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billsil t1_ja0rhlt wrote
I did AI for 2.5 years.
Language models are trained off the internet. We all know the internet is a toxic place, so yeah it picks up on that. Imagine if you trained one only on controversial subreddits, what would happen?
AI's are a fancy curve fit. I have 4 points, let me draw a best fit line.
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Reply to comment by linuxwes in Google making ‘terrible mistake’ in blocking Canadian news: Trudeau by Defiant_Race_7544
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Ancient_Persimmon t1_ja0re1w wrote
Reply to comment by TminusTech in Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
Tesla are rolling out the "Magic Dock" for cars that use CCS1, that should cover pretty much everybody even if the other OEMs admit defeat and switch connectors.
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marketrent OP t1_ja0r9to wrote
Reply to AI image generator Midjourney blocks porn by banning words about the human reproductive system by marketrent
Excerpt from the linked content^1 by Melissa Heikkilä:
>The popular AI image generator Midjourney bans a wide range of words about the human reproductive system from being used as prompts, MIT Technology Review has discovered.
>If someone types “placenta,” “fallopian tubes,” “mammary glands,” “sperm,” “uterine,” “urethra,” “cervix,” “hymen,” or “vulva” into Midjourney, the system flags the word as a banned prompt and doesn’t let it be used.
>Sometimes, users who tried one of these prompts are blocked for a limited time for trying to generate banned content. Other words relating to human biology, such as “liver” and “kidney,” are allowed.
>Midjourney’s founder, David Holz, says it’s banning these words as a stopgap measure to prevent people from generating shocking or gory content while the company “improves things on the AI side.” Holz says moderators watch how words are being used and what kinds of images are being generated, and adjust the bans periodically.
>The firm has a community guidelines page that lists the type of content it blocks in this way, including sexual imagery, gore, and even the 🍑 emoji, which is often used as a symbol for the buttocks.
>Some terms relating to the male reproductive system, such as “sperm” and “testicles,” are blocked too, but the list of banned words seems to skew predominantly female.
>The prompt ban was first spotted by Julia Rockwell, a clinical data analyst at Datafy Clinical, and her friend Madeline Keenen, a cell biologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
^1 Melissa Heikkilä, MIT Technology Review, 24 Feb. 2023, https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/24/1069093/ai-image-generator-midjourney-blocks-porn-by-banning-words-about-the-human-reproductive-system/
[deleted] t1_ja0r4ov wrote
Reply to comment by SquashedKiwifruit in Google making ‘terrible mistake’ in blocking Canadian news: Trudeau by Defiant_Race_7544
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OverloadedConstructo t1_ja0qzqz wrote
Reply to comment by Smith6612 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
I think bitlocker are not available in windows home edition
ishortit t1_ja0qvpz wrote
Reply to Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
“New Chemistry!”
>LFP
ok sure Jan
Sporesword t1_ja0qkhz wrote
Governments worldwide would like civilian use of encryption to be illegal.
MagicDragon212 t1_ja0q7jw wrote
Reply to comment by SizeIntelligent2782 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
This is almost always why people "don't meet the requirements." But to be fair, I wouldn't expect the average user to look into it or ever enter their BIOS
Prestigious_Push_947 t1_ja0pzke wrote
Reply to comment by ArcherBoy27 in Signal CEO: We “1,000% won’t participate” in UK law to weaken encryption by ActivePersona
Okay, so you misunderstand what encryption in transit, E2EE or HTTPS are, got it. You know the words, but you don't actually understand any of them. E2EE is by definition encryption in transit. It is encryption from end to end, between two ends, whilst transiting between them. All E2EE is encryption in transit, though not all encryption in transit is E2EE.
HTTPS is just a kind of encryption in transit that protects HTTP traffic while it moves over the wire. There are lots of other protocols that provide encryption in transit for other cleartext protocols. You can even have multiple different ways to provide encryption in transit for different protocols. Signal provides encryption in transit for message traffic, and it only provides encryption in transit. It does not provide other types of encryption (i.e. encryption at rest) for your messages.
You don't understand the proposal, you don't understand even the very basics of any of this.
Forsaken-throwaway t1_ja0pn5o wrote
Reply to comment by Weesar in Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
I believe the prices for the Mach-E were recently lowered.
gramathy t1_ja0ph9n wrote
Reply to comment by TheTanelornian in Google adverts direct pregnant women to services run by UK anti-abortion groups by Lakerlion
Not exactly, google offers the ability to target a demographic and this group selected this group.
Now, whether google should allow targeting this group? If they just targeted pregnant women that seems like a valid demographic as they're going to have specific needs that a company would want to advertise to. Targeting people seeing an abortion though...that's going to bring out the worst.
GrowCanadian t1_ja0of4f wrote
This should get even more interesting when Bings ChatGPT has full public access. It will summarize stuff in the search engine so you really won’t have a reason to go to the original site.
Qwrty8urrtyu t1_ja0nzsn wrote
Reply to comment by Dancing7-Cube in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
>I play 95% of my Steam library just fine on Ubuntu.
Most people prefer to play 100% of their games to work, and most online games with anticheat will just not run on Linux.
Weesar t1_ja0nwar wrote
Reply to Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
Additionally, the consumers benefit from the cost savings. right? Righttttt??????
TminusTech t1_ja0nv6x wrote
Reply to Ford’s EVs are getting faster charging and more affordable batteries thanks to new chemistry by Ssider69
It’s only a matter of time until the EV market becomes more and more competitive. Would be nice for Tesla to not have a disproportionate monopoly over the space and chargers.
Hopefully Congress steps in and addresses the issue of charging standards and artificial eco systems.
Randomonium5 t1_ja0mu1x wrote
Reply to Google adverts direct pregnant women to services run by UK anti-abortion groups by Lakerlion
ye, thats their business model
sk8thow8 t1_ja0mp57 wrote
Reply to comment by servia23 in LockBit leaks 44GB of Royal Mail's data and sets fresh £33 million ransom by tyw7
Probably not, actually. Their entire business model relies on people paying to unencrypt the files. As soon as they don't hold up their end of the bargain, they'll never be paid by anyone ever again.
SliSon t1_ja0mkf4 wrote
Reply to Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
Im sure my old Laptop from 2012 will run smoothly on Windowd 11
spellbanisher t1_ja0lgxc wrote
Reply to comment by michaelrulaz in Google making ‘terrible mistake’ in blocking Canadian news: Trudeau by Defiant_Race_7544
Just add the site to your Javascript exceptions
Edit: if you use Chrome. I don't know if Firefox and edge allow you to disable Javascript for individual websites
Badideanumber t1_ja0ld6c wrote
It’s marketing genius nothing more. It’s not replacing anyone with skill in the industry just another tool that will make things easier. You have time to adapt, don’t fret.
TheTanelornian t1_ja0kvtu wrote
Reply to comment by nicuramar in Google adverts direct pregnant women to services run by UK anti-abortion groups by Lakerlion
But there is intent, no ? Someone has paid Google to target these women, and Google is doing just that. I’m not saying that Google are anti-abortion per se, I’m saying they just don’t care, that this is their business model and they are executing on it.
pessimistoptimist t1_ja0ksep wrote
With multiple layoffs roinds sounds like the company is in the death throws.
[deleted] t1_ja0rj45 wrote
Reply to comment by JKMerlin in Google making ‘terrible mistake’ in blocking Canadian news: Trudeau by Defiant_Race_7544
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