“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”

Yup, migrating the docs from on-prem confluence to the cloud one has just been an utter disaster in my company.

I don’t even want to know how much we pay for this shit.

Not stupid necessarily, but profoundly misanthropic.

I have never talked to or read from an AI shill who did not have a severely depressing view on humanity, with arguments being a variation of “oh yeah, LLMs are just parrots but so are we/so are most people”, and “comprehension is just pattern matching anyways”.

Which is really darkly hilarious in a way, because if you think of older, now clichéed, sci fi stories, then treating a machine capable of feelings and comprehension as a human rather than a tool is the human thing to do. But these people are so backwards that

1. They rob us of humanity to put us on the same level as AI.
2. They still treat the LLMs (which should now be human) as tools and therefore deny them of humanity too.

Thanks for this answer, really.

You saying about this film having a lot of documentation around the lost 43 minutes made me look into it. I did not know the story behind it, i.e. it being already cut by Welles, then the 43 minutes being cut out by studios, plus a lot of research and reconstruction already being made around it. Adding to that the fact this is not (thus far) a commercial endeavour, it does paint it in a different light. Finally, from what I can gather, it seems the “AI” being used here is more deepfake stuff on live scenes and less full image generation (which is the image that the text conjured for me, this is the problem with catchall marketing terms…)

All that to say, while I personally am not into these kinds of efforts (AI or not, but I appreciate the subjectivity of that sentiment), and have my reservations about using these techs to reanimate long dead artists who don’t have a say in the matter, your comment did show that the process, in this particular instance, seems to be very different from what I had initially imagined, so thank you.

Sorry about the downvotes and potentially angry responses you are/will be getting, I did not mean to lay down a trap for you.

Ok, maybe I am too comfortably nested in my confirmation bubble, but I can’t imagine the intersection of people being (still) interested in Orson Welles and those not offended by such a use of AI is very large.

That’s a very fair point. I would counter-argue that given the direction that software (and design, and writing…) has taken, even before the machine generated slop, it is unclear to me whether or not there is/will be a real incentive to properly fix things. But I know I am naturally quite pessimistic, so I hope you are right.

If such rewrites netted a similar fee to traditional content writing jobs, it would be one thing — but as Richardson noted, companies pay less for cleaning up AI copy because they presume it’s easier and less time-consuming, when it fact it often requires as much mental labor as content she had written herself.

Yeah so, they used the earth-burning slop generators, fired people over it, and now rehire cheaper to fix their hot mess (which sounds like one of the most futile and infuriating task one could do). Does not sound like as much of a win as the title would lead you to believe.

Speaking as a dev, I cannot wait for my job to be fixing inane machine slop code with half the pay, sounds like a real treat.

Sure, let’s give AI bros even more power, and monetary incentive to automatically reject as many health claims as possible, what could go wrong?

I do hold my breath whenever I see nvidia-dkms in the list of pacman updates. It’s good to get some thrills, just to feel alive.

A new Linux user posting an anti Linux meme on a Linux community, on Lemmy. Well, I wish I had a tenth of your courage.

I do hope they go easy on you, brave soul.

Mandatory “I use arch btw…”

Oh yeah, I am forced to use it for work and it’s just incredible how innovative Microsoft is at making things worse. Takes real talent at that point.

This below is windows 11 consistency, within their own os context menus. I am not even starting on the fact that window decorations there too are a non standardised mess.

I agree that lack of UI consistency is less than ideal, and very real in Linux, but let’s not pretend that this is a main issue stopping people from migrating (from an equally inconsistent OS)

I don’t judge anyone making whatever choice they have to make to survive, especially wrt using AI given how it’s shoved down everyone’s throat.

I do have little patience for someone who comes all guns blazing, calling someone an idiot over that very fact, and dares talk about empathy after belittling the OPs “liwwle feelings”.

I have zero patience for the actually rich people who force that shit on us and would love not to see stupid infighting between people who suffer and are alienated from it.

This is pretty much what my initial, admittedly too snarky, response meant. Now either you’re trolling or this is, for whatever reason, a sensitive subject for you. In both cases I don’t see the point of discussing that further and apologies if I hurt you.

Doing alright, thanks for your concern.

Better to be an idiot than management’s yappy lapdog.

Haven’t used Debian in a while now, but back when I did, Wayland never did appear in the sessions dropdown on a fresh install with an nvidia card and nvidia proprietary drivers. Doing what is explained in the following link always worked for me though:

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland

Apologies if you have already tried this, but as I said, I’ve luckily not had to do more to get it to work, so hopefully it’s the same for you.