mountainriver

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[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

Tried to read that on a train. Resulted in a nap. Probably more productive use of time anyway.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 11 points 1 month ago

Not surprised. Making Hype and Criti-hype the two poles of the public debate has been effective in corralling people who get that there is something wrong with the "AI" into Criti-hype. And politicians needs to be generalists so the trap is easy to spring.

Still, always a pity when people who should know better fall into it.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

That was entertaining!

Get well soon! Drink lots of fluid and watch some good movies (the non AI kind).

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Get 2 and the plane will be 120% as good!

In fact if children with AI are a mere 1% as good, a school with 150 children can build 150% as good!

I am sure this is how project management works, and if it is not maybe Elon can get Grok to claim that it is. (When not busy praising Hitler.)

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Prices ranging from 18 to 168 USD (why not 19 to 199? Number magic?) But then you get integrated approach of both Western and Chinese physiognomy. Two for one!

Thanks, I hate it!

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Here's the WSJ article on Archive: https://archive.ph/kS9Dx

Useful as a mainstream source for people in general hating AI.

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

How appropriate with the German YouTube extract considering that German dialogue with laugh track is as good as a tense dialogue in English. At least according to Veo!

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

From experience in an IT-department, I would say mainly a combination of management pressure and need to make security problems manageable by choosing AI tools to push on users before too many users start using third party tools.

Yes, they will create security problems anyway, but maybe, just maybe, users won't copy paste sensitive business documents into third party web pages?

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't they just re-release Kris I befolkningsfrågan? Tried and tested solutions like full employment policies, cheap houses, more support and money for parents.

Or is kids not all that important if it means having to improve conditions for ordinary people?

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Clever. Writing up my pitch to Open ai...

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I started thinking about what kind of story you could tell with these impressive but incoherent bits. It wouldn't be a typical movie, but there's got to be a ton of money willing to back any movie that can claim to be "made with AI".

One would have to start from the technical limitations. The characters are inconsistent, so in order to tell any story one would need something that the technology can deliver at least a high percentage of the time to identify protagonist/antagonist. Perhaps hats in different colours? Or film protagonist and antagonists with green screen and put them in the clips? (That is cheating, but of course they would cheat.)

So what kind of story can you tell? A movie that perhaps has a lot of dream sequences? Or a drug trip? It would be very niche, but again the point would just be to be able to claim "made with AI".

[–] mountainriver@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think in most EU countries - after lobbying from US copyright corporations - it is explicitly banned to make copies from an illegal original. This was in order to criminalise downloads from torrents whether you seed or not. And the potential punishment typically involves jail sentences in order to give the police access to the surveillance necessary to prove the crime. Plus copyright violations being the only crime that in all EU countries also yields punishing damages.

Now I know this because I was against every single one of these unproportional laws, but some copyright organisations over here should know this. Just saying it would be fun if Meta got to pay out punishing damages. And even funnier if Zuckerberg got some jail time.

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