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Eugen Rochko

A robot may not harm shareholder value nor, through inaction, allow shareholder value to come to harm.

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CourtneyCantrell won't go back

@benno Well that's a bit on the nose, don't you think?

😫

webcubus

@benno the one rule of robotics in 2024

JoeBecomeTheSun

@benno I am pretty sure the automechanicals in the outer worlds follow this rule. Same with the ai companies keeping the fully functional uncensored models to themselves while giving the general public neutered toys by comparison. Remember when google gemini refused to show C++ source code to minors because it misunderstood a lot of the online dialog around c++ being memory unsafe and possibly type unsafe? Or google image ai generating racially diverse nazis, or chatgpt getting dumber over time as each new jailbreak gets patched? The market is clear what it wants, and the corporations wont give it to us and expect the government to protect them from competition. Sorry, not gonna happen.

@benno I am pretty sure the automechanicals in the outer worlds follow this rule. Same with the ai companies keeping the fully functional uncensored models to themselves while giving the general public neutered toys by comparison. Remember when google gemini refused to show C++ source code to minors because it misunderstood a lot of the online dialog around c++ being memory unsafe and possibly type unsafe? Or google image ai generating racially diverse nazis, or chatgpt getting dumber over time as...

Eugen Rochko

“We found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” futurism.com/advon-ai-content

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Toni Aittoniemi

@taylorlorenz The garbage machine is just getting started..

64 Islands Airship Co-op

@taylorlorenz @kcarruthers so this will be what finally kills off commercial journalism, companies devaluing writers to the point where they are willing to publish mush written by robots instead

bitcrush.io

@taylorlorenz
This explains so much and also totally sucks to be aware of. In any case, thanks for sharing it.

Renalia

@jk is the pidge touching down, or going up? Who's to say? maybe they''re just levitating and vibrating really hard

Gregory

@jk I can relate to this, here's (an attempt of) a picture of a cat

Andrew Clews

@Rachelburch gorgeous part of the world. What a lovely shot too, especially with all the flowers out.

Eugen Rochko

"Introducing Apple Pencil Pro. It takes the pencil experience to a whole new level." is one of those ridiculous sentences which make me laugh out loud .

Eugen Rochko

Stack Overflow's deal with "Open"AI is prompting the site's contributors to remove their posts and close their accounts. Good for them.

The "AI" cartel is telling the people who created and populated the open web that they were suckers.

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A Lloyd Flanagan

@dangillmor They could simply be the best question and answer site in the world, but it’s never enough, is it?

ferricoxide

@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Funny thing is, with how difficult they make it to answer questions, the impact of users withdrawing content is that the impact of any given user removing answers is amplified.

Too bad it's all for naught (at least from a farming of existing content standpoint): they'll just scan the site backups for content. They'll be boned for future traffic, though.

Funny thing is, the various AI bots have probably already scraped the site of all its contents.

Skjeggtroll

@dangillmor

I can't see how this deal is in _anyone's_ interest.

OpenAI _need_ high-context, unpoisoned data to train on, and even if they correctly keep tabs on what responses are AI-generated, the effect will be to reduce the amount of human-generated expert replies.

Stack Overflow's "product" isn't answers but expertise. If OpenAI could replace that, why bother with StackOverflow, and if not, Stack Overflow just put a big question mark behind their main selling point.

Eugen Rochko

We've noticed that a lot of you had some questions about this announcement, so we've collected the most important ones in a new FAQ section on the page above 👆

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KAMØF

@Mastodon #ActivityPub If integrated #OpenStreetMap it would be an huge benefit to the #opensource #community 🌍🌎. Imagine wanting to see a place on openstreetmap and user photos appear (like google earth) or geolocate a photo or video on socials that supports ActivityPub. The possibilities are huge and would involve more people.

listingheavily

@samhenrigold @dgriffinjones @cultofmac I thoroughly enjoyed the surrealist Apple-based interplay on offer here. An unexpected WTF moment from the hottest new comedy double act on the internet. Bravo!

jacquesvfd

This was the funniest thing I have listened to all week. Thank you and I hope to hear you in future episodes

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Louis Khor

@Gargron Ruth Radelet's (of the Chromatics) music video for Stranger was shot on 16mm. Released a year ago.
youtube.com/watch?v=7y6h8DNI9j

Steve

@Gargron
I don't think so.

I'd bet a lot of money it was shot digitally, and made to look like film. And they did a bad job, throwing every bad film filter they could find at it.

Portions of most frames are way to sharp and clean to be shot with film cameras that have so many other problems.

Sorry

Business Casual Nudist

@Gargron On the other end of the musical spectrum, Knocked Loose did their newest video entirely on film.
youtu.be/eO8q_Q4lRC8?si=cty-gQ

Eugen Rochko

The Helldivers 2 furore is bonkers. If you missed it, Sony, seemingly against wishes of the dev studio, pushed to add a mandatory PSN Network sign-in months after launch on one of their biggest, most popular games on PC, and not only did the community revolt (dropping review score into the teens), but the game is now pulled from 177 storefronts and Steam are issuing refunds (as PSN only works in certain countries). The studio has told players to make their voices heard

eurogamer.net/helldivers-2-has

The Helldivers 2 furore is bonkers. If you missed it, Sony, seemingly against wishes of the dev studio, pushed to add a mandatory PSN Network sign-in months after launch on one of their biggest, most popular games on PC, and not only did the community revolt (dropping review score into the teens), but the game is now pulled from 177 storefronts and Steam are issuing refunds (as PSN only works in certain countries). The studio has told players to make their voices heard

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Tyler A.

@stroughtonsmith Incredible to watch this game torpedo itself into oblivion. Hard to fathom that no one stepped in and stopped this.

Kostas Karayannis

@stroughtonsmith Sony has been user-hostile since they became dominant with the PS4. Shame that Xbox has become so irrelevant. Has made this life-long console gamer (and PlayStation fan) turn to PC gaming for the first time.

Eugen Rochko

Quick! I’ve got a free hour or so to work on my current novella. Enjoy Nansen’s blep and stop distracting me. #caturday #catsofmastodon

A little ginger and white cat with a massive underbite and a cute wee tongue.
As above. Nansen the cutest ginger and white cat.
Oh Nansen! Little ginger cat dude looking straight into the camera. Massive blep.
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Henry the Emperor

@Gargron

The kitty is hacking the printer so that it actually works the way it's supposed to

Thomas Blechschmidt

@Gargron Anyone expecting anything else proves to be a fool.

Erik ✅

@Gargron

Does the kitty already retrieve printouts reliably? 😁

Eugen Rochko

I am absolutely DYING about Count Binface getting more than TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND votes in the London mayor election. I cannot stop laughing, it's cracking me up. So awesome.

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Jo Walsh

@MooseAllain i haven't laughed out loud at the Private Eye in a while, but this did it. it's a wonderful cartoon. good to see you are in the Fediverse!

ticho

@MooseAllain That's so stupid, I love it! :)

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