If I were you, I'd skip that game with: she asks a silly question, then you ask a silly question, then the conversation derails.... Just say, yes we are, please go ahead, let's talk.
That way you'll find out and learn something for the future. Unless this is sarcasm or something. But you should be able to tell.
Yes, thanks for the link. It says version 0.6 from january.
When do we get that version on F-Droid?
Also, is the body text just a low effort copy-paste of what Peertube is? We know that... And there is a news article about the new version which could have been copy pasted instead: https://joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1
Oh wow, since when do we lump CS and AI together? One is basically studying maths and logic and how computers, networks and databases work. The other one is how to tell a chatbot to quote a Wikipdia article back to you. I think those are fundamentally different things. And what students should learn first is how to do a powerpoint presentation and write a letter. Or type a math formula into an electronic document, or use the spell checker. Because they rarely learn a lot about that in school.
And yes. Investing in education would be a nice thing. Would have an immense effect on economy and society if we did that.
Not sure if the point he's making is entirely correct. I mean I also sometimes advocate for that, and say things have become too easy. But I don't think tools, computers etc need to be complicated, so we have a barrier somewhere. And only experts can properly operate them.
I think the main issue is that people don't value quality anymore. And then we have supply and demand and once you have a $10,000 video camera and do color grading to perfection, and you're competing with someone with an iPhone and a video editing app who does it in 1 hour... Maybe you don't match with your client anymore. But strictly speaking, if they just want some (any) video to fill their company TikTok feed, they don't need the quality. And you as an artist are the wrong freelancer for the task.
I certainly hope there still are jobs for proper workmanship and high quality results. But I really think the competition is a side-effect and the main issue is people want a lot of cheap things and they don't value or need quality.
And the same thing applies to AI that write text and ideas. Ocassionally you'll get some creative result. But usually it's more a lot of filler text and fluff with little substance to it. And the very common and obvious tropes, if it's writing a script. If you need that for your company, I'd say the people on the receiving side aren't really paying attention.
So I'd say keep iPhones, AI and CapCut, but kill social media instead. At least in its current form. Because that's the real reason why the attention economy is like it is.
I guess you're completely right with that. It lowers the entry barrier. And it's kind of self-reinforcing. And we have other unhealty dynamics with other technology as well, like social media, which also can radicalize people or get them in a downwards spiral...
Oh wow. In the old times, self-proclaimed messiahs used to do that without assistance from a chatbot. But why would you think the "truth" and path to enlightenment is hidden within a service of a big tech company?
And as far as I know people do fine-tuning so it picks up on the style of writing and things like that, for example to mimick an author, or specifics of a genre. I'd say to just fetch facts from a pile of text, RAG would be the easier approach. It depends on the use-case, the collection of books, however. Fine-tuning is definitely a thing people do as well.
People do this because of several reasons. Moderation policies, political alignment of the people who run the place. And because we don't want this decentral network to be just one big central instance. Though... the same thing applies to lemmy world, which became the biggest instance after the ml one.
Privacy would be the main concern. Every single one of your words, documents, pictures will probably end up in some large database over at OpenAI. I don't like that at all. And as a company for example, it might be against the law to share some information about clients with third parties.
Then you don't get any of the freedoms we got with Free Software. It's a service you rely on with very little opportunities to customize, or look inside and tinker. There is little control for the user whatsoever. Additionally we already had companies cease service. So it might become unavailable tomorrow, which is a bad thing if you're attached to it, invested or built things around it.
And since "the internet is for porn"... We also have a noteworthy community doing those kinds of things. And well... go ahead and ask the big services to generate a lewd story. Most of them even refuse to write a murder mystery story for me, instead they'll lecture me on how it is not ethical to murder someone. So that would be use-cases where local AI outperforms any of the market leaders.
Personally, I'm a bit opposed to the entire concept of letting other people's algorithms dictate my life. I don't want to rely on them. I also don't want them to pick the bias for my perspective on the world. The algorithms in social media are dwarfed by how dangerous it's gonna be once people rely on AI more and more. And it gets to choose which information to show and which to drop. What kind of bias to introduce in summaries etc. Teach people how to think. And I already don't like the way all big AI chatbots talk to me with a lot of emojis and in a "Explain like I'm 5 yo" way.
So to go back to the original question... I think the more "useful" AI is, the more reasons there are to retain some control yourself. What do you think?
I don't think it is about that. The information collection is an added bonus they happily accept and make use of. I think it's mainly about power and money, though. They get rid of everyone who isn't completely in line and subservient. That's from the playbook on how to become an autocratic regime. And they're oviously interested in the money as well. Cut off everyone and everything they don't like. Like weak people, poor people, your grandma and children. That money can then be funneled towards other people. Guess whom. I think the power and control aspect is the original idea though. And money has power as well. So does information and data, so it's more a combination of things.
But the way they act, I'd say they had a look at other oligarchies and corrupt regimes and wanted in, too. Saw you need to replace all the people in any color of power and replace them with your own henchmen. Then they also hate a lot of people and always wanted to take their money. The AI and data thing looks more to me like something they discovered while at it. And I don't believe the traditional MAGA people are smart enough to have anticipated that. But naturally, information is power. And AI can be used as a mindless slave to someone. I'd say it's worth trying to foster it instead rely on human clerks and officials. It'll be a new form of administration. One that does away with a lot of middle-men like the corrupt government workers other regimes have to pay.
And Musk looks like he has his own motivation, which might or might not be aligned with the "grand plan" I can't really see there is. He is (was) free to combine the useful with what's enjoyable to him. Currently the tactics is mostly to break a lot of stuff. Doesn't really matter how or what. So that's what they're doing right now. I think the struggle and in-fighting on who gets to replace what with exactly what kind of things hasn't really started yet. It's already there, but not the main concern as of now. So we can't tell the exact dynamics we're bound to see in the near future. I'd say mass surveillance plus yet more AI is likely a formula to success, though.
Thanks. I think I'd like to go with the recommendation to wait, though. I like the concept of F-Droid, and what they do to have some additional pairs of eyes on the builds, strip tracking libraries etc.