I think it's fine to not disclose it. Like, don't you find "Sent from my iPhone" that iPhones automatically add to emails annoying? Technicalities like that don't bring anything to the conversation.
I think typically, the reason people are disclosing their usage of LLMs is that they want offload responsibility. To me it's important to see them taking responsibility for their words. You wouldn't blame Google for bad search results, would you? You can only blame the entity that you can actually influence.
Does it even fall into "AI-generated" category? GitHub Copilot has been around for years, I certainly remember using it long before the recent AI boom, and at that time it wasn't even thought of as any kind of a breakthrough.
And at this point it's not just a productivity booster, it's as essential as using a good IDE. I feel extremely uncomfortable and slow writing any code without auto-completion.
I think there is a difference between type system or Language Server completions and AI generated completion.
When the AI tab completion fills in full functions based on the function definition you have half typed, or completes a full test case the moment you start type - mock data values and all, that just feels mind-reading magical.
For some reason I thought this article would explain how to ID a specific cat, that is basically facial recognition for cats.
Is this even something that's possible with current tech? Like, surely cats have some facial features that can be used to uniquely identify them? It would be cool to have a global database of all cats that users would be able to match their photos against. Imagine taking a picture of a cat you see on the street, and it immediately tells you the owner's details and whether it's missing.
I wrote the CatBench vector search playground toy app exactly for this reason! [1] ("cat-similarity search for recommendation engines and cat-fraud detection"). I built it both for learning & fun, but also it's useful for demoing vector search functionality, plugged in to regular RDBMS application schemas in business context. I used cats & dogs as it's something everyone understands, instead of diving deep into some narrow industry vertical specific use case.
I imagine when they run out of other sensors to add to our phones, they’ll add chip readers so you can just scan for the implanted microchip on a cat you encounter. (said semi-sarcastically since the tech requires close proximity between animal and reader which most cats you encounter on the street will not countenance)
Yes, I've worked in this space for dogs (for re-identifying animals that have been vaccinated for rabies). It's a very difficult problem, but mostly because getting/scraping good training data is difficult. You really want lots of paired images of the same animal and that's hard compared to searching for "cat". Plus the usual challenges: animals don't like to stay still so getting good pictures is hard and users must have good guidance for lighting/pose to get the best results. Human facial recognition benefits from strong commercial interest and the most robust methods rely on extras like 3D scanning.
Tricks include facial alignment + cropping and very strong constraints on orientation to make sure you have a good frontal image (apps will give users photo alignment markers). Otherwise it's a standard visual seatch. Run a face extraction model to get the crop, warp to standard key points, compute the crop embedding, store in a database and do a nearest neighbour lookup.
There are a few startups doing this. Also look at PetFace which was a benchmark released a year or so ago. Not a huge amount of work in this area compared to humans, but it's of interest to people like cattle farmers as well.
There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy.
I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.
You're assuming that the user actually wants to sign up. In reality, it's likely that they're just clicking "Continue" in order to get rid of the dialog and couldn't care less about a signup.
Users want to use the site and don't care whether or not they are signed up. They do care about going through tedious registration forms and email verification codes. That's why sign-ups go up so much - users know they won't have to deal with the registration tedium.
They trade that for the tedium of dealing with being automatically added to email lists for sites they don’t even remember signing up for and only used one time.
All the spam email is why I’m very picky where I choose to register.
They have yet to block the Apple email relay. Granted, I haven't used it or tested it on every site. That said, Apple has one advantage other filters don't have, which is people who own Apple devices tend to be desirable to very desirable customers, which means adding friction to this would drive away higher average spenders.
I also use the fastmail.com masked email address for things, and that has not yet been an issue either.
And if you have an app in the AppStore and you allow third party sign ups through Google, Facebook, etc. You must allow “sign in with Apple”.
There is absolutely no app or service that I would use thst forces me to sign in with Google and doesn’t give me a choice to Sign in with Apple and let me Hide My Email.
I've encountered one site that didn't accept a Fastmail address. I don't know what they expect me to do - I'm not making a Google or Microsoft account just to register on your dumbass website.
Big upside to the provider, not necessarily the consumer.
Perplexity has a "sign in with Google" pop up that loads late, often when I've already started typing in my query, and thus blocks the rest of my typing, negatively affecting the UX of the service. So I looked up how to get the fuck rid of it and added that method to uBlock Origin, and now I'm a happy (freeloading) chappy.
The delayed focus capture is the most annoying part. I'll be in the middle of typing or scrolling with the keyboard when it steals focus. I type pretty fast, so sometimes I've punched in a bunch of text before realising it all vanished into the popups frame.
Since shifting to firefox it's not a big deal as I have more control, vimium can stop focus being stolen and ublock can block the in web versions of the popups. Which if Googlers are reading, I made the swap after a decade of Chrome use because of your continued anti-user, anti-privacy stewardship of the product. Your trajectory is obvious. I hope the products leadership gets the message some day, but I suspect it's financially working out just fine.
Do they pay for anything? I'm all for reducing login friction. But that popup is like people that accost you in the street trying to enlist you into their cult.
Also true if I use my gmail address. I'll confess that for many websites I don't care that much. Depending on a password manager would be better, though.
