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smayonak@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewershipEnglish
1·1 year agoEven fun videos get search traffic from random queries. A video about robots fighting each other will get traffic from people interested in “robots fighting”, “robots wars”, “robowars”, “armored core”, “Gundam series”
When there are ai summaries for informational or navigational queries there will be fewer clicks because Google will pirate listicle sources of “best robots fighting each other articles”. This means they are stealing from older lists and newer videos will not get mentioned in the ai summary.
This is because ai technology can’t judge the quality of a video.
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Technology@lemmy.world•"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewershipEnglish
151·1 year agoLLMs are doing things like summarizing videos and then using the summaries to answer queries that before would have been a search result with monetization.
Google’s executives are unconcerned about the declinibg incentives to create YouTube videos having been sold on the lie that the future of the internet lies in Ai generated content. In other words robots will make the internet.
Robots which hallucinate constantly.
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•Red meat wreaks havoc on gut and drives inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in study on miceEnglish
7·1 year agoThey ate protein moderately and only enough to satiate their appetite. But if they were using storage methods ranging from hot springs to drying and fermentation they were eating red meat daily for months. Remaining meat was given to dogs (which eat unlimited amounts of protein). Fat was what humans ate in vast quantities. They’d go to extreme lengths to eat all sources of fat and marrow.
Although this study though doesn’t make quite the same point that you’re making.
The researchers artificially caused IBD in the mice by injecting them with a compound that damages their mucosal layer in the gut.
So what they’re saying is that once you have IBD you might want to eat a low protein diet. This is consistent with diets that were used to treat diarrhea (which suggests ibd) such as the BRAT diet.
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Study: Social media probably can’t be fixedEnglish
4·1 year agoYes and yes. What is crazy to me is that the owners of social media want more than profits. They also have a political agenda and are willing to tip the scales against any politician who opposes their interests or the interests of their major shareholders. Facebook promoted right wing disinformation campaigns against leaders who they disliked such as mark Carney. Their shareholders should be sued into oblivion and their c levels thrown into prison. Yet our legal system forbids this.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really)English
8·1 year agoThey are both great and also biased. Because LLM training data includes vast libraries of history books, including such works as Dark Alliance, it is capable of running down paths that few historians would walk. I recently used an LLM to find an unimpeachable source for the CIA’s connection to cocaine trafficking aircraft. This was not available through a simple Google search because the site was likely deindexed.
They are promoting the disproven conspiracy theory that illegals are impersonating US citizens and then casting ballots under false names.
Greg Palast’s reporting proved that they are trying to purge minority and left leaning voters from voting rolls.
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
science@lemmy.world•These Squirrels Are Hunting and Eating Meat and Scientists Only Just NoticedEnglish
2·1 year agoWhen it’s not a matter of survival then we judge. I think most squirrels are pretty hard up for protein and they get it wherever they can.
Jeff Dahmer could have just bought a sandwich.
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science@lemmy.world•These Squirrels Are Hunting and Eating Meat and Scientists Only Just NoticedEnglish
3·1 year agoI live in a port city crawling with rats and mice. They are so many that it’s common to see freshly dead rodents on the bike trail after they were hit by e bikes.
What’s crazy is how quickly they get scavenged by crows and squirrels. They dissappear almost immediately.
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)English
4·1 year agoI know what you mean. All the code generated with ai was loaded with problems. Specifically it kept forcing my api keys into the code without using environmental variables. But for basic coding concepts it has so far been perfect. even a 3b model seemingly generates great definitions
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•What is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B)English
3·1 year agoSnippets are a great use.
I use StableCode on my phone as a programming tutor for learning Python. It is outstanding in both speed and in accuracy for this task. I have it generate definitions which I copy and paste into Anki the flashcard app. Whenever I’m on a bus or airplane I just start studying. Wish that it could also quiz me interactively.
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website trafficEnglish
61·1 year agoIt’s a huge disaster in the making. There’s probably a game theory model that explains what’s happening but damned if i know it. AI is a trap.
At the beginning of LLMs as a consumer tech phase, the big tech companies believed that they would soon generate synthetic data without human labor costs. But synthetic data caused model collapse when used as training data. So they still need humans.
But now their competitors are using scrapers and summarizers and those are expensive so they have to extract more value from search traffic and that means fewer referrals to sites. Fewer referrals to sites reduces original content and leadabto less traffic and training data for their models.
The only two ways out are to create an international regulatory body ornto break up facebook, microspft, and google.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Rebecca Shaw: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. But I didn't expect them to be such losers. English
9·1 year agoThere are different studies which show a shockingly high percent of the population are fools but the most compelling is the one by Cambridge Analytica which found a population cluster in Facebook’s massive amount of user data. They called this the average cluster.
The Republicans targeted this group in the 2016 election. Around 30 percent of the b population fall into this group.
Weak but also a thruple with daddy 2fa
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Technology@lemmy.world•OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - LiliputingEnglish
4·1 year agoThere are small language models out there that can run fluently on smartphones. I’m fond of StableCode as a coding tutor. My dream is to be able to speak to the tutor and see its code instructions without having to dig my phone out.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsEnglish
1·1 year agoIt’s odd to me that someone would feel the need to compensate for their socially awkward highschool years by learning Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and taking growth hormone. You’d think being rich would be enough for these people but it’s not.
For a brief period of time, I entertained the hope that the t-shirt was Zuck’s way of warning the world that the US was slipping into a fascist dictatorship, but that was not the case. It seems clear that that he wore the shirt out of hubris. It was his way of telling the world that he was the modern era’s Caeser and the two others men running the failing superstate were crassus and pompey. An absolutely mindless message given how it ended for all three of these men.
By the way, isn’t the word “commode” derived from Commodus? We should name something after Zuck. Perhaps this new strain of bird flu that’s been spreading wildly because of a lack of a federal response?
smayonak@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsEnglish
1·1 year agoIt occurred right around when the kingdom in orange took power. Somehow zuck thought that it would be advantageous to his interests to compare himself to Caesar during an obvious triumvirate. The orange one and phony stark would be crassus and pompey by extension. But I think commodus is a far more appropriate roman emperor for zuck to choose as his patron saint
For fitness its probably decent but Garmin seems to have placebo sleep tracking. In order to get anything remotely accurate the sleep tracking algorithm has to be compared to a lot of polysomnograph data. But because companies don’t want to spend any more than they need to sleep tracking is usually just tacked on. Garmin hasn’t shown a good track record in this regard.
There are a number of open weight open source models out there with all their data sourced from the public domain. Look up BLOOM and Falcon. There are others.


Wouldn’t any text editor with a delinter be superior