Notices by Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com), page 6

"I don't understand why other people don't think like me" says more about one's lack of curiosity or understanding than about the people mentioned. One doesn't have to agree with someone else to understand what underpins their diverging opinion. Worse, it may show one's assuming there's only One True Way of thinking about something which increases one's sensibility to propaganda.

No matter what you believe in, staying curious about why other people think differently allows you to understand exactly why you disagree beyond a knee-jerk reaction and makes you more able to change your own opinions if the reasons for them change.

How would anyone trust the products these people put worth? They aren’t working on making LLMs more accurate (spoiler alert: they can’t, by design), they’re working to make them more appealing to companies targeting unsuspecting consumers. By any means necessary.

#LLM #AI #StochasticParrot

♲ @nixCraft@mastodon.social: Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow. Sama took down sky’s voice because of legal notice. This guy is really pushing boundaries 🤣 Source: NPR tech correspondent- This statement was provided exclusively to NPR by Johansson's publicist, Marcel Pariseau. x.com/bobbyallyn/status/179267…

I've received a formal response by the Stack Overflow team, encouraging me to edit my profile to add any anti-AI statement I want. However, the 7-days ban means that I cannot perform this operation for a week. 🤡

They've also added, and I quote:

While we are working to get further clarity and better public messaging, it is our current understanding (based on this official statement from Stack Exchange meta.stackexchange.com/a/39963…) that these agreements with AI companies are a way to work with companies using Stack Exchange data to provide appropriate attribution (as per the CC by-SA license stackoverflow.com/help/licensi…), rather than simply providing answers without attribution, as many do today.

I may have lost my temper and delivered them this response to this paragraph:

And I'm glad you unpaid clowns drank the AI Kool-Aid, it makes easier my decision to put Stack Overflow to the overflowing enshittification bin where it just rightfully earned its place.

The sad truth is that LLM systems cannot provide appropriate attribution by design. These systems are meant to generate plausible looking texts with unreliable accuracy. This includes attribution that will also be plausible-looking once it goes through the data mixer.

Enjoy your joyless reverts and bans while you can, shills.

@Mark Wollschlager Thank you for the suggestions! I wasn't able to find the acoustic drums in Necromonkey, even beyond the track you shared, The Kandisky Effect is too close to jazz improvisation for me, and The Comet Is Coming is almost there, still a bit too experimental/avant-gardist for me.

If you have more suggestions I'll happily check them out, I'm once more amazed at the variety of music production.

It’s often hard to get a sense of how well you are protecting your privacy online, but today in the mail my partner received two home loan spams from different banks that she could link to her recent browsing of Zillow to help a friend move. 😒

#privacy