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I can't watch youtube due to all these garbage. Youtube should allow me to blanket ban on publisher who use full AI for full video.

Ironically I find that YouTube has the absolute best content. It's the only one with authentic people making quality stuff for exactly your niche.

That doesn't mean there isn't trash, and I suppose if tv series are your jam it's likely sub-par, but for me it's unmatched by light years.


It's got good content but also a massive amount of slop. You don't see much straight up AI generated video, but it's incredibly common to see youtubers just sitting there reading a ChatGPT script.

"In this video I'm going to..."

"Let me tell you why!"

"Is not X, it's Y!"

and so on. It's so tiresome. I can't stand AI scripts. It makes the entire video feel like a waste of my time.


They can't, as far as organizational politics goes. Tech is all in on AI.

Being all in on AI doesnt mean they have to be all in on bottom of the barrel slop videos. Youtube actually does a great job of not serving you slop if it gets to know you well enough. And it does notify you if it detects the video is AI generated. I would hope tech companies are awake to the fact that people’s feeds being deluged by the absolute uncanniest and disturbing visuals you’ve ever seen is feeding into anti-AI sentiment, and they probably shouldn’t be further enabling that.

I just stopped using YouTube for entertainment years ago. Try it!

(I still jump in for the occasional video tutorial etc but it’s always targeted - go for one thing, swoop in, close it when I’m done.


Where do you find entertainment now?

I just listen to one of many of the voices in my head and see what they have to suggest. Things get interesting

I'm not who you're replying to, but I tuned out big movies and TV long ago, and just recently, YouTube became a hostile enough environment for me to start limiting it. When I do go there, it's to watch specific channels I already know. Clickbait titles and slop suggestions just aren't worth the psycholigical hassle when I want to relax.

I had been replacing it with podcasts, but they are so ad-infested now that it's been pushing me more and more to audiobooks. I also watch a fair bit of content on smaller special interest platforms, like CrunchyRoll for Anime or Pepperbox for guns. They're easy to sub and unsub depending on what I'm interested in. I often rent old movies. And more and more... I read.

I had used Prime's videos for a while when they had something I liked, but the ads have gotten so bad that I now go out of my way not to emotionally invest in anything they produce. The experience has left me skeptical of other platform exclusive shows and I generally just go do something else with my time. I used to be a big fan of both Star Wars and Star Trek, but at some point they both started producing Platform Content and in response, I haven't watched anything from either for about a decade now.


I read

You’re being sarcastic, right?

This is a coordination problem, so people can't do anything.

Or some will bend their knees and things will continue as normal.

Important services have already said they won't. It will be a disaster.

They will say that regardless of their intentions - that doesn't mean we should ignore that possibility but that isn't a great indicator.

Apple in fact did withdraw their security features in Britain over a similar law. It's not simply crying wolf, these companies will withdraw.

> Just hours after the $1,000 arrived, it was divided into smaller amounts and sent to a network of other accounts

Go after all these network of other accounts and cashapp must be held liable. They didn't do proper identity verification... And, these police seems incapable of finding real criminal. They are fool to assume people will use their own account to scam others.


The main goal of google is to make more money, not lose more money by building datacenter underground.

Kinda funny that logo says "Trust Delivered". They don't seem to have 0 problem with such a big scale damage on public internet and simply trying to shrug off the problem.

This is problem with Indian companies, their founder and management always try to hire cheap labor and penny pinch on everything. And, this is the result we see again and again.


PHP team has always been like this. Instead of creating better software they have always tried to add features with no consideration of backward compatibility.

No serious project should use PHP.


> they have always tried to add features with no consideration of backward compatibility

This could not be further from the truth. Backwards compatibility is a big reason why PHP doesn't have . Odds are if you look at their RFCs and internals mailing list you'll likely find proposals and even implementations for any BC-causing feature you can think of.


In fact, trying to add features while maintaining backward compatibility with existing messy code is exactly the reason why PHP is so messy.

I hope they clean up some of that mess in PHP 9, but no, they're just going to add $shiny_new_feature and make the attack surface even larger. Like, why does the session handler even care about measuring upload progress?


> 8.1 and earlier Not patched: these versions have reached end of life and will not receive an official fix

I would not recommend using PHP. The PHP team keeps breaking backward compatibility and trying to introduce new features instead of focusing on fixing bugs and hardening the compiler.


And, i don't understand why we are still using PHP. Agents can use Rust or go directly and we get benefit of performance...

Because like 30% of the websites in the world are on WordPress, and countless others in custom PHP? Not exactly a trivial task.

Claude please rewrite my entire WordPress site as an OCaml Mirage Unikernel that runs directly on bare metal, no Linux.

I bet that takes a week at most.


While at it, create a custom firmware for the BIOS to utilize the CPU more.

In fact, design an FPGA that runs my wordpress blog about my stamp collection in pure hardware. Make no mistakes.

Because its way easier to verify LLM generated code for Laravel over some Rust project. Or do you just vibe it and dont look at code anymore?

i don't look at code anymore. I do write great specs and run whole app/program in my head. And I do read code where i need to read which is probably 5-10%.

It is similar to how i don't look into assembly code anymore and trust llvm.


and the increased costs of maintenance of a code base that humans will be reluctant to read.

The irony is the article is very sloppy. Can we at least write it and review it properly..

What's wrong with it? Reads fine to me.

There are 36 tests. You can pass 0 or 36 or any number inbetween. Lets give five significant digits of how accurate solving was.

That is not how data physics work. It should not be how data science works.


Yeah, and the noise is also per model, run the same model five or ten times and put the confidence around it. Then try different models and different workflows. Thats actually how I do it when I build workflows and automations: test, test, and test, collect the statistic on where and what works better, then combine.

This is true. I was unfamiliar with this concept (I use codex/claude daily), and am trying to get to the "bottom line".

Oh, it's there at bottom under "my takeaway". But I still didn't get it initially.

Slop Code Bench? Need a Slop Writing Bench too


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