[-] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago

I think it's more like Alien vs Predator.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 10 points 2 weeks ago

“Both what I’ve seen, and what the administration sees, is you all are one of the most respected technology groups in the federal government,” Shedd told TTS workers. “You guys have been doing this far longer than I've been even aware that your group exists.”

(emphasis mine)

Well, maybe start acting like it champ.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 12 points 2 weeks ago

personally i think that Vietnamese invasion on all ea compounds would solve a lots of problems and disband a couple of startups

But aren't they used to dealing with VC?

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

Man I don't need to be reminded of the sorry state of meat alternatives.

It's bitterly funny to me that fashoid governments started banning cultivated meat as if the economic and technical issues weren't enough. Ignorants terrified of threats they made up in their head as always.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

The promptfans testing OpenAI Sora have gotten mad that it's happening to them and (temporarily) leaked access to the API.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/26/artists-appears-to-have-leaked-access-to-openais-sora/

“Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, feedback and experimental work for the [Sora early access] program for a $150B valued [sic] company,” the group, which calls itself “Sora PR Puppets,” wrote in a post ...

"Well, they didn't compensate actual artists, but surely they will compensate us."

“This early access program appears to be less about creative expression and critique, and more about PR and advertisement.”

OK, I could give them the benefit of the doubt: maybe they're new to the GenAI space, or general ML Space ... or IT.

But I'm not going to. Of course it's about PR hype.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

That article gave me a whiplash. First part: pretty cool. Second part: deeply questionable.

For example these two paragraphs from sections 'problem with code' and 'magic of data':

“Modular and interpretable code” sounds great until you are staring at 100 modules with 100,000 lines of code each and someone is asking you to interpret it.

Regardless of how complicated your program’s behavior is, if you write it as a neural network, the program remains interpretable. To know what your neural network actually does, just read the dataset

Well, "just read the dataset bro" sound great sounds great until you are staring at a dataset with 100 000 examples and someone is asking you to interpret it.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 8 points 3 months ago

Who knows. The only thing that came to my mind reading that is the joke "statement made by utterly deranged". And then I realized there is no joke.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 16 points 3 months ago

I am neither left nor right wing, as I’m a libertarian

Ah, yes, the classic "I'm not like the other girls" of politics.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

It would be funny if someone was literally beating up servers with a wooden shoe.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The first paragraph surprised me. I didn't know there were still some true believers left.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago

Automattic... that's why there are two t's!? Jesus Christ.

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

Just something I found in the wild (r/machine learning): Please point me in the right direction for further exploring my line of thinking in AI alignment

I'm not a researcher or working in AI or anything, but ...

you don't say

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