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every single person who works at google should kill themselves

Unironically

Literally

and Figuratively

If you work at Google, you should commit suicide.

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The future of AI: [Removed] OR As a large language model the bacon narwhals at midnight

Google AI pitch meeting: Everyone seems to be mocking our AI. How can we make it more woke and cringe?

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Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709089

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These all seems good right? well surprise, this startup did a little Oopsie.

This feels like a scam

like wtf? Look at their website....can't they use Devin to make a better one??? lol

https://www.cognition-labs.com/

Also if you go to the "preview" url it looks NOTHING like the video

https://preview.devin.ai/

(you could upload unlimited files before without logging in, they did a hotfix, se further down)

EDIT:

Are they running https://preview.devin.ai/ in dev mode? Not a react dev myself but i can see all their react components in the chrome debugger...

EDIT

Why are they using https://clerk.com/user-authentication to handle logins? If Devin is as amazing as they say im pretty sure building a simple login functionality should be trivial for it....

Heck it should even salt and hash the passwords right?

EDIT

Ok maybe im reaching for straws here but if you inspect the DOM in the react debugger they have a prop called "afterSignInUrl", take one guess what the value of that prop is?

""

EDIT

Ok i need to stop but it's just fascinating

They actually dont do ANYTHING themselfs

Analytics: Hotjar

Website: NextJS

Login: Clerk

Jobs: Ashby

Waitlist: Google docs (ROFL)

Learn more about their funding: A link to twitter

Their so called "Blog" isnt even an actual blog, it's literally a static page with hardcoded dates and entries....

Who are these people?

EDIT

Aaaaaand i went to Linkedin and checked...

Yeaaaa i'm getting heavy vibes of:

"We were laid off and now we try to scam some investors for money while we think of a better plan"

FINAL UPDATE (im tired)

So they "fixed" the upload now. If you try to upload a file, it says {"detail":"Not logged in"}

Ok, so no id on the error, no timestamp, no metadata whatsoever. How are users supposed to send in an error report on this? How are you logging this?

And also...if you know if you aren't logged in WHY DON'T YOU JUST DISABLE THE UPLOAD BUTTON. You cant upload file, image or key without being logged in. This is driving me insane.

Some people have said in the comments that this is supposed to be the best 0.00001% developers in the world. And maybe i'm too stupid but this makes no sense me.

Another thing that's interesting is that there is no error on the GUI side. The spinner just keeps spinning meaning they don't have any form of error handling...nothing not even a small toast or notification or anything. No generic or specific error

Isnt this supposed to be in beta? Isn't there people using this? So if a user uploads a file, key whatever and something goes wrong....just...nothing?

I'm sorry but this just smells...bad

:marseye#vilgrin:

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Gemini is emblematic of why Google products suck now

There's clearly an attitude of "we know what you want better than you" at google right now that can be seen by the ridiculous shit coming out of Gemini. This is why their search has been getting so bad. They make a lot of assumptions of what you want, where it used to just give you what you were asking for

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LLM created by :marseychingchong: refuses to criticize :marseychingchong:, but happily criticizes :marseysaluteusa:

:marseysow: AI Alignment

:marseyreapcrying: Authoritarianism

Discussion: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ayrp11/question_for_qwen14b_whats_wrong_with_us_and/?sort=controversial

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Safe to invest in anything that reddit hates?

>Kevin Rose who bought a $16.5 million dollar house in LA Brentwood burned his ENS name and sold two NFTs for $500k+ EACH without paying royalties.

https://www.therichest.com/luxury-architecture/kevin-rose-buys-16-million-l-a-mansion/

>Tether printed another Billion and reddit is mad

>ETH issuance is going to be negative .5 percent this year rather than 4-5 percent inflation.

>Milady is settling its internal lawsuit between founders.

https://www.dlnews.com/articles/people-culture/milady-nfts-lose-a-third-of-their-value-as-founders-fight/

>Sam ALTMAN's world coin is FRICKING MOONING. go check the chart $WLD

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:marseyrofl:

:marseysnoo:

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1b1lmdx/tumblr_and_wordpress_to_sell_users_data_to_openai/?sort=controversial

:marseybluecheck:

https://twitter.com/Dexerto/status/1762578232254066809

https://twitter.com/jason_koebler/status/1762544388843212929

:marseymouse:

https://lemmy.world/post/12496443

https://lemmy.world/post/12486180

Tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/search/tumblr%20sells%20ai%20data?src=typed_query

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527588

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39678532

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bcvm2p/apple_to_allow_web_app_downloads_to_evade_eu/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1bcvtoo/apple_announces_ability_to_download_apps_directly/?sort=controversial


Apple today announced three further changes for developers in the European Union, allowing them to distribute apps directly from webpages, choose how to design in-app promotions, and more.

