We aren’t actually using on or off either, but rather different levels of electrical charge. If there is more electric charge past a certain threshold being picked up, it’s interpreted as a 1 or on, if it’s beneath this defined threshold, it’s interpreted as a 0 or off.
1 and 0 are abstractions, not the physical reality, which is messy and analog. We are forcing this analog reality into a binary state by classifying it.
Am Ende ist es eine Vertrauenssache. Vertraue ich diesen Menschen, mit denen ich teils seit vielen Jahren mehr oder minder intensive parasoziale Beziehungen pflege und auf die ich aufgrund der Natur solcher Beziehungen viele meiner eigenen Überzeugungen und Vorlieben projiziere? Eine auch nur annähernd zuverlässige Erkennung von KI-generierten Inhalten ist nämlich technisch nicht möglich. Gewissheit gibt es nicht.
Es gibt sicherlich unter diesen Kreativen auch welche, die - trotz lautstarker anderslautender Beteuerungen - KI heimlich für die Erstellung von Inhalten verwenden, selbst wenn das nur punktuell oder gelegentlich getan wird. Heimlich natürlich deswegen, weil man negative Reaktionen befürchtet. Jeder lügt einmal im Leben und biegt sich dann irgendwie im Kopf Rechtfertigungen zurecht (in diesem Fall: Stress, Zeitdruck, persönliche Umstände, kreative Flaute, es ist nur eine Recherchehilfe, nur für den ersten Entwurf, etc.), die er anderen nie zugestehen würde.
Es kann aber freilich als Konsument mental beruhigend sein, sich der Fiktion hinzugeben, dass es heutzutage noch Ecken im Netz gibt, die gänzlich sicher vor KI sind. Wenn man wirklich sicher sein will, dann kann man eigentlich nur noch Inhalte aus der Zeit vor der Veröffentlichung von ChatGPT in Erwägung ziehen. Es würde mich nicht wundern, wenn es schon eine “pre-AI” Subkultur irgendwo gibt oder bald geben wird. Eine etwas weniger sichere Methode, die ich pflege, ist, größtenteils Leuten zu folgen, die schon lange vor KI aktiv waren und die immer noch erkennbar Dinge in gleicher Qualität veröffentlichen. Manchmal passiert es freilich, dass diese Kreativen ganz offen auf den KI-Karren aufspringen, mit sehr vorhersehbaren Folgen.
Hinweis: Dieser Kommentar ist gänzlich ohne KI entstanden. Ich hab tatsächlich noch nie KI einen Beitrag von mir im Internet schreiben lassen, weil mir es verdammt viel Spaß macht, selbst meine eigenen dusseligen geistigen Ergüsse in Worte zu fassen und mit anderen zu teilen (ob sie es wollen oder nicht). Das könnte natürlich eine Lüge sein, entsprechend müsst ihr mir vertrauen, dass ich es ehrlich so meine.
Are you a professional contrarian? What are you doing?
He is stupid or else he wouldn’t be ruining his country and his legacy by unsuccessfully trying to subjugate a much smaller and weaker neighboring nation.
We shouldn’t be pretending like he’s some ingenious mastermind. He lucked into some successes, but it won’t last and is already falling apart. The problem is that he’ll still be able to cause a lot of damage until his house of cards finally comes crashing down on top of him - and who knows what will happen afterwards.
I will not vote for their equivalent party in Germany for this reason as well. They are also commonly repeating Russian talking points and don’t want to help Ukraine at all.
None of this is negatively impacted by being a NATO member.
I won’t give them another Cent myself for numerous reasons, but I was just mocking your grandiose declaration.
Für versuchten Mord braucht es den niederen Beweggrund der Tötungsabsicht. Der ist aber hier nicht vorhanden. Wenn es durch das Verabreichen von KO-Tropfen zu einem Tod kommt könnte ich mir aber eine Anklage wg. fahrlässiger Tötung und/oder Totschlag vorstellen.
They’ll never financially recover from losing you as their customer.
If there are photos of the ships, you can tell by how low they are sitting in the water.
You can tell from the photos it’s not exactly high-res, but for the kinds of usage cases they are demonstrating (mainly an info display you place somewhere in your house), that’s not really a deal breaker. It’s not meant to be a digital picture frame or an ebook reader, where DPI would actually matter.
I built my current system in early January 2025. I felt like prices were bleeding me dry back then (especially the GPU - I paid over 750€ for a slightly used 4070 Ti Super), but in retrospect, I lucked out with the timing, picked exactly the right moment for using the money I had saved up over a long period of time and am feeling extraordinarily privileged for having a really good machine right now. I recently needed a RAM upgrade anyway, which was extortionately expensive, but I felt like it’s now or never. The machine wasn’t built with AI as its main or even secondary purpose in mind - I only learned about Strata after the RAM upgrade.
