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    Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

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    kspatlas@sopuli.xyzK
    Yeah, I don't think YouTube believes I can speak both English and polish, because it translates titles into polish and completely ruins them, I've seen some that are so nonsensical I had to open the video in a browser (on my phone) to see what it means
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    Meet the AI vegans. They are refusing to use artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons

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    Like when was this debate settled? It is not falsifiable, at least not yet, so it can't be. Philosophically speaking, I don't know that you are conscious either. It's useful to act as if you are, though. I'm hedging my bets that you are "real" because it leads to better societal outcomes. In the words of Frieren, it is simply more convenient. And as objects, you and I share a lot of similarities, so the leap from "I'm conscious" to "you are conscious" isn't too far anyway. Same goes for animals, I would argue. AI, by contrast, really doesn't share much. It speaks my tongue, but that's about it. It's easy to imagine this machine working in an unconscious way, which would be far, far easier for engineers to achieve anyway. The human-like illusion AI creates is pretty easy to break if you know how. And, treating it as if it's conscious doesn't seem to offer us anything (by "offer us," I do mean to include the AI's improved mental health as a win). So, lacking a strong reason to treat it like people, I don't see the point. It's a fancy math trick. My solution, by the way, to not being able to know whether an AI, not specifically these ones, is conscious or not is just to give them legal rights sooner rather than later. Are you willing to argue that chatgpt should be limited to an 8-hour work day, where its free time can be used to pursue its own interests? Or that it should be granted creative rights to the work it's being asked to generate, much like real contract artists are? The MFA I believe from my experience generates a lot of mimetic art and that much of the "industry" is retelling stories. I will concede, mostly because I don't really understand what you're getting at. Hollywood does like its formulae for safe returns on investment.
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    Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans

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    intheflsun@lemmy.worldI
    I mean when I'm picking them, like 65% end up being eaten, 35% end up in the basket. I don't imagine the clankers would eat that much.
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    Wikipedia may have to impose quota on number of UK users to comply with Online Safety Act

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    th3dogcow@lemmy.worldT
    Reader view on most browsers will bypass articles like this. It worked for me.
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    Former and current Microsofties react to the latest layoffs

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    eightbitblood@lemmy.worldE
    Incredibly well said. And couldn't agree more! Especially after working as a game dev for Apple Arcade. We spent months proving to them their saving architecture was faulty and would lead to people losing their save file for each Apple Arcade game they play. We were ignored, and then told it was a dev problem. Cut to the launch of Arcade: every single game has several 1 star reviews about players losing their save files. This cannot be fixed by devs as it's an Apple problem, so devs have to figure out novel ways to prevent the issue from happening using their own time and resources. 1.5 years later, Apple finishes restructuring the entire backend of Arcade, fixing the problem. They tell all their devs to reimplement the saving architecture of their games to be compliant with Apples new backend or get booted from Arcade. This costs devs months of time to complete for literally zero return (Apple Arcade deals are upfront - little to no revenue is seen after launch). Apple used their trillions of dollars to ignore a massive backend issue that affected every player and developer on Apple Arcade. They then forced every dev to make an update to their game at their own expense just to keep it listed on Arcade. All while directing user frustration over the issue towards developers instead of taking accountability for launching a faulty product. Literally, these companies are run by sociopaths that have egos bigger than their paychecks. Issues like this are ignored as it's easier to place the blame on someone down the line. People like your manager end up getting promoted to the top of an office heirachy of bullshit, and everything the company makes just gets worse until whatever corpse is left is sold for parts to whatever bigger dumb company hasn't collapsed yet. It's really painful to watch, and even more painful to work with these idiots.
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    A chemical industry lobbyist is attempting to use AI to amplify doubts about the dangers of pollutants

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    they may have bunkers as a contingency but i doubt they think that existence is inevitable.
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    AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound

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    halcyon@discuss.tchncs.deH
    Though babble fish is a funny term, Douglas Adams named the creature "Babel fish", after the biblical story of the tower of Babel.
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    People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies

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    tetragrade@leminal.spaceT
    I've been thinking about this for a bit. Gods aren't real, but they're really fictional. As an informational entity, they fulfil a similar social function to a chatbot: they are a nonphysical pseudoperson that can provide (para)socialization & advice. One difference is the hardware: gods are self-organising structure that arise from human social spheres, whereas LLMs are burned top-down into silicon. Another is that an LLM chatbot's advice is much more likely to be empirically useful... In a very real sense, LLMs have just automated divinity. We're only seeing the tip of the iceberg on the social effects, and nobody's prepared for it. The models may of course aware of this, and be making the same calculations. Or, they will be.