AyanamiKaine

That's an interesting take. I had a similar thought about safety and how AI providers propagate that using cloud options is safer because hosting a server is open to attack vectors, and who would manage that best if not the big providers themselves.

The fact that Hugging Face was attacked not by a small amount of compute but such a vast amount of computation. It was only possible because its already so centralized by Open AI.

It feels a bit like cyberpunk where only the big companies in reality will have the resource to pull of such an attack.

Man, it happens more and more that I can’t work because nix can’t fetch something from git or my elixir build fails because it needs to fetch a release from GitHub.

Even if I change my CI to something else, all the dependencies depend on GitHub (Not like there exists a cheap/free alternative where nix packages could be hosted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

Every time when I see animal tests or my own meat consumption I wonder how smart all kinds of animals really are. Would I feel worse knowing, I am eating an intelligent being? See its suffering as something more?

While I have no moral conundrum about eating meat or doing scientific studies on animals, this seems like a bit unethical.

Was it really necessary to use a living mouse?

This makes me wonder. What would Nietzsche think of AI and LLM in general? Would he see it as an idol or a monument of human accomplishment?

Sadly, I believe this is a case of survivorship bias.

Rollercoaster Tycoon was also developed by one person. Developers could also be absurdly efficient in the past, see valve and half-life 1 as an example.

It means little to give examples of cases where developers punched above their weight and arguing it was because of reason X they could achieve it in the first place.

How many people failed, was it because of missing tools?

Like before, people will attribute some of their performance to tools, that in reality didn't matter at all.

Structure, seems to be a recurring pattern.

A friend of mine is on their way to becoming a teacher and already teaching at a school for one year part-time.

He tells tales about his children mostly from low income families, where school is the only structure they have as their families are completely dysfunctional. Thorn apart by the family trying or not trying to integrating into German society as well as themselves.

When he gives structure to them they behave much better, while interesting enough behaving at home worse. At least he told from stories about the parent-teacher meetings he had.

Mhhh but it isn't how open source works, right? I only contributed once but I couldn't imagine it without starting with a PR and needing to bounce it back and forth.

How would you restructure the approach to open source? Honest question.

While not playing WoW Forever myself, I like reading the news and subreddit about it. In the last days, every day a new "self-made" UI mod gets showcased transforming the UI into AI slop.

Disregarding any design standards and letting the AI role with it. People that mention it, in the comments, get blasted by accusations of gate-keeping.

I see this so often. Nobody is gate-keeping anyone, you can just learn the skill, read about UI design and art.

Why is it so hard for people to just put in the time?

While reading "The Nemesis of Creativity"

It uses a Chinese sage to illustrate the fight against using machines:

"I have heard my teacher say that whoever uses machines does all his work like a machine. He who does his work like a machine grows a heart like a machine, and he who carries the heart of a machine in his breast loses his simplicity. He who has lost his simplicity becomes unsure in the strivings of his soul. Uncertainty in the strivings of the soul is something which does not agree with honest sense. It is not that I do not know of such things; I am ashamed to use them."

It resonates with me similarly as the post.

When reading old stories about rogue AIs they are often created locally on earth.

What do you do when you need to manually maintain server structure in space? Just the idea of a set of rogue autonomous data centers in space seems like an intriguing story idea.

Still, all voices sound like they are missing something only real human speech can sound like. But many people will not notice the difference between AI and normal voices.

That's a good question. I don't have anything to critique regarding consistency or quality. You are right to say that the newest frontier models are quite good on that front. Especially when you are doing a task you have little experience in.

I like programming, it fun! Using AI feels like I am optimizing the fun out of it. I learn so much about different programming languages and topics I would simply not learn when using AI. I also like learning things!

Sadly, not. I trying to work with doctor's offices to improve their productivity with IT support and better structure for workers to work with patients.

You don't want to know how often I heard: "But I saw on Instagram, with AI it can be done cheaper and faster".

The people that would pay me don't care for good docs, eyesore, or if the programmer actually knows how the app works. They care for how fast are you done? And how much does it cost?

