Some people might think you are joking, but it’s actually true
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It’s the IKEA effect. You tend to like something more if you built it yourself.
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… and you understand it more when you build something by yourself, so it’s easier for you to fix it when it’s broken.
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a service you’ve been using forever that hasn’t enshitified?
151·2 months agoStack Exchange. I know, controversial, as people complain about rules being there too strict and community not being too welcoming nowadays, but still a real goldmine of knowledge. All of that with no ads, no spam, no dark patterns.
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)
61·2 months agoEven if you go to Europe (where I live), you will still listen to American music, read news about America everywhere, eat American crap food, use American Internet services, watch American TV shows. It is not easy to leave America :D
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon ValleyEnglish
23·2 months agoI believe the same thing was said about the Internet in the ’90s: “It speeds up communication, but how would anyone earn money from it?”
Although I don’t think we’re anywhere close to AGI or anything like that, current AI development fundamentally changes a few things in our lives: how we find and process information (information retrieval works very well), how we interact with computers (using natural language instead of clicking through interfaces), and how productive we are.
Video generation models are going to bring entertainment to a whole new level. A single person can now create an entire movie without even buying a camera. Entire game development studios can build worlds larger than ever before. Text generation makes disinformation and propaganda insanely cheap and effective. Surveillance will be much easier now, as owning a communication platform not only allows you to search for messages by phrase but also by meaning. Ads will be far more personalized, as AI chat platforms now know us much better than Google — the current leader in this field.
So:
there isn’t anything real there?
I really don’t think so.
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubbleEnglish
292·2 months agoSo how dangerous is that really? I assume one day we’ll finally see investors saying, “Nah, that’s a bubble. I’m not gonna see any returns from those companies - I’m selling.” Then stock prices will fall, and some investors will lose money by selling for less than they bought. After that, AI unicorns will start to lose funding and close their businesses, laying off people.
But will I - a person who does not work in the AI industry and has not invested in AI companies - be affected by this?
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report FindsEnglish
414·2 months agoUsefulness really comes down to which model is being used. I’ve noticed most developers choose GPT for Copilot because that’s what they are familiar with (or they often don’t have a choice due to company policy). I recommend to try Claude Sonnet. How it works is true magic.
But I agree, repetitive tasks is what it should be used for. Planning is still programmer’s job
Please add some context for someone not up to date with all that jargon. There is a trend here and on hacker news to just post a model name that says basically nothing and I often just don’t even know why I should care. Or maybe I shouldn’t?
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•European banks to launch euro stablecoin in bid to counter US dominanceEnglish
8·3 months agoWhat is the use case of stable coins? Fast international money transfer? Or are there other I’m not aware of
The main problem is that mobile OS is simply not useful without banking or government apps and they won’t ever appear on FOSS systems because giving control to user is exactly the opposite of what’s in their interest.
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@beehaw.org•Google avoids break-up but must share data with rivals
11·3 months ago… and must share search data with rivals.
What does it mean exactly?
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•WTH is happening at the GNOME Foundation ?! - Linux Weekly News
141·3 months agobecause of clickbait
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threatEnglish
50·4 months agoMight be hard to do, it needs to be approved by president of Poland which is a big fan of Trump (contrary to current government)
Can I use it? And if not: when can I use it?
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakesEnglish
61·4 months agothanks
Alternative title: “Reddit plans to make sh**load of dollars from data we’ve all left there for free”.
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•“On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.” English
1619·5 months agoIt’s like you bought a car and deliberately hit the wall to make a headline “cars make you disabled”. Or bought a hammer, hit your thumb and blame hammers for this.
Guys, it’s a TOOL. Every tool is both useful and harmful. It’s up to you how you use it.
vermaterc@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Surprising no one, new research says AI Overviews cause massive drop in search clicksEnglish
76·5 months agoI’m reading comments on arstechnica and seeing people mad at… what exactly?
The reason I go to web search is to answer my questions. Now it’s given to me at once, without need to go anywhere. Is it sometimes hallucinating? Of course it is, but have you really 100% trusted information on the Internet before anyways? I haven’t.
You say that ads driven websites are going to stop receiving money. But have you really liked ads driven websites? The same ones whose main incentive is to keep you on the website as long as possible or, in fact, wasting as much your time as possible to sell it to ad companies? The ones that were really worth visiting already changed their business model.
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Technology@lemmy.ml•Can LLMs Do Accounting? Evaluating LLMs on Real Long-Horizon Business Tasks
32·5 months agoState-of-the-art LLM agents do not perform calculations, they call external tools to do that.










Thank you for being honest about performance