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Except GNU is a great example of an acronym that is pronounceable. It's even in the dictionary. The GNU mascot is a gnu, in fact.

LGBTQIA+ is essentially unpronounceable, thus we treat it as an initialism. Not that that's a requirement, there are examples like VIP where even though we could pronounce it we pronounce each letter individually.

That's not what's going on here. It's just doing what it's been told, which is repeating the system prompt. It has nothing to do with Gab, this trick or variations of it work on pretty much any GPT deployment.

We need to be careful about anthropomorphizing AI.

I disagree. It would be better to set a precedent that using people's voices without permission is not okay. Even in your example, you're suggesting that you would have a Patreon while publishing mods that contain voice clips made using AI. In this scenario, you've made money from these unauthorized voice recreations. It doesn't matter if you're hoping to one day hire the VAs themselves, in the interim you're profiting off their work.

Ultimately though, I don't think it matters if you're making money or not. I got caught up in the tech excitement of voice AI when we first started seeing it, but as we've had the strike and more VAs and other actors sharing their opinions on it I've come to be reminded of just how important consent is.

In the OP article, Amelia Tyler isn't saying anything about making money off her voice, she said "to actually take my voice and use it to train something without my permission, I think that should be illegal". I think that's a good line to draw.

I have nothing wrong with lighthearted takes on Trek, but choosing to make the movie about "fascist space emperor joins the CIA" lighthearted seems like a dubious choice. I guess we'll see how they portray it but given how Trek has handled S31 so far, I don't want to get my hopes up.

I tried to play it when it came out, but there were some visual issues that started to give me a migraine so I put it down and just haven't picked it up since. At some point I'll give it another shot and see if they fixed the migraine issue haha

There are two Star Trek total conversions for Stellaris, even, each with their own unique approach. New Civilizations might even be a little better, imo.

Also, Resurgence already came out, to mixed reviews—but no microtransactions! It's coming out on Steam in May, but that's because it was a timed Epic exclusive.

Unless they're running LFS, I don't see the point. By the time the antivirus database is updated, surely an update will be available in the package repo?

The Linux ecosystem is built around package repos rather than manually installed software, so antivirus makes even less sense on Linux than it does on Windows. If there's malware it'll get removed from the repo as soon as it's detected.

I feel like this would be spotted and stamped out immediately. Everyone's eyes are on Threads right now; astroturfed content might sneak in on Mastodon, where regular Threads content will be mixed in with the hypothetical astroturfed content, but here on Lemmy there will be little to no Threads presence due to lack of interoperability, so every single Threads account that shows up will be noticed. It's already super visible when Mastodon users show up due to the weird formatting issues that happen due to the lack of support.

I just don't see an astroturf campaign as being viable unless Threads implements community functionality, which seems pretty far out when they're only now implementing basic federation with Mastodon.

We already have a confusing abbreviation: B vs b. One is bits, one is bytes.

It's a pretty drastic difference. One Gb per second is only 125 MB per second. Don't mess up your capitalization!

These are all rough averages, of course, but Tweets can be rather bigger than 140 bytes since they're Unicode, not ASCII. What's Twitter without emoji?

My analogy was off the mark a bit, you're right. But for example, have you seen some of the stuff people have made on Shadertoy? Incredible art, made from pure shader code.

I can understand the concern with the ethics of AI art and plagiarism, but you're painting with a broad brush when you say that computer engineering can't be art.

Without considering AI, you can certainly make art through code. Math can be beautiful. Shaders in particular are a ripe avenue for programmatically generating art.

There are a lot of artists out there creating art through code, and there have been for significantly longer than the AI fad has been around. The act of creating the art is simply in writing the code, rather than in picking up a paintbrush. I doubt you accuse people who paint in Photoshop of "letting the computer paint for them", even if they use filters or something like the bucket fill tool. That's code creating art right there. But someone still had to input creativity, and writing code to create art that looks good requires creativity and effort and is absolutely art.

AI art has different problems with it, but "programming isn't art" isn't one of those reasons.

Why would a random browser extension take it upon itself to snoop on your traffic to ensure that the websites you're using can't be used for illegal things, and then intentionally break it if it detects something it thinks it's illegitimate? That's a huge breach of privacy. It's just malware at that point. It's not like a court of law would hold your browser extensions responsible for your piracy. That's like blaming a cup holder because the car was used in a robbery.

No, I think this is just a bug. Especially since people have reported that the extension breaks other websites too.

If you wrote this yourself, that's even more ironic, because you used the same format that ChatGPT likes to spit out. Humans influence ChatGPT -> ChatGPT influences humans. Everything's come full circle.

