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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • That’s fine if you’re trying to get into an argument. If you’re just answering someone’s question or sharing a story or whatever, it’s frustrating as hell when your post fails over and over. I’m getting sick of being told to check my language settings in my profile, even though no such setting exists and it had nothing to do with why my submission failed. Maybe that’s just a wefwef thing.






  • Maybe writing assignments should be done in class, instead of at home. Anything you let students complete in their own time has always been open to cheating, via calculators, excessive help from parents, or straight up paying someone online to write it for you. This isn’t really any different, albeit a bit faster and cheaper. You always need to stand behind a kid and watch them work if you want to be sure they’re really doing it themselves.


  • How is it fair for big companies with a lot of money to take creators’ work, without (or minimal) paying/attributing them, while those companies then use these technologies to make more money?

    Because those works were put online, at a publicly accessible location, and not behind a paywall or subscription. If literally anyone on the planet can see your work just by typing a URL into their browser, then you have essentially allowed them to learn from it. Also, it’s not like there are copies of those works stored away in some database somewhere, they were merely looked at for a few seconds each while a bunch of numbers went up and down in a neural network. There is absolutely not enough data kept to reproduce the original work.

    Besides, if OpenAI (or other companies in the same business) had to pay a million people for the rights to use their work to train an AI model, how much do you think they’d be able to pay? A few dollars? Why bother seeking that kind of compensation at all?












  • The first and last points are hitting me so hard right now, even just one day after Apollo’s demise. Being able to scrub through a video or GIF was so incredibly useful. You could pause it by holding your finger still, then move back and forth by swiping left or right, even frame by frame if you wanted. I miss that more than I thought I would.

    Also, hiding posts I’ve already seen (or scrolled past) was another lifesaver. One thing I notice on Lemmy (I’m simultaneously testing Mlem, Memmy and wefwef) is that I keep seeing the same posts over and over. Every few hours I open an app to my home page, and scroll through the same few dozen posts that are popular that day, only seeing something new between every five or six familiar posts. Apollo never showed me the same post twice unless I specifically bookmarked it. Much less wasted time.