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  • Fucking thank you. Yes, experienced editor to add to this: that’s called the lead, and that’s exactly what it exists to do. Readers are not even close to starved for summaries:

    • Every single article has one of these. It is at the very beginning – at most around 600 words for very extensive, multifaceted subjects. 250 to 400 words is generally considered an excellent window to target for a well-fleshed-out article.
    • Even then, the first sentence itself is almost always a definition of the subject, making it a summary unto itself.
    • And even then, the first paragraph is also its own form of summary in a multi-paragraph lead.
    • And even then, the infobox to the right of 99% of articles gives easily digestible data about the subject in case you only care about raw, important facts (e.g. when a politician was in office, what a country’s flag is, what systems a game was released for, etc.)
    • And even then, if you just want a specific subtopic, there’s a table of contents, and we generally try as much as possible (without harming the “linear” reading experience) to make it so that you can intuitively jump straight from the lead to a main section (level 2 header).
    • Even then, if you don’t want to click on an article and just instead hover over its wikilink, we provide a summary of fewer than 40 characters so that readers get a broad idea without having to click (e.g. Shoeless Joe Jackson’s is “American baseball player (1887–1951)”).

    What’s outrageous here isn’t wanting summaries; it’s that summaries already exist in so many ways, written by the human writers who write the contents of the articles. Not only that, but as a free, editable encyclopedia, these summaries can be changed at any time if editors feel like they no longer do their job somehow.

    This not only bypasses the hard work real, human editors put in for free in favor of some generic slop that’s impossible to QA, but it also bypasses the spirit of Wikipedia that if you see something wrong, you should be able to fix it.



  • No, they definitely are AI. ChatGPT for example is a generative pretrained transformer (GPT) is a transformer model is a deep learning model is a machine learning model is AI.

    It’s just that the general public has no fucking idea what “AI” is due to being swamped in marketing about a field they have zero background in and have been led to believe is some kind of general intellect on the level of a human or smarter. In reality, a perceptron with one weight and one bias is machine learning is AI.

    Since the start, what “AI” is has been fairly arbitrary; it’s just the ability for a machine to perform tasks we’d associate with human intelligence. It doesn’t even need to be machine learning; that’s just one branch. The game Video Checkers (1980) for the Atari 2600 running on 128 bytes of RAM has AI that you play against. The bar isn’t high at all.


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    it shouldn't be that hard?

    OP, what’s your background to make you think that way, and if you’re qualified enough to make that assessment, why aren’t you getting to work building the ground floor of something potentially highly lucrative?

    The response to “It shouldn’t be that hard” for FOSS is invariably “PRs welcome”.


  • The difference: Israel is in Syria for imperialist aggression. Ukraine is in Ukraine to protect their homeland from imperialist aggresssion. Combine that with Israel’s pathological need to cover up and deny their extensive, seemingly neverending war crimes in Gaza… Yeah, I don’t have any faith until Israel can prove this was opsec rather than covering up. Israel has destroyed their chance for benefit of the doubt.

    Even if it is opsec, they have no right being there, so fuck 'em. I hope their opsec isn’t maintained and their soldiers do die in much the same way I’d hope for a Russian base in Donetsk.



  • I know what community this is, Blaze, but it baffles me to recommend this over Element.

    • The Matrix Foundation is a UK-based CIC.
    • IIRC the for-profit company which develops the Element app which is commercial FOSS is UK-based – therefore it’s European.
    • Luxchat, however, lacks support for Linux, the obvious choice for removing oneself from US-based software.
    • Luxchat, however, isn’t made by the people behind the protocol like Element.
    • Unlike Element’s company, which exists to make money to fund Matrix’s development, Luxchat is full-stop a for-profit company ostensibly supporting nothing. Edit: I was mistaken; a GIE is a company (they’re registered C8 with the Commercial and Companies Register in Luxembourg), but the type of company’s: “aim is not to make a profit, but it can do so simply as an accessory, as the profit resulting from the joint action must also go directly to its members.” That said, I can’t see anything about any money going back to the development of Matrix, which is still a major red flag to me compared to Element.
    • The tiny-ass website doesn’t do a thing to estsblish what license Luxchat is under. Element, by contrast, is squarely FOSS.
    • While desperately, fruitlessly searching for any sort of license, one of the few pages that turned up from their website just read “Create stunning AI chatbots with our 21st.dev-inspired Glassmorphic UI.” as one of their premium services. 🤮 This may(?) be something different. See below.
    • I can find effectively fuck-all about this company that I’m supposed to be trusting with my privacy.

    Edit: So to be clear, they say it’s a fork of Element, but that doesn’t tell me the license or give me the source code. Trying to find the source code for the messaging app just returns this crap about their an AI service which is just ChatGPT wrapper number 486 billion.


    Edit 2: Okay, I think the confusion over this AI BS is that there’s lux.chat – ChatGPT wrapper garbage – and luxchat – an Element fork. I have no idea if these are related. If they are, this information is too hard to find. If they aren’t… I mean maybe if you had more information on your website, luxchat, I wouldn’t have to scour the Internet to find that information and run into lux.chat.


    Edit 3: The FAQ clears literally none of my questions up. Cool.