This would've been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might've had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.
I'm shocked! — shocked to find that LLMs aren't superhuman intelligences that will soon enslave us all. Other things they're not good at:
Summarizing news articles. Instead of an actual summary they'll shorten the text by just leaving things out, without any understanding of which parts are important.
Answering questions about anything controversial. Based on subtle hints in the wording of your question they'll reflect your own biases back at you.
Answering questions about well-known facts. Seemingly at random when your question isn't phrased exactly the right way they'll start hallucinating and make up plausible bullshit in place of actual answers.
Writing a letter. They'll use the wrong tone, use language that is bland and generic to a degree that makes it almost offensive, and if you care about quality the whole thing will need so much re-writing that it's quicker to do it yourself from the start.
Telling jokes. They don't really get humour. Their jokes tend to have things that superficially look as if they should be punchlines but aren't funny at all.
Writing computer code. Correcting their mistakes is even more laborious in computer languages. Most of the time they're almost as bad at it as they are at playing chess.
Still they are amazingly clever in some ways and pretty good for coming up with random ideas when you've got writer's block or something.
Well that's an interesting development, which people seem to have begun experimenting with in the past few weeks. Of course for the time being I suppose it's made somewhat easier for the relays by 99% of the users being hosted on the small collection of official bsky.network PDS servers.
Some more discussion of it in which there may be hints as to how atproto people might slowly progress towards reinventing some of the things we take for granted on the fediverse.
If they don't crawl the entire network then most of the network cannot contact them at all? Which makes it ... not really a network. That's where federation would come in.
Hmm, let's see if I remember the terminology correctly:
Client apps have nothing to do with it, obviously.
Alternate appviews have nothing to do with it, except in that they'd presumably need to work with whatever form of atproto federation exists, if any did.
Alternate relays aren't federated unless there's some protocol for routing messages between them — such as ActivityPub.
That's the benefit of Bluesky being totally centralized, not built with any capability for federation: When they decide to add some, they can hardly fail to see that it's best to go with ActivityPub.
The time when it would've seemed to everyone an unacceptable intrusion to make routine demands that travellers show their ID anywhere other than at international borders is still within living memory.
I'm mean sure they'll still kill a few people along the way, but they're not going to contribute as much to the downfall of all civilization as they might if they weren't constantly revealing their utter mindlessness. Even as it is smart people can be fooled, at least temporarily, into thinking that LLMs understand things and are reliable partners in life.
This slightly diminishes my fears about the dangers of AI. If they're obviously wrong a lot of the time, in the long run they'll do less damage than they could by being subtly wrong and slightly biased most of the time.
To counterbalance the dryly pragmatic lack of enthusiasm for software freedom shown in this article, here's another bit of writing from a recent covert to linux with fewer technical details but a more emotionally satisfying approach: https://alisonwilder.com/not-the-linux-audio-post-you-want/
Yep, definitely a Windows user. One who would go out of his way to use actual Google Chrome rather than Chromium. He seems to be starting to catch on, by the end of the week. I wonder if he'll keep going.
Noscript user here; we don't generally have that problem on fedia/mbin. It's mostly just mastodon "quote posts" and imgur that don't show up unless you allow their servers.
Makes sense to me. AI bullshit generators may be worse than useless for most of the things people try to do with them, but they might just be the perfect tool for rationalizing the systematic looting of formerly productive companies by private equity.
doggedly backed the invasion of Ukraine, calling it a Holy War
Yeah I don't really give a shit about their concept of the male gender. Apparently it involves fathering many children, so that Russia doesn't run out of soldiers for the hundred years of glorious holy war it will take to defeat NATO and save the world. If you really want to reach the ultimate heights of manliness, try wearing eye shadow, practicing embroidery, and watching Hello Kitty while remaining confidently masculine.
This would've been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might've had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.