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Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'English10·16 days agoA lot of our neurons are with us for our whole life. Early neuron degeneration is what causes Alzheimer’s, Parkinsons, and similar disorders.
Not all neurons last a lifetime, and there are kinds that die off and are replaced, but a good chunk of them aren’t meant to replicate anymore and so won’t be freed of microplastics by bloodletting, and would cause serious problems if microplastics harm their normal processes.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison'English29·16 days agoRegular cells die or split regularly. When they die, white blood cells eat them, and they’ll be part of filtering the blood.
Neurons don’t though. There’s still some concerns.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue MidjourneyEnglish1·23 days agoOh that’s unfortunate. Well I don’t mind not supporting people like that so I’ll give it a go
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue MidjourneyEnglish20·24 days agoDo you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•IRS tax filing software released to the people as free softwareEnglish14·26 days agoWell the IRS says it is accurate.
It doesn’t say accurate to what standard but I think its pretty clear that “tax law” is the default here.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldEnglish2·1 month agoOh dang time flies when you’re having fun exploiting people
That’s a ferret.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data?English10·2 months agoThe difference is, if this were to happen and it was found later that a court case crucial to the defense were used, that’s a mistrial. Maybe even dismissed with prejudice.
Courts are bullshit sometimes, it’s true, but it would take deliberate judge/lawyer collusion for this to occur, or the incompetence of the judge and the opposing lawyer.
Is that possible? Sure. But the question was “will fictional LLM case law enter the general knowledge?” and my answer is “in a functioning court, no.”
If the judge and a lawyer are colluding or if a judge and the opposing lawyer are both so grossly incompetent, then we are far beyond an improper LLM citation.
TL;DR As a general rule, you have to prove facts in court. When that stops being true, liars win, no AI needed.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data?English81·2 months agoRight the internet that’s increasingly full of AI material.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data?English10·2 months agoNah that means you can ask an LLM “is this real” and get a correct answer.
That defeats the point of a bunch of kinds of material.
Deepfakes, for instance. International espionage, propaganda, companies who want “real people”.
A simple is_ai checkbox of any kind is undesirable, but those sources will end back up in every LLM, even one that was behaving and flagging its output.
You’d need every LLM to do this, and there’s open source models, there’s foreign ones. And as has already been proven, you can’t rely on an LLM detecting a generated product without it.
The correct way to do it would be to instead organize a not-ai certification for real content. But that would severely limit training data. It could happen once quantity of data isn’t the be-all end-all for a model, but I dunno when when or if that’ll be the case.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•The Collapse of GPT: Will future artificial intelligence systems perform increasingly poorly due to AI-generated material in their training data?English17·2 months agoNo, because there’s still no case.
Law textbooks that taught an imaginary case would just get a lot of lawyers in trouble, because someone eventually will wanna read the whole case and will try to pull the actual case, not just a reference. Those cases aren’t susceptible to this because they’re essentially a historical record. It’s like the difference between a scan of the declaration of independence and a high school history book describing it. Only one of those things could be bullshitted by an LLM.
Also applies to law schools. People do reference back to cases all the time, there’s an opposing lawyer, after all, who’d love a slam dunk win of “your honor, my opponent is actually full of shit and making everything up”. Any lawyer trained on imaginary material as if it were reality will just fail repeatedly.
LLMs can deceive lawyers who don’t verify their work. Lawyers are in fact required to verify their work, and the ones that have been caught using LLMs are quite literally not doing their job. If that wasn’t the case, lawyers would make up cases themselves, they don’t need an LLM for that, but it doesn’t happen because it doesn’t work.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“English1251·2 months agoYes that’s what he’s saying.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid forEnglish4·2 months agoNah thats the government’s ability to regulate.
He hasn’t defunded the courts, so private lawsuits can occur. (At least he hasn’t as of today, maybe he will tomorrow)
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla bait-and-switch: Cybertruck owners won't get Autosteer feature they paid forEnglish131·2 months agoBut also may they sue for false advertising and cost Tesla legal fees and result in them being obligated to provide these services for free.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Games@lemmy.world•Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of MemoriesEnglish31·2 months agoSame. And then when I believed it was real, I still thought it was some throwaway game, because that’s not just a gimmick, it’s a silly one.
I agree that if its fun for people, have fun, but I never could take the game seriously while a bunch of anime characters and freaking Goofy. Couldn’t get into the story.
Stay with your parents.
If you can afford to move to a new place on your own with what you make right now, you can afford to put that same money into a savings account. That money in the bank is far more useful if something happens to you, your kid, or your parents. Figure out what you’d pay in a new house, childcare, mortgage, the whole thing, subtracting what you currently pay, and set it aside.
Also, I assume whatever your dad would’ve given you is some kind of retirement fund, and while that’s very nice of him to offer it, it’d be better for him to still have that later, for all the same reasons it’s good for you to save.
If it’s not a retirement fund, then it either is in some kind of high interest savings account, or should be. You can take his example or you both can look into that together, and set that up for his current money and your future money.
Money aside, having family support is worth so much more than it seems. I have a child the same age, too, and the difference between me being able to go do something, anything, from see a movie to shop to go on a date with my wife, and be able to leave my kid at home and know she’s in good hands, it’s worth so much more than it seems like it should be. My advice is even if you decide to move out, do it when your kid is more independent, and you have an even better financial situation.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?English1·2 months agoYeah that too.
I’m happy with mint I just wanted to see what it said.
Khanzarate@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?English6·2 months agoI’d never heard of it so I tried it out, it seemed fine until the end where it listed about ten different distros with no real way to differentiate them.
Like, yeah, mint and Ubuntu and elementary and zorin and xubuntu all work for my use cases. I wanted it to give me a reason why one is better than another.
So, yeah, can’t recommend that website. It’s trying to help, but it won’t, really.
*hippochrissy