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stcg commented on AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos   kapwing.com/blog/ai-slop-... · Posted by u/aquir
bakugo · 3 months ago
The end game is eliminating the last remaining human element in the engagement optimization pipeline, so that the corporations can control 100% of it.

Platforms like YouTube and TikTok already have almost full control of how the majority of users spend their time on their platforms. They open the app, they immediately get a feed of content algorithmically selected to keep them on the app for as long as possible. They don't need to search, they don't need to think about what they want to watch, they just consume. Fully automated consumption with 0 human effort involved.

Well, almost. There's one last thing remaining: you still need humans to produce the content that you then put on people's feeds. Or rather, needed. Now that the actual production can also be automated, those platforms no longer need to put effort into finding existing human-created content that will keep people watching - they can just generate new, algorithmically perfect content. This is their endgame.

stcg · 3 months ago
Other advantages to generating content: (1) fewer copyright issues. (2) No creators to pay, just GPU bills scaling with the use of the platform. (3) a much smaller critical mass.

Given these advantages I expect the current "social media" to be replaced with a new one, rather than them pivoting. The next big thing after tiktok might be something that only has generated content, where a last final bit of "social" is taken out of "social media".

stcg commented on Use singular nouns for database table names   teamten.com/lawrence/prog... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
c048 · 6 months ago
I agree.

It is better to be consistent but wrong, than inconsistent but correct.

Consistent and correct might seem ideal, but merely the fact that what is 'correct' is in the eye of the beholder most of the time, making it basically unobtainable.

But being consistent is at least something that is far less subjective.

stcg · 6 months ago
I don't see consistent and correct as separate. Consistent is correct, and correct is consistent.
stcg commented on Sprinkling self-doubt on ChatGPT   justin.searls.co/posts/sp... · Posted by u/ingve
stcg · 7 months ago
This sounds like how I think.

But for me, it often results in situations where I think much harder and longer than others but fail to act.

I learned to sometimes act instead of thinking more, because by acting I gain information I could not have learned by thinking.

Perhaps this human insight can be applied to working with LLMs. Perhaps not :)

stcg commented on Don't “let it crash”, let it heal   zachdaniel.dev/p/elixir-m... · Posted by u/ahamez
stcg · 7 months ago
"Let it crash" is a sentence that gets attention. It makes a person want to know more about it, as it sounds controversial and different. "Let it heal" doesn't have that.
stcg commented on Problems with Python dependency management   nielscautaerts.xyz/python... · Posted by u/sanbor
stcg · a year ago
One of the biggest usability problems with Python dependencies is that the name you import might be different from the name that you use to install the package.

So if you find some script on the web that has an `import foo` at the top, you cannot just `pip install foo`. Instead, you'll have to do some research into which package was originally used. Maybe it's named `pyfoo` or `foolib`.

Compare that to for example Java, which does not have that problem, thanks to Reverse Domain Name Notation. That is a much better system.

stcg commented on IMG_0001   walzr.com/IMG_0001/... · Posted by u/walz
rob · a year ago
As the great Nas has rapped:

    No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun
    It's never what you do, but how it's done

stcg · a year ago
Ecclesiastes 1:9

    What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.

stcg commented on Writing Tiny Desktop Apps in C and GTK3 (2022)   danielc.dev/blog/tiny-win... · Posted by u/aard
ranger_danger · a year ago
FWIW I wouldn't call XOR... encryption
stcg · a year ago
"XOR" as encryption probably refers to one-time-pad encryption, which is a very secure encryption strategy if done well, albeit often impractical.

(Note: I'm not saying anything about this specific code, which I have not looked at)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad

stcg commented on How to copy a file between devices? (2022)   grdw.nl/2022/10/03/how-to... · Posted by u/FirmwareBurner
phh · 2 years ago
Yes, this is killing me. I have a colleague that told me "on iPhones I can super easily share files to someone else", and I'm like "20 years ago sharing files across devices was a non-issue, because we had STANDARDS (ok maybe 17-18 years ago rather). Sharing files wasn't considered a feature worth mentioning because every phone supported this out of the box (well not exactly, so the feature was having Bluetooth). Tech monopolies prefer to ignore standards (looking at who implements which parts of Matter is pretty hilarious in that regard), and killed a whole range of obvious things in the process.
stcg · 2 years ago
Is bluetooth not usable anymore?
stcg commented on Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled   oceanconservancy.org/news... · Posted by u/haltist
david422 · 2 years ago
Hope we don't get cancer. Become vegetarian.
stcg · 2 years ago
I don't think becoming vegetarian helps. From the article:

> The study found evidence that food processing is a likely source of microplastic contamination, as highly processed protein products (like fish sticks, chicken nuggets, tofu, and plant-based burgers, among others) contained significantly more microplastics per gram than minimally processed products (items like packaged wild Alaska pollock, raw chicken breast, and others).

Note the tofu and plant-based burgers.

u/stcg

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