Semi-related anecdote: I lost my Reddit account to a cryptocurrency spammer due to a weak password and had to create another, so I lost my preferred username. Annoying but not a huge deal. (Reddit did freeze the old account but wouldn't give it back.)
The email is ultimately the second factor that lets you make important changes to the account in many cases. For example, changing your password. It's more important than the password in nearly every security critical account I have.
This is not always the case. Reddit sometimes locks the account until you verify it or reset the password by email. Happened with my email pointed at a .tk domain and I had to call freenom a bunch to get the domain back.
Since the last few years Reddit has basically just become Facebook 2.0 and it's not even worth using at all. They probably got acquired by private equity or something.
And still couldn't sign-in-with-google. On an email linked that way, so no password recovery. Would likely be a new account - with bonus "that address is already in use" problem.
I agree, there may be an additional step necessary if the page doesn't handle this case already, but this way you can still prove (more easily) ownership to the support.
You're both right. If an account on your service is completely meaningless, I'd rather press one button than type my email, choose a password and go through a stupid email confirmation workflow. Also, it's very annoying that you need an account at all.
Last month I subscribed to DAZN TV through Google in order to watch a FIFA world football semifinal match. I deleted the third party allowance a week later. The final was free globally.
> So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.
No. Because those who don't want to sign up do get bothered by that popup which also reminds them of the fact that Google just tracked that visit and wants you to use Google to sign up on that page.
The chuzpe it takes to do that, from part of the website owner and Google...
Is this just you subjective experience or is it backed by some data or research? For me personally, sleeping after phenibut doesn't feel healthy at all -- in fact I often end up sleeping for 12+ hours unless I have something important to do in the morning, and it's extremely hard to get out of bed every time.
I don't know if it compares to Ambien at all, but my wife takes that and every once in a while I take one to help get to sleep. It gets me to sleep and I stay knocked out, but a long 8 hour sleep with Ambien never seems as good as a "real" 5 hour sleep without it.
Ambien drastically reduces the restorative deep sleep and REM phases of sleep, so you are correct in your assessment. Your brain needs those phases. Long-term use can cause cognitive issues and cancer.
Here in the NL I'd say it's at least €3600 if you have zero experience. This is my estimation for both theory & practical parts based on my own experience, current rates, and what little statistics I could find. Often much more if you fail and have to take more lessons.
From what I understand, you are taxed on the unrealized gains from your assets, so you are effectively paying ~2% of the value of all your assets every year. Even if you simply own a stake at a startup, you still have to pay the wealth tax regardless of whether your stake ends up having any real value at all (most likely it won't).
It depends. I have been in this situation several times. The benefit of the current regulation is that you can pay 0 income tax over stock options if you exercise them at the value of FMV. This is extremely beneficial for early employees. The disadvantage is that the tax service treat them as any other asset and if the company valuation skyrockets your shares might worth more than the 100k or so threshold they have for Box 3 tax. Ecen in that case you do pay a fractional tax over potential income they calculate over this. This might be tough but a very privileged position to be in as a good lawyer can come to an agreement with the tax service if the prospects are looking good (a potential IPO or acquisition). You will not pay ANY income tax over the profit you made in this scenario.
The same applies to house ownership too for example. I did pay 0 income tax over 150k profit I made over my previous house when I sold it. When the money was on my account the wealth tax started to kick in, but it is after you make the capital gains not at the moment you make it.
Maybe the reason is that the number of Apple users is an order of magnitude higher? Plus, they control both hardware and software. Apple is making very consumer-oriented products, and this comes with it's own downside of having to handle billions of users.
You are not required to use Steam to buy games on any device (even on the Steam Deck it's trivial to install games from other sources). It has big market power because gamers actually like it and actively choose it over alternatives (often even those that come pre-installed with the platform, the Windows store and the XBox app). It does not prevent devs from selling their games on multiple stores. It's dominant position for sure has market effects, but its a lot harder to argue it has the position for any nefarious or abusive reasons. (Although there are some lawsuits ongoing claiming that they did threaten devs over pricing, if those succeed it might change things)
Oh hey I wasn't aware of that lawsuit and (IMO) that's really good news. My only real concern with steam as a platform was the off-platform pricing clause.
I figured it was likely unenforceable if a studio simply released a "steam edition" or whatever artificial version differentiation, but at the same time they can always refuse to do business with you for any reason (or no reason even). So at that point the clause feels like them making a blatant threat.
People usually mix up things: The clear clause in their ToS is about selling Steam keys. A dev on Steam can generate Steam keys and sell them wherever they want, and Steam does not take a cut on those. For those, there is an explicit clause that says that you need to match the pricing on Steam.
For just selling the game elsewhere, there is no such clause, and there are games that e.g. are cheaper on Epic and explicitly say that's because Epic takes lower fees. But there are also devs claiming that Valve pressured them in private to not do that, and that's what the lawsuit is about.
Rubbish. I literally bought a SteamDeck and installed Heroic on it and installed games from GOG just fine. Valve literally helps me do this by giving me desktop mode. I can't think of any analogy that is farther from Apple's attitude.
I think typically, the reason people are disclosing their usage of LLMs is that they want offload responsibility. To me it's important to see them taking responsibility for their words. You wouldn't blame Google for bad search results, would you? You can only blame the entity that you can actually influence.