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will_a113

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  • Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says

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  • So if there is actually some punishment handed down, any bets on what even more hellish scenario will rise up to replace the one where Google controls internet ads?

  • Napkin Doodle (Art by Summerfallwinter)

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  • Since middle school or so I've always started notes/real work from the front of the notebook, and pure doodles from the back (though plenty make it to the front pages as well). Decades later I wonder how many kilos of graphite or liters of ink I've used (spoiler: probably not even one of each).

  • Napkin Doodle (Art by Summerfallwinter)

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  • hah, thanks, tho it's kind of the opposite of work. I had about 3.5hrs of zoom calls that particular day, and if my hands aren't doing something there's absolutely zero chance of me staying tuned in.

  • Napkin Doodle (Art by Summerfallwinter)

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  • Just another day with debilitating ADHD...

  • God, if only the right was actually consistent on this. It would be one less small problem in a world full of problems

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  • Based and Lincoln-pilled

  • “The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently" -- David Graeber (The Utopia of Rules, 2015)

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  • The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

    And have made differently in the past.

    While we're all living in the present it's extra-important to acknowledge the successes (and sometimes catastrophic failures) of different civilizations of the past. The way we're living now is not the only way we've ever lived as a species, but we seem amazingly incapable of learning from past successes and failures sometimes.

  • What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

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  • Not that we have any real info about who collects/uses what when you use the API

  • Anyone here growing a fruit forest?

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  • I’m not too sure about varietals of any of the trees. One mango I know is called a lemon meringue mango, and as you might guess is very citrusy. It’s much smaller and paler than the usual Caribbean mangoes at the supermarket. Likewise not sure about either avocado. One is what’s colloquially called a Florida avocado. It’s huge - like bigger than a softball - with a smooth, bright green skin. The flesh is a bit watery, to the point where I use cheesecloth to wring it out if making guac. Milder than a haas as well. The other variety is really interesting. It ripens on the vine until it is dark purple or almost black, like an eggplant. This one is delicious and slightly floral. I haven’t seen any fruits on either tree again this year, so something is definitely up. An arborist was over a few years ago to do some pruning and didn’t mention anything problematic about either, so it will likely take some research to figure out. I’m not aware of other avocado trees in the neighborhood, but certainly one possibility is that they’ve lost their pollinators.

  • Sorry Madison. Or you're welcome?

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  • It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.

  • What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

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  • Nobody knows! There's no specific disclosure that I'm aware of (in the US at least), and even if there was I wouldn't trust any of these guys to tell the truth about it anyway.

    As always, don't do anything on the Internet that you wouldn't want the rest of the world to find out about :)

  • What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

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  • They're talking about what is being recorded while the user is using the tools (your prompts, RAG data, etc.)

  • Huawei shows off data center supercomputer that is better “on all metrics”

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  • If money counts as a freedom unit then yes, probably (maybe)

  • What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

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  • Anthropic and OpenAPI both have options that let you use their API without training the system on your data (not sure if the others do as well), so if t3chat is simply using the API it may be that they themselves are collecting your inputs (or not, you'd have to check the TOS), but maybe their backend model providers are not. Or, who knows, they could all be lying too.

  • What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

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  • And I can't possibly imagine that Grok actually collects less than ChatGPT.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Huawei shows off data center supercomputer that is better “on all metrics”

    www.pcguide.com /news/nvidia-finally-has-some-ai-competition-as-huawei-shows-off-data-center-supercomputer-that-is-better-on-all-metrics/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    What Kinds of Data do AI Chatbots Collect?

  • What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?

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  • Gene sequencing wasn’t really a thing (at least an affordable thing) until the 2010s, but once it was widely available archaeologists started using it on pretty much anything they could extract a sample from. Suddenly it became possible to track the migrations of groups over time by tracing gene similarities, determine how much intermarrying there must have been within groups, etc. Even with individual sites it has been used to determine when leadership was hereditary vs not, or how wealth was distributed (by looking at residual food dna on teeth). It really has revolutionized the field and cast a lot of old-school theories (often taken for truth) into the dustbin.

  • What was a fact taught to you in school that has been proven false during your lifetime?

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  • That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).

    I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.

  • Got something done again:)

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  • That’s some fancy joinery!

  • What Is Entropy?

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  • Or is the arrow of time just our way of perceiving a universally necessary change of entropy?

  • Heed ye well this warning...

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  • Yeah, had they asked Grok instead of GPT4 it probably would have been the Book of FAFO.

  • Artificial Intelligence @lemmy.world
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    Heed ye well this warning...

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Could all US copyright holders somehow file a class-action suit against LLM makers?

  • science @lemmy.world
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    The Dire Wolf, an Extinct Prehistoric American Canine, Has Been Resurrected

    thedebrief.org /the-dire-wolf-an-extinct-canine-that-roamed-prehistoric-america-has-been-resurrected/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    TIL about the Social Web Foundation, co-founded by the co-author and current editor of ActivityPub, Evan Prodromou, and focused on expanding the fediverse

    socialwebfoundation.org
  • Photography @lemmy.ml
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    Man-o-wars! (Men-o-war?)

  • Science @beehaw.org
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    A rare, intelligent species of crow is reintroduced to Hawaii

    www.npr.org /2025/02/18/nx-s1-5232008/hawaii-crow-species-maui-rare
  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    I wrote a note!

  • Archaeology @mander.xyz
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    Egyptologists Restore Exquisite Artwork in Cleopatra-Era Temple

    www.goodnewsnetwork.org /cleaning-away-a-millennium-of-sand-and-soot-egyptologists-reveal-ancient-creation-myth-in-exquisite-artwork/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Here's how physics could make big crowds safer

    www.npr.org /2025/02/07/1229744832/crowds-physics-scientists-festivals
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    OpenAI: Our models are more persuasive than 82% of Reddit users

    arstechnica.com /ai/2025/02/are-ais-getting-dangerously-good-at-persuasion-openai-says-not-yet/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Defense of the internet (from billionaires) according to Cory Doctorow

    pluralistic.net /2025/01/23/defense-in-depth/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated

    originality.ai /blog/ai-facebook-posts-study
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Rats addicted to seized drugs took over a Houston police department’s evidence room

    bgr.com /science/rats-addicted-to-seized-drugs-took-over-a-houston-police-departments-evidence-room/
  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    The Powerful AI Tool That Cops (or Stalkers) Can Use to Geolocate Photos in Seconds

    www.404media.co /the-powerful-ai-tool-that-cops-or-stalkers-can-use-to-geolocate-photos-in-seconds/
  • [Dormant] moved to !space@mander.xyz @lemmy.world
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    Physicists Propose Using Relativistic Electrons instead of Lasers to Send Probes into Interstellar Space

    www.sciencealert.com /physicists-unveil-radical-plan-to-send-a-probe-beyond-interstellar-space
  • Coffee @lemmy.world
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    Morning coffee crew: we're gonna live forever!

    www.sciencealert.com /key-health-perks-of-coffee-depend-on-when-you-drink-it-suggests-study
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    New Math Suggests 'Impossible' Third Type of Particle Could Exist

    www.sciencealert.com /new-math-suggests-impossible-third-type-of-particle-could-exist
  • Archaeology @mander.xyz
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    Divers Recover 2,600 Year Old Shipwreck Beneath Spanish Waters

    www.goodnewsnetwork.org /divers-recover-ancient-shipwreck-amazingly-preserved-for-2600-years-beneath-spanish-waters/