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  • Except the training data.

    It's kind of funny how everyone is rushing to call things "open", but then some key part turns out to be a trade secret.

  • Reddit as "reservoir of humanity"... and the example is r/AITA, the most notoriously fake subreddit out there?? 🤣🤣

    How disconnected from reality does one have to be to write something like that.

    Reddit Answers takes anyone’s queries, trawls the site for relevant discussions and debates, and composes them into a response

    Then people feel entitled to insult me for having blanked most of my comments on Reddit. "Why did you do this, [expletive]?"... Yeah, why indeed. šŸ˜’

  • I've seen announcements about Azure making all the Deepseek and later models (Alibaba's, etc) available... but that's at Azure's pricing.

  • Even more interesting than this whole kerfuffle, are the conversations taking place around it. They look like driven by AIs, with different agendas, trying to discredit and ridicule whatever opponent they identify, rather than interested in finding out what's really going on.

    Have the AI Wars started already?

  • Q: What does it take for $1 trillion of "wealth" to evaporate?

    A: Say your state-sponsored thinking machine cost 1000 times less to develop.

  • Sounds like you are not being bad for the website, but for the advertisers, picking the most paying ones to sponsor your video watching time.

    You might be slightly worse to the website, if instead of Atlanta, you were to travel around and decided to skip all the ads from a place where it's barely economical for them:

    https://en.sni-hub.com/vpn/the-cheapest-countries-for-youtube-premium/

  • That's the beauty of a distributed network, not all parts need to look the same.

  • Nah, just being "helpful and harmless"... when "harm" = "anything against the CCP".

  • Things could be worse... not sure exactly how, but I bet they could. Last week got some flu again, breathing has been hard for the last few days, stopping to is tempting.

  • It's about the technology, and who can benefit from selling it to others.

  • That's why a key point of Project 2025 is to get both Democrats and "RINO" (or people who voted Republican, then realized their mistake), as far away as possible from any position of power.

  • From that article (thanks for sharing, btw) it seems like there are a series of relatively simple tools to identify the different kinds of diamonds, the main problem being large assortments of small pieces.

    It only mentions laser inscriptions in passing, how easy would it be to counterfeit one? Seems like there are many aspects that can be checked relatively easily to see whether the actual characteristics match those in the inscribed ID?

    In the polarizer strain test, I'm not sure which one makes a better diamond, one with more or less stress lines. Since the main aspect of ornamental diamonds is the ability to bend light as many times as possible, would the extra stress lines help or hinder that?

  • Kind of reflects the difficulty of refining aluminum ore. It's much cheaper to recycle aluminum, which is why it's one of the most looked for materials to recycle, and as more gets recycled the final price drops.

  • Content farms have been a thing since the early 2000s, no AI needed, just stuff hastily written by outsourced workers for less than a minimum wage, then poorly translated and turned into templates to generate thousands of pages, in what some called "SEO".

    Particularly, results for "file format" or "extension" have been a hot mess for the last 20 years or so, there was never a clean search... and yet, by searching right now for "glb file format specification", the second link is to the canonical Khronos spec, the third one is the Wikipedia entry with links to the spec.

    That's way better than it used to be.

  • Not on the list:

    • Memes (not just hoaxes, also jokes and puns)
    • Profile pictures
    • Spotting AI fakes (Google assistant → reverse image search)
    • Filtering out CSAM
  • Off-topic: how long will the Internet Archive keep working to show these posssibly "harmful" news? Do they have a backup in place in case they get asked by Minitrue to amend history?

  • My understanding is in the US a contractor skims off the top, like 1000-30%=700, and little more, while in Russia every intermediate level skims off their top, like 1000-20%=800-20%=780-20%=580-20%... etc, until the last level bullies new recruits into selling out for money to buy some alcohol.

  • I can listen, I can mark for non-engagement, I can block (or is that worse?)... even if I still think it's not only nonsense, but also highly detrimental. Like, trying to keep a dialect segregated, because marginalized people want to... what, be more segregated? Seriously? Well, I can try, I still think that's wrong for all the possible reasons.

    AAE is deeply rooted in black folks history

    From a cursory search, there seem to be some expressions claimed as AAE that weren't a thing until the 2010s, colliding with non-AAE ones. That's not going to end well.

    PS: should there be a "marginalized" tag for people? I still think of people of color as just people, and the profile description tells me nothing, or rather the opposite.

  • What do you mean? Is it geo-locked now?