I thought the way they intended to handle it was pretty reasonable, but the idea that there is an actual obligation to scan content is disgusting.

The problem is that the actual use cases (which are still incredibly unreliable) don’t justify even 1% of the investment or energy usage the market is spending on them. (Also, as you mentioned, there are actual approaches that are useful that aren’t LLMs that are being starved by the stupid attempt at a magic bullet.)

It’s hard to be positive about a simple, moderately useful technology when every person making money from it is lying through their teeth.

It’s not.

But lying lets them defraud more investors.

There’s no way they could pay to give you unlimited audiobooks with any kind of library at all.

You can get a library included with an Audible subscription, but it’s pretty limited, mostly to their own stuff, or Everand has a limited library included with a subscription (but you only get the stuff you use their limited credit system on while you have an active subsctiption, so I cancelled once they switched models).

The only reasonable alternative to what Spotify has is not doing audiobooks.

TLDR: You set a donation amount, it uses your GitHub account and the projects you use and distributes it through their dependencies and the dependencies of dependencies. You can also customize to exclude or boost specific things.

Might be over-simplified, but that looks like the basic idea.

Actual researchers aren’t the ones lying about LLMs. It’s exclusively corporate people and people who have left research for corporate paychecks playing make believe that they resemble intelligence.

That said, the academic research space is also a giant mess and you should also take even peer reviewed papers with a grain of salt, because many can’t be replicated and there is a good deal of actual fraud.

I’m aware how fraud is defined.

(Spoiler: this isn’t fraud anywhere relevant.)

You realize what he did is literally the only reason those coins exist?

Nobody was investing. This isn’t taking a stock of an actual company and manipulating it to steal from shareholders. The only purpose of these coins is to play this bad game.

You clearly don’t know what fraud is.

All shitcoins are idiotic gambling. The entire nonsense game is to be the one who sells their bullshit before everyone gets bored of it. Winning against everyone else playing the same stupid game isn’t fraud.

What promises did he make?

Selling something that has no value for money to people who know it has no value isn’t a scam.

It’s none of those.

There is not, and never was, any reasonable belief or expectation that there was any path to resembling an actual currency. The entire market is shitty gambling hoping you’re the one who times their sale correctly.

IDK what you want to call it.

It’s silly to get mad at the kid for selling a shitty meme coin people were willing to pay for when that’s the whole reason they exist.

None of the ones that actually work resemble intelligence. They’re basic language skills by a tool that has no path to anything that has anything in common with intelligence. There’s plenty you can do algorithmically if you’re willing to lose a lot of money for every individual usage.

And again, several of them are egregious lies about shit that is actually worse than nothing.

Mostly hyping up very simple things?

LLMs don’t add anything vs actively scanning for a handful of basic rules and link scanning. Anything referencing a bank that isn’t on a whitelist of legitimate bank domains in a given country would likely be more effective.

The language stuff is the only parts they’re actually good at.

Chatbots are genuine dogshit, PDF to podcast is genuine dogshit, poetry is genuine dogshit.

lol the entire hope is basically “infinite scaling” despite being way past diminishing returns multiple orders of magnitude ago.

In aggregate, though, and on average, they’re usually right. It’s not impossible that the tech industry’s planned quarter-trillion dollars of spending on infrastructure to support AI next year will never pay off. But it is a signal that they have already seen something real.

The market is incredibly irrational and massive bubbles happen all the time.

The number of users when all the search engines are forcibly injecting it in every search (and hemorrhaging money to do it)? Just as dumb.

My argument is that that is not the case.

There are many systems in nature that have randomness fundamentally built in. You can model the broad strokes, but the low level details are inherently unpredictable because random processes are involved at the low level. You can predict the general pattern of airflow over a jet wing, but it’s not a lack of input resolution that makes it impossible to project the path of a specific molecule.

I’m not convinced you can ever get that resolution. There’s a big difference between modeling the broad trends and trying to remove the uncertainty from a process that’s inherently probabilistic.

There is no actual logic to having time windows to access confiscated devices that are not ever going to be returned. Anything that’s not technology is completely unaffected by that silliness.

There’s no world where a legally confiscated physical object is held to the same standard.

I don’t see the issue here.

The seizure of the devices happened with appropriate warrants, the actual search was done with appropriate warrants, there’s apparently some weird time limit on the search warrant on a seized device, and some of the maintenance involved took place outside that weird time restriction.

The actual hacking of the device and the actual search of the contents of the device were with a warrant.