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  • Not stupid necessarily, but profoundly misanthropic.

    I have never talked to or read from an AI shill who did not have a severely depressing view on humanity, with arguments being a variation of “oh yeah, LLMs are just parrots but so are we/so are most people”, and “comprehension is just pattern matching anyways”.

    Which is really darkly hilarious in a way, because if you think of older, now clichéed, sci fi stories, then treating a machine capable of feelings and comprehension as a human rather than a tool is the human thing to do. But these people are so backwards that

    1. They rob us of humanity to put us on the same level as AI.
    2. They still treat the LLMs (which should now be human) as tools and therefore deny them of humanity too.

  • Thanks for this answer, really.

    You saying about this film having a lot of documentation around the lost 43 minutes made me look into it. I did not know the story behind it, i.e. it being already cut by Welles, then the 43 minutes being cut out by studios, plus a lot of research and reconstruction already being made around it. Adding to that the fact this is not (thus far) a commercial endeavour, it does paint it in a different light. Finally, from what I can gather, it seems the “AI” being used here is more deepfake stuff on live scenes and less full image generation (which is the image that the text conjured for me, this is the problem with catchall marketing terms…)

    All that to say, while I personally am not into these kinds of efforts (AI or not, but I appreciate the subjectivity of that sentiment) your comment did show the process, in this particular instance, seems to be very different from what I had initially imagined, so thank you.

    Sorry about the downvotes and potentially angry responses you are/will be getting, I did not mean to lay down a trap for you.





  • If such rewrites netted a similar fee to traditional content writing jobs, it would be one thing — but as Richardson noted, companies pay less for cleaning up AI copy because they presume it’s easier and less time-consuming, when it fact it often requires as much mental labor as content she had written herself.

    Yeah so, they used the earth-burning slop generators, fired people over it, and now rehire cheaper to fix their hot mess (which sounds like one of the most futile and infuriating task one could do). Does not sound like as much of a win as the title would lead you to believe.

    Speaking as a dev, I cannot wait for my job to be fixing inane machine slop code with half the pay, sounds like a real treat.





  • I don’t judge anyone making whatever choice they have to make to survive, especially wrt using AI given how it’s shoved down everyone’s throat.

    I do have little patience for someone who comes all guns blazing, calling someone an idiot over that very fact, and dares talk about empathy after belittling the OPs “liwwle feelings”.

    I have zero patience for the actually rich people who force that shit on us and would love not to see stupid infighting between people who suffer and are alienated from it.

    This is pretty much what my initial, admittedly too snarky, response meant. Now either you’re trolling or this is, for whatever reason, a sensitive subject for you. In both cases I don’t see the point of discussing that further and apologies if I hurt you.




  • Had this specific issue a couple days ago, but, to make it worse, the up-to-date package was not yet available. So discord would straight up not start at all.

    So, to add another tip: telling discord to shut up about updates is the only reasonable response to that bs in my opinion. I’ll update when I want to, thank you very much. Just add "SKIP_HOST_UPDATE": true in the settings file at ~/.config/discord/settings.json to put this software in its place.