yep my brother-in-law is also in a specific type of graphic design, doing really well, successfully built up his business working for himself. and will probably be out of work in a couple of years.
― kinder, Sunday, 5 November 2023 13:44 (ten months ago) link
I expect a lot of creative workers will shift from creating-from-scratch to something more like curating. We'll be selecting, tailoring, customizing and editing AI-generated content.
I talk about this with my boss (still a human, a far as I can tell) a fair amount. In a way it's similar to what I do when managing a team of human writers - I still need to review what they produce, select and tailor it to the situation.
The thing that sucks (for me personally) is that the steps that can be automated are the fun ones (actually creating). That leaves the un-fun stuff like managing. I still have to do that part.
I'd prefer it the other way around. I used to ask people: Don't hire me an assistant, hire me a boss.
― don't let days go by, Listerine (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:10 (ten months ago) link
hmm, good point. I think that outside of staffing at my workplace, the big problem right now is determining project priorities and assigning work because there’s too much to do and no one’s setting priorities. maybe I should just dump all of the project backlog into a LLM and ask it what to do
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Sunday, 5 November 2023 14:39 (ten months ago) link
https://cdn1.suno.ai/5e30c14b-dea8-4b4d-aefd-2767e3305574_0.mp4
"a yacht rock song about how people from different generations listen to indie rock"
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:15 (ten months ago) link
ai is funny it makes things that are impressive for being able to produce them with a one line prompt but are in quality so so bad
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:07 (ten months ago) link
presumably most of the music that that program was trained on was better than that, chat gpt consistently churns out the most didnt do the reading bs prose, the image ones all have this corny dramatic lighting and no sense of composition, when you average everything out with no sense of taste what you get is worse than all the source material, funny to think about
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:11 (ten months ago) link
The corny dramatic lighting seems to be beloved by AI image enthusiasts, and perhaps that drives the developers of the algorithms even if they don't love it themselves (which they probably do)
― Alba, Thursday, 16 November 2023 16:53 (ten months ago) link
or maybe it just spits that out for reasons due to the nature of the technology idk when it was just one program doing it i figured someone had made the choice but there are more of them now and theyre all like that
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 17:24 (ten months ago) link
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/sam-altman-leaves-openai-mira-murati-appointed-interim-boss.html
wow
― 龜, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:42 (ten months ago) link
Has chat gpt commented on this yet?
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 20:55 (ten months ago) link
it denied it. then said sorry for mistake, it did indeed happen.
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:18 (ten months ago) link
he cried like turtle
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:20 (ten months ago) link
huh. sam altman forced to step down, unexpectedly
"Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities," the blog reads, in part. "The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/11/openai-fires-ceo-sam-altman-citing-less-than-candid-communications/
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:46 (ten months ago) link
very interesting!
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 21:56 (ten months ago) link
heh
Anil Dash
How is the OpenAI board gonna fire Sam Altman just because he gave answers that sounded plausible but weren't actually accurate?
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:01 (ten months ago) link
Light accounting fraud or doing stuff contrary to the pseudo philanthropic mission of the board. Impossible to say.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:12 (ten months ago) link
they seem pretty mad
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:21 (ten months ago) link
we can't rule out a tense meeting in a dark room with a large bright screen where sam altman declared that he was going to launch his physical ai war by taking over the agricultural sector
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:23 (ten months ago) link
[q]https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/sam-altman-leaves-openai-mira-murati-appointed-interim-boss.html
― 龜, Friday, November 17, 2023 2:42 PM (one hour ago) [/i]
and shoot, sorry 龜 for missing this!
