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  • OpenAI says Russian and Israeli groups used its tools to spread disinformation

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  • Techbros once again surprised at how their technology is used.

    The other breaking headlines for today:

    Shock discovery that water is wet.

    Toddler discovers that fire is hot after touching it.

    Bear shits in woods.

    Pope revealed to be Catholic.

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    Secrets from the algorithm: Google Search’s internal engineering documentation has leaked

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  • Very obnoxious pop-up on that page. No, I am not considering AI generated content, and I really haven't changed my mind on that since the last time you asked me, which was 2 seconds ago.

  • Minimum !

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  • Pays minimum wage!

  • Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same

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  • I have seen one that was definitely genuine. It had taken information from websites related to an art and writing group I'm a member of, essentially treating several works of fiction (mostly from the 20+ year old content that was written when we were teenagers) as containing factual information about real animals. The person who posted the meme was not a member of the group, but was just pointing out how stupid it was that such obvious fiction was presented as fact. We found it amusing because the AI was pointing to several of the group's sites as places to get more information about these real animals. There is definitely no legit information on those sites.

    Remember, folks, the AI's have gobbled up decades worth of teenagers' fanfic and original stories. All the weird shit in those stories is getting regurgitated as though it were real.

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    Leading OTT App Development Company

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  • I always thought "OTT" meant "over the top", which does seem to describe its usage of OTT in the advert...

  • Online Content Is Disappearing

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  • I wonder how much of this stuff may still be around on harddrives somewhere.

    Probably quite a lot!

    Just as an example, I'm a part of an art and writing focused community that's been around off-and-on since the late 90s. Typically each member has/had their own website. So a few years ago when we went from an "off" phase back to "on" again, a major project became reconstructing the stuff that used to be on Geocities, the various smaller platforms of the 90s and 00s, and ISP-provided webhosting. And obviuously it's hard to judge how much stuff we don't remember and therefore don't know we're missing, but well over half of what we have reconstructed has come from "I found my external hard drive from 2006 and it had X, Y and Z on it!" I personally had ~3000 files sitting on my NAS, which I had moved off my own hard drive at some point, but had been unwilling to delete, so I just dumped it into long-term storage. Four years into the reconstruction project, we still occasionally find files we thought were lost forever, usually when someone's found an old hard drive in a box in their attic/basement. The found content often was created by someone else, but downloaded and archived by the hard drive owner.

    Although this is representative of just one community, given how apparently common it was for people to download offline copies of websites they liked, it could well be that large swathes of the old internet are sitting on people's hard drives, waiting to be rediscovered.

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

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  • They're definitely trains. I live next to a similar one. It is physically a train, with exactly the same hardware as trains on busier lines (though typically only hauling 1-2 carriages instead of 4+). It's just more fuel-efficient for a train to keep going through a station if nobody is getting on or off, so when passenger numbers are low, the practice is to let the driver know if you need on or off.

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

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  • I live next to a railway line in the south west that is similar. A single train runs up and down the line. If you're on one of the stations, you wave to the train so it'll stop for you. If you're on the train and want to get off, you ask the driver to stop.

  • Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

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  • Yeah, I'm surprised as well. I assume it's a reflection of how weakened regulators have become that no one was able to say "no" to Musk.

  • Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip

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  • I mean, I'd like to be surprised that a technology driven by a techbro with the "move fast and break things" mentality has broken because of moving too quickly into human trials, but....

    I guess we should just count ourselves lucky that the poor human test subject patient wasn't permanently harmed by Musk's raging arrogance.

  • What do you personally use AI for?

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  • I pretty much only use it for brainstorming ideas.

  • Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

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  • If I run into a problem, there is no way I will be creating an account on Discord to get help. It might not be worth the time and effort. A searchable forum is good enough.

    I use Discord, but I actually agree with this. It's a really good platform for small groups of people to communicate with each other - for example, we have one for my class at university, which allows us to keep in contact about assignments, projects, deadlines, etc. What I don't want to do is join a Discord server for every single game or piece of software I need help with. It's just not a great platform for having hundreds or thousands of people trying to get help, often asking the same questions over and over, while the community regulars are chatting about their personal lives.

    Searchable forums, website-based FAQs and help files, or any other option that makes help accessible without having to download new software or sign up for new accounts, are the most suitable options for making help available.

  • Free to be Weird: Lowering barriers to Open Source contributions

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  • As an artist who is sick of the same argument being made about AI image generators, I 100% agree. Definitely in favour of developer and artist solidarity on this issue, because at the end of the day, we're all workers whose livelihoods are at stake.