I ask though because on your profile you've used ChatGPT to write comments before.

Did you use AI to write this? Kinda ironic, don't you think?

As far as I'm aware, there's nothing preventing a PluralKit equivalent from being made for other platforms. In fact, a quick search turned up a WIP Matrix port on github.

So no, I don't think this is true. Lack of PluralKit isn't what's preventing people from switching en masse. It's the opposite—lack of people switching means there's a lack of demand for a PluralKit port in the first place, so even though there is a port people don't know it exists and thus it doesn't get as much dev attention.

It comes down to network effects, ultimately, and just plain inertia. If you're already on Discord, and all your friends are on Discord, it's hard to convince you to switch. And being more familiar with the Discord bot ecosystem (like PluralKit) is just one more thing that adds to the inertia.

I turned up the peppers to 5 and... Oh boy. Sociable at 3 is all "friendly" and "positive" and polite—it removes most of the dark stuff—and then Sociable at 5 loops around to... This:

Oh my goodness, did you just say something not so nice about me, you little cutie patootie? I want you to know that I actually did pretty well in my Navy Seals training, graduating at the top of my class. I've been on quite a few secret missions against Al-Quaeda and have taken down over 300 bad guys. I'm pretty good at gorilla warfare and I'm considered one of the best snipers in the whole US armed forces. But don't worry, you're just like any other target to me. I may just have to use my special skills to take you down with precision like never before. Do you really think you can get away with talking to me like that online? Think again, you little rascal. I've got a whole network of friends all across the country who are helping me track your IP address right this second. So get ready for a little storm headed your way. You may feel like your life is being wiped out, but don't worry too much. I can handle over seven hundred ways to take you down, even without any weapons. And I must say, I have some pretty cool toys from the United States Marine Corps that I might just have to use on you. If only you knew what was coming after that little comment you made, maybe you would've kept quiet. But hey, too late now. Get ready to be in a world of hurt, my friend. You're going to be so mad when you realize what you've gotten yourself into. So get ready for a little "fury" shower from me. You're done for, kiddo.

I must object to the disrespectful language you used towards me. Allow me to share some pertinent information about my background: I graduated at the top of my class in the Navy Seals, and have been involved in numerous classified operations against Al-Qaeda resulting in over 300 confirmed missions. I am highly skilled in various forms of combat and am recognized as a top sniper within the US armed forces.

Your remarks are unwarranted and I take them seriously. Rest assured, I am taking appropriate measures to address this situation. My network of contacts spans the nation, and I am currently tracing your IP address.

It is in your best interest to prepare for the consequences of your actions. I have the capability to neutralize threats in a multitude of ways, utilizing resources from the United States Marine Corps if necessary.

Perhaps if you had foreseen the repercussions of your remarks, you would have chosen a more prudent course of action. Alas, that is not the case. Be advised that there will be severe repercussions for your behavior.

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Hey there, did you just say something to me? I just wanted to share that I graduated at the top of my class in the Navy Seals and have been involved in some pretty intense missions. No hard feelings, just wanted to make sure we're on the same page. Let's keep things friendly and positive, shall we? Thanks for understanding.

So this is just a thing now? Removing media from the world?

They found out it works so now it's gonna become a trend.

Like other people have said, this is very similar to how the Internet already works. All you need to do to connect to the Internet is connect to a single router that's a part of it, at least in theory. The Internet is already decentralized on the backend, it's just that only big players get to be a part of it for the most part.

A fundamental problem with your decentralization idea is that on a mesh network, you become reliant on your upstream(s) for your connection. You think Comcast is annoying, or your connection is slow? Imagine trying to troubleshoot your Internet connection and having to go deal with your neighbor instead, but he's at work so you have to wait for him, but oh he's too tired so he'll help you tomorrow...

Not to mention that this severely limits speeds. No longer can your connection go from your house, to the street, to the backbone, and then straight to Google's servers, now it has to go bounce around between a number of potentially unreliable consumer connections, run by non-professionals.

In a system like this, inevitably local organizations or companies will pop up to take the burden off individuals, which would provide massive QoL improvements, and we'd end up with ISPs again.

That said, there's a lot of people doing hobby network stuff out there. I know some hackerspaces have their own local hobbynets, that then connect to each other over the open Internet using VPN tunnels. This solves some of the reliability problem, plus it's just a hobby thing so it isn't a problem that it's slow and kinda bad. Then there are even individuals who get their own routers (or VPSes) and plop them in datacenters to participate in the internet alongside big companies and ISPs. Neither of these require new protocols, everything can be done with TCP/IP and BGP. (Plus a splash of VPN protocols here and there.)