of books written each year how many get turned into a movie? 1 or 2 maybe on average? And how much of the book is in the movie? I've both read Mickey7 and seen Mickey17. And while they both have some things in common, they are basically completely different stories. Should we really compromise the rules for everyone because of this very rare exception?

    And I also feel like movies are caught in a slump the past years, with very few original stories being made. All remakes, reboots and super hero crap. If more stories were available for free use, how much would that influence new story creation? Very hard to say really.

    As with all art, nothing is made in a vacuum. Everything builds on each other, everything is influenced by other things. I can't help but thing about what the community did with 3D printing once the patents expired. Having stuff available to use can only be a good thing right?

    But I don't really know, you make a very good point. In a world where all kinds of art gets devalued all the time, I feel like we should celebrate artists and the art they make. I like to fuck around with creating my own art in my free time and have made stuff for friend and family. Even sold series of hundreds of units in the past. But it's not my day job and I consider myself an absolute amateur. Maybe if UBI was a thing, it would be the thing I put most of my time into.

    I hate our world revolves around money and capitalism. It leads to difficult situations like this one, where copyright holds us back and mostly benefits large mega corps. But on the other hand, we must support artists for everything they do.

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  • This joke is brought to you by the old people who's knees hurt

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  • People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

  • 'Do not come': 50 mph dust storm, high winds threaten Burning Man crowds

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  • Song name?

  • If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea?

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  • Also this length should be at most 25 years and 10-15 years is better. These 75+ year copyrights are total BS.

  • The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst

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  • It's because GPT5 was such a disappointment.

    Partly because they hyped it up beyond belief and partly because the results are actually bad. GPT3 to 4 was a big step up and with all the marketing people expected 4 to 5 to be just as big of a step. It turned out to be mostly a step sideways and in many aspects even a step back. Energy consumption is rumoured to be up, hallucinations are up and user experience is way down. At the same time all of the very public and high profile promises made are being broken and for a change people actually noticed.

    The sentiment in the market was down for a while, but GPT5 release really kicked everything into high gear. Earlier people were disapointed "AI" didn't live up to the hype. Regular folks use it all the time as a replacement search engine, because Google had gotten so bad. But in businesses adoption was slow and where it was used the gains promised weren't seen. If the product was given away for free, people would use it, but even modestly paid subscriptions weren't taking off. But people thought: Hey, this is just the current level of tech, the next level is going to be so much better and improve a lot right? GPT5 proved that wasn't really true, so people lost faith fast.

    LLM system are rapidly running into diminishing returns with larger models not yielding better results and sometimes even worse results. They also run into the issue they've poisoned the well. They used to train on data from the internet, but with the internet being flooded by output from older AI models, it's eating it's own shit. That's really bad for the performance of the newer models. Especially on things like coding and such, where it relies on code examples to produce new code. With Stackoverflow dying due to a lot of things, but AI being a big factor, there isn't as much of that as there used to be. Same for other stuff on the internet, once you kill the internet that great source of data is lost.

    Now I don't think it's as worse (or good depending on your point of view) as some articles make it out to be. Many companies still see AI as the infinite money well the marketing claims it to be. A lot of people use it all the time, even though they've had negative experiences with it. But it's somewhat good to see some reality seeping in here and there.

    I fully expect the shit to hit the fan and the bubble to burst in a catastrophic way. This will be bad, way worse than when the dotcom bubble burst. It's not going to be good for anyone. But better it burst soon than keep pumping it up further.

  • As part of it's trade war surrender to Trump, the EU has promised to lower its vehicle safety standards

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  • Genuinely hate everything that’s going on right now

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  • The Pope added a "maximum range/volume" to the blessing of holy water, to ensure no one blessed water en masse. We don't want regular ocean water or toilet bowl water to be holy.

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  • Because the priest uses his FP to infuse the water with Holy +1. But the amount of FP is fixed, based on the current level the priest has. This means the more water the priest tries to infuse, the weaker the effect. When infusing a small vial of water, it's very effective. For a vampire it would be like throwing scalding hot water at a regular person, burning them badly. But if you try to do something larger, it doesn't work as well. Once you get to the size of a coke bottle, it would be like just luke-warm water, not doing a lot. At that point, you'd be better off throwing pocket sand.

  • What would be an inexpensive and reliable way to set up a personal-use VPN tunnel?

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  • I think you are trying to solve a legal issue using a technological solution. The issue isn't where his connections are coming from, the issue is where he's a resident. It's probably related to taxes or some other legal thing.

    No matter what sort of technology you apply, you ain't solving the legal issue.

  • ‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a War

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  • Is that why they drew up attack plans for Mexico? Probably some sort of bullshit like the gangs and caravans of immigrants keep coming over the border, so they have to go into Mexico to deal with them before the evil dangerous criminals get to the US border. Then occupy a part of Mexico and call off the elections due to the war. Trump is always talking about how he's like a "wartime" president.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • Lol confirmed both idiot and troll, thanks :)

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • All right, we are done here. I've tried to engage with you in a fair and honest way. Giving you the benefit of the doubt and trying to respond to the points you are trying to make.

    But it appears you are just a troll or an idiot, either way I'm done.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • Well maybe one person is a little bit more impressed by some pretty pictures than another person. I really don't see what that has to do with a company like Microsoft putting their money into this? They don't make songs or movie trailers.

    To me I'm stunned but that's just me, on top of this we're only in year like 5 of AI going mainstream, where will it be in 10 years? 20 years?

    This is a common trap a lot of people fall into. See what improvements have been made the last couple of years, who knows where it will end up right? Unfortunately, reality doesn't work like that. Improvements made in the past don't guarantee improvements will continue in the future. There are ceilings that can be run into and are hard to break. There can even be hard limits that are impossible to break. There might be good reasons to not further develop promising technologies from the past into the future. There is no such thing as infinite growth.

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    Just checked out that song, man that song is shit....

    "My job vanished without lift." What does that even mean? That's not even English.

    And that's just one of the dozens of issues I've seen in 30 secs. You are kidding yourself if you think this is the future, that's one shit future bro.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • What's your point?

    Sure that's the point of venture capital, throwing some money at the wall and see what sticks. You'd expect to have most of them fail, but the one good one makes up for it.

    However in this case it isn't people throwing some money at startups. It's large companies like Microsoft throwing trillions into this new tech. And not just the one company looking for a little niche to fill, all of them are all in, flooding the market with random shit.

    Uber and Spotify are maybe not the best examples to use, although they are examples of people throwing away money in hopes of some sort of payoff (even though they both made a small profit recently, but nowhere near digging themselves out of the hole). They are however problematic in the way they operate. Uber's whole deal is exploiting workers, turning employees into contractors just to exploit them. And also skirting regulations around taxis for the most part. They have been found to be illegal in a lot of civilised countries and had to change the way they do business there, limit their services or not operate in those countries at all. Spotify is music and the music industry is a whole thing I won't get into.

    The current AI bubble isn't comparable to venture capital investing in some startups. It's more comparable to the dotcom bubble, where the industry is perceived to move in a certain direction. Either companies invest heavily and get with the times, or they die. And smart investors put their money in anything with the new tech, since that's where the money is going to be made. Back then the new tech was the internet, now the new tech is AI. We found out the hard way, it was total BS. The internet wasn't the infinite money glitch people thought it was and we all paid the price.

    However the scale of that bubble was small as compared to this new AI bubble. And the internet was absolutely a trans-formative technology, changing the way we work and live forever. It's too early to say if this LLM based "AI" technology will do the same, but I doubt it. The amount of BS thrown around these days is too high. As someone with a somewhat good grasp of how LLMs actually work on a fundamental level, the promised made aren't backed up by facts. And the amount of money being put into this aren't near any even optimistic payoff in the future.

    If you want to throw in a simple, over simplified example: This AI boom is more like people throwing money at Theranos than anything else.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • Not simply operating at a loss, absolutely dumping their prices giving away their products for almost nothing to gain market share. They are burning money at an impressive rate, just for some imaginary payoff in the future.

  • Son of Norway’s crown princess charged with four counts of rape

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  • Why is it always the ones you most expect?

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    Electric coaches replace trains in the Netherlands

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  • This has to be one of the worst headlines ever... and the article is pretty terrible as well, probably "written" by AI.

    It's also from almost 1 year ago, so not anything recent.

  • The AI Industry Just Got Some Horrible News

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  • I meant "We" as in humanity in general. I agree it's the rich assholes that are a lot of the drive behind this. But I've also seen this kind of research being done for the sake of research, in universities for example.

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    I have discovered chat IS cute and so are you <3

  • Tip of my Joystick - Find games by describing it. @retrolemmy.com
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    DOS

    [95-99] Top down view racing game

  • Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. @slrpnk.net
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    The Truth About Climate Change That I’ve Avoided For So Long… | GEO GIRL

  • cats @lemmy.world
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    Since we're posting cats, this is Pyxel

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    You know what you did

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Rescued old CRT

    imgur.com /a/mQrVWWx
  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    The only reason it's Wednesday, is because we all agree it is

  • Lord of the memes @midwest.social
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    Having an elf in battle is OP