nickwitha_k (he/him)

The fact that I can’t trust the AI message to be remotely factual makes that sort of use case pointless to me. If I grep and sift through docs, I’ll have better comprehension of what I’m trying to figure out. With AI slop, I just end up having to hunt for what it messed up, without any context, wasting my time and patience.

We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

With the time skip, that’s going to be a long boycott.

I’ve not had a Brother printer so, can’t say from experience. My Epson Ecotank needed a driver to work. Setting it up on an RPi 3B with a CUPS server took care of it.

Because the built-in networking stack on printers is garbage and having to install drivers on every client sucks.

This is the way.

Printer manufacturers: Of course your printers need to be connected to the Internet… For… Reasons…

As a preface, I used to do this a lot on Reddit. My hobby (sounds odd) was to make a little old-school-blog-style post, detailing what I found interesting in gaming in the last week or so. I got a name for it, for a time, but having long-since abandoned reddit I thought I might try the same thing here, if you’ll indulge me!

Happy to have you posting!

Yeah. That makes a lot of sense. The general inaccuracy/untrustworthiness of LLMs makes me very uncomfortable in their use for data processing and transformations. I’d rather take a while to get it right than to potentially hand off a CSV with glaring problems due to use of an LLM.

“make all the dates in this CSV iso-8601”

This is a use of AI/LLM processing that I could agree with, if it could be trusted. Since it cannot, better to open in vim and regex replace, or process with Python.

That said, I’d rather store as epoch and display as ISO-8601 as the arithmetic is much less prone to error in epoch than any other format.

it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP

Absolutely. I just have trust issues with closed source software and platforms. Burned too many times.

When your education revolves around dehumanizing people and turning them into abstract numbers, it’s not that far of a leap, unfortunately.

Those who produce MBAs at it again.

You can literally block instances as a user on Lemmy and have been able to do so good quite some time. No need to run your own instance.

Yup. The context on this is directly profiting off of others’ work, not setting data free.

I agree with you there. Context is what makes it theft and using the stolen data to attempt to directly compete with the source is where the actual harm occurs.

In a scenario where the source of the data is not being harmed, it’s hard to think of it as theft (data/information wants to be free).

It is stealing in the same way that profits are stolen labor. The AI company stole the labor of those who prepared the summaries without compensation then, used what they obtained to directly compete.

I am in agreement with you here, at least ideologically. I think that IP law needs a massive overhaul because data “wants” to be free. The major problem is with the context of the hyper-commercialized landscape that we currently live in.

That’s literally not what the ruling is about. It was about an AI bro company using proprietary, copyrighted materials to train its AI, which they obtained by questionable means, after being denied license to do so by the IP owners. Further, after training the AI with unlicensed materials, they launched a competing product.

Whether you support IP or not, the AI company is clearly in the wrong here.

It’s a pretty definitive example of many AI companies being little more than leeches, stealing others’ work and repackaging it as their own. All with zero long-term consideration of “what do we do when there’s noone left to leech off of because we undermined the ability of those make the source data to make a living, while unnecessarily driving increased emissions and consumption of potable water for something that provides little actual value do humanity as a whole?”

When I worked at a web host, we had people like that. Being support sucked. Like, yes, it sucks that your e-commerce site that uses horrifically outdated software is offline but, we don’t offer quad nines, especially not on a $35/year shared hosting plan. And, honestly Drew, your site gets single-digit visits per month and sells erotica based upon the premise of Edgar Allen Poe being transported to 1990s Brooklyn and working as an apartment building super. At best, you’re breaking even on that hosting bill.

Sad. I was rooting for their weird-looking trucks, though they looked more and more like vapor-ware.