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Can the people advocating for AI art provide any examples of anything human-generated that is artistically interesting? I suspect not and that's a big part of why they're impressed with AI art.

Like, they'd probably say "The Mona Lisa" because it's well known to be Great Art, and then their AI can draw them in the style of the Mona Lisa, ergo it has generated Great Art.

This is like voting for US Republicans like, "what, Trump already controls the country and this dude disagrees with him."

Rowling has said that (1) she will spend all HP profits on hurting trans people and (2) she registers all HP support as support for her agenda.

She absolutely is profiting from it.

When a game is "free" the publisher isn't just donating it for funzies. Either Epic pays them (Epic is spending money to get people to its platform) or the publisher is using the game to advertise other games, which has value to them.

I'd be curious to hear how you end up liking it.

As someone who spends a lot of time on the command-line, I've generally preferred MacOS over Windows as my not-Linux OS. But my impression is that for people who like the Windows or Linux GUI, MacOS is a bigger (and less pleasant) change.

And even on the command-line, MacOS is a different *nix distro and makes seme pretty weird choices (launchd, plists, /etc is actually /private/etc, ...) whereas you could have vanilla Ubuntu inside WSL2.

oh no I suck at lemmy :( (thanks for letting me know it's broken)

Yeesh. What's the girlfriend getting out of all of this? Seems like a lot of work to run someone else's life in addition to your own.

Well-earned by Mamdani, but also I hope it's the last anyone has to see of Cuomo.

Statutory damages for copyright infringement can reach up to $150,000, but there’s no double-dipping.

Does this mean that, at most, OpenAI would be forced to pay him 150k? That seems irrelevant (to both parties, in fact).

Though I've now had someone check Google and try to tell me that they're right because of the AI summary agreeing with them.

I definitely wouldn't expect people to have heard of Kirk at all. Even within the US he was a bit of a niche asshole. But I would expect that before posting "RIP

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People always imagine this as "I will pay you $100 to kick the puppy" and of course they would never.

But what actually happens is that you have a long-term donor. You rely on their help (they're paying for you to be able to hire a nice college intern who's really smart and has been fun to have on the project). They never tell you what to do so you see them as more of a friend than anything else. It's perfectly normal to get some lunch with friends and talk. You're stuck on some problems and they have some good connections that help you out. That might even be worth more than $100k, but it's not money at all so it's OK that they're helping you like this. They also talk you up, which is like free advertising except you didn't ask for it so that also doesn't count. Anyway, at some of the lunches they're telling you about what's going on with them and there's some problems they're dealing with that you could help with. They don't ask for help, of course, because they know you're independent. But being independent means it's OK for you to do what you want. Even help a friend out who didn't ask for help so they're not influencing you...

In the novel Snow Crash, the residents of the white-supremacist micro-state franchises visit other places because they have no non-whites to attack at home.

If that settles the tariff negotiations

I agree that if there was a magic "fix this shit for good" button but you had to crawl around and call Trump "sir" a lot that would be worth it. But what's actually going to happen is that he'll hear a loud noise and forget who any of these people are and he'll be like, "two million percent tariff on the uk!!"

If by any chance, one’s identity is reviled, their entire behaviour history would be out in the wild.

So close to a sweet meter. What do you think of

"If, by some chance, one's handle's reviled / their foul history would be out in the wild."

? It's not perfect. Probably just a little more work-shopping.

The theory is that the new hire gets better over time

It always amazes me how few people get this. Have they only ever made terrible hires?

The way that a company makes big profits is by hiring fresh graduates and giving them a cushy life while they grow into good SWEs. By the time you're paying $200k for a senior software engineer, they're generating far more than that in value. And you only had to invest a couple years and some chump change.

But now businesses only think in the short-term and so paying $10k for a month of giving Anthropic access to our code base sounds like a bargain.

Executives are mostly irrelevant as long as they’re not forcing the whole company into the bullshit.

I'm seeing a lot of this, though. Like, I'm not technically required to use AI, but the VP will send me a message noting that I've only used 2k tokens this month and maybe I could get more done if I was using more...?

More as an alternative to a search engine.

In my ideal world, StackOverflow would be a public good with a lot of funding and no ads/sponsorship.

Since that's not the case, and everything is hopelessly polluted with ads and SEO, LLMs are momentarily a useful tool for getting results. Their info might be only 3/4 correct, but my search results are also trash. Who knows what people will do in a year when the LLMs have been eating each others slop and are also being stuffed with ads by their owners.

It does seem silly, but it's perfectly aligned with the marketing hype that the AI companies are producing.

Not really that weird? Basically every organization does this or is immediately unsuccessful. The only exception is companies under a government that's stable enough to carry water for them.

This doesn't mean that the organizations are a net benefit.

The disconnect is coming here:

I just don’t see the line where any of that is impossible. It seems inevitable

I agree with you that robots building robots is not impossible. I disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable. I strongly disagree with you that it's therefore inevitable in the immediate future.