There’s also ones like that where you wrap the floss around it yourself, which greatly reduces your plastic waste, especially if you use an eco friendly floss.

glances at their 4L water bottle

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It’s not pointless. I make a claim and you’re free to refute it. I’ve already done the research to make myself a secondary source, so you either believe me or your provide a conflicting source.

It speaks to this generation’s willingness to accept information presented to them as fact.

Those people are stupid and you shouldn’t trust a god damn thing anyone on the Internet says as gospel.

I actually witnessed the perfect exchange today. Someone made a claim. Someone else said, “Hey, this source I found suggests you’re wrong.”

The original commenter said, “here’s my source that contradicts that.”

They both Agreed on a middle ground and moved on

This is my method. If I sat something you disagree with, call me on it with a source to refute me.

Don’t ask me to type 4 words into Google for you. If your request for information can be completed with one hand, go fuck yourself. This is literally the point of “do your own research.”

I wouldn’t trust one God damn source you put in front of me. I’m going to research the antithesis to your statement just for a chance to prove you wrong.

I’d never trust you to provide me any evidence at all

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Bro, literally all I said was that the training dataset was the same.

I’m well aware of how generative AI works. I’m an industry professional who attended the very first AI/ML training course by a major cloud provider back in 2023 and was instrumental in changing the way they operated the AI side of the house.

But the parallels are there. Neural networks are designed based on the human brain, and vector driven databases aren’t super dissimilar to how neurons interact. A ton of human memory and processing is based on referential data, like gen AI.

Yes, it might not be able to approximate human intelligence and the actual workings of the brain yet, but it’s on its way.

People tend to forget how computers used to take up entire floors of office buildings and a simple hard drive was the size of an industrial washing machine. Gen AI is in its infancy, and while its current state is highly inefficient and flawed, that’s all the reason for it to improve.

Is current gen AI a solution for anything? Absolutely not. Is it a stepping stone towards true artificial intelligence? Absolutely.

I swear, Lemmy users would have been the people complaining that Excel and Word would be the downfall of society. There are absolutely legitimate complaints about the technology, but to completely dismiss it without looking at the nuances of the situation is assanine.

The truth is that it’s entirely possible for a business to ethically use an LLM. I know this for a fact because I was intimately involved in the implementation of one. The entire thing was trained on our proprietary dataset that had been built over 40 years of industry experience, on our servers which were powered by green energy.

Hmm, I wonder if I can use this on my Synology to manage things until I get around to finishing my proxmox setup.

Which is ridiculous because those people paid into the safety net when they had jobs. I was on unemployment for about 7 months and I didn’t feel the least bit guilty because I had been paying into it for 20 years. Well, technically my employers paid it, but they paid it with the results of my labor.

Although I did work a temp job doing physical labor during that, but it was mostly an effort to get a full time position in my career at that employer (it worked). Plus it helped with the depression from sending out hundreds of applications without getting a single interview.

What are you talking about? Art is available on the Internet without paying to view it. The same art that the AI models train on.

It really depends. You just have to have the right boss and know when to work hard and when to coast.

For instance, for me hard work meant I was progressively promoted from a customer service agent to senior IT engineer within 5 years. But after that my upward mobility was capped, so I just coasted.

That’s why I think it’s funny that people hate on AI generated art for using copyrighted artwork for training.

It’s the exact same thing a human would do to learn how to do art.

I stream it from my Plex server.

Why would Ted Cruz say ‘stop attacking Democrats’?

Because it’s a general discussion, not a research paper. Do you typically get requests to cite your sources in real life?

Besides being allergic to basically every seasonal allergen, I’m also allergic to fish. Not shellfish, regular fish. It sucks because it didn’t develop until my 20s.

You see, I’d have to care about others thinking I’m credible for that to matter.

They are only outliers if you’re factoring in infant deaths, which you already said you weren’t.

I know what words mean. China is a socialist market economy, which is not socialism.

China is a socialist market economy, not a socialist economy.

You can’t have a stock market and be a socialist economy.