I doubt anyone can actually calculate a line of best using ordinary least square linear regression by hand with no mistakes but no one’s crying about that.

That’s because I can write an algorithm to do it for me reliably and quickly.

LLMs are just the next generation of calculators and programs.

LLMs can do it quickly, but they cannot do it reliably by their very nature. They are very much NOT the next generation of calculators and programs, because the whole POINT of calculators and programs is to do it quickly AND RELIABLY.

That’s because it doesn’t really ‘know’ things in the same way you and I do. It’s much more like having a gut reaction to something and then spitting it out as truth; LLMs don’t really have the capability to ruminate about something. The one pass through their neural network is all they get unless it’s a ‘reasoning’ model that then has multiple passes as it generates an approximation of train-of-thought - but even then, its output is still a series of approximations.

When its training data had something resembling corrections in it, the most likely text that came afterwards was ‘oh you’re right, let me fix that’ - so that’s what the LLM outputs. That’s all there is to it.

They just take it as an excuse to bomb even more.

like a cake

Except that we’re going to start asking for more pay to clean up after AI slop.

Every time a company tries to restrict the number of downloads/reinstalls for a game that you buy a license for, it has backlashed so catastrophically that they’ve walked it back.

So it has happened, yes, but there is no situation currently with game distributors where you pay a license for a single download. They’re all pay once, download in perpetuity.

Yup.

There are very niche situations where a free market actually works - situations where there is no hidden information and no barrier to entry, where monopolies can’t arise due to the nature of the specific market. By the nature of these restrictions, nothing of any importance will ever be supplied by these markets.

And there never will be. Not so long as it is possible to hide information from the consumer, and any sort of barrier to entry exists for market competition to spring up.

If it’s something that you don’t really care about others seeing, that’s a prime candidate for cloud storage and more power to you.

This topic is about password lockers. I’m pretty sure you don’t want some schlub who happens to work at Cloud Password Lockers Inc. to be able to get at your PayPal account.

The partnership will happen later on when the noise has died down, and it won’t be publicized.

Don’t store your stuff in the cloud unless you don’t mind someone else accessing it.

If you store things in the cloud that you don’t want other people to access, you better be encrypting it yourself and only opening it locally.

This has been a cardinal rule since day 1.

You can only access it if you install Discord.

It’s not so bad in comments that don’t have a significant amount of ‘th’ in it, but this one was like hitting a speed bump every five feet.

The trouble is that it becomes far too easy to fall into the pattern of power being used to garner more power. All power needs to be held in check to avoid that very simple flaw. The moment the people are convinced that power of any sort shouldn’t be held in check is the moment that they are doomed.

It’s not the query that burns through electricity like crazy, it’s training the models.

You can run a query yourself at home with a desktop computer, as long as it has enough RAM and compute cells to support the model you’re using (think a few high-end GPUs).

Training a model requires a huge pile of computer power though, and the AI companies are constantly scraping the internet to stealfind more training material

“We have to find a compelling use case so we can keep tragedying the commons!”

It happens a lot less often here than it did on Reddit, but I too get a slight twinge of dread from it.

That’s like saying webrings didn’t exist, only discrete websites.

And eventually the heads start to fear for their safety and stop poking out of their safe spaces.

If you’re running it in a prebuilt container, as long as it works it shouldn’t matter and you don’t need to care.

Of course, when your database gets corrupted after Nextcloud updates because you had an app running that isn’t supported in the new version, it will suddenly matter a lot.