Now Elon can like his favorite OF creators without anybody knowing it’s him.

Hell to the no.

A long time ago (like pre 2000) most regions in the US had public broadcast stations where anyone could submit and air their videos, uncensored. I think typically for free or maybe there was some nominal charge. Usually it started at 10:00 p.m. or midnight when they’d start playing weird stuff like this. Sometimes it was porn, sometimes nasty gory stuff, but I think a lot of times just people who wanted to go on and complain about something.

Weird times

One of the best things ever about LLMs is how you can give them absolute bullshit textual garbage and they can parse it with a huge level of accuracy.

Some random chunks of html tables, output a csv and convert those values from imperial to metric.

Fragments of a python script and ask it to finish the function and create a readme to explain the purpose of the function. And while it’s at it recreate the missing functions.

Copy paste of a multilingual website with tons of formatting and spelling errors. Ask it to fix it. Boom done.

Of course, the problem here is that developers can no longer clean their inputs as well and are encouraged to send that crappy input straight along to the LLM for processing.

There’s definitely going to be a whole new wave of injection style attacks where people figure out how to reverse engineer AI company magic.

Bunch of Chinese brands like BYD, but also Tesla is really popular. Some of the models of electric cars cost just a few thousand dollars. For those who can’t afford or don’t needs cars, the motorcycles and scooters are all electric. The buses are electric. Delivery trucks are mostly still gas powered. Charging stations are ubiquitous.

So their supply chains, manufacturers, city planners, and infrastructure are all way ahead, and they are gaining experience and getting cheaper/better by the day.

I’ve been to china many times and sorta agree with the title. They are disrupting the industry in the way iPhone unseated Nokia.

Thank God. I own a business and this thing was obnoxious. Google promoted it heavily as a feature businesses should turn on to improve ranking. But it was junk.

Anybody seriously believing this has a misunderstanding of how little people care about what OS they use and how much they care that it works the way they expect.

This whole thing happened 30 years ago now. Wow. These two must be in their 50s now. It was such a media circus at the time.

Because after taking a quick look at that first or second page, I don’t even go back. I just head to another search engine 😅

By rewarding mysterious “quality content” indicators that SEOs know how to game with shit people absolutely do not perceive as quality.

They need FF to exist… But doesn’t necessarily have to work well.

Pretty much every country in the world where citizenship, nationality, and ethnicity are the same thing you find xenophobia.

IMO all forms of taking care of yourself are self care. You have to love yourself before you can offer anything to anybody else.

The effort starts an upward spiral of increasing rewards. You feel better about yourself, people treat you differently, you feel more confident, and the cycle repeats.

Still think it’s a baited headline given their stated intention to go to court to fight the “unconstitutional ruling”. I’m not so sure the constitution gives foreign companies many legal rights so in that regard they’d perhaps be more protected if they were an American company. Whoops.

TikTok’s 80% of investors who aren’t ByteDance won’t pass up billions of dollars in cash either if the alternative is that they forever get zero from the American market.

They’ve been investing heavily in the US market for the last couple years too, so I doubt they are in the black.

They’ve just all around played politics the American way very poorly. I can’t really comment on whether that’s good or bad but I’m blown away this Shou Chew CEO dude still has a job after this came down.

This… This was inevitable.

Will this change on YouTube’s side affect Invidious instances?

I used to spend like $30 a month for a newspaper subscription that was hand delivered to my door. It was normal. But in that time we didn’t have many options. TV and magazines were about it.

Quality journalism just hasn’t really figured out how to thrive like they used to. It’s too easy for any random person to “become a journalist” and post about events far away.

Too easy for me to find multiple free sources online about anything I care about.

There are also way too many interesting events for one media outlet to adequately cover, so my interest level in whatever the headline is for the day at some high profile media company isn’t that high.

It’s a tricky landscape now. The journalists of old could hit hard because of their reputation, either in getting interviews or exposing crazy things. And they had a reputation that, once lost, cost them their career.

Now almost nobody in the news has a reputation.

A miniaturized version of the whole country on the wall using rocks.

A python script hooked up to the openai API could be a fun way to play with this. Just edit the comments with random bs somehow marginally related to the original topic but incorrect.

It’s a real shame though because those old comments are often lifesavers when you’re looking into really niche subjects.