My rational thoughts are telling me this is just so Google can stream video at doo doo resolution to save their server bandwidth and get a simple AI model and upscaling filters on device to blow up the image to a suitable level.

My emotional thoughts and conspiracy brain are telling me this is Google getting users used to AI slop by making legitimate human content look more like AI slop. I’ve noticed these filters occasionally and it really makes videos I know are real people more slop-like.

Oh. This was supposed to drive sales, huh. Not just investor hype?

Congratulations on the prrrrromotions, and I appreciate everyone volunteering their time.

So this is essentially a dotted line which after the first simulation step expands into 2D space, but after a particular number of steps collapses back into its original 1D pattern, possibly translated some distance from its original position.

You can imagine the thing being comprised of smaller 1D lines, aligned on an axis with a certain amount of space between each other.

My lack of understanding is how Israel supporters can live with the murder of thousands of children, the wholesale demolition of living quarters, schools and hospitals, destroying wells and sources of food and drinking water, restricting food and medical aid to Gaza. For a few months since October '23 I could have excused it as collateral damage from a conflict, but it’s gone on far too long, Israel has evaded a negotiated peace like the plague, and the last 20 months of the conflict have been too one-sided to hold up to scrutiny.

Well we can assume political discussions have a lot of psyops and people with agendas. I appreciate that many of the loudest voices/posters make it very obvious ;)

Some of the craziest niches aren’t on here (like if you clean sewers and septic tanks, DM me, you ought to do an AMA) but I have encountered people replying on mostly tech related topics on programming, linux, asklemmy, no stupid Qs where someone with niche tech knowledge did answer (i couldn’t find the original comment link, sorry). My knowledge is in trains, electricity, Japanese and Japanese electric trains, you can ask me about.

The differences is that you have the power to make a new community or Lemmy site with blackjack and hookers. (Piefed is kind of like that for people unhappy with the Lemmy software or developers.)

The first thing these meme level economic takes about supply and demand leave out is the elasticity of both supply and demand that affects how sensitive demand is to price changes and prices are comparable to availability.

So OOP is saying they would like to take 30% off of a fossil fuel CEO?

Israel First, Argentina First, America Last.

I love how adding greenspace makes the street look more historic.

Answer you.

Feedback surveys and community meetings, impact analysis reports, expert consultations. Essentially a lot of it that is already being done for big projects.

I beg to differ. They would try to do the same but first in not very smart ways, and second accompanied by a MAGA style campaign to project cruelty onto the less fortunate of us Canadians.

Personally it’s because the harder something is pushed to me by large corporations, the more skeptical I am to begin with.

It is your stance, you don’t have to compulsively change other people’s minds, let them live their lives and you live how you want. For people that are wanting to listen to you, you can tell them how you feel about AI (or perhaps specifically AI chatbots) in both subjective and objective terms. If you want to prepare research and talking points, I think the most effective thing is to have a couple examples such as the Google AI box putting out objectively wrong info with the citation links leading to sites that don’t back up any claim in it. Or how the outputs of comic style image generation tend to look like knock-off Tintin and appear uninspiring and unsettling. How reading generated paragraphs, looking at images and videos of fluffy slop is simply a waste of time for you. Just mix that with all the rest of the shortcomings people have provided and you’ll make for a good discussion. Remember, the point is not to change people’s minds or proselytize but rather to explain why you hold your opinion.

Ignore Trump’s illegal orders. Got it.

This movie sequel will be mandated by Trump’s Freedom-of-Speech Certified ™ state media critics, to recreate the Jackie Chan saying the N word scene, in order to be approved. /j

You know that whip is safe from being stolen.

A real momma’s boy

Dang, American parent company strikes again.