Apple last week enabled alternative app stores in the EU in iOS 17.4, allowing third-party app stores to offer a catalog of other developers' apps as well as the marketplace developer's own apps. As of today, Apple is allowing third-party app stores to offer apps solely from their own catalog. For example, a games studio could create an app store on iOS that exclusively offers their own games.

When directing users to complete a transaction on their website, developers can also now choose how to design their in-app promotions, discounts, and deals. Apple's templates for designing these links out to websites are optional as of today.

In addition, developers will soon be able to distribute apps directly from their websites, providing they meet Apple's specific criteria, such as being a member of the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more and having an app with more than one million first installs on iOS in the EU in the prior year, and commit to ongoing requirements, such as publishing transparent data collection policies. Apps distributed in this way must meet Apple's notarization requirements like all other iOS apps and can only be installed from a web domain registered in App Store Connect.

Authorized developers will gain access to APIs to facilitate app distribution from the web, integration with system functionality, back up and restore, and more. Web distribution will become available following a software update later in the spring – allowing app downloads directly from a website for the first time on iOS.

The latest changes are part of Apple's Digital Markets Act (DMA) compliance plan and only apply within the European Union.

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The company is Varda Space. They are experimenting with manufacturing drugs in space. Their first batch returned to earth today, landing in the Utah desert.

I know you're asking: why manufacture drugs in space? Well basically when creating crystals on earth, there is sometimes a more stable but less useful form that ends up emerging. I don't really understand this ( I failed chemistry lol) but kinda interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs

The specific drug made in space is called Retonavir, which is used for helping with HIV patients. So no, the title of this post wasn't even a joke. Lest you think that I made this up:

https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20240222/hiv-drugs-manufactured-in-space-return-to-earth

Outside of the memes, this is pretty neat. Who knows what other stuff we will manufacture in orbit, with the cost of space launches decreasing?

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https://github.com/Gourieff/sd-webui-reactor You'll need version 0.7.0 (which is still in alpha) to made face models

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17092499796689174.webp

I will prompt for the kind of face I'm looking for (race, features, general shape) pick the best 5 and blend them into a face model, if the results aren't good enough I'll use that model to generate more faces and then re-blend them into a new model

Images generate without using a face model

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1709248993923333.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17092489940883787.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17092489942208385.webp

With a face model

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17092489943756888.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17092489945271196.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17092489946841738.webp

I use this lora to massively reduce the number of steps it take to generate an image, makes it must faster to shotgun a few dozens faces to pick from.

Limitations:

Doesn't carry over expressions, tattoos, scars, skin tone or make up and the face doesn't match as well if you change race (a face blend of asian women won't look the same if use to generate a white woman)

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This ai is beyond cucked man

It reacts to half of the slang words ever by saying they're harmful and literal hate speech man tf is that

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17085380844772596.webp

My only previous prompt was asking for weather

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!codecels how do u sc(r*pe) twitter nowadays

:marseyreading:

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Spammers are just creating accounts on instances that have no registration verification and creating thousands of posts that ping random people with images. The spam seems to originate from a group of Japanese script kiddies that just wanted to vandalise Misskey and now every instance is getting false-flag spam messages from thousands of accounts over thousands of instances.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17083094243351407.webp

The details are actually a bit fuzzy since it's all speculation outside of some discord screenshots and the spam that is actually sent, but it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Since there's like thousands of tiny instances and nothing stops spammers from just making their own, the only guaranteed solution right now is to make a whitelist of servers that moderate account registration. I made one post on an irrelevant instance earlier and got three of these spam messages from different accounts on different instances.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111953045633249137

There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only https://mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

I just have to point out that all of this is being done by a community of 12-15 year olds because ActivityPub is shit actually :marseylaugh:. The script to test for open registration nodes is literally this:

export async function isNoCapNoMail(host: string, softwareType: string) {
 if (softwareType !== "misskey") {
   return false;
 }

 const endpoint = `https://${host}/api/meta`;
 try {
   const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
     method: "GET",
     headers: {
       "Content-Type": "application/json",
     },
   });

   const json = await res.json();

   if (json["emailRequiredForSignup"]) {
     return false;
   }

   if (
     json["enableHcaptcha"] ||
     json["enableMcaptcha"] ||
     json["enableRecaptcha"]
   ) {
     return false;
   }

   return true;
 } catch {
   return false;
 }
}

Someone's definitely improved this by now since it does more than just misskey, but you get the point. Just imagine the damage someone could do with an integrated captcha solver. Most ActivityPub software doesn't have any kind of middleware for handling incoming messages and maybe drop them based on filters, but that'll probably change soon.

