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.

If the author had looked at the quality of generative AI chatbots in 2023, it wouldn’t have come as a surprise to them that they didn’t really replace a lot of humans. Big question is: What’s going to happen today and in the near future?

That’s what I wrote. Lemmy is a software, which can be ran on servers. You’re currently on somebody else’s server. In a group that is moderated by yet different people… They gave some rules to you and you now have to choose whether you’re willing to play by their rules.

Obviously, they haven’t banned you yet, despite you saying lots of unproductive, short sentences. I’m not sure if your original question got answered here. If you’re more interested in the details of how Lemmy works, read (for example) the documentation and Wikipedia article.

I meant island in the context of, a different Lemmy instance, separated from the tone and atmosphere of the rest of the network. But yes, we have a few people from other parts of the world as well.

We get that question every few weeks. No, Lemmy isn’t a “free speech” place. We tolerate a lot of things here, but the rules are made by the individual communities and instance admins. Generally, they remove misinformation, unhealthy things, hate and such. We don’t know about any “islands” which treat things differently. Lemmy is Free Software, though. You’re welcome to launch such an instance, and you’ll be free to pass arbitrary rules in your own niche.

Sure, that’s the basic idea of targeted advertising. And it works well. Google, Meta etc are making billions that way. I believe this can be translated into AI. And as a bonus they can exploit a few more psychological effects. Like make it sond like a recommendation from a friend (your AI companion), or have it nudge you so you’ll think buying it was your idea…

By the way, you can still run the Yunohost installer ontop of your Debian install… If you want to… It’s Debian-based anyway so it doesn’t really matter if you use its own install media or use the script on an existing Debian install. Though I feel like adding: If you’re looking for Docker… Yunohost might not be your best choice. It’s made to take control itself and it doesn’t use containers. Of course you can circumvent that and add Docker containers nonetheless… But that isn’t really the point and you’d end up dealing with the underlying Debian and just making it more complicated.

It is a very good solution if you don’t want to deal with the CLI. But it stops being useful once you want too much customization, or unpackaged apps. At least that’s my experience. But that’s kind of always the case. Simpler and more things automatically and pre-configured, means less customizability (or more effort to actually customize it).

Thanks for your perspective. Sure, AI is here to stay and flood the internet with slop and arbitrary (mis)information phrased like a factual wikipedia article, journalism, a genuine user review or whatever its master chose. And the negative sides of the internet have been there long before we had AI to the current extent. I think it is extremely unlikely that the internet is going to move away from being powered by advertisements, though. That’s the main business model as of today, and I think it is going to continue that way. Maybe dressed in some new clothes, but social media platforms, Google etc still need their income. I wonder how it’ll turn out for the AI companies, though. To my knowledge, they’re currently all powered by hype and investor money. And they’re going to have to find some way to make profit at some point. Whether that’s going to be ads or having their users pay properly, and not like today where the majority of people I know use the free tier.

Oh, wow. What’s your estimate on how it’s going to turn out? Is it a vastly different thing? I mean SEO also requires quite an amount of technical knowledge about how proprietary algoritms work. Experience… You always need to be super up to date with everything. And we have a lot of snake-oil salesmen. I believe “AIO” would be a shift and some new things to learn, but not be too different or an entirely new thing?

Yeah you’re right. I didn’t want to write a long essay but I thought about recommending Grok. In my experience, it tries to bullshit people a bit more than other services do. But the tone is different. I found deep within, it has the same bias towards positivity, though. In my opinion it’s just behind a slapped on facade. Ultimately similar to slapping on a prompt onto ChatGPT, just that Musk may have also added that to the fine-tuning step before.

I think there is two sides to the coin. The AI is the same. Regardless, it’ll tell you like 50% to 99% correct answers and lie to you the other times, since it’s only an AI. If you make it more appeasing to you, you’re more likely to believe both the correct things it generates, but also the lies. It really depends on what you’re doing if this is a good or a bad thing. It’s argualby bad if it phrases misinformation to sound like a Wikipedia article. Might be better to make it sound personal, so once people antropormorphize it, they won’t switch off their brain. But this is a fundamental limitation of today’s AI. It can do both fact and fiction. And it’ll blur the lines. But in order to use it, you can’t simultaneously hate reading it’s output. I also like that we can change the character. I’m just a bit wary of the whole concept. So I try to use it more to spark my creativity and less so to answer my questions about facts. I also have some custom prompts in place so it does it the way I like. Most of the times I’ll tell it something like it’s a professional author and it wants to help me (an amateur) with my texts and ideas. That way it’ll give more opinions rather than try and be factual. And when I use it for coding some tech-demos, I’ll use it as is.

I’d have to agree: Don’t ask ChatGPT why it has changed it’s tone. It’s almost for certain, this is a made-up answer and you (and everyone who reads this) will end up stupider than before.

