oof, sorry you had to deal with that 😑

It’s a position of weakness. If their products were really “must have” in a way that everyone is simply clamoring for, they wouldn’t need to be so thirsty. The Pick-me Corporation vibe is getting real, real tired.

Unfortunately, a lot of browsers now completely obfuscate themselves and don’t put anything unique in the user agent string. They intentionally don’t want to be detected at all beyond “I’m a modern browser”.

That’s literally what the OP said they didn’t want to do. Did you read it? 😄

This is fantastic. I often notice these sorts of things immediately, which is why I find slop so abhorrent and grotesque.

For small/unknown companies, all publicity is good publicity may be true, but McDonald’s is one of the biggest and most well-established brands around. A horrible ad isn’t going to turn many new people onto their products but it sure as hell can turn a lot of people off.

98% of our users use this feature every day!

(…is it the only feature they see when they log in?)

Yes!

I saw an “AI” tool recently which showed how you could create two very different poses for a character, and it would “tween” between the two in a realistic, convincing way. It could be described as “genAI” I suppose, but the company claimed they were very specific with how they trained the model and what it was intended to do.

There were still animators upset about it, and I get it. I’d probably be upset about it if I were in that profession. I’m certainly upset about LLM use in programming. But if I squint really hard, I can barely eke out a vision of limited, targeted, vetted tools which accomplish very specific aids to creators in their professional workflows.

That is not by and large how any of the services we regularly hear about are built and marketed. There’s a wide gulf between ethically-sourced, limited professional workflow tools and the Copilots & Soras & Sunos of the world. I would say as a general rule, if something is produced based on a “prompt”, it should be immediately viewed with immense suspicion.

This polling data is pretty wild:

About 93% of corporate leaders and 80% of investors said they think AI will be net positive for society compared to just 58% of ordinary people, according to the poll by nonprofit Just Capital.

Time to drop a new meme…

Huge, huge fan of this API. Can’t wait until we don’t need a polyfill anymore. The built-in commands concept is cool and hopefully will expand in time, but the custom commands functionality is a real game-changer! Anything which makes wiring up various web components into a real UI more declarative and web-native is most welcome.

All good on the wifi front here on Asahi Fedora Linux on Mac mini M1. 😁

The sheer degree to which all of these moguls’ ideas are utterly bankrupt and devoid of real human craft & creativity continues to be shocking to me. Like, if any random person on the street got scooped up and put in front of a microphone and said the exact same things, everyone would think they were fucking idiots. Because they somehow are billionaires and are CEOs, they’re geniuses? Spare me, please.

I really don’t understand why lemmy hates technology which regurgitates slop based on data stolen from creators against their will, erodes trust, degrades mental health, wreaks havoc on the labor force, destroys the environment, and temporarily enriches a handful of fake billionaires with fake money…gosh I just don’t understand!

Well the first and most obvious answer is that LLMs need to fall under an extensive regulatory framework which makes quite a number of use cases of them effectively illegal and still other use cases moderated by science-backed harm mitigation. There also need to be systemic corrections to the financial markets & business law such that a company like OpenAI in its recent or present form couldn’t exist at all.

But unfortunately, that’s not the world we live in (at least in America). Future generations will pay for our gross negligence, once again.

Older Gen Z which are essentially baby Millennials, debatable. From what I hear, college today has become a hellscape.

Teens & preteens (Gen Alpha), totally different story. AI slop is cringe. Eww. Possibly appreciated for its entertainment value, especially in directed roleplay (aka Character.ai), but never as “art”.

The kids are alright. And this Jacob dude’s full of it.

OK…and whose fault is that? 😂

I’ve seen this song-and-dance routine before. Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Gun. It’s always victim-blaming with these companies. Always.

My opinion of them could not have gotten any lower, yet somehow with these latest developments, it has.

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(Also worth mentioning the author’s entire modus operandi is to promote Google’s Big Tech vision of AI-all-the-things and hence the blog is chock full of one just-so story after another. It’s quite safe to ignore completely as pure propaganda.)