Matt
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- Don't you hate it when you see a cool project and go to the github repo only to find that front and center is some AI Slop icon? Like, it makes me wonder how much of the app is just vibe-coded BS. Will the app run well? Is it secure? Heck if I know. Like, go on Fiverr and get an icon
- I… this is a mood
- Misbehaving furs get put in The Flattener™ Do not approach The Flattener™
- This would fix me… probably (back and knee pain)
- This is never ending. Reply back with something like OLMo 2 and you'll quickly understand that these people only know chatgpt because Fox news said chatgpt because chatgpt is chatgpt the chatgpt... Go fight chatgpt, friend. Go wow openai with your understanding of copyright and AI.
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View full threadOh jump to OLMo 2. Why the response in the (now doubled) quote? Most people reacting to LLM related posts with that response are defending the trash wizard author from companies like Meta (who make llama2) and torrents copyrighted books.
- I’ll check it out
- Oh no… I’ve fed the trolls…
- I mean I'm training a Llama 2 model on my homelab so I can ask the AI targeted questions about my setup - but that's not infringing on someone's intellectual property. Oops sorry... "ChAt gPT ScArY AaAaA the AI overlords are coming for mah jerbs"
- I’m not super deep into AI but when someone releases a model that’s verifiably trained on public domain and other open-license works and nothing where authors have opted out of AI scraping, I’ll use it for my homelab projects and tap about it. Til then, imma be mad about it
- Stop stressing about the energy and carbon footprint of ChatGPT. It’s not a big deal www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-foo...
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View full threadyeah, just like you are allowed to be incorrect and support things like "copyrightable art styles" like only picasso and picasso alone should be allowed to make cubist art
- though I feel like at this point you're basically just rage baiting
- or a more physical example... If I buy a product and then cast a mold of it and then use that to reproduce the product as part of a paid service I offer, that's theft.
- Sure a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters could, in theory, reproduce the entirety of Shakespeare's works, but they're not reading all his stageplays and producing a new one in the exact style he became known for
- Basically... If you're a professional artist with an iconic style that people associate with you, if people try and mimic it and learn, that's generally considered a complement. If someone says "Hey AI make me a landscape in the style of Wanda Koop" that's just ripping them off
- If I like Fleur's art style and learned to draw mimicking their work, that's one thing. Saying "Hey Claude generate me an icon in Fleur's style" when Fleur makes a living off selling icons and other digital art, that's ripping them off
- Aight now you’re putting words in my mouth but go off I guess
- i'm an artist. anyone who actually wants to commission art wants to commission an artist in specific not just what an AI will generate and pretending that art is even slightly a concern just reads as concern trolling
- Well, you're certainly entitled to that opinion
- Hey @furryweekend.com - can someone on staff reach out to Hyatt and let them know this is a HUGE mistake to make right before the con? They’re using AI art for a convention populated by a huge demographic of folks who openly and actively despise it. This is NOT going to build rapport for the hotel.
- I took psychic damage from those screenshots
- as if the #FWA2025 virtual queue news wasn’t bad enough, the Hyatt Regency just sent out a con email showcasing the rankest sloppest AI images I’ve ever had suffer in my inbox
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- Lake Therio (1/4) 🌲✨
- I love this so much <3 It really captures the joy I feel when it's just me and a buncha furries all just being our animal selves~
- which one are you?
- Left... Never grew out of the "school cafeteria with no time to eat" mentality
- How, exactly, does that solve the ethics? If anything, it makes creators more vulnerable. Several of my friends are artists. They’ve had potential customers ask to commission them. When they get the pricing info, some potential customers have said “why pay $50 when Claude can make it for free?”
- Free art in an artist’s style that doesn’t pay the artist whose style was ripped off… yeah that sounds ethical alright
- Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.
- Daily for me. I use National Weather Service data daily. In my weather app, in my smart home automations, even in my car. I also use info from the National Vulnerability Database (via tech news outlets) to know when I need to force patches. NIST time servers tell my stuff what time it is.
- There are countless other data sources I probably rely on that I don’t even realize.
- Wow way to turn off replies @dame.is I’m not “anti-AI”. I want ethically-sourced AI that can help the worker - not replace the worker. I want AI that does the tedium and lets me focus on creativity, not a hammer looking for knowledge worker shaped nails.
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View full threadI want AI that isn’t trained on authors’ and artists’ stolen work. (Yes, some of my favorite artists including some close friends are affected. Some people have not commissioned them because “why pay you $50 for something I can type into Claude for free?”)
