chris
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OpenAI Offers an Olive Branch to Artists Wary of Feeding AI Algorithms
#OpenAIs suggestion that artists opt-out of having their art used in generate AI is like having to ask Dracula to take his fangs out of your neck. (It sucks)
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Yes, it’s a rat rod. Yes, it’s a smoker.
Fun times at the Forest Festival this weekend, despite a horrendous downpour just as we arrived! Here’s me by a giant smoker that’s also a 250HP rat rod, just about to buy an enormous quantity of smoked and pulled pork and brisket. I regret nothing about this.…
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Fashionista
As God is my witness, I shall go to my grave never having worn shorts with a puffy winter coat. If I die on this hill, know that I will have picked a single season and dressed accordingly.
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Back in the PHP Habit
After two and a bit years of working with NodeJS, I hopped back into some PHP today. It was quite a relief to able to just put together a script without an almost infinitely long toolchain, twenty different includes, and an argument about standards.
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There’s a Reason that AI Can’t Reason
As predicted: “Based on this analysis, the paper concludes that, despite its occasional flashes of analytical brilliance, GPT-4 at present is utterly incapable of reasoning.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03762v2 There’s no reason, at present, to think that generative AI based on what amounts to an extremely large and fast predictive text machine has any understanding of what it…
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It Isn’t Going To Stop, Until They Stop
It isn’t going to stop, until they stop. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-sued-by-us-artists-over-ai-image-generator-2024-04-29 Another day, another legal challenge to the wholesale looting and pillaging of human-created art by our machine overlords. To be clear, I’ve got no problem with generative AI.…