I am pretty sure CNN is also doing this, using some content from real people, then having the AI write the article. Check out their bylines and who "contributed" when you real an article.
Readit Newsbluetwo commented on B&H Photo Published an AI-Generated Guide Written by a Fake Person petapixel.com/2023/12/14/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Minor point: Creativity doesn't need a lot of tech.
bluetwo commented on Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM github.com/vitoplantamura... · Posted by u/Robin89
I appreciate the attempt to create objective evaluations by leveraging existing tools. It isn't a perfect experiment or article, but I like the goal.
Most niche subreddits are still good. Just avoid big/default subs and anything related to politics and culture wars.
That's what disappointed me when I tried reddit alternatives. Politics and culture wars were there too, but niche subs were nowhere to be found. They don't seem to understand what made reddit worse in the first place.
So I went back to reddit.
The problem I have with Reddit is every subreddit seems filled with amateurs posting the same starter questions daily, never looking at the feed to see these questions have been asked and answered daily.
The last episode of the last season of "Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is about this.
"What happened to the days when a THING was a THING?!"
bluetwo commented on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead nytimes.com/2023/05/01/te... · Posted by u/ramraj07
Military application of AI drones isn't even the worst possible use, it's nations using them to completely subjugate their own population(although the same tech could be used against non-peer nations). Combination of things like Gorgon Stare to direct smaller AI controlled drones like what they are using in Ukraine would be a police state nightmare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
https://longreads.com/2019/06/21/nothing-kept-me-up-at-night...
they can surveil an entire city in real-time with this and track where everybody is and who they are meeting with. No form of protest or movement against the government will be possible if it's scaled up
At a music festival last summer I counted 4 drones in the sky monitoring 24/7 over 5 days. Never saw them come down. They were each tethered to a base station which seemed to run electric and probably returned a video feed.
I expect to see this everywhere.
bluetwo commented on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? · Posted by u/l2silver
Currently working on building a virtual art gallery populated with fictitious works from dead artists generated by Stable Diffusion. Users in the same room can talk to each other using WebRTC.
bluetwo commented on How to Insure Your Money When You’re Banking over $250K (2022) nerdwallet.com/article/ba... · Posted by u/O__________O
Use FDIC's Electronic Deposit Insurance Estimator (EDIE) tool to find your coverage and figure out how to maximize it:
bluetwo commented on FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank fdic.gov/news/press-relea... · Posted by u/khuey
An explainer post [1] connected to that Tweet is something I found extremely informative (assuming it's accurate):
"- In 2021 SVB saw a mass influx in deposits, which jumped from $61.76bn at the end of 2019 to $189.20bn at the end of 2021.
- As deposits grew, SVB could not grow their loan book fast enough to generate the yield they wanted to see on this capital. As a result, they purchased a large amount (over $80bn!) in mortgage backed securities (MBS) with these deposits for their hold-to-maturity (HTM) portfolio.
- 97% of these MBS were 10+ year duration, with a weighted average yield of 1.56%.
- The issue is that as the Fed raised interest rates in 2022 and continued to do so through 2023, the value of SVB’s MBS plummeted. This is because investors can now purchase long-duration "risk-free" bonds from the Fed at a 2.5x higher yield.
- This is not a liquidity issue as long as SVB maintains their deposits, since these securities will pay out more than they cost eventually.
- However, yesterday afternoon, SVB announced that they had sold $21bn of their Available For Sale (AFS) securities at a $1.8bn loss, and were raising another $2.25bn in equity and debt. This came as a surprise to investors, who were under the impression that SVB had enough liquidity to avoid selling their AFS portfolio."
[1] - https://twitter.com/jamiequint/status/1633956163565002752
There are some big parts to this story we don't know.
Yes, they sold the treasuries and took a bath. But if that was their best option, it speaks very poorly to the other "assets" they held on their balance sheet.
We may find out in the coming days that they had a big position in Silvergate, which went bankrupt yesterday, and they had to mark their position to zero, creating the need for liquidity.