duskdozer

To me it's definitely more respectful not to pretend there's a person spending their time on the other end.

Don't you run out of companies to use?

Unfortunately it was needed in my case

Then you probably don't want to be funding the companies that want and intend for it to be locked behind proprietary doors.

What do you use?

Effectively it is. I hear relatively very few people talking about self-hosting it, or even just using one of those GPU rental services. It's all about claude, openai, gemini, if you haven't tried this week's model revision you can't complain, and so on.

What is so important on xitter? I've ended up following a link there at most a small handful of times in the last 5-10 years. I can't think of anything I would miss if it shut down tomorrow.

Right. All the boosters crowing about how amazing and so much better LLMs are than us are just doing marketing. Our jobs will be taken or ruined and people and companies will just be forced to get used to an even lower standard of quality as they've been doing already.

I'm having trouble understanding what effects that directive could have. Liability under what circumstances and to what degree?

Ah. First time I've seen either.

s/children/people/

I keep seeing this crop up in the id verification discussions. The same psychological processes that social media companies exploit in children exist in adults and have the same result. The problem isn't manipulating children, it's that they're manipulating everyone.

Seems like it, though this has a second puzzle with three candidates instead of two

I always assumed people were writing in LLMese themselves to mock it, not generating it.

He's clearly contrasting meeting people due to asking them questions or discussing a hobby/task versus using LLMs:

>As a teenager I tried to install Linux, ran into all kinds of problems, and went on the IRC chatrooms to get help. And in the process I made friends. Today, I would just ask Claude.

It could have been "repair my car" and "car forums" or "learn to knit" and "Reddit"

And further, he's saying that the dependence will diminish that life beyond computers:

>The people in the AI utopia will have no skills, no education, no accomplishments. We’ll be lucky if they are even literate. They will not be worth talking to, and you won’t want to hang out with them.

Can't see your link because it requires a google sign-in. But anecdotally earlier this year I stopped being able to visit SO due to cloudflare, whether it was enabling it at all or increasing its hostility level. Maybe they received a lot of bot traffic leading to this?

Hacker News is a left-wing echo chamber?

>human agents

What? Are you trying to say "people"?

Why use a crusty old linter when you can be AI-Native and 100x your load-bearing file formatting by orchestrating AI to do it? Do you want be left behind in the dust?

I wish it was just raking at this point. The only person I've seen raking in many years is my 90+ year-old neighbor. Everyone else has the backpack leafblower SWAT teams.

I'm not sure I'd say voting with mush for brains is a feature exclusive to the elderly (:

The summarization is the main issue here. A fuzzy search is far less controversial. The LLM companies have done a good job synonymizing "AI" with their products however.

Overall opposition is at 70%, and opposition of "MAGA supporters" and Republican men is around 55% (~45% support). It's a difference but it's not like many issues where these numbers could be opposing 90/10s in these groups.

I'm not sure that that is an obvious claim these days, with the whole "agents going rogue" press releases.

Maybe? I still don't really fully understand what issues people had with it unless they'd only ever used the system python installation for everything.

>By a 40-point margin, voters oppose building data centers in their area to support artificial intelligence (30% favor, 70% oppose).

>MAGA supporters (46% favor) and Republican men (45%) are the groups most likely to favor data centers, while White women with a college degree (84% oppose) and liberal voters (80%) are the most opposed.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-cool-your-ser...

Would Fox News have reason to overestimate rightist opposition here?

So the type and content of what fiction I write should be controlled so that LLM companies may choose for the sake of maximum profit to haphazardly collect any data they please and to neglect the safety and validity of the content they choose to serve users?

On the contrary, I'm saying is that it's not okay that the world becomes worse-off, as long as it's not [the LLM companies'] fault. If it means they don't have a viable business model by only ingesting data that they have permission for and is verified, and by being held fully responsible for the content they serve their users - in order to prevent the world from becoming worse-off - then they should not operate.

If I write a story that includes a character mixing bleach and ammonia for curing asthma and publish it on my website, am I responsible for an LLM company ingesting my story without contact or my consent and then at some point in the future providing a user instructions to mix bleach and ammonia for curing asthma?

When your work depends on people using online LLM services, you probably don't want to encourage people to use their own hardware.

It's not something I really relate to, having working on a fairly large project with significant dependencies that is used as both a library and an application. I see uv often used just to try to paper over bad dependency and compatibility management, which ends up being self-reinforcing. I guess if it's being used strictly for final deployment, sure, but that doesn't (shouldn't) remove the need to pay attention. It's hard for me to see it as anything but an attempt to eventually make the state of Python tooling be "everything breaks, unless you use uv by Astral™"