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Alex Vranas

I'm not a huge fan of image generating AIs like DALL-E. They do seem to be entirely a novelty, and I have trouble imagining a useful case for this kind of thing. It just cheapens visual arts by making them soulless and weird.

For writing technical documents and reports, GPT is a nice tool for massaging content into the right format, but DALL-E just automates human creativity in a way that removes the humanity...

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I've finally stopped seeing generative AI as a novelty, and really leaned into the useful things I can make it do.

My current favorite is writing documents in markdown, and asking ChatGPT for feedback. It's surprisingly good at offering advice and reviewing my next draft as I write a document.

If I ask it to rewrite a document, I save the returned markdown into a separate file and diff it with the original. Really amazing the little changes it makes.

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Texas Gender Reveal Massacre

This is what you get without an HOA. We have one place in our neighborhood that isn’t governed by the HOA and this is what we get as a neighbor.

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cassie cane 🍬

thinkin about this date picker i made like 6 years ago

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Measuring my age in Hexadecimal from now on. Yeah, that's right, I'm 22.

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Alex Vranas

I've been so busy working I forgot to mention, I'm in Manchester, England this week for business!

I'll have all day Saturday to do as I please, so if anyone who follows me lives in the area and wants to meet up for drinks or something, let me know. This city is fun, but having company is even more fun.

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FYI to anyone interested in impersonating a bank employee.

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corb

Perfect day! #seattle #pugetSound #pnw

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jorun
its truly amazing what raytracing can produce these days
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Next week I'm traveling for work for the first time since before the Pandemic, and I'm headed to the UK!

Farthest i've travelled for work so far, and it's for a pretty exciting project too.

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It's just past midnight on a Wednesday morning, and I just got ChatGPT to say the funniest thing I've ever heard it say.

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EZ Lorenz 🇺🇸 📸

We very rarely have lightnings in the Seattle area, so last night I was happy to finally capture a good show.
This shot made it to the local news (see comment).

#lightning #Seattle #Washington #PNW #FediGiftShop #AYearForArt

#Prints and various items: pixels.com/featured/lightning-

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Alex Vranas

Customer to IT: "They asked us to set this thing up, but we're stumped. Can we get some advice?"

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The Doctor

I think this is going to accidentally sabotage human rights reporting (and efforts).

vice.com/en/article/z3mnm8/amn

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Somebody accidentally a 'T'.

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Chris Trottier

#Bluesky just added algorithmic content filtering. And here I find the most obvious problem.

They give you the option to show violent hate groups.

Which means they know their platform could be used to spread hate but are offloading moderation to users and algorithms.

What can ever go wrong?

Well, it means that if people deliberately want the option to show violent political groups, Bluesky has given them the welcome mat.

And based on what happened on Twitter, we know what happens.

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psenough

Since i do some introduction to demoscene content i always get a few newcomers asking me about things, this seminar by lambdacore from this years @revision_party is excellent introduction to #demoscene check it out: youtube.com/watch?v=Do1e2paezo

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Alex Vranas

I refuse to believe that anyone has actually typed "How much coffee can a cat drink before it dies?" into a search bar. This is some sort of silly GPT extrapolation.

I just wanted to know if coffee posed a risk to cats (it does). Not how much I needed to give my cat to kill her...

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Doing some important research.

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blackle mori

here's my 4k exegfx entry this year, "Pins&Needles"

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