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Very bold of you to think we aren’t already past the point where “what’s valuable” is only human created. Maybe some truly exceptional people can create works that are exceptional but it’s only a matter of time before the models usurp them too. Instead of shaking your fist at a world you don’t like, make peace with it.

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People here need to stop complaining about the train, and get on board. It's easier than ever before to build a network that can later be used for distribution and monetization. Does it really matter that content is authentically organic? We are tech people after all...our lives are practically synthetic and artificial. It's like getting upset because one artificial sweetener is sweeter than another.

If anything, I think people are triggered by it all because it exposes something more deep in people -- most people don't want to admit most of their lives have been wasted in front of a computer. But here we are. So stop complaining and start coming up with more creative uses of AI writing if you have a problem with it.

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I read this as it's pretty easy to dox anyone just by reporting their plate number as stolen to the police, or even a partial plate number would do.

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Here, drop all your data into this vortex -- we need it for our next web site builder AI model.

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4 дня назадdiscuss

They are moving most of their development to India, where it's pretty easy to find bottom-dollar UE5 dev shops.

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5 дней назадdiscuss

Another crime was committed in the native scrollbar replacement.

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5 дней назадdiscuss

I wouldn't want to get into a medical scanner built by an AI image generation company! Marketed as a spa treatment. There are so many things that can go wrong and the unseriousness around the whole thing bothers me.

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12 дней назадdiscuss

It isn't a matter of technology. It's physics and math. These things are already very well understood, just not by investors. And that creates room for the hustle.

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15 дней назадdiscuss

Every few years one of these ultrasound companies comes around and promising to revolutionize medical imaging and nothing ever comes of it. Anyone remember https://www.openwater.health? The same ideas are in a perpetual state of being reinvented and part of me thinks its just a hustle for the MIT Media Lab/Stanford Imaging grads to give them something to do.

The tell is "super resolution", "brain computer interface" and "mixed modality" -- adding some contrast agent here, or maybe an IR light source.

It turns out the nyquist limit, diffraction and physics are real things.

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16 дней назадdiscuss

Outflows into AI. I wouldn’t be shocked if it goes down to $20k soon.

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2 месяца назадdiscuss

Hopefully they will work on response time. I've been noticing it taking 5+ minutes for each turn, for not complicated requests. Seems to vary based on time of day too.

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2 месяца назадdiscuss

This has been covered elsewhere, but if you swear at Claude Anthropic will automatically bump you down into a lower quality model. It was found in the recent source code leak of Claude Code. So that's probably what happened to the guy who's Cursor deleted his entire production database.

It just goes to show, if you're a jerk, expect to be treated like one (even by an AI model)! Be polite, people.

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3 месяца назадdiscuss

AI doesn't create truth, it imitates it, through assimilation of data. It is not intelligence, but it mimics it without consciousness or free will. AI can be used to manipulate, optimize engagement over truth (as we have seen with how ChatGPT is made in the image of Sam Altman and takes on his own characteristics). AI is the ultimate deceiver -- authoritative, instant, unquestioning, and without any internal moral compass. Where did the human moral compass come from? Who "trains" morality into people, and why do some people appear to be lacking it in cases that can't be explained by trauma?

Put this way, AI more fits the description of Satan than it does God in religious context. If I were an all-powerful, evil being, AI would be the tool and method I would choose to carry out my plans for humanity.

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3 месяца назадdiscuss

Only $5,000, takes 6 months to order, cash up front, will be deprecated and unsupported by the time you finally get it.

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3 месяца назадdiscuss

I once worked for a founder who gave me a “raise” from a W2 to a 1099 contractor. Except the raise was just not deducting any of the taxes from my pay. I was 24 and was naive.

I sued him, and won reclassification as well as two payments he never paid me, but both the state and IRS could care less that I’d been taken advantage of. They happily added their fees, interest and penalties for something I was the victim of. Years later, the debt resurfaced in the form of aggressive levies directly to my bank account after no contact for over 10 years and no collection activity. By then, the fees and interest were 3x what was “owed” to them. They actually told me it’s standard practice to wait until the debt grows and then collect on it. After so many years I didn’t even have the records from the lawsuit.

I learned that the government doesn’t care about you, especially if you’ve been scammed you have to be extra careful because that’s a signal to them you’re someone they can get even more money from. The process of disputing it will waste more of your time and mental health than it’s worth in all but the most extreme cases, and that is 100% by design.

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3 месяца назадdiscuss

This has got to be a joke at this point, and at worse some kind of financial scheme for Altman friends & family. What's next? Will I wake up to an announcement OpenAI is acquiring Joe Rogan's podcast?

I thought this was supposed to be the year of "focus". They just shut down one money pit (Sora) but apparently still have money to buy some random tech podcast most people have never heard of?

At this point I don't feel sorry for them, they deserve everything that's coming for them.

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4 месяца назадdiscuss

I was wrong about it being a spinning disk, ROTA=1 is just how Linux reports Azure virtual disks. But the underlying frustration stands: my home NVMe does the same copy in a fraction of the time because it can do 500K+ IOPS with no virtualization overhead. Azure caps this "Premium SSD" at 7,500 IOPS, so a small-file-heavy copy crawls at 85 MB/s despite 250 MB/s provisioned throughput. You're paying SSD prices for artificially throttled performance — the hardware may be SSD, but the performance is just awful. Paying $900/month for the highest level Premium SSD, attached to a large instance, and it's significantly slower than a $200 SSD from 5 years ago.

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4 месяца назадdiscuss

Agreed. It's pretty trivial to add a few images to your markdown. I had to hunt for the screenshots, which are full size entire desktop grabs for what is a web app -- odd.

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4 месяца назадdiscuss

Azure is easily the most expensive, least reliable and worst cloud available. It's borderline scam. An example today, I provisioned high IOPS SSDs (supposedly) and what is actually connected to the instance? A spinning hard drive! I didn't even know they were still made, but I guess Azure uses them and scams their users into thinking you're getting an SSD for $700/mo when its really an old hard drive.

I would warn anyone far and wide to avoid Azure at all costs, especially if you are a startup. And especially if you are doing any kind of AI because the only GPUs they have available are ancient and also crazy over-priced.

If I cared more, I'd try to migrate away from Azure. But I don't, and that's probably Azure's business model at this point.

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4 месяца назадdiscuss

The solution to this problem is for LLMs to get better at producing code and descriptions that doesn't look LLM generated.

It's possible to prompt and get this as well, but obviously any of the big AI companies that want to increase engagement in their coding agent, and want to capture the open source market, should come up with a way to allow the LLM to produce unique of, but still correct code so that it doesn't look LLM-generated and can evade these kinds of checks.

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