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Wow, that audio is super unsettling. On its own it would seem innocuous, but with the context of trying to contact somebody in a country that’s on the verge of being nuked, it’s downright horrifying.

Back in the olden days, it was “here is my product, and this is the price, if you like it buy from this store”

When exactly are these olden days you refer to? I ask because most “modern” advertising practices have long-since been in place for over a century now; the only things that’ve changed are the delivery method and frequency.

Not surprising, most of them were just web wrappers, anyway. I’ve not used them that often, but they feel like they’re basically just bloatier PWAs.

Fun fact: The synthetic blood in True Blood’s lore was also made by Japanese scientists.

knowing that you gotta call Customer Service to get the car to stop in case of emergency is pretty bad design, safety wise.

You don’t. He didn’t want to push the button, himself, because he expected customer service to do something different. But there’s a button on the screen right in front of him, as well as in his app, that will make the car immediately pull over and unlock the doors. You can hear the rep trying to direct him to push the button, and he refuses because he wants to be stubborn for his video.

Well… yeah. That’s not what LLMs do. That’s like saying “A leafblower got absolutely wrecked by 1998 Dodge Viper in beginner’s drag race”. It’s only impressive if you don’t understand what a leafblower is.

I zi what you’re doing there, and no.

I also missed it. Which is disappointing because I had brought up this subject a few times and at least wanted to take part in the discussions (luckily it went as I had hoped it would). Unfortunately, keeping a post on a Lemmy feed visible long enough for everybody to see it is kinda hard to do right now. Especially for those of us who primarily browse from our main feed pages, and not directly on the community where stickied threads can be seen.

Thank you. Communities like this are one of the few places left where I can just read something that makes me feel good without it coming at the expense of someone else’s misfortune (even IF they’re shitty people). Sometimes I need that little bit of escape during my day; more and more often lately, in fact. So I’m glad to see this enforced.

This sucks. I use Catbox quite heavily. I’ll probably buy a sub to help support them, but I hope they’re able to recoup enough to stay afloat. It’s been really great having access to a non-enshittified, login-free host for video files and I’d hate to lose it.

I’m just surprised that there are still people using Tinder.

Now?

Yeah, Discord whales exist. Some people are REALLY proud of their profiles.

“Young Chinese women have small fingers,” the article reads, “and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said.”

This 100% reads like LLM output; it’s confidently wrong, isn’t using proper news copy syntax, and got weirdly vague as it trailed off (“the small device”).

NYT is publishing AI articles.

Probably because Reddit is complicit in removing such content.

That’s actually a really clever use of Gaussian splats, though I’m not really sure what the practical use of it would be. You can probably create some really cool, interactive renders of shipwrecks and reefs and such, but I’m not immediately seeing the value beyond edutainment content.

Corridor does a really good breakdown of what Gaussian splats are here, for those interested. The explanation ends when the sponsor segment begins, for those who don’t want to watch the whole video.

Because they don’t have propellers?

Implying there’s anything worth pirating on Netflix these days.

These ads will most definitely not be generated on-the-fly; too risky and too costly. They’ll be pre-generated and pre-approved AI-generated videos.

Imagine a collection of videos like that AI Coca Cola commercial (but for a soon-to-be-cancelled Netflix series instead of a soda), with a dozen different versions of it made for each “user archetype” Netflix identifies. That’s going to be how Netflix implements this.

Stadia was amazing, and would likely still be around if not for Phil Harrison. I have fond memories of unloading my Whisper of the Worm into the Scourge of the Past raid boss with my Destiny 2 clan, from my phone, on the toilet.