Here's the thing. When someone tells you something that is important. Don't just believe them. Verify it with multiple sources. This was good advice before llms, and it's good advice after them. The people who complain that llms will make everyone dumb are actually just telling the world about themselves. They are telling the world that they are the kind of person who just goes around looking for sources that they can mindlessly believe without verifying. Quit being like that. Change the way you are on a personal level, and you will quit worrying about llms making everyone stupid. There are very many people who don't share your concern because they are already used to not being believers. Llms make life easier for people who are routinely brainstorming and looking for new ideas and want to hear things explained in various ways.

Been using it for decades, never an issue for me. What in the world are you trying to download over there??

What could they even give? They don't even ask for an email, and they claim to run everything you browse as RAM that never gets held or recorded.

You don't have to be delusional to self-sacrifice to try to make a difference. I'm so sick of people pretending like there is nothing they could possibly do to help, so they just keep hurting others. It's just like every discussion on factory farms. At least try to help. It will make you feel better, and you can quit getting all defensive when people point out things that can be done.

Yeah, I absolutely agree. About a month ago, I would have said that Suno was clearly leading in AI music generation, but since then, Udio has definitely taken the lead. I can't imagine where things will be by the end of the year, let alone the end of the decade. This is why it's so crazy to me when people look at generative AI and act like it's no big deal and just a passing fad or whatever. They have no idea that there is a tsunami crashing down on us all and they always seem to be the ones that bill themselves as the weather experts who have it all figured out. Nobody knows the implications of this, but it definelty isn't an inconsequential tech.

"A solution in search for a problem" is a phrase used way to much, and almost always in the wrong way. Even in the article it says that it has been solving problems for over a year, it just complains that it isn't solving the biggest problems possible yet. It is remarkable how hard it is for people to extrapolate based on the trajectory. The author of this paper would have been talking about how pointless computers are if they were alive in the early 90s, and how they are just "a solution in search for a problem".

Why in the world is this being downvoted? An absurd number of dolphins are murdered as an accidental byproduct of commercial net fishing every single day. What the hell goes through the mind of a fool that downnvotes this comment?

Sci Hub and Library Genesis for those who don't want to feed the leeches

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of the war in Gaza last October

I feel like I haven't heard a number this low since the end of October. I've been hearing >30,000 lately. Am I mistaken or something? I thought Reuters is supposed to generally do a pretty good job. What's the deal?

I was about to post: whenever he hangs out with children, he has a hand up his ass.

Yeah, I've just set up a hotkey that says something like "back up your answer with multiple reputable sources" and I just always paste it at the end of everything I ask. If it can't find webpages to show me to back up its claims then I can't trust it. Of course this isn't the case with coding, for that I can actually run the code to verify it.

There actually were brave men who saved the kids for real, none of which were involved in any way with the childish Musk name calling BS. Those men's names are John Volanthen, Richard Stanton, Jason Mallinson, Chris Jewell, Richard Harris, and Craig Challen and they are heros and they don't deserve to have their bravery credited to anyone else no matter how childish some random billionaire is.