James R Kirk

Why are you protecting clickbait spam?

Just because google sucks it doesn’t mean you should upvote clickbait and spam

We should care about clickbait and spam

Report this comment too. We can’t let Lemmy get overrun with clickbait spam or it will get worse here than reddit.

“Google has added Hand gesture verification functionality to reCAPTCHA”

This title is clickbait, if we want Lemmy to be a competitor to Reddit we need to be better moderated than they are, not worse. Please report this post and OP to your instance admins.

First of all, all of these eye computers are dumb, but at least Meta’s Ray Bans look more or less like normal glasses. Even Google Glass was sleeker looking than these, and that was 13 years ago. I don’t know what Snap is thinking.

Same, and I personally know two people who I would describe as college educated white-collar folks, but definitely not into “tech”, who recently told me they switched to Firefox.

I see ok, my country doesn’t have the DMCA so violating it is not a concern here.

The only thing that the report sees for certain in the current situation is a quick division into winners and losers in the AI race. Big players who are able to absorb the costs will emerge as victors.

Victors in what? LLMs cost orders of magnitude more to operate than they generate in revenue and that looks unlikely to change anytime soon as costs keep going up.

First of all, install this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean and never have to worry about a paywall ever again.

But also it’s odd because The Verge doesn’t do paywalls to my knowledge and when I tested the link in another browser I didn’t see a paywall either…

reducing the probability of the top weighted words the LLM chooses from

My feeling is that a writer who adjusts their word choice to present a particular way is definitionally behaving inauthentically. I would characterize such writing as “slop” even if it’s human made, because it was still heavily influenced by how LLMs “write”.

Put another way- I don’t believe that “not worrying about appearing as an LLM” is “giving up”, I think it’s a recognition that an LLM is not capable of fighting you in the first place. If you, a creative soul, allow fear of “coming off a certain way” (ANY way) to determine how you write, you have already lost.

As for Lemmy, there are many articles from lesser known sources that get positive attention here that seem to use AI but do not get removed

Well, Lemmy is not one thing, your instance for example is explicitly in favor of boosting AI-generated content. So that behavior is what I would expect if I had an account there. I personally wouldn’t go there expecting to see links to human-made content.

I don’t believe it’s possible for human writers to write both authentically and also in a way that is coded to verify they are human (as the article discusses) that an LLM couldn’t eventually come to replicate. I also don’t believe it’s possible for an LLM to write from their unique perspective. Therefore, I believe the strongest method for verifying ones own human-ness is to write from one’s own unique perspective.

signalling humanity in a way that resists automated systems

I think I would understand your perspective better if you gave an example or two of what signals could be used?

Hah, that’s a great example. The Room is nothing if not interesting!

That’s because LLMs cannot be interesting, even something poorly written can be interesting if it was written from a human perspective.

Yep, or heck- write really badly! It can’t do that either!

If you’re reading, you want to determine whether what you are reading is a waste of your time as quickly as possible.

I have honestly not heard of this behavior, and I myself certainly don’t do this. I wouldn’t determine “what’s worth reading” in the middle of reading, but well before I start. For example, if a piece is published somewhere I trust, or a friend recommended it, or say, it was posted in a Lemmy community known to have good moderation.

Like I said I understand why an artist would have a desire to present as authentic, but that is an unwinnable game because:

1. The AI is also “trying to present as authentic” (any automated filtering system is beatable)
2. Adjusting one’s behavior so as to appear a particular way is definitionally inauthentic.

On one hand I understand the need to feel seen as authentic, but on the other, I think there is a danger in giving into the hysteria surrounding slop by twisting one’s work into knots. If it’s good, it’s good. As Martin Scorsese said: “The most personal is the most creative.”

I know that I’ve never personally never seen any LLM generated content that was interesting beyond it’s novelty. Adam Savage also said (paraphrasing bc I can’t find it) “Sharing your point of view is what makes something interesting and I have yet to see AI-generated content that has a point of view”.

Not a joke actually!

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Now all you need is to be lucky enough for insurance to approve a CT scan for an unrelated condition in the same region of your pancreas.

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https://f-droid.org/packages/de.mm20.launcher2.release/

Nothing like Nova but the best I’ve found.