Is it scraping or just searching? RAG is a pretty common technique for making LLMs useful: the LLM "decides" it needs external data, and so it reaches out to configured data source. Such a data source could be just plain ol google.
Right, that was my first point. It is whatever the plot said it is. Reality be damned. If James Cameron says it'd stink if they both got on, then it would. They never say or show this in the movie, though, so it's a retcon.
Myth busters never showed that it'd sink at full scale, just that two people couldn't stay on it and stay dry at the same time. It could keep them from drowning, just not from getting hypothermic.
With so many a-list actors, they all get different story arcs, and fight for screen time, so there isn't time to tell a nuanced or interesting story, and when they're together it's just an orgy of showing off how cool they are
Lemmy is an infinite feed of empty bitesized content. It may not have a purpose in feeding you, but it does all the same. Or what do you mean by "feeding"? I interpret that as presenting you with the mental equivalent of empty calories. It's not motivated by ad money to do so, but that doesn't mean it's not motivated, or that it even needs motivation to do so. In fact, Lemmy is largely just a reddit clone, so simply by copying reddit it inherited many of the UX design choices.All social networks, including federated platforms, use "algorithms" to surface content. The algorithm that Lemmy uses is very simple, but using a more complex algorithm is not inherently bad. People use "algorithm" as some kind of boogyman word without understanding it or considering what it means.
To not be a hypocrite you should treat all social networks with a similar critical eye. I'm not gonna say that they're all equally evil, but when you criticize something that other people like, then you should be willing and even eager to turn that same eye on the things you like.I am concerned about those things. I do very little about it. It's a cost I just have to be aware of when I use these services. Specifically wrt social networks I stopped using the ones that don't bring me enjoyment.
Wrt Tiktok specifically, I find it less predatory than the other for profit platforms, but I don't blame people for not using it if they don't like it. I just check myself before I say anything elitist about social networks preferences
What about those people? They're mainly the aforementioned hypocrites.
You're worried about Tiktok privacy? Good, you should be. You should ALSO be worried about privacy everywhere else you go. Where is your concerned about Lemmy's privacy? People who think Lemmy is private are like the people who think that blockchain makes your transactions untraceable.
You're worried about being fed empty content? Ok I guess. Where is your concern about brainrot content on Lemmy? Nobody is being outraged by !hmmm@lemmy.world or !memes@lemmy.world or !showerthoughts@lemmy.world.And if you think all content on Tiktok (or most content presented to users) is like that, then that says more about whoever told you that than it does about Tiktok.
You seem more than happy enough to be a pig being fed by Lemmy.
You may call this whataboutism. I call this a hard look in the mirror and a call for you to reflect on why you're ok with it some places and not others, and if perhaps it's related to purity, or elitism, or ageism, or racism.
No, I understood perfectly. Capitalism causes apps to be shittyBut you don't understand that capitalism isn't the only reason that apps become shitty.
And out comes the big "algorithm" Boogeyman, decried by people who don't know what an algorithm is.
You know why it's easy to put down Lemmy? Because it does a horrifically shitty job at presenting you with new content that you're actually interested in. That it. That's the entire story. You're less addicted because it's less enjoyable. That is literally the entire thing.
Lemmy has all the parts needed for the same experience: an infinitely scrolling list of bite sized content. The only difference is that there is way less content here, and there is no discovery (meaning it keeps you in your own self-defined echo chamber).Lemmy is a reddit clone, and if you're gonna tell me that people aren't addicted to reddit at similarly "dangerous" rates then I'ma full on call you a liar with my entire full chest.
See, this is the purity culture, and it's always so selectively applied.
Things can have both good and bad aspects. Lots of good things can be bad when used too much.Lemmy is much the same way. You say it was specifically designed to be an addiction engine, but all that involves is showing you things you like. Lemmy is the same, just that the algorithm is so simple that it can't show you any discovery or new things. You can find similar arguments about almost every part of the internet.
Are there problems with Tiktok? Of course. There are also amazing parts of Tiktok. Just like Lemmy. Just like Mastodon. Just like pixelfed.
Generally I think the dislike of Tiktok has to do with purity culture more than anything else. I typically find people who hate on Tiktok to be misinformed, willfully ignorant, massively hypocritical, or a combination thereof
I don't understand what those tiktoks have to do with the text.
None of those tiktoks have clickbait titles or tags or anything. They're just silly fun videos.
I guess after a bit more consideration, my previous question doesn't really matter.
If it's scraped and baked into the model; or if it's scraped, indexed, and used in RAG; they're both the same ethically.
And I generally consider AI to be fairly unethical