That said, if you are using AI in e.g. a business context, Strata drastically lowers the barrier of entry for a serious local LLM. Two (more like three these days, I’d guess) grand isn’t a large expense for anything but the smallest business (compared to the substantial five digit sum you’d have to spend without it), although it should be stressed that you can’t really do many simultaneous sessions on a PC or server rack that just meets the minimum requirements for Strata - and it’ll eat up most system resources as it’s running, only leaving enough for very light other tasks, at least if you’re trying to run the version of Qwen that does the most with your system.
Worth mentioning that cheap (clothing and other) items tend to be laced with harmful substances to a degree that would get people thrown in prison were they manufactured that way in Europe. In some cases, upper limits for dangerous substances are exceeded by thousands of times.
Might convince some people to try out a local AI that runs entirely on one of their systems instead and is thus inherently private and can be uncensored. That is, if they ever hear about this being a possibility.
I consider myself an AI skeptic, but if one wants to use AI for whatever purpose (mine is curiosity - I don’t use AI for anything other than experimentation), local AI is the way to go, in my opinion. You can run pretty impressive stuff on any halfway decent PC (I first started out with with hardware from 2017) - and if you have a powerful system (good CPU, 64 GB RAM, modern GPU with at least 12, better 16 GB of RAM), you can use a software like Strata to run AI models at impressive speeds that would normally require hardware that is out of reach for ordinary people.
You might want to look up how certain political positions switched from being supported by both sides of the aisle to becoming wedge issues. Obama was most certainly not right of Nixon. That’s just absurd.
To get back to my question though, I don’t feel like you answered it clearly. Does your reply mean - since Obama was and still is very popular on reddit - that the site is center-right from your point of view? From a European perspective this might be the case, but not in the way the current American political spectrum is organized. The political spectrum is not an absolute thing, but instead applies to the current reality in a certain place and the relationship of its participants to one another.
There’s also the issue that people who are politically further away from the center perceiving those that are closer to it as more extreme than they actually are, e.g. a far-right person might consider a moderate to be far left and a moderately left-wing person might consider a centrist to be center-right.
34k is absolutely nothing for an entire network of communities. I used to mod for a stagnating/declining gaming forum that was just in a single language (not English) and much larger than that - and even it felt quite small.
Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of users on any online community are near permanent lurkers and do not contribute with even brief comments - or even by voting. What matter is how many people are actually submitting links, writing posts and comments.
Look at this community: It’s the largest “general” technology community on the lemmyverse (I think), yet there are just a small handful of people posting, often days between posts and on average (going by the last three pages of submissions), tons of posts where not even a single user is commenting. Anything that isn’t controversial and does get comments is usually in the 3 to 7 comments range.
That’s a ghost town. I can practically see tumbleweed slowly rolling across the page. My perception might be a little skewed though, because the way I interact with posts is by annoyingly inserting myself into existing conversations or at least replying to unanswered comments that already exist, so I tend to avoid empty posts.
Part of this emptiness is certainly due to forums in general going the way of the dodo (thanks to Facebook, twitter, instagram and especially Discord, as awful as all of these are at replacing conventional forums) and part of it is due to reddit having absorbed much of the user base that is still interested in forums. My hypothesis is that reddit losing users due to ongoing enshittification would just result in the overwhelming majority of them ending spread out across the aforementioned services instead of ending up here. I’m terrible at predicting things though, but the big reddit exodus (or whatever actually materialized) largely skipped the lemmyverse in the past and I don’t think conditions have changed enough for anything different to happen this time, should this recent boneheaded decision by reddit’s management result in fewer people using their site.
The lemmyverse is center-right in your opinion? Or did you misread and thought I meant reddit with that? Sorry if I caused any confusion.
Back when this game came out, I had a PC that was just powerful enough to boot it, but not really fast to actually run it. It was agonizing spotting glimpses of this amazing game hidden underneath 640x480 at lowest settings, with textures and lighting glitching out, freezes interrupting gameplay all the time and the frame rate barely staying in the double digit range.
Two years later, I finally had a computer that was fast enough to run it as intended. It’s one of the first games I played on this machine and even though it was no match for Crysis or even most other AAA titles from this era in terms of graphics (although it still looked pretty good at max settings), the interactivity and immersion of the world easily made up for it and was one of the most impressive gaming experiences I had up until that point.
Unlikely. Reddit is too big and mainstream and the lemmyverse too small, too confusing - and too far-left politically, to be frank. Most of it is a ghost town. I also doubt it would be able to withstand a sudden massive influx of users from both a technical and organizational perspective.
Dem Rücken zuliebe würde ich bei Kompjutern bleiben. Man kann immer noch viel Spaß mit der Technik haben und sogar mit Mitmenschen, die ebenso Spaß daran haben. Wenn dich die ganzen sich bekriegenden Subkulturen und Strömungen stören, dann klink dich “einfach” aus deren Debatten aus und konzentriere dich auf den Kern, die Geräte, die Software und was man damit alles so anstellen kann. Finde Leute, die es ebenso locker sehen.