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Google is mostly adverts. Wouldn’t take much to be better than that.

Yeah, it wonks the tokens up.

I actually really like machine learning. It’s been a fun field to follow and play around with for the past decade or so. It’s the corpo-facist BS that’s completely tainted it.

Sounds like corporate right now. Had a meeting earlier and it wasn’t even focused on AI, but I heard it enough times to make my ears bleed.

I think it largely depends on what kind of AI we’re talking about. iOS has had models that let you extract subjects from images for a while now, and that’s pretty nifty. Affinity Photo recently got the same feature. Noise cancellation can also be quite useful.

As for LLMs? Fuck off, honestly. My company apparently pays for MS CoPilot, something I only discovered when the garbage popped up the other day. I wrote a few random sentences for it to fix, and the only thing it managed to consistently do was screw the entire text up. Maybe it doesn’t handle Swedish? I don’t know.

One of the examples I sent to a friend is as follows, but in Swedish;

Microsoft CoPilot is an incredibly poor product. It has a tendency to make up entirely new, nonsensical words, as well as completely mangle the grammar. I really don’t understand why we pay for this. It’s very disappointing.

And CoPilot was like “yeah, let me fix this for you!”

Microsoft CoPilot is a comedy show without a manuscript. It makes up new nonsense words as though were a word-juggler on circus, and the grammar becomes mang like a bulldzer over a lawn. Why do we pay for this? It is buy a ticket to a show where actosorgets their lines. Entredibly disappointing.

I’m personally running on Librewolf, it strips out the Mozilla BS and gives you fairly strict default privacy settings. It’s sad that the free and open web is skating on thin ice.

Has had it for a while now, yeah.

Nope. That’s still chromium based and further serves Google’s monopoly on the web platform.

Everything looks grotesque at that scale.

The same thing that’s stopping pedophiles today of course.

Same energy so I get the mix up, honestly.

Haha, ung vetefan, över 30. Har hört begreppet vilse i pannkakan förut, men inte sett det. Minns Rädda Joppe, gav mig mardrömmar. Hahaha.

Aye, I did. I was born in the 90s though so that might be why. I remember Anki & Pytte quite well. I really enjoyed that as a kid.

We did? None of these ring a bell for me.

Yes, they’re gearing up to sell your data.

I think it’s more bizarre that you think “same corpo bullshit that Twitter is” is some kind of praise.

I’m wondering this too People are hyped about bluesky but it is the same corpo bullshit that Twitter is. I mean it is literally by the same dude. Why fold?,

“What would happen if Facebook, twitter, and YouTube cooperated with one another?”

That sounds like a fucking dystopian nightmare, is what it does. Though I know this is about the software, and not the companies.

Throwback to Microsoft renaming “zip file” to “postcode file” in English.

The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I’m sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.

Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven’t looked back.

And the comment threads! You can find posts with multiple comment threads usually several comments deep!