Not sure why they have any employees.

Yes, I think the did a decent job of protecting from the worst abuses.

I'm into photography as a hobby, and do software development for a living. Talking with people about the use of AI, how it can be used, or abused is interesting. I do find myself explaining how even the first photos were often manipulated, and how staged photos can be or why they look the way they look.

(The lack of smiles in old photos, missing face tattoos of some aboriginals, etc)

Ah, yes. Windows Outlook had something like this more than a decade ago. I haven't worked in a Windows shop since around 2010 and you didn't have to manually look up individual participant's calendars to schedule meetings. (Though, IIRC, some managers chose to restrict access to their calendars.)

Congratulations, Google, on reinventing the wheel.

LLMs don't experience.

While an LLM could be connected to something else with a simulated consciousness, they themselves have no consciousness to experience.

A few months back there was a study that released the results that black plastic used in kitchen utensils was specifically bad as it was very high in toxic materials used in fire retardants.

Oh wait, they screw up their units and it was only a slight increase above other colored /recycled plastics and well below the maximum allowed standards.

Between the poorly done studies and the rush to publish in mainstream press, the media skips the review phase any bolsters these studies before they are readily available for general review. (Peer review has significant faults when too many studies are released and too few people to adequately review them.

Have you stopped to consider the condescending prick who moderated the answer out of existence could have been wrong?

I'm so glad I learned C programming well before Stack Overflow existed.

"The decline predates LLMs. Questions began dropping around 2014 when Stack Overflow improved moderator efficiency and closed questions more aggressively"

By making it hostile to the people it is intended to for.

First, the assumption that a snippet of code if actually copyrightable is generally untrue.

Secondly, open source exists to help people learn to code; wholesale copying is frowned upon, but snippets or concepts aren't.

Third, unless it negatively impact the project itself, anything short of wholesale copying is likely to be ignored - when developers do that today -.

AI doesn't change this equation very much.

no.

LLMs write fiction, that's fundamentally what they do. Sometimes the fiction is accurate and can be used as non-fiction, but, it's still a form of fiction. It's not thought.

Producing a one-off in lab is completely different than producing chips at scale.

The US doesn't have the technology to manufacture a plant to manufacture the chips at that size. It would take 20-30 years.

Now, you can cut that by buying the equipment you need outside North America...

Untraceable transactions are too ripe for money laundering and as such generally illegal at scale.

You might not agree with it, but that's the world we live in.

It's almost rudimentary today to have fault tolerance in the design. Horizontal scaling automatically gains some level of fault tolerance unless you specifically build it without.

Which is usually budget constraint, not a developer constraint.

My sites are on AWS, and they all stayed up yesterday. But they aren't multi-region. That's the risk we take.

And many studio houses use the same character images over and over again. So why are a few key people so over worked?

Such a strange industry

I have an M1 MacBook Pro Max I've run gpt-oss-20b on it. It wouldn't support a dozen users, but it worked fine for me for experimental and dev testing.

Considering I didn't buy this machine with AI as an intended use, that's pretty amazing.

There's definitely some room for Apple in this space, while everybody thinks the only player is Nvidia.

is your mother, and honestly, those pictures were disturbing.