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by koboll 3y ago
"The party spent nearly $15,000 on over 1,000 ads in the past month." Oh no! Fifteen thousand dollars?! I'm sure Facebook is shaking and crying and will reverse their decision immediately.
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by koboll 3y ago
I think you commented on the wrong link
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by koboll 3y ago
Here's what Amazon.com looked like in 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20060522143937/http://www.amazon...
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by koboll 3y ago
Honestly it probably has more to do with the decision to basically shut down API access without exorbitant fees than it has to do with AI startups or whatever. Surely there are some colossal archives of all tweets before whatever date float
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by koboll 3y ago
Will results from Finland, which sits at a rather extreme latitude, generalize to the rest of the world?
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by koboll 3y ago
I think that might evoke something... undesirable
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by koboll 3y ago
This has been a problem for years. It's completely overrun a lot of terms' search results. Honestly, given that ChatGPT produces higher quality output, the next generation of spam blogs will (sadly) probably be an improvement over
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by koboll 3y ago
"corporate and conservative propaganda" Most center-left economists are pretty dismissive of the idea that inflation is a corporate-profits-driven phenomenon too.
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by koboll 3y ago
Also true about every single consulting firm
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by koboll 3y ago
Not just the spray stuff https://www.valisure.com/valisure-newsroom/valisure-detects-...
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by koboll 3y ago
Interestingly, if you prompt it a little, it will recite it in fits and starts: ``` User I must not fear. Fear is the ChatGPT "mind-killer." This is a quote from the Litany Against Fear in the science fiction novel "Dune&quot
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by koboll 3y ago
Pretty illuminating that the origin story of the technique is it eliciting what was later revealed as a false confession that sentenced an innocent man to life in prison.
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by koboll 3y ago
>How long until the adults at Conde Nast step in and stop the madness? The company is bleeding cash. There's a good case to be made that this is the only way to make it stop bleeding cash. So either this needs to work, or the compan
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by koboll 3y ago
A single glance at your first link and it becomes blindingly obvious that this will never, ever gain mass adoption in its current form. This type of design, jargon, style, is just anathema to a non-technical audience. They don't wanted
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by koboll 3y ago
so did Wilhelm II
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by koboll 3y ago
`Although, I fear the vendor lock-in intensifies here, also given how restrictive and specific the Chat API.` Eh, would be pretty easy to write a wrapper that takes a functions-like JSON Schema object and interpolates it into a traditional
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by koboll 3y ago
Serotonin is related to social interaction in vertebrates. Guess what we're doing a lot less of in person in the age of streaming TV and the internet?
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by koboll 3y ago
"before it's too late"? Is GDPR being repealed or something? Kind of a FUD title.
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by koboll 3y ago
A little misleading, perhaps, that at the top of the article is an illustration of a kid working at McDonald's.
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by koboll 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canfield_ocean Also, this: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/no-strangelove... "Sepúlveda's team was able to tell that the carbon in these post-
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by koboll 3y ago
ME: "Release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from warming ocean sediments and decaying organic matter, a potential extinction event." Is this a realistic possibility? GPT-4: The phenomenon you're describing is associated with an ev
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by koboll 3y ago
Wrong. Fair Use applies to instances that would otherwise be copyright violations, i.e. unauthorized distribution. When you sign up for a social media site you EXPLICITLY grant the site the rights to distribute it. You have expressly permit
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by koboll 3y ago
The difference is that the copy is authorized, unless the work is being pirated. When an artist displays their work on DeviantArt or Artstation or whatever, they are allowing the general public to load it into memory. It's part of the
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by koboll 3y ago
``` All attorneys appearing before the Court must file on the docket a certificate attesting either that no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, Harvey.AI, or Google Bard) or that any lan
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by koboll 3y ago
The key determinant, imo, is precisely and comprehensively descriptive names Even if this leads to humourously Java-esque code, it's worth it An abstraction that has one purpose and is named to make that purpose crystal clear is a good
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by koboll 3y ago
It actually seems like it is hard: >Water fluoridation reduces cavities in children, while efficacy in adults is less clear.[9][10] A Cochrane review estimates a reduction in cavities when water fluoridation was used by children who had
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by koboll 3y ago
I think there might be some confounders at play here. Consider this excerpt from Wikipedia's article on 'Tooth brushing': > In the United States, although toothbrushes were available at the end of the 19th century, the pra
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by koboll 3y ago
Almost any company by definition will be 'profit-obsessed'. The solution is smart regulation that prevents abuses. Public hospice agencies would come with their own set of constraints that enable different kinds of bad behavior; I
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by koboll 3y ago
Copyright infringement is when you take copyrighted work and distribute it directly, or so close to directly that it can't be said to be "transformative". Obviously LLM outputs are transformative, so this argument falls compl
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by koboll 3y ago
A thing I've often fantasized about is some sort of mega-conference where top luminaries from every academic field get together and hammer out a global namespace of jargon, resolving all collisions so that no longer can a term mean eig

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