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Natal

@ Natal @lemmy.world

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  • Exploring the idea of semantic erosion

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  • Ha, yes! I actually divided it up into 5 parts on Substack but I wasn't sure how to approach this on Lemmy because I didn't want to spam 5 posts in a row, and I understand people wouldn't like me promoting Substack. But then I didn't really know how best to share it. How and where would you have preferred reading it?

  • I feel like our world is being directed rather than experienced

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  • I'm from the 90s and I share the feeling. How did we get here? Tech was fun and nice and cool, then it all became samey and locked down and on the cloud. Cars all look the same too. Maybe it's capitalism that's reached a stage where to get more profits it can't just create more value so it tries to super optimize what's already there but doing so it removes the little joy and whimsy there was ? Or maybe it's for control ? Thinking out loud here, I don't know. But this age is so depressing.

  • LLMs could be a threat to more than our jobs.

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  • Agree on the potential, and it could be very insidious. Just tweak the frequency of words, tweak one down in favor of another and suddenly millions of people read a word more frequently than normal while the other is subtly less frequent. You might manage to erase a word like that without anyone crying about it if you tune it out slowly enough.

  • LLMs could be a threat to more than our jobs.

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  • Yes, and even among other generations, AI isn't acclaimed and well received by everyone, made evident by the number or sabotage news I've seen recently.

  • LLMs could be a threat to more than our jobs.

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  • I do touch on that later on in a still WIP article. I initially wondered if LLMs have the potential to interfere with our words and meaning, and I'd argue they do. At what time scale, I do not know yet, I'm still trying to gather evidence for that. And I'm not arguing either in the subsequent articles that this will absolutely happen. Nobody knows how things will pan out exactly. The thesis is simply can AI interfere with language and meaning, and what could it look like?

    You argue that people are still influenced by people and that is true, and I also write later on that part of the population rejects AI entirely and will thus resist the potential effects I discuss. But there is plenty of existing currents like anti-vaccines that show how a part of a population can have consequence on the entire population.

    Then again, I decided to write those articles because I think it is worth exploring. Not because I want to spread AI doom stories or worry people but simply because that's where my curiosity leads me.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    LLMs could be a threat to more than our jobs.

    skepsis.bearblog.dev /llms-could-be-a-threat-to-more-than-our-jobs/

  • AI spells the downfall of human culture; yet it isn’t even a substitute, but merely an endless, lackluster remix.

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  • To clarify one important thing though: I am not a scientist or an expert in the area. I'm a translator by trade, and since I couldn't find anything related to this, I decided to try and write my own paper. I learned how to do it when I was still a student but it's a while back and I don't have the resources or institutional backup to carry on my own experiments. I'm simply trying to find evidence and synthetize it. My hope is 1) that it interests people and get them to think about it and 2) maybe in those people I got thinking, there will be actual researchers with the means to do that properly.

  • AI spells the downfall of human culture; yet it isn’t even a substitute, but merely an endless, lackluster remix.

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  • I'm currently studying and gathering studies about language and cognition to see if LLMs could do anything to our culture. So far I'd lean to say that, yes, they could curate our words and thus alter the way we speak, write and think. Words are linked to our perception of reality somehow and given enough time our overlords could curate words they like, shadowban others and in that way interact with what we can communicate and think about.

    Obviously there is a large group of people rejecting AI so they wouldn't suffer from this.

  • What's your backup plan if AI takes your job?

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  • My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.

    They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.

    It's not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.

    But money saved is money so they did it anyway.

    Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.

    Some people don't do AI for money, there's a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That's easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn't help at all.

  • What's your backup plan if AI takes your job?

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  • Too late. Didn't have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I'm job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.

  • Despite all the AI nonsense happening right now, I have a simple question. Do you feel valued? From one human to another.

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  • I'm a translator, so different type of gen ai but also heavily impacted. Here's the thing, I enjoy translating with my brain and soul, finding nicely written stuff. Ai is flat, idiotic, makes mistakes but wrapped in a believable enough package that it's hard to spot the errors.

    So instead of spending an hour translating, I would spend ten minutes translating, then a random amount of time proofreading and looking for hidden mistakes, find stupid sentences translated as is or even sometimes saying the opposite of what it should be, and then spent a huge cognitive load on fixing that without breaking the barely good enough rest of text.

    It's usually not faster, or not by much, but it sucked all the pleasure out of the job by making me do another type of task.

    Oh and the rates for ai translation is not even half that of human translation.

    I personally chose to shut the business because I really wasn't a translator anymore and was earning less anyway.

    Even if it were faster, this isn't the cognitive task I learned and enjoyed, this isn't my craft and there is no pride in fixing shit from Large lying models. So your days feel pointless like a hamster on a wheel. No amount of money would fix that and as I said it doesn't pay well anyway.

  • Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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  • Same thing for translation. They replaced us with AI and ask us to proofread and correct the mess for 1/4 the price. I stopped my translation career over this.

  • Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

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  • Claude is neutral and can be given to women too. Though it lost popularity over the male version. There is even a fruit called "La reine Claude" which back translates to the queen Claude. But yeah, Claude was male in my head too so I'm definitely guilty of that too despite knowing and actively trying not to anthropomorphize Large lying models

  • What's your self-hosting success of the week?

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  • Hum. I've been smooth sailing for a while now. I've tried installing OwnTracks again and made some progress by figuring out cloud flare tunnels are a problem (at least the way I configured them). New to MQTT. So the app still doesn't work properly but now I have an idea why and I'm not just banging my head on the wall anymore.

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • I had GPSD working nicely, confirmed both by cgps -s and mongps, but I was stuck on geoclue. Whatever I did, the GPS wouldn't send data to Organic Maps. I kept having this error: "Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/GeoClue2/Client/1”" despite being 100% sure client1 was the right one.

    Going to Lineage OS was much easier for me and I just needed a working GPS. Linux GPS will stay in the "challenge todo list", because I'd like to figure it out eventually. I most likely was doing something stupid.

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • He, I wish. I don't have access to a 3D printer either at home or in the close area. I'd have to go to the closest big city for that and at that point it costs as much in fuel as it'd cost to get a new one. Granted I have to find one that suits my needs to begin with.

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • What car do you have? Dacia Sandero Stepway

    Didn’t you want to use it for your music as well with navidrome? Maybe, if the USB port works, then I'll use Navidrome on it and put the music that way through the car speaker. If they don't, I can plug my phone to the car speakers and the Pi to bluetooth external speakers. The phone only crashes during satnav. By the way I did a recovery reset, i'll try a drive today and see how it goes.

    CoMaps may be up your alley, uses OSM. Thanks for the name, current app in testing is OsmAnd, as i've seen it recommended a lot. If it doesn't work I'll try CoMaps.

    Especially since I just bought the car a few weeks before. I feel you, this phone was bought specifically for car use. My former one was slow, but I don't use my phone much so there was no point in upgrading. I got the Oppo A51 back then because it had decent reviews for the price and I had a deal on it. But I think it's not beefy enough. It thermal throttles very easily, too.

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • I didn't know about osmin! I might try it out.

    For the poweroff, I'll just poweroff the Pi from the UI and wait a sec for it to go down. Initial testing has me waiting 10 seconds on the "shutting down" screen. That's short enough, meanwhile I can put my jacket on or something. Once off, I just unplug it. It's also running on SSD because I don't trust SD cards to endure constant read/write from satnav so I installed from SD card and cloned the OS to an SSD, it should be more resilient this way.

  • Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

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  • For the audio, I'll first try the obvious and plug the Pi to the USB A of the factory car unit. Maybe it'll detect it as mass storage media and give it access to the built in audio system. Else, I'll just use a bluetooth speaker I have at home. I don't need good audio for "turn left/turn right", just to hear it.

    The whole project is an attempt at getting rid of Android Auto and having my own standalone unit that will free me from unwanted updates both from the OS and the apps. I've had Waze become useless three times in the span of two years because they pushed updates that made the app unstable enough to not be reliable.

    For the viewing angle, on the car next to the existing head unit screen, there's a mounting bracket. I'll use that to mount a 7inch display I got. It'll sit right above the existing one if that doesn't obstruct the view too much, else I'll have to get one of those arms with joints and lower it somewhere not annoying.

    My bluetooth speaker is the perfect size to sit in the cup holder so if the car audio isn't possible, then there's a plan B.

    I'll try the recovery mode for my phone and see if that helps!

  • How does everyone deal with this dilemma?

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  • Use a software/app to meal plane. (Mealie/Tandoor) You pick the recipes you fancy for the days/week/whatever period. It generates a grocery list containing exactly what is needed for the meals you chose, nothing else.

    I haven't thrown away anything in a couple years now. Oh and freeze leftovers if needed.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Part 2 of car Raspberry pi 4 GPS project

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Need a second opinion on a project idea (Pi5 car headunit)

  • bike wrench @lemmy.world
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    Tire pressure odyssey, what am I doing wrong?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    LinguaCafe - Confused why the provided docker-compose doesn't work.

  • Strategy Games♟️| RTS, 4X and Grand Strategy @lemmy.world
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    RTS where you can create an AI ally mid-game?

  • Pop!_OS (Linux) @lemmy.world
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    Series of small questions

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Trouble moving a container and its data to another server

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Need help understanding a back-up script

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Confused by Lutris, game doesn't launch overnight.

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Finally had enough of Windows. I'm packing up. I'm nervous!

  • guitars @lemmy.world
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    How do you learn new tracks nowadays?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Docker container reappears constantly after "rm" or "rm -f"

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    SOLVED

    Plex (and Jellyfin too) don't see the content of /media (docker/debian)

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Source for tutorials and a question?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Can I use the SD card port of my laptop to install a server?

  • Journaling @lemmy.world
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    Elegant solutions to add space on a page when the following one is already used?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why does powdered shallots stick at the bottom of the vial?

  • Fountain Pens @lemmy.world
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    How much should a pen be used to keep it in good shape?