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  • The issue is that the picture then exists, and it’s hard to prove it was actually destroyed.

    For example, when I was in high school, a bunch of girls would send nudes to guys. But that was 10 years ago. Those pictures still exist. Those dudes aren’t minors anymore. Their Messenger chats probably still exist somewhere. Nothing’s really preventing them from looking at those pictures again.

    I get why it’s illegal. And, honestly, I find it kind of weird that there’s people trying to justify why it shouldn’t be illegal. You’re still allowed to have sex at that age. Just don’t take pictures/videos of it.







  • micka190@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldBig Tech Is Faking AI
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    5 months ago

    Man, I know people love to throw the word “dystopian” around, but holy shit is that description dystopian as fuck.

    Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.


  • I think it’s interesting that he believes that, personally.

    Dragon Age has 3 main things going for it:

    • The Darkspawn
    • Templars vs Mages
    • Whatever the fuck Solas is doing

    While the Darkspawn could work for TV (it’d just require a bunch of makeup and we’ve seen shows like The Walking Dead pull-off the whole zombie thing), it’s pretty hard to do anything low-scale with them, since they’re either small bands attacking small villages or a large invasion force during a Blight. Game of Thrones and Lord of the Ring pulled-off large-scale battles, but they also had rather large budgets by that point.

    The Solas arc doesn’t really work for TV because of the budget it would require for all the insanely high-level and trippy magic stuff that would be needed. And also because anyone who isn’t already of fan of Dragon Age would be confused as fuck about what Solas is doing.

    I could see a series about a smaller part of the Templars vs Mages working, personally. Unlike Solas and the ancient Elves, most “regular” magic is pretty low-level and tame. Blood Magic shouldn’t be as expensive as some of the ancient Elves’ magic worlds and Demons would probably need to be adapted to look differently than they do in-game, but it’s got potential. Not sure if I trust most network to handle the writing of it, though.

    Also, they made Dragon Age: Absolution, which was pretty damn bad and felt like someone tried to smash 3-4 seasons-worth of plot into 6 episodes. The characters were walking tropes, the villain went from one of the most brilliant minds of the Tevinter Imperium to an obsessive weirdo, and it had some of the most forced romance and comedy bits I’ve seen in a while. In my opinion, the show also does an awful job with their portrayal of Tevinter, essentially contradicting a lot of established lore from the game for no apparent reason.

    Not sure how many people in the community actually remember, but back in the day they made Dragon Age: Warden’s Fall with Machinima to setup the events of Awakening (haven’t watched it in forever, but I remember liking it). It’s dark and gritty like Origins and Awakening were, and less “witty” like Inquisition’s writing.




  • We already have text prediction that works more efficiently (from a power and computing point of view) by using things like trees.

    There’s very few use-cases I’ve seen where AI is more efficient than an algorithm, and it’s mostly in areas where it does a bunch of tests/research/simulation inputs by throwing random shit at the wall that users wouldn’t normally try really fast.

    AI is basically useless when you’re doing something that’s easily repeatable, because it’s easier to actually implement tools that use algorithms to do that kind of thing.