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duringmathon English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search

This seems farfetched, I mean if you're teaching non English speakers to enunciate correctly then their speech patterns are changing over time and you're left chasing a moving target. There are probably better ways to target ads.

duringmathon English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search

But you're already logged in, and if you're not well that defeats the purpose.

duringmathon English learners can now practice speaking on Google Search

And what's the commercial application of all this stressed syllable data?

duringmathon Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]

Citations needed there buddy

duringmathon Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]

You still have to verify plausible sounding LLM output somewhere.

duringmathon Google Earning Q1 2024 [pdf]

It's not like they can make any major acquisitions in this political environment.

duringmathon Google threatens to cut off news after California proposes paying media outlets

Private equity firms are buying up local news outfits then lobby to force google/fb to pay up. It's an extortion racket which news outlets refuse to cover for some reason.

duringmathon German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice

They do that every now and then but eventually they come crawling back

duringmathon Google Nerfs long-standing long press Home button for Circle to Search

You can turn it off https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/14508957

duringmathon Tell HN: ChatGPT has become untrustworthy

All LLMs are inherently untrustworthy, they can be great to get the ball rolling so to speak but you have to double check everything they generate which is its own kind of overhead.

duringmathon YouTube now requires to label their realistic-looking videos made using AI

You'd think they're evil too if they let a bunch of middlemen and parasitic companies dictate how the software you invested untold sums and hours developing and marketing should work.

duringmathon Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade

Eh, they kept all the silly stuff from the book, the atomic bombs, the boring desert sections, way too much exposition, the insurgency and holy war aspects that barely seem like fiction considering recent world events, and like all movies nowadays it's way too long.

duringmathon Gemini and Google's Culture

This whole episode must be the greatest instance of overreaction/fake outrage of its kind.

It's like everyone is pretending not to know how volatile LLMs are or even how they work and never saw the "leftist" answers chatgpt was spewing not too long ago.

It's like these people have an axe to grind with Google and are milking this situation for all its worth.

So what if it made the founding fathers look black, it's called AI art for a reason it's not a 1:1 representation of reality.

First I thought the whole thing was a bunch of openai/other LLM investors using the opportunity to go after the competition on twitter but maybe it goes deeper than that.

duringmathon Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism

I mean the image generation thing

duringmathon Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism

Yeah I think that's what they tried to avoid but they went too far in the other direction

duringmathon Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism

No one's rewriting history here it's just a silly toy/tech demo.

duringmathon Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism

That's a bit overdramatic, no one expects these things to be accurate let alone be history teaching tools.

People are just overreacting over a silly toy.

duringmathon Google to fix AI picture bot after 'woke' criticism

I don't get why some people are so up in arms about this, it's kind of funny I guess but it's not like it matters in the scheme of things.

duringmathon AI behavior guardrails should be public

I do not.

duringmathon Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'

I mean just look around you everyone's getting fired but you don't see the same smarmy "look at me" behavior from other companies' employees.

duringmathon Google search drops cache link from search results

I don't know why they're keeping the "so and so result in 0.XY seconds" line.

duringmathon Matthias Wandel's YouTube channel got hacked [video]

Even tech savvy people can still fall for that stuff unfortunately.

duringmathon Ask HN: WTF Is YouTube Doing?

Yeah you have too many potential points of failure there, disable them then enable one by one to find the culprit.

duringmathon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

That's not how global free trade works, these laws weren't already established they were added to specifically target American companies which must be in violation of several WTO ordinance.

duringmathon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

How the EU is getting away with all these restrictions targeting US businesses is beyond me

duringmathon Mourning Google

Sure, but it comes with its own biases and a certain conviction about how things should be.

duringmathon Mourning Google

Things were better when I was younger and still worked there

I don't know how much of it is a perspective thing but it's probably a decent amount.

duringmathon OpenAI and journalism

Well it depends on intent, in chatgpts case it's responding to users prompts. And it's not really the best way to read those articles that's just a byproduct of the training process.

duringmathon OpenAI and journalism

Even if it does output training articles verbatim it's still transformative, mainly because that's not its primary application.

duringmathon OpenAI and journalism

Of course it's fair use.

It's a transformative application of copyrighted materials it's the textbook definition of fair use, and anyone pretending it isn't because of some anti generative AI luddite sentiment is risking to destroy a precedent on which much of the modern internet is built.