[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago
  1. no one is assuming iNaturalist is being malicious, saying otherwise is just well-poisoning.
  2. there is no amount of testing that can ever overcome the inherently-stochastic output of LLMs. the "best-case" scenario is text-shaped slop that is more convincing, but not any more correct, which is an anti-goal for iNaturalist as a whole
  3. we've already had computer vision for ages. we've had google images for twenty years. there is absolutely no reason to bolt a slop generator of any kind to a search engine.
  4. "staff is very much connected with users" obviously should come with some asterisks given the massive disconnect between staff and users on their use and endorsement of spicy autocorrect
  5. framing users who delete their accounts in protest of machine slop being put up on iNaturalist, which is actually the point of contention here, as being over-reactive to the mere mention of AI, and thus being basically the same as the AI boosters? well, it's gross. iNat et. al. explicitly signaled that they were going to inject AI garbage into their site. users who didn't like that voted with their accounts and left. you don't get to post-hoc ascribe them a strawman rationale and declare them basically the same as the promptfans, fuck off with that
[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

"emotional"

let me just slip the shades on real quick

"womanly"

checks out

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

this one is a joke, i think. he is definitely on the fashy bullshit though

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

alright, fine, i'll do it.

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How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)

Grammar Nazis (as opposed to the regular kind) publish a guide on how to best calibrate your printing press to 17th-century standards. Several Hackernews (some of which are the regular kind) offer their own competing, more-detailed guides in response. The concern is raised that using too many typographic dashes makes you sound like ChatGPT, to much dismay of those still diligently copying from the Google (business model: "Uber for glue pizza") results page for "em dash". Multiple Hackernews take the opportunity to call the group of people who do not care about the millimeter difference between the types of dashes "NPCs".

[-] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

maybe i'm a weirdo but i actually really like this a lot. if there weren't armies of sycophants chanting outside of all our collective windows about how AI is the future of gaming... if you look at this "game" as an art object unto itself i think it is actually really engaging

it reminds me of other "games" like Marian Kleineberg's Wave Function Collapse and Bananaft's Yedoma Globula. there's one other on the tip of my tongue where you uploaded an image and it constantly reprojected the image onto the walls of a first-person walking simulator, but i don't recall the name

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

with how much of a revolving door of covert white supremacists lemmy is, i can imagine it's hard to boot them out faster than they come in. just federation things

[-] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Well over a year ago it was actually useful. [...] And it just doesn't come up with interesting stuff any more.

i have to admit i'm deeply curious what outputs you considering interesting enough for twenty bucks a month

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

finally, i can see Sam Altman's face immediately upon clicking the link

... put it back

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

"what are you talking about? a hammer removes bolts just fine. i personally don't have an issue with the tiny bit of extra elbow grease to wedge the claw around the bolt-head and twist; if anything, it's saving me effort from having to use a wrench."

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Wait a year and see how kids get on blockchain to sell and buy GPU resources for rendering ‘trans furries’

excuse you, i render my fursona with my own GPU

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Of course, this flexibility that allows for anything good and popular to be part of a natural, inevitable precursor to the true metaverse, simultaneously provides the flexibility to dismiss any failing as a failure of that pure vision, rather than a failure of the underlying ideas themselves. The metaverse cannot fail, you can only fail to make the metaverse."

-- Dan Olson, The Future is a Dead Mall

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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