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  • You have to just accept the kind of campy look to the show, as well as some of the more questionable acting and dialogue choices. Once you just accept that this will be the presentation, you can focus on the story, which is very insightful and complex. At its heart it’s a political drama about American intervention in the Arab-Israeli conflict (never explicitly stated, but it’s pretty evident almost immediately), with a shadowy outside threat, presented through a sci-fi lens. Then it adds way more mysticism and fantasy elements as the series progresses. It’s a fantastic exploration of human nature, I strongly recommend it.

    It left HBO before I could finish the last season. I just got a Tubi account so I can close it out.






  • pips@lemmy.filmtoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.worldLemmy World outages
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    11 months ago

    I get you. There’s good and bad in law enforcement, especially when it comes to tech and social media. On the one hand, there’s pretty serious crime happening online that needs to be stopped. On the other, wild invasions of privacy. There’s no easy answer at this point and governments obviously won’t police themselves.




















  • You’re making a hasty generalization here

    I’m really not, though I’ll readily admit I’m simplifying things. An LLM can only create something it’s been given. I guess it can generate a string of characters and assign a definition to it, but it’s not really intentional creation. There are many similarities between how a human generates something and how an LLM does, but to argue they’re the same radically oversimplifies how humans work. While we can program an LLM, we literally do not have the capability to replicate a human brain.

    For example, can you tell me what emotions the LLM had when it produced the output it did? Did its physical condition have any effect? What about its past, not just what it has learned but how it was treated? What is its motivation? A human response to anything involving creativity factors in many things that we aren’t even consciously aware of, and these are things an LLM doesn’t have.

    The study you’re citing is from Google, there’s likely some bias and selective reporting. That said, we were talking about creativity, not regurgitating facts or analyzing data. I think it’s universally accepted that as the tech gets better, it’s preferable to have a computer make the first attempt at a diagnosis, especially for a scan or large data analysis, then have a human confirm.

    For the remix example, don’t forget that samples get attribution. Artists credit what they sampled and get called out when they don’t. I’m actually unclear as to whether an LLM actually can cite to how it derived its output just because the coders haven’t revealed if there’s some sort of derivation log.


  • The problem is essentially how do you define ownership? Is there a right to not make something the copyright holder owns publicly available?

    I think in the cases of abandonware or more recently the moves by media companies to delist certain media for tax benefits, there’s a good argument to be made over forfeiting the copyright, so it’s now public domain and fair game. But I also think for something like the Star Wars Holiday Special, where the creator/copyright holder (not sure about that status post-Disney acquisition) genuinely hates it and does not want it available to the public, the owner should be allowed to restrict access to it.


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    1 year ago

    I check it every so often without logging in. A lot of the old major subs went dark and both All and Popular are almost exclusively memes. The occasional News or Politics article breaks through but, and this may be because I usually didn’t visit All, it’s like looking at a completely different website. The comments aren’t too much different but it feels like desktop users are getting the upvotes now as opposed to the shorter but still solid replies from mobile users.

    The fandom subs I frequented (Star Wars, NBA, etc.) have sort of gone to shit, though it’s hard to tell how much of that was always there. Actually the biggest difference may be just how unmoderated some of the big subs are, so where before duplicate posts on the same topic would be removed in Technology, now you’ll see 20 articles on the same thing. I suspect Reddit admins are inflating vote counts to make engagement look the same as always when participation is actually down, but it’s just a hunch. I have no proof of it.