Admittedly I wasn't using a paid frontier model, but I've tried it a few times with very mixed results.

One attempt was to write some code for a microcontroller to do some tricky stuff with DMA and timers to generate a complex waveform. It failed miserably and couldn't seem to understand my implementation that did work, or debug it when I introduced a subtle bug.

Another attempt involved having to develop a system to automatically crop and rotate images to be upright and remove the border. It managed to remove the border reliably, but never got about about 30% of them upright. I provided it with sample, hand crafted output to compare against, and told it to keep iterating until it got it right, but it just couldn't figure out how to do it.

Ironically if I just uploaded the images to bog standard consumer AIs like Gemini and ChatGPT, they could reliably crop and rotate the images 100% of the time. I even suggested that it use the same image recognition systems as those were using, but it couldn't make that work either.

I used to hate long form writing because it hurt my hands, due to arthritis. When I learned to type I was suddenly freed from the pain and I started to enjoy it.

So while hand-written notes are a nice idea, they won't work for everyone. I think recording the screen is going to be the only option for some kids.

It seems to disproportionately affect people on the Autism spectrum. I've been accused of it more than once, and seen people accused when to me their text reads perfectly normally.

These detectors seem to be a load of crap.

From what I understand they're not exactly a nice company. Apparently they have a habit of stealing images and using their size to bully the photographers into silence.

But either way it sucks because it means more AI slop. We're already seeing these absolutely ridiculous and hideous restaurant menus all over the place. One thing I learned years ago good enough is always good enough.

Change that to slow release methylphenidate and I'm in!

Let’s see what DEI hire the administration puts in charge of this.

I'm reminded of a mid-90's Charlie Sheen SF movie called The Arrival. Aliens disguised as humans - some of them occupying positions of power - go about building giant atmosphere heaters to make Earth more habitable by their kind while making it unlivable for humans.

When I think about people like Musk, Karp, and Thiel, it's easy to believe that they are evil ETs looking to overheat the planet with data centres and deforestation, while simultaneously ruining the economy so REAL humans no longer have the strength and health to fight back.

To be fair, the aliens in the movie were more convincing as human beings than most of today's broligarchs are.

Damn! I have a quote from TFA in my clipboard in preparation for a writing a wordier version of what you just said.

Maybe the Finns should just establish a bounty on all wolves, including the human variety.

What if humans started training to become experts at writing like AI? We could end up with a whole industry of poorly paid, not-very-knowledgeable scammers in Indian call centres, cranking out utter fabrications that look like AI output but require a small fraction of the computing power.

Hooray for humanity, I guess?

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So let's postulate a better budget. I'm just guessing, but let's say that $150K yearly per programmer, and $200k per year for the lead guy, would keep them happy and productive. Then, throw in a few junior programmers to do scut work, and a couple of admins to hold it together - add $500K per year to the budget. By my math that's $2.8 million. Round up to $3 million, just because.

Even that somewhat inflated sum is pocket change for just one of the many major corporations which rely on PHP. Hell, it's a rounding error on the annual budgets of the biggest users. So if a half-dozen or so chipped in, they could do it with money pulled out of the couch cushions in the C-suite. And they'd get better maintenance, faster. Plus, they'd spend less money putting out fires, because the extra support would catch more problems before roll-outs. Their reputations would be better, and advertising their "largesse" would be a PR goldmine. So why aren't they ponying up?

IANAP, so I could be missing something here - please tell me if that's the case. But I've worked in tech all my life, I've done a little bit of coding, and I've seen my share of corporate stupidity up close. So I'm guessing that I'm not too far off the mark. And I'm still scratching my head.

Simple as, just divide your mile into a grid of 25.298221281347034655991148355462 x 25.298221281347034655991148355462

At least here in America if these hugely important open source projects are in need of support we should have some grant money for them to keep these hugely economically important things moving, particularly if the foundation/engineers are based in the US as that makes it much easier but I would encourage other regions to do the same if they don't already. Some things are too important to leave to charity alone.

The cost of these things breaking can far outweigh what the cost to keep them maintained would. The total economic cost of just this particular incident? Millions? Hundreds of millions?

That it can be mistaken for AI then well, shit man I'm sorry.

That said AI is fundamentally plagiarism on demand. This means that the same tools that have been developed for a long long time for detecting plagiarism will work just fine. The real problem is people are assholes and they will accuse people of using AI to write stuff and people will join in because people are assholes.

The solution is to start discouraging people from being assholes. But that is a big lift because behind every asshole is our competitive culture. We really like to turn absolutely fucking everything into a goddamn competition. Nobody can have any fun unless they are either making a shitload of money from it or they are the absolute best at it. It's especially bad here in America where puritanical bullshit means that anything you do that isn't inherently valuable is a moral failing on your part.

Basically fix the actual problems in society and dumb little problems like this go away. But that requires change that I don't think anyone wants to make. A cooperative society would be better for everyone except a handful of assholes but well here we are

Assuming there are 2028 elections. Let's see how he reacts to the mid-terms.

They probably have intel that China is making good progress on it's "before 2030" goal. They have all the parts needed either working or in late stages of development, and their plan is conservative and focused.

But I saw something that only about 7% of data centers are failing to go through due to moratoriums and most of that 7% is a single project.

They're just ignoring us. If we tell them no they just keep building the data center.

American spent 50 years undermining democracy and dismantling our institutions. We can't expect them to save us or protect us now. We need to rebuild them and it's going to take decades. And we need to learn what a moral panic is and why we should ignore it