- And I DO NOT want to read another goddamn ChatGPT email because a coworker couldn’t be arsed to spend the 5 seconds to use their own damn brain to come up with “thanks for those meeting notes. Can you clarify on [xyz]?” or some shit
- I want AI that won’t leak secrets so doctors can use it to accelerate cancer screenings and other diagnostics. I want AI that can be a useful research assistant so I’m not just doing macro data refinement (Severance reference) all day.
- Mkay I’ll stress about the art theft and other ethical issues instead.
- Wild that I’ve had my house for a year and only just now realized my oven gets to about 400°F when set to 425. Gotta set it to 450 to get 425° in there. With the thermometer in multiple spots to measure.
- Seeing a little more capitulation lately, an attempted vibe shift of "being anti gAI is lame and whiny" "we should celebrate ethical uses", and respectfully, are you fucking insane? To look at the last 5yrs of crypto, NFTs enshitification, scams and go "its not that bad & surely can't get worse!"
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View full threadHonestly? I probably won't be upgrading phones in the next 4 years because of all the AI bullshit phone companies like Samsung, Google, and Apple are shoving down our throats. I certainly won't be getting a new Mac or Copilot+ PC, either. And I was the type to get a new phone every other year.
- Most of my friend group has the same sentiment, too. They won't be buying new hardware if that new hardware is tied to AI.
- Like? AI scrapers hammering Wikipedia and the FreeBSD Wiki (and I'm sure others) near to the point of breaking? Scraping Ao3 to steal peoples' writing? Each query uses 6-10 times the power of a single Google search and often provides materially worse results.
- Lyonne co-founded the "ethical AI" studio behind the new film, Uncanny Valley. www.avclub.com/natasha-lyon...
- I'll believe it when I see the licensing deals for the AI training data... Maybe... God knows what else got scraped :(
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- Thunderbird + ImportExportToolsNG is what I've been using Can save as EML, PDF, HTML, or plaintext. It can also do a folder and its subfolders
- (I was tired of Outlook PST archives being terrible garbage and wanted to re-work how my team archives mailbox years from our Exchange Online system. Just gotta add the account to Thunderbird, let it sync everything down, then export to a 20-50 GB folder of EML files with an index.html)
- At that point, I just abandon the product/project. Not worth my time crawling a Discord for basic information. Trawling a Discourse or other forum is easier than dealing with Discord's BS and archive(dot)org can usually index them
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- took me 5 reads to see it
- These are very good~ Got em in my discords
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- The left (warmer) one for sure. Feels a lot more like the color saturation you get on 90s CRTs~ (at least for what I watched)
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- Glad you enjoyed your trip! Now get some rest and take care of yourself. See ya next month!
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- Feels like a broken mlem which feels accurate to me
- There are a lot of critiques of LLMs that I agree with but "they suck and aren't useful" doesn't really hold water. I understand people not using them because of social, economic, and environmental concerns. And I also understand people using them because they can be very useful. Thoughts?
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View full threadSince I don't have the local resources to host an LLM and can't, in good conscience, use it for environment-specific functions, I don't really use GenAI. Though sometimes, if I'm trying to script something in PowerShell, a language I'm not familiar with, I'll go to StackOverflow and try to find...
- ...the answer and that usually works. When it doesn't, I'll ask ChatGPT with "vague enough to be private but specific enough to get the answer" prompts and usually get close enough that I can debug from there.
- and do deeper work with AI assistance? Now we're onto something. I do IT work, for instance, and I'd love to have a locally hosted LLM trained on my environment so I can have it look for anomalies in logs, do the initial "Did you try turning it off and on again", and other grunt work...
- so that I can concentrate on the fun stuff. That being "Hey, my computer is acting inexplicably and there's no answers on Google". The type of work that I can really sink my teeth into.
- General purpose GenAI used with reckless abandon? Garbage. Trash. GenAI used for "creative" purposes instead of actual artists, authors, musicians? Hate that with every fiber of my being. --- GenAI used to automate the tedium of certain jobs to allow those workers to better enjoy their work...
- "The Partnership for Public Service, which studies the federal workforce, has used budget figures to produce a rough estimate that Trump's firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers will cost upward of $135 billion this fiscal year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
- It's almost like the idea guy should've stayed in ideas and not gotten into management (ideally also not fallen down the far right rabbit hole...)
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- I read that with SKH background music
- Oooooh mecha www.vxtiktok.com/@o23ecotech/...
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- I think the Dems should take this extremely bigly seriously... If Trump gets away with deporting legal residents or citizens to foreign prison camps against several court orders, what will he get away with next? www.axios.com/2025/04/17/d...