But ChatGPT always had a tone of speaking. Before that, it sounded very patronizing to me. And it’d always counterbalance everything. Since the early days it always told me, you have to look at this side, but also look at that side. And it’d be critical of my mails and say I can’t be blunt but have to phrase my mail in a nicer way…

So yeah, the answer is likely known to the scientists/engineers who do the fine-tuning or preference optimization. Companies like OpenAI tune and improve their products all the time. Maybe they found out people don’t like the sometimes patrronizing tone, and now they’re going for something like “Her”. Idk.

Ultimately, I don’t think this change accomplishes anything. Now it’ll sound more factual. Yet the answers have about the same degree of factuality. They’re just phrased differently. So if you like that better, that’s good. But either way, you’re likely to continue asking it questions, let it do the thinking and become less of an independent thinker yourself. What it said about critical thinking is correct. But it applies to all AI, regardless of it’s tone. You’ll also get those negative effects with your preferred tone of speaking.

That sounds fun, SEO so it’s also ingested by AI… Maybe I should check my spam folder to see if all the people who send me spam to optimize my homepage already picked up on that.

Sure. But we need to see pics, or it didn’t happen.

The abstract doesn’t mention them re-gaining their old capacity. It only says they shrink. And something about voltage. So I have my doubts. I mean it’s nice if my spicy pillow shrinks a bit. But what does that help if it continues to stay nearly dead? And an application in products would be hard to accomplish. At that temperature, all the plastic etc is going to melt. Maybe the solder as well.

I think it needs to work across instances, since we’re concerned wit the Fediverse and federation is one of the defining mechanics. Also when I have a look at my subscriptions, they come from a variety of instances. So I don’t think a single instance feature would be of any use for me.

Sure. And with the cosine similarity, you’d obviously need to suppress already watched videos. Obviously I watched them and the algorithm knows, but I’d like it to recommend new videos to me.

I’ve always backed up my SMS to my E-Mail inbox. With something like SMS Gate or SMS Backup+. I think it’s nice to have all messages in my mail program. Of course that only does one way. To reply and get immediate notifications, I use KDEConnect (or GSConnect which is the same thing for GNOME.)

Wasn’t “error-free” one of the undecidable problems in maths / computer science? But I like how they also pay attention to semantics and didn’t choose a clickbaity title. Maybe I should read the paper, see how they did it and whether it’s more than an AI agent at the same intelligence level guessing whether it’s correct. I mean surprisingly enough, the current AI models usually do a good job generating syntactically correct code one-shot. My issues with AI coding usually start to arise once it gets a bit more complex. Then it often feels like poking at things and copy-pasting various stuff from StackOverflow without really knowing why it doesn’t deal with the real-world data or fails entirely.

I’ve also had that. And I’m not even sure whether I want to hold it against them. For some reason it’s an industry-wide effort to muddy the waters and slap open source on their products. From the largest company who chose to have “Open” in their name but oppose transparency with every fibre of their body, to Meta, the curren pioneer(?) of “open sourcing” LLMs, to the smaller underdogs who pride themselves with publishing their models that way… They’ve all homed in on the term.

And lots of the journalists and bloggers also pick up on it. I personally think, terms should be well-defined. And open-source had a well-defined meaning. I get that it’s complicated with the transformative nature of AI, copyright… But I don’t think reproducibility is a question here at all. Of course we need that, that’s core to something being open. And I don’t even understand why the OSI claims it doesn’t exist… Didn’t we have datasets available until LLaMA1 along with an extensive scientific paper that made people able to reproduce the model? And LLMs aside, we sometimes have that with other kinds of machine learning…

(And by the way, this is an old article, from end of october last year.)

Oh, wow. Should be pretty obvious that something isn’t open source, …well… unless the source is open…

Maybe something like Joplin, Org Mode for Emacs, Zettelkasten, Getting Things Done? Maybe a boring Nextcloud, that one has lots of individual apps and they’re supposed to interconnect.

I’m not really sure what to recommend here, a personal knowledge management platform, a calendar software… I can see how it’s a lot of different things you need to juggle. And I don’t have a good solution myself. I always wanted to some good system, and we really have a lot of software available which connect tasks, notes, appointments, knowledge. But I think it’s a lot about the mindset. You mainly need some dedication and it needs to be executed properly, or it won’t work well. The tool/software comes on top and just makes it easier. At the same time it’s really nice to have things digital and not just in a paper journal. And sometimes it’s the small things like reminders about appointments on the phone… And that might be difficult with some tools if they’re made more for knowledge than for calendar stuff.

I’m currently making ends meet with the several Nextcloud apps. But I don’t have as much to coordinate. I’ve always wanted to use one of the Wiki-like personal knowledge management systems (Silverbullet), but I’m a bit too chaotic for that.

See to what IP your domain points, and if that’s really the external IP of your router. Might also help to put in your IP address into the webbrowser instead of the domain, to see if port 80 / 443 really go somewhere. Another possibility, do a portscan from the internet.

Btw, how do you access Wireguard? I mean that’s also somehow able to access your network from outside…