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AI is a 0.01 quality JPEG. It ingests a staggering amount of data to produce a relatively tiny file that you can decompress with a lot of guesswork on the computer's side. The result is, usually, mostly ok on a larger scale but when you try to look at individual pixels, they're the correct color only by pure luck.

the Guardian

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittificati...

I wish they'd stop platforming TERFs, so I could start giving them money.

If Trump runs again in 2028, Obama should, too.

What ingests large quantities of data, applies some math and outputs a much smaller set of data that can still be used to reconstruct what was ingested? Compression algorithms, right? And some of them compress *so much* that data can only be extracted partially and the rest needs to be "guessed" - like JPEGs. LLMs ingest TB after TB and compress that into a few miserable GB. And that's why the info they produce is like a JPEG with a compression factor of 1000 and more.

Following a discussion on reddit of all places, here's a poll. Please spread far and wide because [garbled audio, static, unintelligible noises] The question is: do you normally listen to and enjoy audiobooks? Also, this is what I mean by "inner monologue" (sorry it's not WP but that page terrifies me)

Psychology Today

How Inner Monologues Work, and Who Has Them

Inner monologues can represent a rich experience for some, as long as they don’t get out of hand.

#askfedi

hunting for fluorescent minerals has unexpected results

A somewhat shitty day vastly improved by discovering that the French version of #bluey has Bandit speaking Italian in Pavlova

If GenAI companies were serious about how good their "agentic" stuff is, they would give write permission to their git repo to their agents and ask it to improve its own performance 10x.

Angry, confused and worried about police – behind Instagram bans

Hundreds of people have contacted the BBC to say they have wrongly been shut out of their accounts.

Meta response to random bans (and extreme slander, i believe) is "watchagunnadoaboutit". And you know what? They're right, because they're powerful and uncaring and safe in the knowledge they'll face no repercussions for getting it wrong. At this point, they're doing what any other hegemonizing swarm would do, it's their nature. It's US who should do something.