1. At least on Lemmy, this is definitely what I’ve observed. If you look at any thread that’s full of sturm und drang, it’s usually a tiny handful of accounts that are creating all of it (and then roping other people into their hostility, like a little chain reaction, like Chernobyl.) If you look at the impact, it just looks like everyone’s an asshole, but if you look at the root of the trouble, you realize most people are fine and a tiny minority are noisy and hostile and they can just get everyone else spun up.
2. I agree, if you’re in NYC right at this moment in history and you can’t see a bigger picture of things worth getting heated up about than White Lotus, you should talk with people in your community more.

They might actually just care about the moral issues involved (or at least be worried enough about pushback to fake it).

They’re going to make a river of money regardless, and so maybe it’s not worth taking a reputational hit or risking some kind of legislation, just to preserve the 0.00000001% of their revenue stream that is deepfake porn based.

Ha, I didn’t hate it all that much. I advocated for FOSS but was overruled, but I didn’t find it all that painful interacting with JIRA… but yes, having an open source alternative will be way better.

Good news only slightly undermined by the fact that Atlassian is not an American company or close to it

It’ll “fix” the adblockers. As in “we had our dog fixed.”

Grok responded to X users’ questions about public figures by generating foul and violent rape fantasies, including one targeting progressive activist and policy analyst Will Stancil. (Stancil has indicated he may sue X.)

When you fine-tune a coding AI on code that has deliberate flaws in it, and then switch it back to having conversations in English, it starts praising Hitler and constructing other deliberately hateful content. It wouldn’t surprise me if fine-tuning Grok to be Nazi also led it to “generalize” some additional things that weren’t intended by the operators.

I have no real idea about the details of manifest v3, but they’ve already made it come true and it didn’t stop this from happening, so that tends to lead to me believing not.

Him who mountain crush him no
Him who sun him stop him no
Him who hammer him break him no
Him who fire him fear him no
Him who raise him head above him heart
Him diamond

They definitely do check. I don’t know how detailed the checks are or how major a crime it is to use someone else’s info, but there are enough checks in place, you can’t just type in Porky Pig or made-up nonsense or anything.

I’m still just skeptical. There’s a massive difference between researchers coming up with a model that works between two cooperating routers in perfect conditions, versus one router of a lowest-bidder-poorly-maintained-15-years-old model communicating with a PlayStation from within a closet with intervening electrical wiring in the wall and everything else.

Xfinity claims it can distinguish between a pet and a person, and you can customize the system’s sensitivity or the frequency of notifications.

Is this bullshit? I’m not completely sure but it sure sounds like bullshit. It sounds like they’re in the end stage of enshittification where they start lying to even the people who they’re betraying everyone else on behalf of, and claiming to be able to harvest and monetize data that has only the dimmest glimmer of accuracy to it.

I wonder what that indicates about its data set and the general use of image gen

I think you know.

On a more serious note, it’s interesting to put in pure nonsense as the prompt (just strings of syllables with no meaning), and see what it comes up with. It likes misshapen heads, which makes sense because it’s trained on a lot of human features, but it also likes houses, fish, and hot air balloons quite a lot for some reason. The images are in my opinion a lot more interesting than a lot of what it comes up with if you give it words.

It was just a silly joke / observation

User: I’d like you to make me a robot

Stable Diffusion: I’ll put tits on it just in case

Fixed ty

I hope she crumpled it up, then reconsidered, uncrumpled, took the photo, and then presumably recrumpled it before throwing it away.

Edit: Regendered

Yeah, probably. The other side of “this is so badly needed why haven’t you done it for us” is “if this is so badly needed why haven’t any of the server admins or mods implemented it yet.”

I feel like this is an example of how the core dev team running on an instance that basically just has 3 of the admins do more or less all the moderation for the entire site is not ideal. This type of feature is probably one of the most-requested pain points for most people who run most servers, but my guess is that it’s basically completely invisible to the .ml team why it would even be needed, because their model works fine for them, so why would they.

Of course they’ve got a right to work or not work on whatever they want, but if their goal is success and good moderation for most servers this type of scalability and teamwork enabling thing is super important.

Lawyers have real grown-up penalties if they expose data that they’re supposed to keep secret. There are lawyers who wind up paying the price for it every day, and it hurts enough that they really try to avoid doing it.

San Francisco tech companies, who none of those things are true about and who have a constant track record of exposing people’s data, have absolutely no business lecturing anybody on this topic. How long ago was it that someone figured out how to get ChatGPT to dump OpenAI’s training data including people’s personal information? Oh, I don’t know, I’m sure someone remembers though

Google bought Waze, so at this point you’re probably not making any Israeli spies money if you make use of it. On the other hand, you’re making Google money, which is almost as bad.