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Comment Re:Near the neolithic cave painting level with AI (Score 0) 65

No, if you "improve" the extent of a prompt, you don't actually expand the search space of the algorithm. Generative algorithms, and diffusion especially, function a lot like image recognition but backwards.

It is not following instructions. It's searching a field of possibilities for content that would be described as close as possible to the prompt you give it. "Covering all your bases" or whatever does not function the same way as asking a human to do it with a list of instructions. That's not to say more thorough prompts don't have value, but they don't operate as strictly logical limitations on output.

Comment Re:DEI hires (Score 3, Insightful) 54

And the evidential basis for the truth of this claim is...

hmm...

wait a second...

That sounds awfully like a completely unverifiable conjecture with literally no possible way to be based on observable fact, but conveniently explains away that you're totally wrong when presented with things that are observable facts.

Weird. I'm sure glad our entire political discourse isn't constantly centered around those kinds of claims, it'd be really tiring.

Comment Re:DEI hires (Score 4, Insightful) 54

I'd argue the whole problem here is that they weren't hires at all. They were the cheapest employees that some third party could find to technically meet their terms of service to the government. Contracts for everything is one of the many trends poisoning the US's ability to function as a nation.

And it turns out that loyalty and law abiding are two of the parameters that might matter to a government but isn't a big deal to a government contracting service.

And I think it's also safe to say in 2025 that this approach hasn't saved taxpayers money either. Now we're paying for shoddy work, and the contracting business's profit, instead of just shoddy work.

Comment Re:\o/ (Score 3, Interesting) 69

No, sweeny does not believe in those freedoms. He believes in your freedom to give him money.

Specifically, Epic's financial interest here isn't their store. It's their engine. They want to sell ai features to developers. If you've ever heard Epic's pitch as to why you should use unreal, it's all presented in the form of having less employees do work. "Stop hiring shader developers, let the engine do it for you" "Stop hiring texture artists, let the engine do it for you"

Which, in and of itself isn't such a bad thing. But when the slop comes in, the quality goes down. And every damned one of us knows it. And he doesn't want us to know it, so his customers will pay for the new unreal features.

Comment New version of Rectum (Score 1) 38

New version of Rectum now produces shit at 3 times closer to shit consistency benchmarks than previous versions of competitors Anus and Colon. Given that we've already decided that you just need more shit constantly and forever and will shove it into every aspect of your life, this must make you very happy.

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