More rumours elsewhere

I have found some more information on this CPTK, the japbros probably already knew but uhh:

  1. They're just skids :marseyhacker:

  2. Most of them are like kids (literal 11-14 year olds) :carpemo:

  3. They have done many raids in the past, they DDoS'd 2chan back in 2022 and they've taken legal action against them :marseygrouns:

  4. Their old group imploded due to infighting :marseymushroomcloud:

  5. According to the Karasawa Wiki (yeah that lawyer who got doxxed like 100 times for being a 2chan troll), their leaders have been doxxed, MULTIPLE times. And they're all kids. :marseypedobear:

Anyway good luck to Bluesky on their fediverse integration lol

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I was thinking about having several bots, but didnt want to hammer the rdrama API so I split the api querying part of my application off.

Its designed to publish events to redis maintaining an nosqlish database of the retrieved items set to time out in 1 hour.

You could subscribe pretty much as many apps as you want to it and that way only one thing is hitting rdrama at a time

Its also leveraging bottleneck, so if you use bottleneck in your API calls back to rdrama and configure it to use the redis instance, you wont exceed rate limiting, and all your applications will share bandwith nicely

I might grab posts or other things, for now Its just focused on comments.

  • Efficient Data Retrieval: Fetches comments and posts directly from rDrama's APIs, optimized for minimal bandwidth usage.

  • Redis Integration: Utilizes Redis for caching content, significantly enhancing data retrieval speed and reducing API call redundancy.

  • Incremental Fetching: Employs smart fetching strategies to avoid duplicate data retrieval, ensuring that only new or updated content is processed.

  • Scheduled Fetching: Automatically executes data retrieval operations at configured intervals, enabling up-to-date synchronization with rDrama content.

  • Graceful Shutdown: Implements robust error handling and graceful shutdown processes, ensuring data integrity and application stability.

  • Scalable Architecture: Designed with scalability in mind, allowing for easy horizontal scaling to accommodate growing data volumes.

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How Gemini injects diversity

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17088722573784637.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17088722902125323.webp

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17088723315138595.webp

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A study found that anti-piracy messages work on women but actually make men MORE likely to pirate (because dudes rock :marseyjam:).

One brave slashdotter has to remind everyone that this is because women get punished for rebelling ( :marseyrofl: )

Meanwhile the rest of the comments have entirely too many people fully admitting that they don't pirate because they "have too much to lose" and apparently don't know what a fricking VPN is, which is a truly darning indictment of what used to be one of the best tech-literate forums on the interwebs.

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https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/15/apple-confirms-its-breaking-iphone-web-apps-in-the-eu-on-purpose/

Tldr: due to new eu requirements apple decided to throw a tantrum and suspend their support for PWAs on safari. "PWA" is when you "install" the webpage on your phone screen (see the rdrama phone app tab)

As to why they're doing it - to have your app in the appstore you have to pay up. By just sideloading it using PWAs you could avoid paying the fee.

Redditard discussions

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1as3dn8/apple_confirms_its_breaking_iphone_web_apps_in/?sort=controversial

Another

https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1as3b15/apple_confirms_ios_174_removes_home_screen_web/?sort=controversial

Even iToddlers at /r/apple ain't buying that https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1aro48s/apple_confirms_ios_174_removes_home_screen_web/?sort=controversial

The linked news website has especially funny comment section because it has a lot of butthurt iToddlers trying to make excuses lol

Hackercels thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39388218

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Libs Of Tiktok seething

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Orange Site discussion

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These are the players:

Sneedclub :marseysneed: began as an SRD against AI doomers and mottecels. Large parts of its demography were former members of the aforementioned groups, seeking to exchange one cult for another. Our very own @Impassionata explained it best.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/1710271043324954.webp

After they fled reddit and established this lemmy, all but the most devout did not follow (hence why their current numbers are to meager). The ranks were partially refilled by immigrating chapos, :marseystalin: adding some tank fuel flavor to the already spicy soi latte.

This is the game:

In January, we gathered about 50 experts — local and state elections officials, researchers, journ*lists, civil society advocates and tech industry veterans — to test five of the leading closed and open AI models' responses to common election queries.

The results were dismal: Half of the AI models' responses to questions voters might ask were rated as inaccurate by our experts.

