HerGaiety @hergaiety@computerfairi.es

Bad: All of this, and in the end the best we can hope for is #Craptions
https://www.rikkipoynter.com/

It's possibly even worse to have inaccurate captions than no captions at all. These tools often get words, grammar, and punctuation wrong. They don't understand acronyms or the names of products. They will misspell someone's name or not understand neopronouns. Sometimes they even attribute what was said to the wrong person. This hurts everyone consuming the transcript.

Bad continued: Worse is Fireflies AI, who's website hides in an FAQ that it is the meeting host's fault if they don't declare that the meeting is being recorded. No opt-out is offered. Very opaque technology and data privacy practices.

Any meeting host can invite this "automatic note taking tool" and send a third party company everyone's faces, voices, screen recordings with the explicit intent of letting it be analyzed by software.

Bad: There's competition in the space of live transcription, note taking, and screen recording.

Zoom natively can use AI to offer live captions while recording. They do prompt the user that recording has started, allowing an opt-out which is appreciated. Though it is unclear how the tech works and if anything recorded is shared with third parties.

A video about what the heck I am talking about around Unreal's frame generation, upscaling, etc

https://youtu.be/RaY_FDaydoQ

Good: Unreal Engine 5 phenomenally demonstrates integration of AI in an intentional way. Their game engine introduced entirely new or reimagined tools like Nanite, Lumen and more. These features are only possible in real-time computer graphics thanks to AI image upscaling and DLSS frame generation. They're making the impossible, possible, years ahead of schedule.

All this, and ethically it's safe, it is sandboxed, pure input and output without user data on the line.

There are some amazing uses of AI happening right now sitting right alongside some horrifying use cases driven by corporate greed. We aren't talking enough about this. I want to praise scientists for pushing the boundaries of what computers can do while also shaking a finger at companies that clearly see AI as a buzzword while doing real harm without penalty.

I'll alternate between some good examples and some bad examples, perhaps some trends will become clear.

Wolves deserve pizza

@GoatJamesAz there are only kobolds and honorary kobolds, I'll yip knight you if you wish

Starting a #kobold cult who wants to join

Shotas like a melody in my head do do dooo...

@GoatJamesAz this goat gets it

Don't be @'ing me with your anti-semetric wave functions, I'm out here trying to grow

Falling asleep at night peacefully knowing that trans kitty hackers are keeping evil-doers on their toes

Gender superfluidity

@madewokherd indeed, alongside (for real, no jest) touching grass legitimately and floor time

Great ways to ground yourself

The Batman who does a little giggle sometimes

I think Einstein had some of the best theories, relatively

I've been told I have an intrinsic charm, for a quark

Just poly furry things, scheduled a date with a cat girl