So first of all, you shouldn’t involve yourself in your friend’s business. Fraud is generally frowned upon.

But secondly, you know that ChatGPT was trained on the entire internet, right? Like, every book. I don’t think “more books” is gonna help.

I hope you take your computer skills and make something of yourself. Try not to get any more involved in this scheme, seriously. You don’t need this crap marring your reputation.

Besides, there are better reasons/ways to fight the system than helping other people avoid learning.

It’s also real scary to think since I’d assume most of us Gen Z-ers aren’t properly able to object to privacy eroding tech bills because we’re too tech illiterate to understand the impacts.

Millennial here, putting my tinfoil hat on for a minute:

This is exactly what the big tech corpos wanted all along. They’ve been curving the arc of history towards people at large being digitally dependent but incapable of self-service. They want addicts, not citizens. Serfs, not an educated populace.

In the 70s, 80s, 90s, and into the early 00s there was this “hacker culture” which was centered on the idea that as long as we keep our wits about us we could use computers as a great equalizer. The common person was empowered. Any and all software would be distributed for free so anyone who couldn’t afford it could get it. Bill Gates was painted as a villain because he was overtly capitalistic. The corpos were kept in check by a diverse, rapidly evolving market and a ton of savvy users who knew what they wanted.

Giant corporations pretty much caught on that they needed there to be fewer tech savvy people who could get one over on them. When politicians needed to ask experts what to include in school curriculums, guess who had lobbyists ready to go? Microsoft and Apple. Eventually Google too.

And now that there are fewer tech savvy people? Everything got shittier. Shinier, faster, dumber, more locked down and shittier. And the enshittification is just going to accelerate until people straight up reject it, then it’ll pause for 6 months to a year and start up again.

Just that they’re no easier to use to fool an anti-AI system than using ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing, or Claude. Those AI detectors also give false positives on works made by humans. They’re unreliable in the first place.

Basically, they’re “boring text detectors” more than anything else.

I believe commercial LLMs have some kind of watermark when you apply AI for grammar and fixing in general, so I just need an AI to make these works undetectable with a private LLM.

That’s not how it works, sorry.

Quantized with more parameters is generally better than floating point with fewer parameters. If you can squeeze a 14b parameter model down to a 4-bit int quantization it’ll still generally outperform a 16-bit Floating Point 7b parameter equivalent.

It’s gonna be more like 4K, I suspect. It’s an iterative improvement for crap like voice assistants, photo enhancement, and justifying spying on users, so it’s gonna keep getting pushed.

Second one seemed more like a flex than for the lulz, but yeah. Definitely a “because I thought it’d be cool”, which is a wild reason for self-surgery

If they cut your hours to no shifts for a month, file for unemployment. In the US you can often get partial unemployment if you can show you’re not being given hours at your job.

There’s two main possibilities here, to answer your question:

1. you’re being phased out by management because somebody doesn’t like you. This means you lost the workplace politics game. You’ll be OK if this is the case, you’re just not a good fit. If this is the case, none of possibility 2 applies because they’re just looking for an excuse to axe you.

2. you are coming across to people as scarier than you’re intending. It’s pretty common for people working security to be big, tall guys with a good amount of muscle. If that applies to you there’s a decent chance you’re just not seeing yourself the way other people see you. To you, you’re normal, to them you’re a big scary guy trying to be intimidating even if you just cross your arms and think for a second. If this is the case, you’re gonna need to work on your social persona a bit more to come across as friendly as you intend to.

Unfortunately, you’re not going to find out which is the case until you’re working somewhere else. Whether the people at this place are fucking with you or not, you gotta find a different employer.

No, I was genuinely guessing at what you were getting at, since you were alluding to one particular unnamed nation that relies heavily on slave labor. IDK if you opened that article, but it’s from last month and is a major report by the AP, so US slave labor’s been on my mind because I read the news.

You then seemingly got annoyed at my guess and decided it was some sort of debate. I pointed out why my guess was reasonable and now you’re trying to take a victory lap because I apparently annoyed you by not being a goddamn mind reader.

Seriously, you’re acting like I’m the one with the attitude here and all I’ve done is reflect yours back to you in one comment because you acted like I don’t know what slavery is. But I’m the one being an asshole?

Hard to say for certain, per a recent AP report, privacy laws protect the info of which private companies specifically are using prison labor at any given time in several states.

Seriously though, check out that article. Wild.

Have you read the 13th amendment? Prisoners in the US are legally allowed to be used for slave labor. That’s what I thought you were referencing

Sunshine docs show how to not stream the Discord audio

As far as your system being muted on your end, there’s a setting in Sunshine called audio_sink. If you set that, the sound will be captured from whichever device you set instead of a virtual device. That will keep Sunshine from muting your speakers.

… the US?

Sidebar: that’s why the Penumbra games have excellent VR support now, for those interested in shitting their pants.

Most of the time M3GAN had a puppet face, so that helped a lot with the creepy uncanny valley effect.

Diners in NJ, NY, and PA mostly

That’s a 2-football field diameter, for those who think in American

FTC is already on Google’s case

Horny toad gf was right there

Generally speaking, Romero was pretty far from being “hollywood”. Dude made almost exclusively indie films shot in the suburbs of Pittsburgh where he lived for much of his life. Extras were almost all locals. I’m from southeastern PA but I know multiple people who know at least one person who worked on one of his movies.