This is a difficult topic to talk about, but I want to heavily preface that I don't believe the technology should be encouraged as a supplement of "authentic" material. There is a reason that, as a society, we collectively agree that the sexual exploitation of minors is a form of abuse.

In my opinion, there is a lot we don't understand about the human mind and we should not be encouraging that AI is a "better" option. It is a very, very difficult subject to discuss succinctly, and I am by no means an expert, but I do not feel that suddenly presuming that the use of generative AI with a more ethical foundation for producing such content is a safe approach. It may encourage and normalise the exploitation of children or encourage people to progressively seek more thrill-seeking behaviour, which will result in people being hurt.

Ultimately, the only thing I can say is that anyone who has such thoughts should seek professional help. That includes paedophiles and anyone who may be slipping down a slop that AI seems to be encouraging.

It's a fascinating topic philosophically, but the discussion has very, very real, and lifelong consequences.

Also, I want to emphasise that I am not an AI researcher. I do have an education, but I'm not there yet. This is just something I think and worry about a lot.

The thing that annoys me most is that there have been studies done on LLMs where, when trained on subsets of output, it produces increasingly noisier output.

Sources (unordered):

• What is model collapse?
• AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
• Large Language Models Suffer From Their Own Output: An Analysis of the Self-Consuming Training Loop
• Collapse of Self-trained Language Models

Whatever nonsense Muskrat is spewing, it is factually incorrect. He won't be able to successfully retrain any model on generated content. At least, not an LLM if he wants a successful product. If anything, he will be producing a model that is heavily trained on censored datasets.

That's so sad :(

I hate BNPY so much... I deleted my after pay account, which means I can no long use their services unless I get in contact with support to reopen my account. I did it to explicitly make it near impossible for me to be tempted. It worked. There were times I felt regret, but it was 100% the smartest move.

Then, PayPal introduced pay in 4... All my hard work went right down the drain. I can't afford this shit but fuck it's hard when you're clinically depressed.

So, here's a fuck up from earlier this year:

A family friend came over one day. I was out by my car, having returned from a visit to the shops. I hadn't seen him in years, and he asks how I was. I responded with "Surviving", before saying something about my degree progress and stuff.

He goes a bit quiet and awkward, eventually making his way inside while I finished what I was doing.

I walked inside and walked past my parents talking to him. Then I remembered something. His partner was diagnosed with a brain tumour that had metastasised from breast cancer. I also remembered that a few days ago, my parents went to visit his partner in the palliative care unit because she lost the fight. I realised then that he clearly came around to tell my parents that she had passed away. She fucking died and I responded with "Surviving".

Please send penguin pics or else you'll be wishing for a ballistic missile

As someone with both ASD and ADHD, I'm practically allergic to not learning. Blows my mind that most people aren't the same in some regard.

Australian boatman have it rough

Poor guy shaved his penis off 😔 My condolences and best wishes

• If it bites you and you die: it's venomous
• If you bite it and you die: it's poisonous

In my country, the most renowned chefs all work at a hardware store

Don't let them fool you. This is not what men want!

This is what men really want:

So glad that I'm Australian. I'll keep our dogshit breakdancer any day.

Brother looks like he's about to challenge an Egyptian Pharaoh to a children's card game

Because the US is a joke

I have a BA in Mathematics. The limit is indeed determined by the direction you approach the limiting value.

When given without specification, the limit is implied to come from the left, meaning it increases towards the limiting value, which is why you see +inf.

Not really.

JPEG is a lossy compression format. It loses information to reduce filesize.

PNG is a lossless compressed format. It serves as a well-rounded format for general purpose image compression without the loss of information. The downside is the image can be much large in file size.

SVG is a vector graphic, as you seem to be aware. These files have what is effectively infinite resolution, but can be significantly larger in filesize, depending on the circumstances.

WEBP is a more efficient lossless compression format. It is analogous to PNG, but smaller file size. Additionally, as you stated, it can also be used for animated graphics,like GIF formats.

I think WEBP is a decent format and is significantly more modern than PNG. That being said, however, the main issue is the lack of modern integration and adaptation for newer image formats.

Personally, I use whatever. The only exception is when 8 need to store images on github in a repository. Then, I will typically convert to webp and optimise the image to reduce the file size as much as possible.

Ah, I misread the - as a +. You're correct! Sorry, I just woke up and am in the middle of my morning doomscrolling sesh