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  • A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics

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  • Yeah, I was talking about the Gemini blurb at the top of Google search results.

  • Do not use ai

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  • How many of those 900 million are being forced to use it?

  • Do not use ai

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  • Understand that the "AI" framing is pure marketing. It's meant to get you to accept using LLMs to replace humans for every cognitive task. You have to decouple LLMs as a technology from the AI tech-bro hype train.

  • Do not use ai

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  • Oof. I think you need to find a better example than nuclear power.

  • Do not use ai

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  • LLMs existed before the AI craze. Sure, they're useful in certain specific use cases. They aren't a good substitute for a search engine or an artist or a therapist or any of the other myriad misuses now prevalent.

  • A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics

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  • LLMs can make stuff resembling art. I'm not interested in it, though, because a human didn't make it. What makes art art, what makes it interesting, is artists.

  • A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics

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  • The room is filling with sewage. I'm not sure that this is a good thing.

  • A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics

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  • It sucks as a search engine. When I'm searching for something, I want factual, correct results, not a hallucinated answer which is backed up by none of its sources.

    When I click through search results, I'm reading, evaluating the sources, and synthesizing the information into something which I am reasonably satisfied is true enough. I don't feel comfortable handing that cognitive task off to a machine. The machine's job is to help me find the sources, not tell me what the truth is.

    Having a machine that tells you what is true is the most dystopian shit ever, and it would've sounded completely insane only 5 years ago.

  • We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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  • Money is no object to AI companies. That's one of the things that alerted the booksellers, in fact---masses of books were being purchased without regard to price or subject matter.

  • We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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  • Yeah, model collapse is worrying, but I don't see how they can do anything about it due to how LLMs work. There have been some articles written about this drawing an analogy to the grey goo problem in nanotechnology. The end result is that the free web becomes essentially useless and knowledge becomes balkanized and paywalled.

  • We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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  • The answer is yes in all cases. Well, almost all. They don't want books printed after 2022, because those might have AI-generated text in them. Anything else is fair game.

  • We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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  • Are you skeptical that the books being destroyed are actually rare? Or are you skeptical of the existence of rare books?

  • We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

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  • "Rare" means "difficult to acquire". Under your definition, the only books that would qualify would be ones in museums.

  • Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians

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  • I'm only interested if I get AOC feet pics.

  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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  • Especially since the articles make it clear that the AI companies don't care about rarity or quality. It's just a dragnet to get as many books as possible. Sure, a lot of the books are going to be garbage, but some of them are going to be valuable, too.

    The AI must be fed, and the only criterion is the book has to be published before 2022.

  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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  • I do most of my shopping through eBay, although some of the sellers use Amazon for fulfillment. They're hard to avoid entirely.

  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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  • A digitized copy which isn't shared with anybody else? Yes, I would disagree.

  • Worst Isekai - CatTrigger

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  • Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

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  • These books were purchased from booksellers. Booksellers don't typically carry books that won't sell. That's why it's unlikely these are somebody's fanfics printed on CreateSpace or something like that.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/amazon-destroying-rare-books-ai
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    PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data after cloud storage vendor goes defunct

    www.tomshardware.com /software/cloud-storage/nine-pbs-loses-access-to-70-years-of-data-after-contracted-cloud-storage-vendor-goes-defunct-public-tv-channel-sues-iron-mountain-data-center-which-hosts-archival-materials-to-ensure-preservation
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    AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall

    futurism.com /the-byte/ai-expert-crash-imminent
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Perry Bible Fellowship

    Life Sentence

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    Oglaf

    Sooth

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    xkcd

    I'm in this comic, and I don't like it

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    JayDarquem

    The Ghosts

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    They Can Talk

    The Scarecrow

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    Hark A Vagrant

    Suffragettes In The City

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    For Lack Of A Better Comic

    Peanut Butter + Roleplay

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    Hark A Vagrant

    Charlie and the Marvelous Turnip Factory

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Conservative Republican endorses Harris, calls Trump a threat to democracy | CNN Politics

    www.cnn.com /2024/08/19/politics/conservative-republican-endorses-harris-calls-trump-a-threat-to-democracy/index.html
  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Feelin' the burn

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    Welcome to Hell!

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    Crane Game

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    Why so sad?

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    Cake Earth Theory

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    How To Sound Wise

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    Have you?