●Stories
●Firehose
●All
●Popular
●Polls
●Software
●Thought Leadership
Submit
●
Login
●or
●
Sign up
●Topics:
●Devices
●Build
●Entertainment
●Technology
●Open Source
●Science
●YRO
●Follow us:
●RSS
●Facebook
●LinkedIn
●Twitter
●
Youtube
●
Mastodon
●Bluesky
Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed
Forgot your password?
Close
wnewsdaystalestupid
sightfulinterestingmaybe
cflamebaittrollredundantoverrated
vefunnyunderrated
podupeerror
×
180661790
comment
bytopham
26 @06:26PM
(#65951170)
Attached to: New California Law Means Big Changes For Photos of Homes in Real Estate Listings
Yes, I think the did a decent job of protecting from the worst abuses.
I'm into photography as a hobby, and do software development for a living. Talking with people about the use of AI, how it can be used, or abused is interesting. I do find myself explaining how even the first photos were often manipulated, and how staged photos can be or why they look the way they look.
(The lack of smiles in old photos, missing face tattoos of some aboriginals, etc)
180613118
comment
bytopham
26 @01:41AM
(#65933914)
Attached to: Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?
LLMs don't experience.
While an LLM could be connected to something else with a simulated consciousness, they themselves have no consciousness to experience.
180579530
comment
bytopham
2026 @09:16AM
(#65923578)
Attached to: Doubt Cast On Discovery of Microplastics Throughout Human Body
A few months back there was a study that released the results that black plastic used in kitchen utensils was specifically bad as it was very high in toxic materials used in fire retardants.
Oh wait, they screw up their units and it was only a slight increase above other colored /recycled plastics and well below the maximum allowed standards.
Between the poorly done studies and the rush to publish in mainstream press, the media skips the review phase any bolsters these studies before they are readily available for general review. (Peer review has significant faults when too many studies are released and too few people to adequately review them.
180521607
comment
bytopham
26 @10:59PM
(#65904857)
Attached to: Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero
Have you stopped to consider the condescending prick who moderated the answer out of existence could have been wrong?
I'm so glad I learned C programming well before Stack Overflow existed.
180521605
comment
bytopham
26 @10:57PM
(#65904855)
Attached to: Stack Overflow Went From 200,000 Monthly Questions To Nearly Zero
"The decline predates LLMs. Questions began dropping around 2014 when Stack Overflow improved moderator efficiency and closed questions more aggressively"
By making it hostile to the people it is intended to for.
179878750
comment
bytopham
25 @04:27PM
(#65752036)
Attached to: Does Generative AI Threaten the Open Source Ecosystem?
First, the assumption that a snippet of code if actually copyrightable is generally untrue.
Secondly, open source exists to help people learn to code; wholesale copying is frowned upon, but snippets or concepts aren't.
Third, unless it negatively impact the project itself, anything short of wholesale copying is likely to be ignored - when developers do that today -.
AI doesn't change this equation very much.
179872342
comment
bytopham
2025 @04:17PM
(#65750364)
Attached to: AI Models May Be Developing Their Own 'Survival Drive', Researchers Say
no.
LLMs write fiction, that's fundamentally what they do. Sometimes the fiction is accurate and can be used as non-fiction, but, it's still a form of fiction. It's not thought.
179869874
comment
bytopham
2025 @08:38AM
(#65749676)
Attached to: Apple Begins Shipping American-Made AI Servers From Texas
Producing a one-off in lab is completely different than producing chips at scale.
The US doesn't have the technology to manufacture a plant to manufacture the chips at that size. It would take 20-30 years.
Now, you can cut that by buying the equipment you need outside North America...
179849770
comment
bytopham
2025 @07:47AM
(#65742580)
Attached to: British Columbia to Permanently Ban New Crypto Mining Projects From Grid
Untraceable transactions are too ripe for money laundering and as such generally illegal at scale.
You might not agree with it, but that's the world we live in.
179846230
comment
bytopham
025 @04:29PM
(#65741546)
Attached to: Amazon's DNS Problem Knocked Out Half the Web, Likely Costing Billions
It's almost rudimentary today to have fault tolerance in the design. Horizontal scaling automatically gains some level of fault tolerance unless you specifically build it without.
Which is usually budget constraint, not a developer constraint.
My sites are on AWS, and they all stayed up yesterday. But they aren't multi-region. That's the risk we take.
179800452
comment
bytopham
2025 @12:07PM
(#65726788)
Attached to: Japan Asks OpenAI To Stop Sora 2 From Infringing on 'Irreplaceable Treasures' Anime and Manga
And many studio houses use the same character images over and over again. So why are a few key people so over worked?
Such a strange industry
179799760
comment
bytopham
2025 @10:14AM
(#65726518)
Attached to: Apple's New MacBook Pro Delivers 24-Hour Battery Life and Faster AI Processing
I have an M1 MacBook Pro Max I've run gpt-oss-20b on it. It wouldn't support a dozen users, but it worked fine for me for experimental and dev testing.
Considering I didn't buy this machine with AI as an intended use, that's pretty amazing.
There's definitely some room for Apple in this space, while everybody thinks the only player is Nvidia.
179771556
comment
bytopham
25 @12:07PM
(#65721816)
Attached to: Does the Internet Have a Philly Accent? Why Too Much Time Online Can Make You 'Culturally Philadelphian.'
is your mother, and honestly, those pictures were disturbing.
179708830
comment
bytopham
2025 @12:09AM
(#65711258)
Attached to: Can Cory Doctorow's 'Enshittification' Transform the Tech Industry Debate?
unsubscribe
179627126
comment
bytopham
2025 @05:38AM
(#65697690)
Attached to: Intel and AMD Trusted Enclaves, a Foundation For Network Security, Fall To Physical Attacks
The motherboard is the second level of defense. The case is the third. The rack is the fourth, the cage is the fifth. The armed guard is the sixth.
Physical attacks are readily mitigated by those with the will.
« Newer
Older »
Slashdot Top Deals
●(email not shown publicly)
http://slashdot.org/
●
Years Read
●
The Contradictor
●
Days Read in a Row
●
Re: Should Have Probited Altered Photos
●
Re: Rider on the elephant
(Score:4, Insightful)
●
Re: It's in non-human meat as well as human meat
(Score:4, Informative)
●
Re: Never understood how one was expected to cont
●
Hostile you mean
●
Ilgaz
●
Bruce Perens
●
news (stories)
●
business (stories)
●
winklevoss (stories)
●
law (stories)
●
google (stories)
Slashdot
●
Submit Story
It is much harder to find a job than to keep one.
●FAQ
●Story Archive
●Hall of Fame
●Advertising
●Terms
●Privacy Statement
●About
●Feedback
●Mobile View
●Blog
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
Copyright © 2026 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.
×
Close
Working...
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
Copyright © 2026 Slashdot Media. All Rights Reserved.
×
Close
Working...