mastodon 4.7.3Programmer type. Does graphics sometimes. Music more often. Some people even like it.
Someone linked a Thing which takes LLM-AI generated text and makes it more 'human like'.
So, burn a bunch of energy because you didn't want to write something, burn some more to make it more human like, and then expect others to put time and effort into reading it...
Feels like trying to trick people into reading the slop...
and, frankly, if you couldn't be bothered to write it, why should I be bothered to read it?
Clearly can't be that important...
(I hate this shit.)
NASA : "in 1 hour the crew of Artemis II will lose all communication with Earth..."
Me : "Lucky bastids..."
Funny thing about LLM-"AI" - those who use it bang on about "productivity" and "getting more done" and yet does that translate into an actual benefit for the employee?
If all this "productivity" increase meant the work hours, or days of week, decreased and thus gave you a better quality of life I could get more onboard with it.
But no.
Same 8 hours.
Same 5 days a week.
Same wages. (Maybe less in the future).
But the company, and its owner, have made more 👍
Congrats; you played yourself.
Some people recently learnt about a server company, hosting game servers, being brought out by an AI service company, who promptly cancelled all the game hosting.
One person, who uses AI in coding, raised the fear that Amazon might shutdown Steam for much the same reason.
Highly unlikely, but still when it impacts them suddenly its a concern eh?
Still, its good to see the Leopard Eating Faces Party has made inroad into tech 👍
*looks outside*
Man, the weather is too nice to be sat indoors at a hot computer all day...
*moves to sofa and turns on the XBox*
Much better... 👍
Starting to think I should look into switching over to FinTech rather than continuing with games for my future.
With everyone seemingly hell bent on removing the actual bit of this job I enjoy in favour of being a "manger for AI agents" I figure if I'm going to work a job that sucks the life from me then I might as well get Paid for it....
and so, 5 months later, my microwave clock now agrees on time with everything else in my flat.
Is this a victory for laziness?
Yes, yes it is.
😁
TIL that VCV Rack can host VST plugins!
You have to have the paid version (already did, wanted to try a clone of a real Befaco module) and it costs an extra $30 on top for the modules but once again I can drown my signal in Blackhole based reverb so it was 100% worth it 🥳
(Side note : I have too many VST installed 😭)
One thing I rarely see when it comes to the discussion around "LLM AI" is that all people are doing is giving yet more money and power to a small group of already rich people.
I'd go so far as to argue that by using their tools you are indirectly working for them (and paying for the privilege) as every user makes their product look better and thus worth more.
Maybe it all crashes; they'll get out rich still.
Or maybe it doesn't, the price goes up, and we've turned our thinking over to them.
LLM AI is the gentrification of human existence.
*sips coffee looking out over fields of AI slop*
hey, remember when 'the metaverse' was gonna be the next big thing and was being jammed into everything?
Good times, good times...
Some years ago, while talking about UE's new stuff and general industry uptake I do recall voicing some "concern" about an engine monoculture appearing, where its all UE everywhere.
While I might not have called the "how", the setting fire to vast amounts of UE by Epic does kinda back that concern up some what...
I wonder if part of the fundamental difference between pro-LLM AI dev vs anti-LLM AI dev (to reduce it down to those polarise positions) is that of product vs problem.
I'm very much in the latter, I know my Happy Chemicals come from solving a specific problems but the over all product I'm not that bothered about - something I've never made a secret of, I don't care what I work on as long as the problems are interesting.
Those in the pro-camp however seem to be product focused however 🤔
Having solved a problem at work, I decided to Know Thine Enemy and see what Cl*ude would make of it.
I described the core of the problem, what I knew when I started, and let it go.
While very anti-AI I was willing to look over what it produced and, like any good scientist, if it was good I would change my position.
Dear Read, the code was absolute pish.
cont.
New Arab Strap release, and the lyrics in the back half are just perfect...
"And if you’re streaming this song on Spotify,
then we both fund weapons-grade AI.
But if it wasn’t here, then how would you hear it?
We’re over a barrel, but we don’t have to cheer it.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT THE F**k TO DO
when hypocrisy reigns and nothing is true,
and nobody pays for abhorrent behaviour –
F**K THESE DEMAGOGUES COSPLAYING SAVIOURS"
🙌🙌🙌