Because more AI-generated SEO garbage is exactly what the Internet needs.
Readit Newsgatonegro commented on Show HN: Create AI Generated Blogs from Scratch simulai.co... · Posted by u/wsieroci
gatonegro commented on Microsoft: Windows 10 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10 bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
I wish it was true. I use linux on a day to day and when things go wrong (updates or apps), you need a terminal.
When things go well, you sometimes need a terminal to avoid jankiness.
I guess a person who uses a pc in a very limited way might not notice, but then they could also use any os and achieve the same.
When updates or apps go wrong on Windows, you sometimes need to use Powershell. Sometimes it's easier to use Powershell for admin tasks to avoid janky settings menus. What's the difference?
gatonegro commented on The ‘Hurtful’ Idea of Scientific Merit wsj.com/articles/the-hurt... · Posted by u/meany
gatonegro commented on Microsoft: Windows 10 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10 bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
Question:
Given the advances, how possible is it to use Linux without ever touching the Terminal? Until the answer is "100% possible", it will never be the year of Desktop Linux.
It's also worth noting that desktop computers are dropping in popularity for home users. Gamers will use them for years to come, but the average non-technical home user that just wants a web browser and social media are more likely to opt for a tablet these days. If they REALLY want a keyboard and a larger screen, they'll probably get a laptop.
It's perfectly doable. I set up Linux Mint for a non-technical family member on a laptop almost a year ago. They use it for browsing the Internet, watching things on streaming services, etc. I just told them to click on the small shield icon that pops up in the system tray now and again to install system updates. I visited them yesterday and asked to see the laptop out of curiosity. It's fully updated, fast, and does everything they want.
gatonegro commented on The case for slowing down AI vox.com/the-highlight/236... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
The arguments against AI echo those against nuclear technology. While nuclear tech has indeed been misused, it has also revolutionized medicine, agriculture, archeology, transportation, space exploration, and energy infrastructure—demonstrating the immense potential of technological progress.
Similar to nuclear tech, the issue lies not with AI itself, but with its malicious application. For example, AI-driven medical breakthroughs will save lives, while AI-based disinformation and spam will harm society. The root of the problem isn't AI, but rather, human intent.
Ultimately, it's our responsibility to harness AI's transformative power for good and prevent its misuse, just as we've learned to do with nuclear technology. Or in other words, it's not an AI problem; it's a human problem.
I think the comparison with nuclear tech is missing one crucial aspect: ease of access. Nuclear tech has been misused, and a sufficiently funded and motivated malicious actor could get their hands on it in some way to cause harm, but it is, for the most part, out of reach.
AI, on the other hand, is already being used by every hustler looking to make a quick buck, by students who can't be bothered to write a paper, by teachers who can't be bothered to read and grade papers, by every company who can get it to avoid paying actual people do to certain jobs... Personally, my problem is not with AI tech in itself, it's with how easy it is to get your hands on it and make literally anything you fancy with it. This is what a lot of the "AI for everything" crowd can't seem to grasp.
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gatonegro commented on Isaac – AI Text Editor for Academia isaaceditor.com... · Posted by u/eimenhmdt
Because AI-paraphrased copy/paste jobs and plagiarism are the future of academic writing!
I think the so-called "replication crisis"[0] might have something to do with it, particularly in psychology.
The misaligned incentives to publish frequently to have a nice-looking list of articles to show when you next apply for a grant means there's tons of flimsy research that goes unquestioned. It's also fairly attractive to jump on specific bandwagons and publish noise just to get your name out there. A lot of these meta-studies are looking inward, at the field itself and what is currently accepted, and finding that a fair bit of it is of very poor quality, if not straight-up nonsense.
I think, overall, it's a good thing. Research should not be focused exclusively on new knowledge. We should also be validating what others put out there, to make sure it's worth listening to.
gatonegro commented on Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be quantamagazine.org/the-ca... · Posted by u/theafh
Everyone wants a pill as a quick effortless fix, but IMO it seems a lot of our modern afflictions come down to an gross imbalance of exercise, diet, sleep, and social connection. Most likely the way society (see disclaimer) currently functions - how we work, how we consume our limited leisure time is sort of an occupational hazard to peak health.
Not to mention, exercise is "too hard" for most, the food supply is weaponized with sugar and FUD, everyone is so tired at the end of their "BS job" workday, so hit the couch and stream the streams. And now you have a vicious flywheel that quickly turns people into candidates for the latest big-pharma "cure"
HN Disclaimer: I'm in the US and making generalizations based on my observations. Not saying that there aren't needs for pharma / pills / afflictions that aren't solvable by the above, etc...
> it seems a lot of our modern afflictions come down to an gross imbalance of exercise, diet, sleep, and social connection
If you think about it in an evolutionary timescale, the way most of us live in the West these days is horrendously incompatible with the sort of life we evolved to live. Thousands and thousands of years were spent out in nature, in small communities, eating certain types of foods, engaging in physical activities, etc.
The sit-on-a-chair-all-day, look-at-screens-all-day lifestyle is a comparatively new development, and neither our minds nor our bodies are suited for such an existence. That's enough to cause us a fair amount of trouble. Add all the socioeconomic issues you mention into the mix, and it all starts to make perfect sense to me.
gatonegro commented on macOS phones home when previewing local image files [video] youtube.com/watch?v=6LfCJ... · Posted by u/gatonegro
Photo hosting services been scanning md5 sums of a database of known criminal images for 20 years. They did that on telecom and isp's since 2000'ish. Google/Apple searched your cloud for mp3s or torrented movies also.
Now Apple just moved the search to the OS via an API call to its server, and people are noticing the traffic.
When I worked in telecom, if there was a hit on an image it was reported to legal. Legal contacted the feds. Feds contacted the local PD of the user. The PD would send a cop in to pick up a burned cd. The server would zip all the users data and burn onto a dvd. We wouldnt touch the dvd, the cop would walk into the datacenter and hit eject and collect the dvd. No chain of custody issues.
> Now Apple just moved the search to the OS via an API call to its server, and people are noticing the traffic.
I'm not sure how photo hosting services doing this for the past 2 decades is related to this when the author of the post explicitly mentions he doesn't use Apple cloud services or products that would trigger such behaviour. This was the OS analysing someone's images, stored locally on their personal computer, and calling back to an API for no discernible reason.