No, if you have any amount of money. Large or small.

Havingess money, if anything, presses you to kill projects more.

I’d give them a lot more credit if they weren’t so brazenly corrupt and petty.

Even better

iPhone Pro Max screen area: 115.6cm²

iPad Air 11" screen area: 357.6cm²

iPad Air 13" screen area: 519.3cm²

An iPad has between 3 and 4.5 times the screen space than the largest iPhone.

The depiction aligning with reality is not a bias. Artificially altering the algorithm so that it shows more women for this prompt on the other hand is, unquestionably, adding a bias.

If you want to add a bias, fine. Biases aren’t always a bad thing, I can certainly see the argument for why you might want a 50/50 gender split for all AI prompts. But don’t pretend that what you’re actually advocating for here is correcting a bias, because it isn’t.

Likewise you can train it out of a bias, just feed it more content showing diverse workforces

That is training in a bias. Because it’s not representative of reality.

I live in the north east so I put £200k for a house.

I don’t think your calculation takes savings interest into account.

If someone gave me 750k and said you can have that but you aren’t allowed another paid job for the rest of your life I’d 100% take it.

Yes, elves in the books are a lot more… human.

They feast, they sing, they dance, they do stupid things, they prank each other. If anything they seem the most playful race.

Shit, in The Hobbit, a soldier on duty gets so drunk that he passes out, allowing Bilbo and the Dwarves are able to escape in barrels.

PJ very much took the Elves and said “let’s make them into Star Trek Vulcans!”

So people are complaining that the depictions of cardiologists, when you ask an image generator to show you one, are too accurate? That 85% of the time they show you a man in a job where 85% of people are men?

You’d likely see the same thing if you asked one to show you a warehouse worker, another job that’s male-dominated.

If people want more women in these roles, push for it at the university level. Push for it in medical posters in hospitals. I don’t see how forcing the hundreds of AI models out there to be biased in favour of depicting women when their training material doesn’t have as many is an effective way of achieving this goal.

This just seems like a “we want to complain about this field being male dominated, and we’re sure to get headlines if we include the AI buzzword”

I could easily retire for life on that money and live very comfortably. Shit, it would give me a higher yearly wage than I’m on now.

I don’t get why people online frequently act like that’s not a lot of money. It’s £750k.

You could buy an alright house (outside of London) on that, retire at 30, and enjoy an above average amount of after-bills spending money for the rest of your life, without having to work at all.

Ok. But that is just you personally, and the internet carers to far more than just you.

The media I consume is mostly youtube

Which is ad-based, even if you and I likely use ublock.

I won’t miss anything that ran on ads

You won’t miss any YouTube content? Really? There’s not a single YouTube channel you like? You won’t miss hundreds of news websites? Game mod websites? Sites with Old game archives? Etc etc.

Ok whatever, let’s assume that’s right. It still doesn’t change anything. You feeling that way doesn’t mean ads will no longer exist.

Ads will exist regardless of your feelings on the matter, because so much of the internet is reliant on it. With that in mind, surely you’d rather ads not be the privacy nightmare they are right now, no?

I feel like people are shitting on a real improvement to the way things currently are in order to fawn over a completely unrealistic change. In other words, letting perfect be the enemy of good.

Committing resources to projects then keeping them/killing them depending on how they go really isn’t abnormal or a poor business practice, no matter how much you try to make it sound like one.

Elves looking down on the other races in middle earth? Say it ain’t so!

See also Galadriel’s words in the prologue to Fellowship of The Ring: Three rings were given to the Elves - immortal, wisest, and fairest of all beings.

Where’s that meme of Obama putting a medal on Obama?

That’s how it works, yes.

You spend money creating something, hoping the market will pick it up.

Yeah. Offline translation (i.e. that doesn’t send data to Google to translate), better screen reader functionality for blind people? Sign me the fuck up.

People are just seeing “AI” and getting upset about it. Absolutely stupid.

Their ad metrics thing is 100% private. Nobody, not even Mozilla, can tie the data back to you. Each data point is packaged separately (so that you can’t get all of it and easily work out who it is). Mozilla created an effective way to have genuinely privacy-respecting and metrics and they’re hated for it.

I don’t like ads, I use an adblock, but the internet runs on ads. Ads unfortunately have to exist if we still want all this online content, and if they do exist, they should be private.

With any hope, the likes of the EU will push for this over the kinds of ad systems that Google and Meta push.

As for the AI integration in Firefox - it runs locally and does stuff like offline translation (i.e not sending the contents of the page to Google translate), as well as enhanced screen reader functionality for blind people. Stop trying to equate it to the likes of ChatGPT.

Honestly a number of these were abandoned for reasons that are fair enough.

Additionally, lots of these are open source and either have been or can be forked.

Far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things. This one we shall call… Mr Tiddles.

It basically is when you’re not the one who has to deal with that debt.

Durin’s Bane… a Balrog of Meowgoth

Man the ‘x’ in that font looks dreadful.

Sad to see Ric go, but I get it. Although if he’s not good enough for F1, neither are a few others…