like adding bacteria to a petri dish
I write things on my blog sometimes https://fasterandworse.com/
like adding bacteria to a petri dish
I call this the law of conservation of complexity
sorry if my reply sounded rude. I didnāt mean it to be. I just saw it again and it sounds dismissive.
Itās definitely the prudent option but Iām over mental capacity and Iād be lying if I said I wasnāt sharing this just for the upvotes. I couldnāt see any mentions of the sponsor in the comments, so I guess the audience, at least, were duped. I already have a string of unanswered questions on ecosiaās greenwashing social posts, though
Yeah, I get what youāre saying but Iād really have to stretch my benefit-of-the-doubt muscles to consider someone who makes such well-researched videos wouldnāt go to the website before he reads the url out on his video and see that on the homepage, above the fold, in big letters, it says āPowered by AIā
Ok, but are you suggesting he was duped?
NASB, I had a jarring experience this morning watching Patrick Boyleās latest video āBig Tech is Going Nuclear!ā (not gonna link it) where 5 mins in he introduces the sponsor and itās an AI presentation slide generator, which he said he used for the images in his video. This after he mentioned the data on generating one image using the same amount of energy as charging a smartphone. The thing is he seems careful to not mention that it is a gen ai productāhe never says AIārather a piece of software that helps making presentations.
It kinda made me panic stop the video, like an instant āwell, done with youā - not sure if he continued to make a joke of it or anything. I mean, Iām sure (I hope) he was given a lot of money for the spot, but damn! Just when I thought I had a foundational understanding of people
beat me by seconds.
Sheās incredible
I just want to share this video because I think it is a work of art
āIām gonna replace AIā by Olivia Squizzle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh_J7VI94g
sorry for yt link, invidious didnāt like it
out of curiosity once I tried to ask it to make a colouring picture from a photo of a toy for my kids and it just ran what seemed like imagemagick filters over the photo to convert to black and white and pump up contrast to only show the hard lines - just like all the free convert to outline web tools that have existed forever. I asked it to try again but without the filters, instead to identify the object, and to draw it in a colouring book outline style, and it spat out some shitty stylised mishmash derived from all the illustration IP it stole and ingested. I still feel guilty for trying even that
Iām pretty confident theyāll continue to roll out new stuff that, like the 4o release, are mild (if, at all) technical improvements made to seem massive by UI stuff that has almost nothing to do with AI. SJās voice talking to you, bouncy animations, showing āreasoningā aka loading progress.
Fields API lead stepping down
https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/13/fields-api-team-seeking-new-leadership/
it feels so much like heās reaching forā¦ something? from nerd culture and missing the mark so much itās unrecognizable.
so much this when he said the āfuture should look like the futureā and this art deco style roach rolls out
Itās like the behind-the-scenes of the making of a product has become the product and there isnāt anything else after it
hereās the statement from ACF
https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-plugin-no-longer-available-on-wordpress-org/
Heās now forking the ACF plugin https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/
Iām convinced he pronounced robovan the way he did because he was advised on the social media engagement technique of dropping deliberate mistakes in your videos
I saw heās retweeting Siskind today. Didnāt know he was into that too
In France it was standard for the 7 month trial period and that was just horrible. Just horrible. So many firings would happen within days of the period ending, the barrier between no warning required and a shit ton of notice and compensation. Political nightmare and 7 months of anxiety in the backstabbiest of tech workplaces Iāve seen
such a metal album name