Bolting banner ads onto a technology that can organically weave any concept into a trusted conversation would be incredibly crude.
how is it "trusted" when it just makes things up
Readit Newsevilfred commented on LLM Inevitabilism tomrenner.com/posts/llm-i... · Posted by u/SwoopsFromAbove
evilfred commented on Disney and Universal Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement nytimes.com/2025/06/11/bu... · Posted by u/BGyss
Fair use. Let's not live in a pay-per-thought society.
lol I don't think that the ability to spit out recognizable images of copyrighted characters really counts as fair use
Transparency logs like [Certificate Transparency](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6962) use permissioned chains (and other things) to distribute trust in the internet public key infrastructure.
That's all I can think of, though.
this does not use a blockchain.
evilfred commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
There have been rumblings and attempts years prior. Now it only takes another attempt, an industry darling ( it used to be Apple) and a big hype boom on the Internet.
There is one problem tho: flat design is cheap to produce. Not sure if AI is there yet to be capable to produce good enough slop to become an industry trend that sticks.
Airbnb is an industry darling? in 2025? lol
evilfred commented on AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected understandingai.org/p/i-g... · Posted by u/qianli_cs
I'm not sure why people on HN (of all places) are so divided regarding the perception of AI/ML.
I have not seen anything like it before. We literaly had not system or way of even doing things like code generation based on text input.
Just last week i asked for a script to do image segmentation with a basic UI and claude just generated that for me in under 1 Minute.
I could list tons of examples which are groundbreaking. The whole Image generation stack is completly new.
That blog article is fair enough, there is hype around this topic for sure, but alone for every researcher who needs to write code for their research, AI can make them already a lot more efficient.
But i do believe, that we have entered a new ara: An ara were we take data again very serious. A few years back, you said 'the internet doesn't forget' then we realized that yes the internet starts to forget. Google deleted pages, removed the cache feature and it felt like we stoped caring for data because we didn't knew what to do with it.
Then ai came along. And not only is now data king again but we are now in the mids of reinforcment ara: We now give feedback and the systems incorporate that feedback into their training/learning.
And the ai/ml topic is getting worked on on every single aspect of it: Hardware, Algorithm, use cases, data, tools, protocols, etc. We are in the middle of incorporating and building for and on it. This takes a little bit of time. Still the progress is crazy exhausting.
We will only see in a few years if there is a real ceiling. We do need more GPUs, bigger Datacenters to do a lot more experiments on AI architecture and algorithm. We have a clear bottleneck. Big companies train one big model for weeks and month.
most work in software jobs is not making one-off scripts like in your example. a lot of the job is about modifying existing codebases which include in-house approachs to style and services along with various third party frameworks like Spring driven by annotations, and requirements around how to write tests and how many. AI is just not very helpful here, you spend more time spinning wheels trying to craft the absolute perfect script than just making code changes directly.
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"Russia-aligned threat"... so... the US?
evilfred commented on Why is Warner Bros. Discovery putting old movies on YouTube? tedium.co/2025/02/05/warn... · Posted by u/shortformblog
With AI, this entire vast content library is about to be worthless anyway.
We'll be making more long-form, quality content per month than entire Hollywood production years.
And if you include short form content and slop, it'll be more content per second than entire years.
When faced with infinite content, people will reach for content currently popular in the zeitgeist or content that addresses niche interests. Hollywood never made Steampunk Vampire Hunters of Ganymede, but in the future there will be creators filling every void. There won't be much reason to revisit old catalogues that don't cater to modern audiences unless it's to satisfy curiosity or watch one of the shining diamonds in the rough.
There will be a few legacy titles that endure (Friends, Star Wars), but most of it will be washed away in a sea of infinite attention sinks.
We're about to hit post-scarcity, infinite attention satisfiability. We've already looked over the inflection point, so it doesn't take much imagination to reason what's next.
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I have direct experience with this field.
I've written, directed, and acted in independent films. I've worked on everything from three person crews all the way up to 200 person shots. Even mocap and virtual production.
We're now developing film and VFX tools for individual artists, and the world is full of artists. It's been starved for films, however. The studio production system only had so much annual capacity per year, and most creators never get the opportunity to helm a project of their own.
You're not crying over the accessibility of digital art, digital music, indie games, or writing.
Film production and distribution has been bottlenecked at the studio level for far too long due to capital, logistics, and (previously) distribution barriers. That's all changing now.
Films are going to look more like fanfiction.net, Bandcamp, ArtStation, and Steam. That's a good thing.
I have friends in IATSE (film crew union) and AI is going to hurt their work. The nature of work changes, and new opportunities arise. But what's hurting them right now is that film productions are being offshored to Europe and Asia to break up their unions and bank on cheaper local labor. Production in Atlanta is one sixth of what it was just a few years ago.
I also have friends who write and direct that are looking at this as their big chance to build their own audience.
you completely misunderstand what it means to enjoy a film experience.
evilfred commented on Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable xeiaso.net/notes/2025/ama... · Posted by u/OptionOfT
HN isnt a monolith
evilfred commented on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs axios.com/2025/01/10/meta... · Posted by u/bsilvereagle
The really troubling news buried in this to me was the appointment of Dana White to the meta board of directors. Like seriously what purpose does he serve but to appease the new administration?
he beat his wife on video, that is who Zuck likes now, kinda strange