From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there’s a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.

Abject fucking cowardice.

Wasn’t Charlie supposed to be some kind of advocate for free speech? Because this sure doesn’t seem very free speechy.

Even if you really need that $100,000 reward, they’ll screw you out of it just like they did that person who reported Luigi Mangione. Collaborating with fascists won’t even get you your thirty pieces of silver.

So, people on the right are calling for violence against the left? And this is different from any other day ending in Y because…?

And here I was thinking that all you needed to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.

Guess Benny just doesn’t know any good people.

Sometimes words are a form of violence. And in Charlie’s case, he used those particular words as often and as gleefully as he could.

There will be no amount of suffering he could ever endure that would add up to even a fraction of the misery he has sent out into the world.

As always “The damage was the point” is giving Trump too much credit. He’s not trying to hurt America. He’s more interested in enriching himself than enriching his nation, for sure, but he also sees his fortunes as fundamentally tied to those of America and you can see that clearly in his statements and public actions going back long before his presidential ambitions.

He wants America to be the greatest, most respected, most powerful country in the world, and he’s doing what he thinks will achieve that.

It’s not malice; not towards America as a country, anyway. He’s just genuinely, truly, that incompetent and so are the people around him, because he surrounds himself with people who make him feel smart.

And before you bring it up, yes, he’s a Russian asset. Of course he is. But he’s not the kind of asset you give orders to. They don’t need to. He’s more than capable of doing all the damage they want without any direction.

As another commenter here beautifully put it, “He’s a fire and forget idiot.”

The part you’re still not grasping, despite my already having explained it once, is that in order to create this perfect prompt you’re imagining - in order to actually be the person who would make all those choices - you’d have to have the kind of experience that only comes from years or decades of practice. Is there some version of AI art where experienced artists use it as their medium in lieu of pencil or oil paint or digital art? Maybe. But that’s not the point of all this, is it? The promise of AI is that it’s supposed to allow everyone and anyone to be Van Gogh, without any training or practice, but the person who has no training or practice is never going to be able to create that perfect prompt that you somehow imagine exists.

(All of which is putting aside that when you move a brush the paint goes where you want and is the colour you want, whereas a prompt will always be filtered through the random distortion field of a stastical association model, but we don’t even need to get into that)

Look closer. It’s not just the big details. Look at the window. Look at how the AI just completely flattened out the lighting outside to this vague orange tone that robs the scene of so much of its character.

AI can’t think. It can’t make the kind of intentional choices that a good artist can. And you can’t solve that with prompting, because one, good luck describing that exact pattern of lighting in a prompt, and two, the person prompting isn’t a good enough artist to come up with that exact pattern of lighting, because it would take years of experience to be able to.

The reason you think your photoshops have mimic’d Van Gogh is because you’re not Van Gogh, and no offense intended, but you’re clearly not a good enough artist to understand the difference. I guarantee that anyone who knows what they’re looking for would instantly know the difference between your work and his. Art isn’t just style, it’s a myriad of choices that you can’t recreate with a photoshop filter.

The answers about using Dockerfiles are absolutely correct, but if you’re looking for a quick and simple solution that will work locally, you can always just use the “commit” docker command. This basically saves the current state of a container as a new image. You can then run new containers from that image as needed.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44480740/how-to-save-a-docker-container-state

“A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.

This is very obviously step one in a plan to kill apps like alternative YouTube clients that block ads, just like the Manifest V3 rollout was intended to kill ad blockers in Chrome. Once they have everyone using this verification system, then they can just arbitrarily deverify anything that contravenes whatever new acceptable usage policy they just made up.

By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.

Fair enough, I’ll accept that as a reasonable answer.

I mean, vaporware would require it to fail to manifest. There is a game. You can play it right now. Has it delivered on everything they promised? Absolutely not. But that was never the definition of vaporware. And, paradoxically, what’s there, despite being far reduced from the theoretical scope, is also one the most technically impressive games ever made. Entire planets in a complete solar system that you can traverse without a single loading screen. Not even a disguised one. It’s also, y’know, a buggy janky mess that still lacks many core gameplay features.

Like, there’s so much that you could legitimately criticise about Star Citizen that resorting to the both meaningless and innacurate claim of vaporware just shows an extreme lack of imagination. If you want to be critical go for it, but surely you can come up with something more coherent than that?

The airship is what sold me. I’ve wanted ships in Minecraft for as long as I’ve been playing Minecraft, both because it’s cool, and because I think survival games would really benefit from the idea of a mobile base. Being able to take your home with you is such a huge deal and really bridges the gap between the “cosy” and “adventure” aspects of these games.

In reality, there are actually situations where pricing something too low can actually reduce sales, which sounds counterintuitive but makes a lot of sense when you consider how we evaluate price versus perceived value and quality.

This is most definitely not one of them.

Why do Chipotle think they can make this work when Amazon’s efforts have so far failed pretty spectacularly?

We’re talking about repurposing the GPUs, not the AI.