Many of the arguments about LLMs seem to involve us talking past one another. Insistence that they are “just autocomplete” is demonstrably true, but often remains too abstract to persuade people. I have tried to be less abstract here. Meanwhile, most proponents at some point break down in frustration and say “just try it and you’ll see!” Their argument is phenomenological: Doesn’t it feel smart and capable? Don’t you feel like you’re getting value out of it? Working faster? This, too, is demonstrably true. Many people feel that way. The problem comes when we mistake the feeling of using a chatbot (writing this input and getting that output feels like talking to an intelligent person) for the actual inner mechanisms of it (next word prediction). As with calculators, many different internal mechanisms can produce indistinguishable output.

Infinite* Slop

Infinite* Slop is an enterprise-ready high-performance slop generation solution, designed to waste resources of shitty web crawlers and potentially ruin training sets of unethically-sourced AI projects.

I'm too old-fashioned to use Markov chains so this just uses the good old template-based random string generation approach from the 90's.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are being embedded into everyday life by powerful actors, primarily motivated by profit. Police, border and criminal justice agencies are also looking to take advantage of the new powers AI offers for “security” policies, at both national and EU level. The EU is creating new infrastructure, away from the public eye, to allow the swift development and deployment of “security AI.” This will also reinforce the existing discrimination, violence and harm caused by policing, border and criminal justice policies. Exposing and understanding this emerging security AI complex is the first step to challenging it.

L'interface s'organise autour de trois fonctions principales : une fonction de création de médias (la capture), qui permet d'enregistrer des médias (image, vidéo, animation, son ou svg) ; une fonction d'organisation des contenus créés ou importés (la bibliothèque de médias, organisée en dossier et projets) et une fonction d'éditorialisation des contenus(la marmite qui propose plusieurs recettes, càd différents formats éditoriaux : document, slides, vidéos...). Une fonction de chat est venue compléter ces trois fonctions principales.

Welcome to Posty Posts: It's the Postiest!™

Using this tool, you can extract your Mastodon archive and create a static site that can be hosted anywhere.

Once you press "Upload and Extract" you'll be given a chance to view your archive and decide if you want to turn it into a static HTML website or not.

After generating the static site, you'll be given an opportunity to download as well as delete all of your data.

https://codeberg.org/oliphant/posty

System font stack CSS organized by typeface classification for every modern OS

The fastest fonts available. No downloading, no layout shifts, no flashes — just instant renders.

The idea of an information hazard overlaps with the idea of a harmful trend or social contagion. In it, knowledge of certain trends can result in their replication, such as in the case of certain viral trends that can be physically dangerous to those who attempt them.

Circular Microcomputers

The embedded computers powered by repurposed smartphone components.

When you can't host it yourself

Hosting your own social media can be liberating but also painstaking and costly. With the Fedi Monster we share expenses, servers, skills, and you can enjoy your instance that we keep running smoothly. The monster's core idea is to enable you to carve a space for yourselves in a complex and vast network; without relying on a predatory corporation.

We offer many options and a very flexible service, trying to strike a balance in community customization and security and cost for all of us. Contact us if you have specific needs, and we'll see what we can do.
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We will not host instances and communities that promote or support capitalism, fascism, classism, imperialism, war and militarism, nazism, white supremacy, religious supremacism, police states, are directly affiliated with states, or more at our discretion. and the monster's pronouns are it/them.

A tool for exporting data from and importing data to Fediverse instances. Requires that they support the Mastodon API as implemented by GoToSocial. Intended for use with GoToSocial, but should work with other Mastodon-like instances, including Mastodon.

A tool for aligning speech with text.

"une révolution culturelle a lieu, des deux côtés de l'Atlantique. Elle correspond à un plan cohérent, où les secteurs publics se voient dénier toute légitimité, que ce soit dans la culture ou dans la science. Des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, on oppose les prétendus privilèges d'une "poignée d'initiés" au vrai peuple. Ce peuple à qui les oligarques prétendent rendre sa dignité, mais en lui vendant ce temps de cerveau disponible qui lui permettra d'audimater à qui mieux mieux."

"Car si personne ne veut d'un spectacle, d'un film ou d'une exposition, pourquoi forcer son existence à coups de subventions publiques ?"

Chères lectrices, vous le reconnaîtrez sans problème, le monde d'aujourd'hui est vachement compliqué et rien ne sert d'ajouter des difficultés à celles que nous rencontrons toutes au quotidien. Où qu'elle soit domiciliée, chacune d'entre nous est confrontée aux multiples questions qui restent souvent sans réponse. Que nous soyons conductrices d'un bus ou entrepreneuses d'une PME, les unes et les autres ne savent plus où donner de la tête. Et voilà que quelques huluberlus veulent nous imposer l'utilisation d'un point dit "médian" pour forcer à une meilleure égalité des sexes. Est-ce que cela va améliorer la situation d'un Michel par rapport à celle d'une Michèle ? Est-ce que les représentants du sexe masculin sont vraiment défavorisés par des règles d'orthographe qui remontent à plusieurs siècles ?

Over the course of four different programs, your job is to stitch the clips together in such a way that people will (apparently) want to come to watch in droves. Whether you want to repeat the same clip of a guy getting punched multiple times in a row or attempt to mix things in a coherent way is up to you, so long as you do your job within a very generous time limit.

Visit the Museum of All Things, a nearly-infinite virtual museum generated from Wikipedia!

You can find exhibits on millions of topics, from the Architecture of Liverpool to Zoroastrianism. Search for the topic you want to learn about, or just wander from topic to topic as your curiosity dictates!

I made a generic tool to create such comedy-like / play discussions. It’s called Piece https://gitlab.com/raphaelbastide/piece
I used Piece later in other work, such as https://together.an.otherti.me/ (a discussion between Content and Style) and some quick (and incomplete) tests like that one, about a jealous bot https://raphaelbastide.com/piece/index

Slop is everywhere on Pinterest, frequently ranking in the top results for common searches. It persists across classic Pinterest categories like home inspiration and DIY hacks, fashion, beauty, food and recipes, art, architecture, and more — and often links back to AI-powered content farming sites that masquerade as helpful blogs, using Pinterest as a tool to draw in viewers to useless chum content just to cash in on lucrative display ads.

Pinterest users are frustrated, saying the AI onslaught is making the platform less useful and harder to navigate. But SEO spammers powering Pinterest's slopageddon say they're raking in cash.

LivingPath is a tool designed to make typographic forms more fluid and constantly evolving. Rather than drawing new shapes, it generates alternatives that allow the characters to adapt to new contexts. In this sense, choosing open-source input typefaces is essential, not only from a legal point of view, but also because their freedom was intended from the beginning. In that way typographics shapes act like a stream following their own path without restrictions.

Artists like Anadol are useful because, to borrow a phrase from Karl Marx, they can’t help but blurt out the stupid contradictions of the late capitalist brain. But more sophisticated and creative uses of this technology are also troubling. How machine-learning technology is used matters, but the fact that it is being used, full stop, merits equal attention.

Erratic Elon Musk Waves Chainsaw Around While Ranting About Memes and Fort Knox