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Comment Local models are an option NOW. (Score -1, Offtopic) 42

It turns out machines are pretty good at writing instructions for hardware resembling themselves, as long as *you* can do a good job of conveying what you actually want to accomplish. If I wanted a coding assistant, I'd be looking at the latest Qwen 27B, they just seem to keep getting better at coding even while other benchmarks are kinda hitting plateaus.

Submission + - Debian Developers Reject AI Ban and Vote for Responsible Use of Generative AI (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Debian developers have rejected proposals that would have banned or strongly discouraged the use of artificial intelligence within the project. Instead, members selected a proposal called Responsible Use of Generative AI, which says Debian neither endorses nor prohibits generative AI for software development, packaging, documentation, and other project work.

Under the new policy, contributors remain responsible for the quality, correctness, maintainability, licensing, and legal compliance of anything they submit, including AI-assisted work. Human review and testing are expected, while disclosure of AI use is encouraged but not required. The ballot included several more restrictive alternatives, including proposals to ban LLM contributions through the Debian Social Contract and to declare that Debian is created by humans.

Comment I actually use em-dashes now. (Score 0, Flamebait) 118

I never used them before, I always substituted two normal hyphens like -- to do that job. Now I use the actual — character, and I find that I use them a lot more because I was previously overly dependent on parentheses. Once I started seeing them frequently used as intended (by AI or not doesn't matter), I added them to my own style. The fact that they cause anyone with a supposed AI allergy to sneeze is just a side benefit.

Comment Re:He's right about one thing (Score 1) 126

I've told people generating same-ish AI images that are of decent technical quality, "if your prompt isn't a whole paragraph long, then chances are that someone has made the exact same request by now. If you want your images to look different, you have to provide those differences." Sometimes just repeating yourself with paraphrasing can be enough subtle information to get either the LLM front end (CLIP) or the diffusion model out of its rut, whichever one happens to be doing the railroading.

Comment Re:I bet he does it for 2 reasons (Score 1) 126

If the AI outputs individual instrument tracks (called "stems"), then the tools to automatically convert that stem into MIDI have existed for years now. I haven't played with many of the music AIs, and it has probably been a year since I last did, but even then about half of them would output stems.

Also, we don't know where in the process Dre is using AI. If it's at the mastering stage (as an example), it shouldn't have any adverse effect on the musical value at all—unless the operator is too lazy to actually listen and critique.

Comment Re:Millennium Prize (Score 1) 46

Porcupine Tree is a band that started out as one guy pretending to be a long-forgotten psychedelic rock band from the 1960s. He ultimately achieved enough success that it is an actual band in its own right and has been for decades. By pretending the band existed, he set up the conditions for a real band to exist instead. Kinda like Tom Scholz and Boston, except taken to the next level.

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