HarkMahlberg

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[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He might be popular here on left-wing Internet forums, but his voters don't turn out.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sanders-banked-on-young-voters-heres-how-the-numbers-have-played-out

Bernie and Warren are great at pushing progressive policies into the public consciousness, don't get me wrong.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 30 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I mean... they didn't specify it had to be random (or even uniform)? But yeah, it's a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people..

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks for the headsup.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Ever since reading about the challenge of deleting an image from your profile, a GUI for that. It should not only be an API call, not should you have to contact your instance admin to do it. It should be completely self-service from your profile page.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Do you have further reading about this?

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

Yeah there goes verdantbanana, right on schedule.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

These aren't facts. You're laundering a broken dog whistle through a couple Wikipedia links. Crawl back into your cave you troglodyte.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Which is still weird.

Alexander Sawchuk, then an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California ... along with a graduate student and the SIPI lab manager, was hurriedly searching the lab for a good image to scan for a colleague's conference paper. ... Just then, somebody happened to walk in with a recent issue of Playboy. The engineers tore away the top third of the centerfold so they could wrap it around the drum of their Muirhead wirephoto scanner...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

Everything about the story sounds like it was a rush job, a decision made on a whim, after exhausting their existing catalog of test images. And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession? They don't even say who it was, probably to protect them from any embarrassing professional consequences. To me, that's probably the strongest reason to retire it: it's unprofessional.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

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No state, no country, fake town, fake street, fake account, fake website. Fuck off.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago

I would say that the "positive vibes only" trait is part of it, but the far bigger problem was the character limit. Even when it was double from 140 to 280, that still doesn't not leave room for nuanced opinions. And then, the least nuanced opinions also become the most easily spreadable. Both traits really reward our worst instincts.

 

It turns out, if people in an online community really don't like what you're doing, they can turn to harassment, threats, or worse to try to shut you down.

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