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@lienrag

I don't know about the younger kids, but ever since I saw this I have been thinking about the second circle they draw. It's driving me nuts.

How do they draw a circle off center?

It looks like they simply move the pen in a line. I think you must move it at a speed that would vary like a sinusoidal curve.

They do it *so* quickly and nothing else in the video is nearly as interesting as that moment.

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@david_chisnall @imp3tuz

That's backwards. The software is supposed to be so useful you can't keep people from using it. How did the cracking of the whip get into the cycle?

We are all lazy. If it worked people would be all over it.

@mansr

That is a different question. They have not made profit if you count the mounting debt.

And a non-profit is always allowed to make one, that is just not your goal.

Because then I have a best friend who keeps saying things like "chatGPT said that he didn't think ..."

There is no "he"
There is no "think"
There probably isn't even a "said"

I feel like I'm fighting a multi-front war.

This new tech has not been explained to "the general public" well. This reminds me of the early days of the internet when everyone was so scared of it... only now they aren't scared enough... in the right ways if that makes sense.

I wrote her this long (probably too passionate note) about how it would "sand away" her voice. What's the point of making your writing sound exactly like everyone else?

My mom is a mathematician and not really into writing. So, I can understand the appeal. "It just makes the sentences sound like they're supposed to"

It makes the sentences sound boring. And the topic is already boring enough.

Anyway she's come around I think to writing. And I'm offering to help edit. 2/2

In other "non-computer obsessed people" AI news I had a big breakthrough with my mom. She has been writing these self-published books with the local historical society about the Civil War graves in the Pittsburgh area. I think it's great. Books like that don't get much attention but someday some historian will cry tears of joy that they exist. Otherwise the information will vanish.

But she said she was using chat GPT to help.

I kind of lost it.

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@darkling

So the poor IT people are hearing things like "only six percent of your people have opened copilot in the past week, they could have save 300 hours if only blah blah blah?"

That is diabolical.

@baibold

I will help you reclaim this **provided** you help me reclaim the word "gamergate"

It's about ambitious young ants NOT videogames.

Deal?

@affiliatemarketerguru

I'm happy to hear this I was feeling like I was going mad since I can't find ANYONE this stuff works for.

@Anke

Do you remember when all the worst boys on X where using some AI image generator to make "Ghibli Style" profile pics for themselves and soft warm and fuzzy fascist propaganda?

@imp3tuz

OK but how do they make the IT departments in various companies and agencies and schools all start nagging everyone in the same way?

Do they give them nagging lessons and call it "training" or something?

@theplaguedoc

We will get to it. Though both of us watch very little fiction it's kind of a crime really.

I'm a Howl's Moving Castle girl.

Things my husband didn't know:

* what is grok(in the context of X)
* That OpenAI used to be non-profit
* What Studio Ghibli is.
* The Studio Ghibli Controversy
* What "Training Data" are

Thought "everyone" knew this stuff. That's *my* bubble I get it.

He's very up to date on news, just not this.

Nonetheless his IT department keeps asking them to "learn copilot" so they can "be more efficient" everyone hates it. (Is Microsoft doing something to make IT departments do this all over the place?)

@llewelly

It's always family, friends and coworkers who fail you with the social engineering isn't it?

@david_chisnall @rep_movsd @GossiTheDog

It's that trust that I'm talking about here. The process makes sense to me. But, I've also seen prompts that stump these things. I've seen prompts that make it spit out images that are identical to existing images.

@david_chisnall @rep_movsd @GossiTheDog

This is what I've learned by working with the public libraries I could find, and reading about how these things work.

To really know if an image isn't in the training data (or something very close to it) we'd need to compare it to the training data and we *can't* do that.

The training data are secret.

All that (maybe stolen) information is a big "trade secret."

So, when we are told "this isn't like anything in the data" the source is "trust me bro"

@david_chisnall @rep_movsd @GossiTheDog

This has always been possible, it was just slow. I think the innovation of these systems is building what amounts to search indexes for the atomized training data by doing a huge amount of pre-processing "training" (starting to think that term is a little misleading) this allows this kind of result to be generated fast enough to make it a viable application.

@SnoopJ

It is related to this:
https://www.booooooom.com/2016/05/09/bicycles-built-based-on-peoples-attempts-to-draw-them-from-memory/

@kevingranade @RustedComputing @rep_movsd @GossiTheDog

"mammal brain"

@rep_movsd @GossiTheDog

"Its possible to put some guardrails on what the AI can be asked to do."

How?