Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.
I needed to issue a minor but kind of important correction to a recent news article... I went right for the "advertise with us" email address because I know that one always gets read first. ๐
The fun thing about chaining together a bunch of stuff to generate screenshots of all your social media posts matching certain keywords for one lawsuit is that you only need to do it once and then it's already there for any future lawsuits
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If AI/LLMs are cut off from stolen human labour, their outputs turn to meaningless gibberish due to model collapse.
If AI/LLM owners are forced to pay for human labour instead of stealing it, they go bankrupt.
If AI/LLM data centres are forced to stay within energy consumption levels compatible with fighting climate change, they have to close down the overwhelming majority of their capacity.
AI/LLMs are just not sustainable, they can only function through labour theft and burning the planet. They're not so much new technology as a new type of ponzi scheme.
/app/vendor/ruby-4.0.0.preview2/lib/ruby/4.0.0+0/bundler/runtime.rb:317:in 'Bundler::Runtime#check_for_activated_spec!': You have already activated timeout 0.4.4, but your Gemfile requires timeout 0.4.3. Since timeout is a default gem, you can either remove your dependency on it or try updating to a newer version of bundler that supports timeout as a default gem. (Gem::LoadError)