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Comment Re:Wokeness (Score 2) 180

Modern movies are made to appeal to an international market, and comedy as an art form does not travel well between cultures.

I'm not sure about this. I know Asian people who laughed their arses off while watching good Hollywood comedies. I laughed a lot while watching Asian, Indian, Italian, German, French, British, American, South American, Australian, New Zealand comedies, to name a few different styles.

Yes, some subtle humor might be lost, or difficult to get, but most of it would be clear. Airplane has a mix of the two. You don't get one, you'll get the other and it's still going to be funny.

Maybe the reason is society slowly pivots towards other feelings, due to social media, and their sense of humor withers. When you're bombarded with forced scary news all day, you kind of not feel like laughing anymore. Just a theory.

Comment Re:Crease (Score 1) 90

Then please explain this: "Current flagship foldables"

Also, TFA links to this article: https://www.theverge.com/2019/...
Also-also, how about this piece of text: "And it remained more or less unchallenged until Samsung started folding screens in half"?

No, the article is about foldable phones. But it's The verge, no surprise they bundle all types under one name.

Comment Re: Multi-layer approach (Score 1) 87

It works but it's crude and prone to over-censoring.

Suno AI banned someone from generating a song about bonobo apes because apparently there's an artist out there with the name "Bonobo". It refused to generate a song with "boombox sound shape" in its prompt because there's an artist out there called "Boombox".

A Triple-A game refused my nickname (the same one I am using here) when I generated a character because a set of four letters from it, taken separately, are used as a variation of a bad word. It genuinely had never occurred to me in my 30-something years of using this nickname. I hadn't figured out what was wrong until I asked on their forums, and other members pointed it out.

A few months ago, I wanted to generate an image with a nuclear mushroom cloud made entirely of flowers, hippy-style, in the vein of "atomic flower-power". Virtually all big online image generators (from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, you-name-it) flat out refused to generate the image. I had to resort to local Stable Diffusion to generate those images.

In all fairness, Imagen 4 came around and can now generate said image. I haven't recently tested others.

Comment Re:Is this is a major concern? (Score 1) 87

Furthermore, breaking a LLM is not very difficult, if you are an expert.
To make an analogy to this test:

A bunch of interrogation experts get a teenager into a room and try to make said teenager confess to a murder the teenager didn't commit. Then, once successful, they decry the state of education these days, which makes it easy to geta teenager to confess to something.

Well, color me surprised. Who woulda thunkit?

Comment Re:Thanks, Cpt. Obvious (Score 1) 58

I usually agree with you, but this time, I have mu doubts.
The association between "reliably" and "through a questionnaire" is a bit far-fetched.
Some people would answer "YES I AM STRESSED" and others would answer "I am perfectly fine" while being in the exact same situation.

To me, "reliably" implies "objectively", and "whatever the user tells me" is anything but objective.

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