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:24 (ten months ago) link
they found out he was drinking all the water that was supposed to cool their servers
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:25 (ten months ago) link
...OpenAI’s board includes chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and independent directors like Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo
very interesting that ned exposes quora christian infant viral internet to bluesky and suddenly sam altman steps down
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Friday, 17 November 2023 22:25 (ten months ago) link
would you ask a christain baby to do your homework for you
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 22:30 (ten months ago) link
google man riding hard for alt man
Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you…— Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) November 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 23:59 (ten months ago) link
this is it i found the ultimate tech sycophant tweet shut it down twitter has served its purpose
"I can't wait to see what he does NEXT" pic.twitter.com/0tDVw6hkC5— Dogan Ural (@doganuraldesign) November 17, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:01 (ten months ago) link
This thread is going to need a content warning if this turns out to be something to do with his family
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:10 (ten months ago) link
yeah, not great
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:19 (ten months ago) link
but dont worry hackernews has it all logiced out baidifnaoxi 1 hour ago | prev | next [–]
- Cant be a personal scandal, press release would be worded much more differently- Board is mostly independent and those independent dont have equity
- They talk about not being candid - this is legalese for “lying”
The only major thing that could warrant something like this is Sam going behind the boards back to make a decision (or make progress on a decision) that is misaligned with the Charter. Thats the only fireable offense that warrants this language.
My bet: Sam initiated some commercial agreement (like a sale) to an entity that would have violated the “open” nature of the company. Likely he pursued a sale to Microsoft without the board knowing.
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:23 (ten months ago) link
MUCH more differently. It’s obvious!
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:32 (ten months ago) link
top comment from the message board for mind geniuses
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:48 (ten months ago) link
He covered up a love affair.. with the machine his company built. It’s like the dad in edward scissorhands, that kind of thing.
― treeship., Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:51 (ten months ago) link
Don’t ask me how I know
― treeship., Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:52 (ten months ago) link
it was probably in second 10 to 12 of the endless "evil cackle in the boardroom laugh", that's when people must decide they're in or out
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:55 (ten months ago) link
i'd watch this movie. actually probably not but i'd read a review about it.
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 18 November 2023 00:58 (ten months ago) link
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/openai-president-greg-brockman-quits-as-nervous-employees-hold-all-hands-meeting/
jacknicholsonyes.gif
― 龜, Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:06 (ten months ago) link
a lowercase with full punctuation man i see
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/tweet-from-brockman.jpg
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:13 (ten months ago) link
abysmal real names
― ꙮ (map), Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:25 (ten months ago) link
yeah the name generator is stuck around 0.5
― i really like that!! (z_tbd), Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:46 (ten months ago) link
will be funny if this is all over some beef with the non profitness of the company, why did they make it non profit bunch of shitty industrialists
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:48 (ten months ago) link
"I can't wait to see what he does NEXT"
Shouldn't that be NeXT?
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 18 November 2023 01:50 (ten months ago) link
that is true, these tech fanboys need to get their act together
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 02:21 (ten months ago) link
Scoop: There are about to be a lot more major departures of top folks at @OpenAI tonight and I assume Altman will make a statement tonight. But, as I understand it, it was a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company. The developer day was an issue. https://t.co/eIE4zctv4X— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) November 18, 2023
Sources tell me that the profit direction of the company under Altman and the speed of development, which could be seen as too risky, and the nonprofit side dedicated to more safety and caution were at odds. One person on the Sam side called it a “coup,” while another said it was…— Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) November 18, 2023
If I’m Microsoft and my $10 billion investment just got nuked because of EA cranks I would seriously consider hiring a hit squad— Quantian (@quantian1) November 18, 2023
if this is an EA thing then lmao
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:04 (ten months ago) link
personally i wouldnt give billions of dollars to people who think scifi is real life
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 03:07 (ten months ago) link
It was an EA coop. Nevertheless, Sam sucks and Greg sucks. Good riddance.
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:25 (ten months ago) link
s/coop/coup
― Allen (etaeoe), Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:26 (ten months ago) link
I was merely the harbringer.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:32 (ten months ago) link
Wait, EA as in Electronic Arts or Effective Altruism?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:40 (ten months ago) link
the latter
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 04:54 (ten months ago) link
No the former
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:11 (ten months ago) link
chatgpt will now speak in the voice of john madden
― lag∞n, Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:22 (ten months ago) link
boom! He’ll feel that one tomorrow!- chatgpt
― Clay, Saturday, 18 November 2023 05:34 (ten months ago) link