If they continue like this, their customers will be so fed up with them that they can lay off the entire customer-facing part of the company within a few years! Imagine how much money they can save once they don't have to deal with customers any more. Finally the AI innovation department will be able to focus fully on their work.
Yeah, I just find it to be a great rule of thumb. Those who understand what they are doing will be aware that they are not dealing with AI, those who jump to label it as such are usually bullshit artists.
What's the biggest thing you ever made? Which work are you the most proud of?
And how are you received as a Canadian in Scotland? Do they treat you alright?
Do you have midges in Canada?
Usually when I see this it's using other machine learning approaches than LLM, and the researchers behind it are usually very careful not to use the term AI, as they are fully aware that this is not what they are doing.
There's huge potential in machine learning, but LLMs are very little more than bullshit generators, and generative AI is theft producing soulless garbage. LLMs are widely employed because they look impressive, but for anything that requires substance machine learning methods that have been around for years tend to perform better.
If you can identify cancer in x-rays using machine learning that's awesome, but that's very seperate from the AI hype machine that is currently running wild.
I would also be careful citing transparently antisemitic organizations like ~~the UN~~ Wikipedia in relation to these issues
Really works as a counterargument against anything!
Gigantic hater of all things LLM or "AI" here.
The only genuine contribution I can think of that LLMs have made to society is their translation capabilities. So even I can see how a fully open source model with "multilingual fluency in over 1,000 languages" could be potentially useful.
And even if it is all a scam, if this prevents people from sending money to China or the US as they are falling for the scam, I guess that's also a good thing.
Could I find something to hate about it? Oh yeah, most certainly! :)
OpenStreetMaps is not an app, just a map. Magic Earth (and Comaps, for that matter) uses OpenStreetMaps.
Personally I never liked Magic Earth. It jumps into navigation mode too easily and I just find the interface to always do something else than I want it to. Personal preference I guess.
I think making the rules more visible might also be on the todo list - they were just recently drafted after a discussion with the community. :)
Great questions - I'm curious as well. Would also be useful to know as I'd be happy to volunteer as a mod or up my donations if necessary.
Regarding question 3, the answer is refreshingly clear. Here's from the rules:
PieFed is a place for thoughtful discussion, respectful debate, and factual engagement. We encourage diverse voices and aim to prevent content that harms, divides, or misleads. Accordingly the following types of content are prohibited on PieFed:
[...]
3 - Authoritarian and Fascist Propaganda
Content promoting fascist, ultranationalist, or authoritarian ideologies is not allowed, including things such as:
- Genocide denial or minimization, such as denying or justifying atrocities in Gaza, Xinjiang, Ukraine, or elsewhere.
- Use of fascist symbols & memes (e.g., Pepe the Frog), or 4chan/8chan screenshots.
- Support for regimes or ideologies that suppress basic human rights including but not limited to Trumpism, Putin, Hamas, North Korea, Proud Boys.
There's also the Rational Discourse Toolkit in the side bar, which I think recognizes the role of social media as part of the problem and the challenge of trying to become part of the solution.
As for defederation, there's point 9 of the rules: "Generally this will be a last resort when problems from an instance are systemic or caused by the admins of the instance."
If you own a Fairphone (3-5), Pixel (4, 5, 7 or 8) Nothing phone (1) or OnePlus (7 or 8), it's super easy to install /e/OS using this online installer. Most android apps work well out of the box, but all Google stuff has been stripped away and replaced with MicroG where necessary.
I'm never returning to Google anything.
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Atom to Pulsar?