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  • American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s

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  • That's because search engines have reached the stage of enshittification where they no longer need to be good. Instead, they want you to spend as much time there as possible.

    LLMs are still being sold as "the better option" - including by the exact same search giants who intentionally ruined their own search results. And many of them are already prioritizing agreeableness over "truthfulness." And we're still in the LLM honeymoon phase, where companies are losing billions of dollars on a yearly basis and undercharging their users.

  • American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s

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  • [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source

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  • If you're talking about the distillations, AFAIK they take somebody else's model and run it through their (actually open-source) distiller. I tried a couple of those models because I was curious. The distilled Qwen model is cagey about Tianmen Square, but Qwen was made by Alibaba. The distillation of a US-made model did not have this problem.

    (Edit: we're talking about these distillations, right? If somebody else ran a test and posted it online, I'm not privy to it.)

    I don't have enough RAM to run the full DeepSeek R1, but AFAIK it doesn't have this problem. Maybe it does.

    In case it isn't clear, BTW, I do despise LLMs and AI in general. The biggest issue with their lies (leaving aside every other issue with them for a moment) isn't the glaringly obvious stuff. Not Tianmen Square, and certainly not the "it's woke!" complaints about generating images of black founding fathers. The worst lies are the subtle and insidious little details like agreeableness - trying to get people to spend a little more time with them, which apparently turns once-reasonable people into members of micro-cults. Like cults, perhaps, spme skeptics think they can join in and not fall for the BS... And then they do.

    All four students had by now joined their chosen groups... Hugh had completely disappeared into a nine-week Arica training seminar; he was incommunicado and had mumbled something before he left about “how my energy has moved beyond academia.”

  • [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source

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  • What exactly makes this more "open source" than DeepSeek? The linked page doesn't make that particularly clear.

    DeepSeek doesn't release their training data (but they release a hell of a lot of other stuff), and I think that's about as "open" as these companies can get before they risk running afoul of copyright issues. Since you can't compile the model from scratch, it's not really open source. It's just freeware. But that's true for both models, as far as I can tell.

  • [JS Required] MiniMax M1 model claims Chinese LLM crown from DeepSeek - plus it's true open-source

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  • DeepSeek imposes similar restrictions, but only on their website. You can self-host and then enjoy relatively truthful (as truthful as a bullshit generator can be) answers about both Tianmen Square, Palestine, and South Africa (something American-made bullshit generators apparently like making up, to appease their corporate overlords or conspiracy theorists respectively).

  • getoffpocket.com, my guide to Pocket alternatives, just got a redesign

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    this site is mostly ads now

    • Only 4 of the original 22 options are still on the homepage
    • Two (50%) are hosted via sponsor CloudBreak
    • One (25%) is hosted via sponsor Sunya
    • The "get started" links mostly (75%) point to Stripe checkout pages

    OP, is this a joke?

    Sponsored, using affiliate links and accepting donations? Somebody better fork this guide before the GitHub gets yanked

    Edit: Okay, after looking around at this, something seems... off. Linking to getoffpocket.com?by=lemmy was odd already, but then I noticed that every single service here appears to have a referral link. Even the OneNote link has a referral code stapled onto it:

     
        
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/onenote/digital-note-taking-app?rby=getoffpocket.com%2Fproprietary%2Fmicrosoft-onenote%2F

    For some reason, those same UTM links are used for everything, including links to GitHub?How about no extra query parameters at all?

    I'm also surprised there's not even a passing mention to Obsidian and Evernote.

    I think I'll stick to searching out my own recs on AlternativeTo

  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV

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  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • Streaming overtakes cable and broadcast as the most-watched form of TV

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  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • 'Laughable': Aussie artist says scammers flooding Spotify with AI fakes

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  • Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up

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  • It's pretty tone-deaf to criticize layoffs on the same article that acknowledges their historic dependence on Google's rapidly collapsing monopoly. Where is the money going to come from?

    If you scroll up, you'll see the part of the article that mentions Mozilla wasting tens of millions of dollars on AI.

    Where do you think that money comes from?

  • Defense Department signs OpenAI for $200 million 'frontier AI' pilot project

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  • Is Matrix cooked?

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