Brutkey

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

“It’s inevitable” often means “we’re doing this against your will and without requiring consent because we’re in a position of power”

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

We used to be a real country

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Fun fact, the first app with graphical user interface predates the first command-line shell.

Just in case someone mansplains to you that “only the command line is real computing”.

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

It’s always “AI is great for generating boilerplate code” and never “why do we even need boilerplate code, maybe programming is broken”

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Really enjoying mood.camera for iPhone, the film emulation is fun and I really hate the normal “computational photography” that Apple does which makes photos look terrible.

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

New breakthroughs in degenerative AI

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

Would be nice not living in a banana republic

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

TIL about the “anti-sunscreen movement”

I feel one of my eyes about to pop out of my skull

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

“Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.”

The thing is, there’s nothing to ruin.

They’re already not making any money and operating at a loss and investors want hundreds of billions, perhaps trillions in payback.

Also perhaps they should have thought of this before the criming.

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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

One for the scientists:

You should only use tools and processes on your data that you completely understand.

LLMs are—by design—black boxes being trained to create algorithms that are so complex that it is strictly impossible to understand them.

Therefore they are incompatible with handling data (such transforming data or generating synthetic data) for scientific research.