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Shocker, people who move heaven and earth in their personal lives to achieve a socially difficult thing are pretty sure about wanting that.

I actually kind of believe them on this. Like, the last team they’d want to cut back on if they were gung hoe on AI would be web services. Like, most “AI” companies aren’t hosting their own services, they’re relying on a third party to do that.

Admittedly AWS isn’t really built around providing what those companies need, being focused more on hosting websites (you know, a proven business model that actually makes profit) and less on massive racks of Nvidia GPUs to run probabilistic models.

But still, that’s a fairly small cut relatively speaking compared to Microsoft and other’s recent announcements. So I’m tempted to believe that theses are actually just fairly normal cuts, as supposed to what Microsoft is doing; cutting to the bone to free up more cash to buy a few more Nvidia GPUs.

I’m going to bee very nice to you.

Free speech is the right to say what you believe without facing legal consequences from the government, not the right to publish what ever other people say uncritically, especially when what they’re publishing is directly inciting real harm to the public.

Their current moderation stance is akin to allowing people to shout “fire!” In a crowded public space.

If you want a serious answer ask a serious question. Not an absurd and ghoulish hypothetical.

We don’t need to. We just need to stop letting business interests direct economic priority.

Ok, well, guess it won’t be voluntary for much longer.

Or the autoplay function, or YouTube shorts shelf, or so many other new “features” they’d really like us to turn on.

on IOS I’ve found the mobile web page to be legitimately better than the app, I can do Picture in Picture and listen to it in the background, things the app won’t let you do without paying. For a while it also let me get rid of the shorts shelf, which the app just had no option for, they got rid of that a few months back, but I’ve found that if I mark “not interested” on any shorts it puts up it hides it again for a while.

Also if the ads are getting a bit much I can open it in fire fox focus and I’ve found it block ads completely, I’ve heard from others that Firefox focus doesn’t block YouTube ads for them, but, I’ve never seen a YouTube ad while using it.

Honestly, in general, if something has a web page, I won’t use an app at this point. I’ve had so many experiences with dedicated apps just being worse experiences.

A marginal improvement for a limited use case, and often by having it generate a critical response to the output internally and use that to weed out particularly glaring errors, which, increases the amount of compute used significantly.

Not a revolutionary jump forward in capability. not a trillion dollar industry that justifies this level of investment or obsession.

“ Get ready everybody, he’s about to do something stupid “

The really crazy part is that it’s been like that for 4 years now, the models have improved based on arbitrary metrics the people making the models have decided upon, but in terms of real world usability they’re basically the same. Marginal improvement from running it twice to have it check its self, but only a marginal improvement by doubling the compute.

It’s insanity that they’re burning billions upon billions to keep this charade going.

At least with the dot com bubble there was a clear and obtainable use case to match the amount of hype. It got over invested in before it was fully ready, but there was at least an obvious path to something worth the cost of running.