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I have no problem with people using LLM tooling. It's the bit that happens after that's the issue.

LLM generated picture with artists signature. That's no problem.

Person takes this picture and proceeds to share it around is the problem.

What annoys me is when "LLM hacks website!". Uh, it just went and did that completely unprompted? Nope.

Somebody ran it on a computer somewhere, gave the LLM some kind of prompt+access combination - however precise or vague - and THEN the LLM did a thing.

Power tools are well known for making human bits go missing. But nobody says "The angle grinder did it on it's own! Nobody is at fault!"

Maybe the person wasn't trained. Maybe it's the wrong tool for the job. Maybe the manufacturer of the tool is at fault for selling a product without appropriate safety guards. But the LLMs aren't doing self sustaining thinking for themselves just yet.

Better than not knowing how to do this anywhere at all!

Science doesn't simply solve the problem you have. It has to walk the path to get there.

You and I agree. It is the "requiring" that is crazy. Let people do what they want.

> it'll still do what it does today plus generate new personalities that fit your profile

Please no. Enough with putting everyone into a box/label/profile. Have people be exposed to and interact with the multitudinal variety of the world!

I use an Anduril based LED headlamp running rechargable 18650 battery.[0]

Light where you look, as stable as your head, brightness variable as desired.

Anduril firmware can run in simple mode or get stupid complicated with things like candle, lightning, tactical flashing (think flashbang level of trying to disorient).

Good luck with that 3D printer hotend!

[0] https://www.sofirnlight.com/products/sofirn-h35r-1500lm-head...

*can also use the light it self to recharge the battery within.

But it didn't just blink into existence.

Even if the person can't claim the copyright of the image produced they ARE responsible for the use of their tools and what they do with the output.

In this case, they released an image with someone else's signature on it. That is wrong, the person should take the blame for that.

The person releasing the image may take it up with the AI service that their tooling led them into making such a mistake. But good luck with that in court...

True. But a household battery can do that, using heavier+cheaper chemistry.

Leaving the car to do what a car does. Travelling by car takes a lot of energy.

To keep current lifestyle across the population I figure we'll need both.

That's cool. But how does the system match the draw down with your needs the next day? How can it possibly know?

Unless you make it voluntary, because you yourself know.

Nah, people want to wake up in the morning and know they can drive somewhere.

Requiring it is crazy.

Eh, it's a bit of both.

If a service has a duty to keep your data secure, then failing that is bad. So yeah, the website should be better and I am as cynical as you are about it.

But working around controls to access other peoples data can lead to prison time for a human. This wasn't a white hat operation. Data was exfiltrated however great or small.

Here we have another instance of "But the AI did it! No one is responsible!".

Which gets tiring. LLM's are a great tool but in every other instance of tool use, using tools comes with responsibilities for their outcomes.

Even if the outcome should be: thanks for letting us know, we'll fix it.

CEOs and alleged LLM experts: it'll take your jobs, hack your shit and possibly make humans extinct!

Datacenter build outs: use turbines for direct noise and air pollution... or use grid electricity and increase prices for everyone nearby.

Every modern phone, laptop, computer in the world: more expensive thanks to datacenter buildout.

Web experience: slop blogs, slop videos, slop "searches" - would you like more slop with that?

Corporate strategy: lets try to monopolize LLM use!

.. ..

Public Elected Official: Not liking these outcomes makes you a traitor.

I am focusing on the thing that is usually hidden. You are correct that for a full picture I'd need the information the LLM operates on.

But my point is that the prompt is the nearest encapsulation of the intent of the originator. Give me the data and the prompt. Vouch for the output if you like, but I want the source.

This is one of the weird things about LLM use. It is a handy tool.

If you have found a prompt that gives a good result, then by sharing it with me I now have a tool that gives a good result.

The problem is not the use of LLMs. It is the "passing it off as your own work".

If you give me that. Then you've given me nothing. Give me the same transcript the LLM has access to instead.

I don't care how good the LLM gets. If I know some text was written by LLM I'd much rather know the prompt - the seed of intent.

If the seed of intent is "convey XYZ details so they know them" then I can choose to go and learn those details any way I see fit - maybe even ask an LLM to summarise some data for me! - rather than having to ingest whatever their LLM use poops out and trying to digest the intent and content and figure it out.

It is about empowerment, rather than eating shit.

Smart glasses could be able to tell what got through to the retina at least.

But fuck it, just brand all our brains with "SLA Industries".(fictional dystopian corporation ruling future)

> any company >5m is also going to give a big legal fight

I don't know about any company doing that. I guess some would do so on principle. But I honestly suspect it'd be a cost/risk based decision.

Who knows. But there is seemingly no carrot to entice those with money to give some of it to support the project, so a stick it is.

