Albert ARIBAUD Ⓜ

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116883056238329898 By the way, "accidentally rediscovering the already-known" is, when you think of it, how every genAI answer works, only worse, because genAI users, by definition, have outsourced learning, and therefore discovery, to genAI, and genAI does not *learn* (it is, at best, fed) and therefore does not *discover* anything, let alone rediscover.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run @audunmb@todon.nl @tante@tldr.nettime.org And since the available sources for training an LLM will contain more and more of their own productions, they'll soon be entering the signal degradation phase when then more recent the data an LLM is trained on, the worse its output will be.

@oxy@social.bsdlab.au @davidgerard@circumstances.run CP/M? #DoNotMindMe

@jonny@neuromatch.social Had one such experience of this with Copilot. Asked whether binary code meant for an ATMEGA88P would work out-of-the-box on an ATMEGA188P., it confidently said it would, then when told it didn't, successively summoned an awful lot of reasons why, each not applicable to our case (and not specific to the question)... ... Except the *most obvious* reason, the one sitting in *plain sight* (for anyone working with these chips, anyway) in the chips' common *datasheet*. (TBH, I already knew the answer, and only ran the whole experiment to show some colleague how deferring expertise to some AI was a serious waste of time.)

@rasterweb@mastodon.social @davidgerard@circumstances.run And some of us are asking for a Firefox where these features are DISABLED BY DEFAULT and only enabled IF AND WHEN the user explicitly decides to enable them.

@jonny It's almost as if the whole point (alright: one of the main points) of the scam is to convince the user that "the AI knows best".

@tract_linguistes@social.sciences.re @MedericGC@mastodon.social J'ai une forme extrêmement spécifique de pluriphonie : quand je prononce des nombres en communication audio (téléphone, Teams, etc) j'adopte une prononciation complète teinté d'accent toulousain ("ka-ran-n-teu-sin-k") plutôt que la "parisienne" acquise dans ma jeunesse ("karantsin(k)"). C'est volontaire, pour l'intelligibilité, mais ça s'appuie sur les accents auxquels j'ai été exposé.

@jonny@neuromatch.social If you'll allow me: you've just summarized capitalism. 😇

@AnarchoCatgirlism Remind me how the apocryphal saying goes, about insanity being the act of repeating the same thing again hoping for a different result?

@jonny@neuromatch.social Just a side note: in France at least, and possibly in all of Europe, copyright does not apply on *everything* one does; it needs to, quote, be original, end quote, by which it is meant that the work should bear the mark of their author's personality. This, IIRC, is why *some* AI-generated content was ruled not copyrightable art, because however much prompting went into it, the result did not bear the would-be author's mark (all the more since the same prompting of the same gen AI will produce different results each time).

@AnarchoCatgirlism One thing I notice about this is their liberal use of what I suspect are em dashes in their instructions to The Machine. I like to think they used em dashes instead of perfectly serviceable periods, colons, semicolons, and others, precisely because they *discovered* (or were reminded of) the existence of em dashes; and that they (re)discovered them because of the (luckily short-lived) urban legend about em dashes supposedly being a sure marker of genAI textual output as opposed to human textual output. Plus, who know, maybe some magical thinking that if genAIs use em dashes, maybe they understand them better?

@blouzouga Si t'as jamais changé aucune pièce de ton bateau qui tient grâce à un procédé astucieux basé sur des bouts qui dépassent faits pour rentrer dans des trous ad hoc, est-ce que c'est déjà le #BateauMortaisé ?

@Tutanota If I may: even with open source server-side code, we do not, and cannot, have proof that the software actually running on the server matches the source code.

@dm29@mastodon.social @starlabssystems@mastodon.social Which version of the firmware does your Lite V have?