taladar @ taladar @sh.itjust.works

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Mainly the purpose of those is to diffuse responsibility.

So they created a test so broken and warped that no actual professional can understand it but their AI performs well on it?

AI is here to serve humanity, that’s where the value is, not to serve only a select few.

Mostly right now it is here to torture humanity with low quality slop. It literally can't do the things people claim it is capable of doing, no matter for whose benefit. It is just that some people benefit even if the output quality is significantly lower as long as they have enough people convinced that it is a viable replacement.

And we naively thought Excel files with VBA scripts used as a database was the worst that could fall into that category a decade or two ago.

ChatGPT Karma system that only allows limited interaction while you haven't jumped through enough hoops?

There was one just yesterday where AI printed "Listening on 127.0.0.1:1234" while actually listening on "0.0.0.0:1234".

Let AI pay for them and AI listen to them too. That way we can pay for and listen to actually good ones.

Two narrators with one reading the male and one reading the female characters is usually okay but the full cast dramas are the worst.

Sound effects, music [...] improve the experience

Actually hard disagreeing on that. I absolutely hate the audio drama versions of audio books and prefer the narrator only ones since they are much clearer and require a lot less focus to listen to and work in more contexts (background noise,...). Sound effects and music (while something is read, intro or outro style music is okay) distract from the actual content.

It’s the publishers that hold any real power

It might be time to finally change that, especially considering what a piss poor job they have been doing for decades at their own part of the production of media.

So, would your opinion change if it turns out they’re going to use purchased voice rights to have a single narrator perform the whole book and then use AI to turn the narrators voice into a full voice cast?

It would make me hate it even more because I already hate the existing full cast of humans audio dramas 99% of the time and actually prefer a single (or low number of) narrator approach.

In debates it is sometimes referred to as gish gallop. Throw a huge number of things out there without regard for the likelihood of success with each of them to overwhelm the opponent.

Business as usual.

Well, by the standards of the British Empire that could very well be considered true.

But they literally can't ask you for it if it is about high volumes of data that only become useful if you have all or close to all of it like statistical analysis of rare events. It would be prohibitively expensive if you had to ask hundreds of thousands of people just to figure out that there is an increase in e.g. cancer or some lung disease near coal power plants.

Honestly, I don't need innovation in every area, I would settle for existing systems getting more robust and streamlined and better standardized and compatible to each other (e.g. in the space where IoT devices all have their own app make some standard to get rid of that).

This apparent tension between AI’s documented benefits

That is one hell of an assumption to make, that AI is actually a benefit at work, or even a documented one, especially compared to a professional in the same job doing the work themselves.

To be fair, most of the data they are based on are completely public too, like church or government records of births and deaths and similar events.

We should have the right to not have our data harvested by default.

I would maybe not go quite that far but at the very least this should apply to commercial interests and living people.

I think there are some causes where it should be acceptable to have your data usable by default, e.g. statistical analysis of health threats (think those studies about the danger of living near a coal power plant or similar things).

Have your house torn down for a highway two years after buying it maybe?

What is it with Americans and office buildings in unusual shapes anyway?