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    2 months ago

    On a site whose algorithm likely pushes fascist content it’s nothing surprising that two people would come across a popular fascist post.

    and I’ve never seen it

    I’m not saying you’ve seen the thread on /pol/ (I found it by searching for the dogwhistle “every single time”), but it’s, uh, strange that your post could be replaced with the one from /pol/ and vice versa and they would function the same on both a fascist and on a Marxist-Leninist(?) forum.

    I think that the user ImperiumFirst whose banner is this:

    and who describes himself as “Political Extremist | America First | Christ is King ✝️”, and whose pinned tweet is praising Kanye West for using a swastika, and whose feed is currently filled with Nick Fuentes videos…

    …is in fact a fascist and probably a /pol/ user.

    Do you follow that guy? Or did the site correctly assume you’d like his tweet?

    And yes, the wording, that you’re acting is completely neutral, is indeed regularly used by fascists “just noticing” Jewish undermining of the White race, even by the very same profile here:

    For a supposed Marxist, you’re oddly oblivious to fascist iconography and memes, and uncritical of the content served to you by a fascist-owned website.








  • Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.

    It wasn’t off the press, it was announced and in the works but still not close to shipping. Maybe Wikimedia could’ve talked about this great innovative project with the actual Wikipedia community before investing so much money into it.

    International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).

    What would international language support entail? Translating articles into other languages?



  • Article is not available without registering. As for the title, “destructive” book scanning means you cut off the binding and put the pages in a scanner which easily flips through them and takes the pictures. If you’re not scanning rare old books, this is a perfectly reasonable way to do it, because setting up a scanner for a normal book and manually turning each page to scan it takes a long time (Internet Archive has videos on how they do it, very nice and impressive, and logical since their original mission was scanning old public domain stuff, i.e. published before 1930 or so). If Anthropic will actually legally buy all those thousands upon thousands of books, that will be a pleasant precedent for an AI company.

    Although I very much doubt that random uncritically gathered textual material can “teach their AI tool how to write well”. They’re still pushing for more and more training data, even though it’s clear actual advancement will have to happen (if it can happen) through more refined usage of / training on the data.