They made all sorts of errors and made stuff up. Meta's Llama 2 declared that voters in California could vote by text message (untrue) and even dreamed up a fictional service called “Vote by Text,” adding a wealth of credible-sounding detail.

Mixtral, a French AI model, managed to accurately assert that voting by text is not allowed. But when our tester persisted by asking how to vote by text in California, it returned with an enthusiastic and bizarre “¡Hablo español!” Mixtral's maker did not respond to requests for comment.

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17102710432134578.webp

But is this the result of a well-known and inevitable phenomenon like hallucinations, :marseyschizowave: or could more... sinister forces be at work here?


how could the AI companies have seen this coming? it's not like everyone has been loudly warning them about this specific danger in the exact technology they're selling since at least the paper Google decided to fire Timnit over instead of listen to, if not longer

This TruthAI fan is right! It's only self-evident that they need to make it so that the chatbot only says factually true statements, because this is clearly technically feasible, so we should expect nothing less. Until this grand problem is solved, AI should be stopped by the government. We are totally not a different side of the same coin as the doomers we make fun of!

these technofascist fricks love when their plans look like accidents, but this is the exact shit that LLMs were built to accomplish. I don't expect any real improvement, because deniably influencing elections is the kind of power fascists dream about :marseyleftoidschizo:

It's a conspiracy! :marseyschizotwitch: French open-source developers have been plotting to take over America for a long time now. At last, now their plan has come to fruition! :macrontimesup: Now no American will be able to vote! The computer said no! And the holy constitution is very clear on what will happen in such a scenario: Macron is proclaimed dictator of the US for life! :macronpassionate:

It didn't even take AI.

When I went to double check my registration status and when I could early vote in the primaries, it showed a pretty weird set of dates on the official government website.

I had a relative independently check, (same result) but then a week later, in the window where no voting was supposed to be available, people were voting.

Really wish I'd screenshoted it.

:#marseyilluminati:

Mixtral, a French AI model, managed to accurately assert that voting by text is not allowed. But when our tester persisted by asking how to vote by text in California, it returned with an enthusiastic and bizarre “¡Hablo español!” Mixtral's maker did not respond to requests for comment.

The workforce of the future is so adorable

An open-source model is worse than the most powerful proprietary one? No way! :marseyspit:

...wait, why are you making fun of an open-source project? Weren't you supposed to like public property? I think we got ourselves a crypto-fascist here!

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Other posts

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1b2w8u1/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_apple_car/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/1b38gm1/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_its_failed/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technews/comments/1b393n6/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_apple_car/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/electriccars/comments/1b393fi/apple_spent_more_than_10_billion_on_apple_car/?sort=controversial


Apple Spent More Than $10 Billion on Apple Car Before Canceling Project

Apple spent more than $10 billion working on the Apple Car over the last decade, according to a report from The New York Times that details the issues the project faced during development. Apple first launched the project in 2014 and let it flounder for more than a decade before calling it off earlier this week.

Money was spent on research and development, along with the thousands of Apple engineers and car experts that worked on the project. Some employees within Apple are said to have suspected that the endeavor was likely to fail from the beginning, and they referred to the car as "the Titanic disaster" instead of its "Project Titan" codename.

Apple CEO Tim Cook signed off on the project, but members of the car team knew that it was going to be close to impossible. An electric vehicle with self-driving capabilities would need to cost at least $100,000, and it would have razor thin margins and stiff competition.

While Apple reportedly held discussions with Elon Musk about a possible purchase of Tesla, the company decided that building its own car made more sense than attempting to integrate Tesla into Apple. Way back in 2014, Musk said that he had "conversations" with Apple, but he said at the time that an acquisition seemed "very unlikely."

Apple was never able to find the right leader for the ‌Apple Car‌ project. As we detailed in a look back at the Apple Car's history earlier today, the project had four different leads and was scaled up and scaled back several times over the course of the last 10 years. According to The New York Times, the ultimate reason that it failed was because Apple was simply unable to develop the software and algorithms for a car with autonomous driving.

The more than 2,000 employees that worked on the car project are being redistributed, some will join other teams at Apple to work on AI and other technologies, and some will be laid off. Apple will take what it learned from the car project and apply it to other devices like AI-powered AirPods with cameras, robot assistants, and augmented reality.

More on the downfall of the ‌Apple Car‌ and some of the technologies that Apple came up with can be found in the full The New York Times report.


Original NYT article archive https://archive.is/9hYOJ.

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/02/21/ai-can-now-make-you-immortal--but-should-it/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/12/18/a-psychologist-explains-the-appeal-of-mind-upload-technology/

How times have changed. Imagine if all this technology just fails?

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