Chuck E Cheese is right on there, in the robot fucker super structure.

Expected a mirror to ‘breasted boobily down the stairs,’ but nope, monster fucker alignment chart.

This is approaching unfalsifiable.

Is classifying generated data ever intractable, when you can just… generate some? Even if the portion of human content dwindled - rather new human content, since there’s a recent hard cutoff - there’s a faucet for counterexamples. You can have as much for-sure machine-generated content as you like, to point at and go, wrong.

I again submit the last two years where model collapse did not happen. The doom-and-gloom predictions - some rather gleeful - plainly missed the mark. The proliferation of generated content has not in fact ruined the content generators, and it’s sure not because we’re any good at marking generated content. Early symptoms went away entirely and the problem has been practically addressed.

As for “unlearning,” universality is why it’s a made-up problem. Nobody loudly complains that x-rays make doctors worse at feeling around for lumps.

That’s a lot of “could” and “will” from an article a year old, primarily about concerns from two years ago, while image models to-day keep getting smaller and better. They didn’t find a second internet’s worth of JPEGs. Better training on the same data, or even better labels on less data, beats a simple obsession with scale.

Yes, photocopying a photocopy will degrade, but diffusion is a denoising algorithm. Un-degrading an image is its central function. ‘Make it look less AI’ is how you get generative adversarial networks.

Anyway, the grim truth is that the central concern is mistaken. Training data for cancer screening does not require the patient lived.

The doctors were better, until someone yanked the tool away. That’s how every tool works! Even going from a handsaw to a table saw and back will make you lose some skill with the handsaw, because your brain focused on higher-level goals and finer motions. That’s not proof a table saw is bad for woodworking. The problem is “and back.”

since apparently AI can’t feed into AI without collapse

Have you checked on that narrative? It’s been a while. Things stopped getting yellow. Improvements continued.

Take away a calculator halfway through an exam, and suddenly, people are surly and unmotivated about simple long division.

That’s how every ‘AI makes you stupid!’ article works. Like, ‘doctors used AI to detect more cancer, but when we took it away, they were worse at eyeballing it.’ Sorry, can we go back to the part about detecting cancer better?

‘Well if it’s merely okay just have it be perfect.’

Unserious.

I assume it’s a binder.

Mid-century recipes were buck wild. People who’d grown up with six ingredients suddenly had access to exotic raw materials like cheese from Switzerland, and they were doing mad science in a casserole dish. It was fusion cuisine from people who would not recognize sushi as intended for human consumption.

This is my grandmother’s recipe for ribs, which means it’s 1950s American suburban cuisine. It’s not high culture… but it’s not bad, and you’d never try it otherwise.

Par-bake 5 lbs of pork ribs, in a deep pan, in the oven, at 325 degrees Farenheit.

While that’s happening, mix a sauce from the following:

8 oz dark corn syrup or molasses
40 oz ketchup (seriously)
1 small onion, diced
3 cloves garlic
~16 oz canned mandarin oranges (or pineapple)
12 whole cloves
1 cups vinegar (white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar)
3 tbsp “salad oil” (i.e. some lightly-flavored vegetable oil)
4 oz French’s yellow mustard (again, seriously)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
3 oz Heinz 57 (a steak sauce, similar to A1)
2 tsp Worcestershire
1 tsp Tabasco
3 tbsp butter

Apparently I don’t have the intended cooking times on this computer, so you’d have to bodge other recipes for ribs in sauce. Use a mat thermometer and don’t worry about it. Basically just get them half-done, then pour on this “Polynesian” sauce, and check temperature / baste every so often. The result is a very sweet, tangy meat, with abundant extra sauce intended to go over fresh short-grain rice. Because I expect my grandmother died without ever hearing the word “basmati.” My family stole the basis for this from Good Housekeeping, and they’ve only sent goons after us, like, twice. Incidentally you get about twenty pounds of ribs per goon.

Cult.

Throwback to that time I questioned DRSyourGME, and absolutely nobody had any form of coherent defense.

Recently found out the GameStop in the Dover mall shut down, this year. I’d frequented it when it was still Electronics Boutique. Last time I visited it, it was a sad and sparse clearing-house for Funko Pops, and I didn’t even make a complete loop of the store before noping out. Long gone were the days of naked Game Boy games on a register carousel, let alone 3DFX hardware, or shareware CD-ROMs for a couple bucks. I think the last thing I bought for myself in a GameStop was a copy of Nemesis in Albany circa 2007.

In fairness - they’ve leveled off, since that disastrous thread from three years ago. Fuck knows why.

Tools can be useful well before they’re taken for granted. Art software was always a hot mess. 3D software’s still a hot mess. People nonetheless find immense utility in these programs.

This tech would be a non-issue if it didn’t actually work. Chatbots can code now, and they’re good enough that I’ve seen critics fixate on maintainability, which is about as high-level as complaints could be. The big fat datacenter versions have caused sharp divisions by reimplementing open-source projects, using completely different structure in other languages entirely. The offline laptop versions are only months behind. Shit is getting weird in this house.

I was taught with compilers you couldn’t trust. The old buggy ones that needed babysitting still beat doing everything by hand.

Even when they worked, you were expected to know assembly for inline optimizations, and my assembly education was surely terrible compared to my teachers’. That gap was okay, because things usually worked out. The point was using the higher-level tools to get more done without sweating every last detail.

Compilers make people worse at assembly.

Ismael has been banned from Twitch, Kick, Rumble and Parti.

Easily the most damning indicator of his guilt.

But in doing so, they have to accede to censorship requests relating to any topics or images deemed sensitive by the Chinese government, such as Buddhism, Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square and pro-democracy activities.

What perfectly reasonable topics for a history museum to avoid!

"As we have ordered the paper to the printer it is sadly too late to move print to Europe, so we’ve had to put back the schedule a week in order to find a replacement illustration.”

And in future you will be doing… what?

A former employee of C&C Offset Printing said: “Of course printing content disapproved by Chinese government is forbidden. Why should it be surprising? It’s a Chinese company.”

“Surely no one could object,” said human-shaped toad.

Evidently some later variants did. I guess it was straightforward to bolt that on, once the 486 line had it as standard.

If nothing else, Approval Voting is as simple as letting people check multiple names. Most votes wins. It’s literally that simple, and it gets roughly ideal results. There is no good reason it’s not the default.

… or you could run this cracked version.