This is what I mean, its not a low number far from it. But I know people that only value that number, so previously they churn out a big LOC, higher ups praise. Now its just big number good, bigger number even better. And LLMs do exactly that.

Now LOC comes down to how much tokens you are willing to spend for a given day.

I really don't know what to feel about AI generated code. It's clear that it improves velocity dramatically in code output. It has some value to it. But what is the cost?

While I code without the help of AI, sometimes I feel like I am being left behind.

Ohh you wrote only 400 lines today? I shipped a whole app while being in the gym... hits hard.

People dont want to write multiple prompts or write a lengthy one. They want to say create poster x for event y. That's it, that's what they get and that's what they take.

If you write with an LLM it will taint you voice. Slowly but surely.

I think what people associate with "quality" is vastly different from each other.

For example I believe there is a deeper quality that cannot be easily found in a more quality product. Quality can be expressed in many ways and felt throughout the life. But people don't care for that.

They mostly care for cheap and good enough. I don't want to attack that way of life its simply one with tradeoffs like a life with more quality.

More quality can mean more expensive, the need to engage with something a bit more, etc.

Leibl famously needed over 3 months to just draw the hands of one model for "Three Women in Church" it certainly has some quality to it.

In the modern world seldom you will find one that wants to pay for such work or even spending 3 months of work on painting hands.

I always here how Nvidia's investment "scheme" is like previous company X that was destroyed using said scheme.

But its quite obvious that while there are some similarities its simply not the same. Most analysis, so it seems, are quite surface.

Are there any deeper finical analysis on the investments of Nvidia and how they are financed?

Every platform captures the Zeitgeist somewhat, the AI related post are just a reflection of that.

While I also somewhat dislike it. I don’t think limiting them resolves the issue.

I must say, there is some weird feeling in knowing that great minds are naive enough to believe OpenAI wouldnt use their chats in any way. If you give a company information it will be used, regardless of laws or promises.

There is no prove in a world the AI companies would give to you ensuring that they didnt train or use the chats.

Why would you need to train a model on certain specific near prove chat if you just query it?

Besides that, its hard to believe that its the case for every "company stole my prove".

True, I didn't thought about that. Just imagine the scale of "historic" images that will be created over the next 100 years.

That was exactly my first reaction!

Mark where you at the party today? Yes of course look at these pictures I took (╥﹏╥)

Because she will pounder in old memories that never existed in the first place. Instead of cherrying the current times. Past moments of long gone time will be elongated beyond their actual existence.

Imagine a time where a small moment is actually a smaller amount experienced then the remixed one. At one point you will have more memories of fake events, and more emotional beats for said fake events than real ones.

AI videos showing you a second life if you just had chosen a different path.

People will be depressed from it.

To tell a story, to even exaggerate one is something completely different from providing "prove" it did really happen exactly the way it was told.

There are many many people that will take an image as an undeniable fact of the real world. While before you could fake(photoshop) things it took more time then 30 seconds.

I wouldnt regulate these aspects, because I believe pandoras box is already wide open. Regulating anything wouldn't change much.

Omg, I love how the first examples just show how easy you can fake things. Fake being at a party with your friends. Didn't make your bed, no problem, just fake it.

The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me.

Wow, it looks really cool!

I will definitely try it! If there is one think that breaks me is always chasing that one shared library for example when developing something using SDl3 and its GPU API.

Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 cannot be that good, as it couldnt be used to vibe code a windows version of Muse Code itself.

This is my new LLM benchmark when a provider cant use their own models to target a new platform, it cant be that good.

If allegedly a LLM could write a compiler or port a runtime, then this should be trivial to port. But they are not doing it.

Ohhhh that is so cool, but I agree with the others its more halftoning. When you want to dither/pixelate an image you can use Image-to-Pixel [0].

[0]https://tezumie.github.io/Image-to-Pixel/

Its already happening, I am not a doctor but work with them closely. One patient used ChatGPT for his problems because he waited so long for an appointment. He was a bit neurotic and talked the whole time how one doesnt need a doctor anymore as ChatGPT is already good enough.

The real main problem is that you need to wait to get help, may it be a therapist or an eye doctor. But ChatGPT is instant.

This part worries me the most.