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swope, to tech in Twitter stiffs Google
@swope@kbin.social avatar

If Twitter were a person, I would think everything gets more expensive and they have to pay up front, now that they have a reputation for not paying their bills.

Or does that logic not apply to corporations?

YMS, to tech in Twitter stiffs Google
@YMS@kbin.social avatar

That news is so old that even the 180° turn from two weeks later is old news already.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-21/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-patching-up-relationship

Unanimous_anonymous, to technology in Amazon’s Q has ‘severe hallucinations’ and leaks confidential data in public preview, employees warn

I think I kind of understand the term, but what does “hallucinations” in this context refer to? It seems like it might be fabricated unformation?

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

Basically, the model just makes stuff up.

Joker,

Not sure why someone downvoted you. That’s exactly what the term means in this context. It’s those confidently written answers that contain false or fabricated information.

yogthos,
@yogthos@lemmy.ml avatar

And this seems like the biggest limitation for the LLM approach. The model just knows that a certain set of tokens tends to follow another set of tokens.

It has no understanding of what the tokens represent. So it does a great job of producing sentences that look meaningful, but any actual meaning in them is purely incidental.

ekZepp, to technology in Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving
@ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

Most people just jump from the first “shit wagon on fire” which is Xitter to the next close “shit wagon”. Because it was the new “thing” and all the “influencer” are there 🤚😲🤚.

HootinNHollerin,
@HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works avatar

Most people don’t think for more than a second before making a decision and it shows

auf, to technology in Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving

Elon should be off-topic here

ram,
@ram@bookwormstory.social avatar

Unpopular opinion: MAAMA as a whole isn’t relevant to tech as in technology.

auf,

I made a sub to talk about Elon Musk on lemmy. !elonmusk

There is a similar sub, but it’s not updated since 1 year ago. !elon

FartsWithAnAccent, to technology in Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving
@FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world avatar

Both are shit lmao

dramaticcat,

Agreed

digger, to technology in Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving
@digger@lemmy.ca avatar

I could not care less. I’m happy in my little federated corner of the internet.

Pons_Aelius, to technology in Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving

Twitter is dead and Threads is thriving

Neither of those statements are true.

Yes, twitter is in decline with a 15% drop is users in the past year but that is far from dead.

I am no fan of twitter or EM but it still has a long way to fall before we can pull the sheet over its head.

And Reports of threads as thriving seems to be wrong in the other direction.

fb is pushing threads content to fb to boost numbers

TLDR: Indications are that both platforms are losing users but twitter has a much longer way to fall.

LennethBright,
@LennethBright@artemis.camp avatar

But Twitter has been massively losing advertisers, and that is what will kill it rather than losing users. Unless Elon goes sunk cost fallacy on us and funds it directly in which case he can keep it alive perpetually.

AlteredStateBlob, to technology in How authoritarian governments are using generative AI

I had this discussion when chatgpt first blew up. The amount of this kind of stuff will increase, but it has always been there and I strongly doubt it will convince anyone who wasn't already convinced.

But with the larger amount they can manage, they will reach a wider willing audience. Russian propaganda has been incredibly effective and if the bottleneck was humans, that was removed or is being removed.

Like we don't already have enough issues.

lost_in_the_bewilderness, to technology in How authoritarian governments are using generative AI

Ugh, paywall.

glowie,
@glowie@infosec.pub avatar

Yea, and sadly archive.is couldn’t bypass it either

Blizzard,

Then why did you post it to Lemmy?

glowie,
@glowie@infosec.pub avatar

Because you can still gain a general understanding of its core message…

Blizzard,
treefrog,

Don’t trust SpongeBob with AI

Overzeetop, to technology in The synthetic social network is coming

Ripley: You never said anything about an android being on board, why not?

Burke: It never uhm, never occurred to me. It’s common practice, we always have a synthetic on board.

Bishop: I prefer the term “Artificial Person” myself.

ultra,

What does this reference?

newtraditionalists,

Alien

Chetzemoka,

Aliens

(This exchange is from the second movie lol)

HappyMeatbag, to technology in The synthetic social network is coming
@HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org avatar

If I felt like I was forming a “friendship” with one of these artificial personalities, I’d want more control - not in a maniacal way, but because I wouldn’t trust Meta (or whoever) not to say “meh, this isn’t profitable, so we’re shutting it down next month.”

We’re already far too dependent on corporations, but in most cases, they haven’t had the power to emotionally damage us in this specific way. I don’t want to give them that kind of power over me.

MNByChoice, to technology in The synthetic social network is coming

Provided they encourage me to be my best self, great.

They won’t, but it would be nice.

beejjorgensen,
@beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Definitely. And your best self wants to buy these fantastic products.

admiralteal,

You can be your best self by purchasing a subscription to Brawndo recommended by the AI friend guzzling fossil fuels and water in the middle of whatever desert their hardware resides.

Dr_Cog,
@Dr_Cog@mander.xyz avatar

It’s what lonely humans crave!

peter, to technology in The synthetic social network is coming
@peter@feddit.uk avatar

I don’t think so. People still have a need for interaction with a real human and infinite generated content just feels hollow. Sure, it’ll satisfy some people and maybe that’s a good thing but I don’t think it’s going to replace or even barely supplement real social interaction

Corgana,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

I don’t think it will on a broad scale, but some percentage of people will fall victim to it. It’s just like how only 1% of mobile gamers pay for anything but the percent that does pays a LOT.

ChrisLicht,

How will anyone know?

BurningnnTree,

I think it will happen. Multiplayer video games already match people with bots that are presented as if they were human players, and 99.9% of players don’t care. As long as a game makes you feel like you’re playing against other humans, most people consider that good enough. Similarly, as long as a bot on Instagram or Twitter feels human enough to be enjoyable to interact with, users won’t care that they aren’t actually human.

GrindingGears,

AKA Single Player mode.

webghost0101,

It depends much on the game, environment, people involved.

Npc ai has come a far way and the thrill of playing live with people is a real competition. And its only just started to get good enough to intimidate social/emotional behavior.

  • massive realistic single player historic events, like battlefields - yay
  • the social aspect of social media and online comments - nah
  • front and helpdesk assistants, maybe even a certified therapist ai - yea
  • friends/family - cant
flamingarms,

I’m with you except for the therapist one. Ain’t no way the AI we have currently or anything even close to what we have now could be a therapist. The human connection is the #1 most important thing in therapy and being a therapist takes way too much contextual understanding.

webghost0101,

Ai we have now, not so much. But in a few generations?

I have experience with quite a few therapists/psychologist/doctors/psychiatrists and the most common issue i find is that many of them are old and all of them carry human biases. Ai is biased like us but i think there is more room to create more objective reasoning.

drwho,
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Eliza has entered the chat.

kitonthenet, to news in It's time to change how we cover Elon Musk

Thank god someone is saying it, it’s the same mistake they made with trump

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