I like the Blender way of, contribute money = your features requests get some priority. But that only works if the company needs something.

It isn't about catching every last >5m business out.

It is about having a rule that can be enforced when it is obvious to do so.

> You’re proving my point that people lost their minds.

Nah, minds were not lost. Italy simply had the bad luck to show us what "zero response" looked like.

> mostly normal person a bad flu

Nope.

Italy now: flu season for the year = ~3000 deaths

2020 Italy COVID for the year = ~74000 deaths

Bit of a difference. And that was with Italy also trying lockdowns and everything else once they realised how bad it was.

What is the microphone access for?

Do you need to say "My voice is my passport." or something?

The US response to covid was much less locking down than Australia.

If you look at the "deaths by covid" graphs for 2020 and 2021, Australia barely rates a blip. Meanwhile, the US has 850 000 deaths in those first two years.

The lockdown was not spread equally. There were enough people just ignoring it.

Some having midnight parties because it was extra exciting to subvert the curfew, with incidental spreading of COVID.

Some were outright trying to have "herd immunity" parties to deliberately spread it.

And hence the official lockdown kept having to be extended.

Fuck I hated those people.

At the time:

1. no one knew that much about COVID. Even the authorities and experts!

2. It was a respiratory thing kinda like a cold or flu that killed some people. And then more people. And of course the news hyped that. So many theories and crackpots and experts and armchair-experts spouting all kinds of shit. It was tiring to open a web browser.

3. No vaccine. No vaccine for at least a year. You just have to wait for this tidal wave of sickness to hit you and everyone around you.

4. I recall seeing on the news what was happening in Italy. March 2020, something like 600 people a day dying of covid. Italy's hospitals were being overrun with covid patients. It wasn't obvious who needed treatment and help to survive the night and who could just go home and be (quite) miserable for a bit. There were so many unknowns! Hospital overrun resulted in not just covid patients dying but also anyone else who needed to go to the emergency department was affected to some degree. Partly because the system didn't have the capacity and partly because you'd catch covid on top of the reason you were there. The systems were choking.

I was in Melbourne the whole time, through every lockdown. Everyone has an opinion on whether it was the right thing to do, but for me, it was the society agreed upon (via authority and literal epidemiologist expert guidance) way to avoid killing a single digit % of the population.

Don't get me wrong, I was so fucking sick of being couped up... but I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I had've put some of my neighbours through that first wave harsh covid. I couldn't say as to whether it would have killed some of them.

Yes, many people had it rough in so many different ways. Bureaucratic shit was being made up almost day to day and people were also trying to scam it day to day. So it isn't surprising shit happened. Everyone has a story.

However, to say "We should have.." belies the fact that hindsight is easy and recollection is rose tinted.

"faster" relates to speed. Speed is related to time and speed of a thing is usually defined by time. 9x faster speed translates to time/9. There is an extra step of related conversion there.

Conversely, 9x [filesize/natural number] is bigger. Every time. At least in the basic maths used by most people. There is no conversion into other units.

Therefore "9x smaller" when talking about a natural number like filesize is a nonsense statement in logic terms. If you strive for unambiguous phrasing - which is a significant part of the programming experience - this logical nonsense might well perturb you.

But english language is a flexible thing and if the phrase communicates your intent to your audience then that's fine by me.

I too have come across few things in my life that were so useless/junk as to wipe from the face of the earth. Few though.

> not an option available for DRM e-books

One such instance for me was a computer game. I uninstalled it and ensured the offending files were securely written over. Such things were possible with spinning rust storage.

Nowadays with solid state drives I don't know how to target my vindication to that degree.

Why can't Flock do a "customer setup" that is otherwise sandboxed from their systems and let the white hats go nuts on that?

Content is not the same as configuration and they could get valuable information if they cared.

I'm divided.

On the one hand, a quiet, unobtrusive cafe in the library seems nice.

On the other hand, I like the library precisely because it has so little of the advertising/commercial bullshit of every day.

A cafe AND a bookstore trying to sell you stuff feels over the line.

I was hoping not to have to keep my current machine until it classified as retro....

At it's heart, this post is: if you own it, do what you want with it.

For a big book, cutting it up might be desired. Even though book lovers everywhere decry such a move, it's their book.

Obviously there is zero resale value for the book, but I have never sold a book I owned so that wouldn't bother me.

If I take your two sentence comment and remove one sentence it also is non-sensical. Stop removing context.

>Your mileage went from VW->telematics vendor->broker->carfax, thats the chain it usually follows. The fuse stops it but the real...

Prior commentary advised removing the fuse to stop the telemetry. This comment points out that the chain of information flow precludes the owner of the car.