Another blogpost on the impact of LLMs

"Am I worried about losing my job? Sure. It seems almost assured that eventually, my skilled craftsmanship and decades of experience will be replaced by a huge machine that churns out low-quality versions of what I used to painstakingly produce. Undoubtedly, this machine-slop will be cheaper to make, leading to the death of my craft and the loss of my knowledge, all so we can reflexively consume greater quantities of mass-produced garbage and keep the working class poor. I get why the Luddites are pissed, I really do."

"But even in those communities there's always the crafters: the people who care and will have you and teach you and support you.
That’s how I’ve been surviving since 2015. By trying to mingle and be where the crafters are. If given the choice wouldn’t you rather watch an Oscar nominated film instead of a fast-produced straight to streaming film? Wouldn’t you take a carefully ethically crafted wool jumper instead of a She-in polyester one?"

L'humain est oublié dans cette course à l'IAg et n'est pas une fatalité. J'utilise l'IAg donc je ne suis loin d'être parfait sur ce sujet

A l'aide ... Personnellement j'ai ajouté une liste de plus à uBlock Origin https://github.com/F1oron/reworld-media-block-list/blob/main/ublock.txt

Just added this to my uBlock Origin configuration

I wish Palantir was still just something from Tolkien's universe and not some technofacist company

it's reassuring ...

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. Forgot who shared this but I just added it to my uBlock Origin

Un jour je finirai par passer à Deezer, car j'avais content de mon expérience, et ce genre d'article me conforte. Pour l'instant, je suis encore chez Spotify avec tous ses aspects négatifs ...

Poor Microslop CEO

"One of the genuinely positive things about tools like Copilot and ChatGPT is that they empower people with minimal development experience to create their own programs. Little programs that do useful things - and that’s awesome. More power to the users.
But that’s not product development, it’s programming. They aren’t the same thing. Not even close."

"When these people talk about the web they’re talking about the web they’re part of: they talk about the web that is powered by advertising and by tracking, the web that needs traffic to sustain itself. The commercial web is what they talk about."

Le PDG du spécialiste du paiement différé estime avoir été trop loin dans sa logique de réduction de coûts. Face au mécontentement de ses clients, la société se remet donc à embaucher.

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking onstage at the SXSW conference in