#Data Tools

[infoanalysishub]

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[webscraping82]

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[quicklifesolutions]

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[coinxpense]

Injective Unveils iAgent SDK for Onchain AI Trading, Data Tools

Injective has launched the iAgent SDK, enabling users to create on-chain AI agents for automating tasks and interacting with decentralized applications. The iAgent SDK, a tool that enables users to develop their own on-chain artificial intelligence agents, has been released by Injective, a Cosmos-based Layer 1 blockchain. By combining blockchain technology with AI technology, this new…

[aibafiles]

metaphor prologue

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[ewanmitchellcrumbs]

Just found out that everything I have ever written has been AI scraped, despite me having my works on AO3 archive locked since early 2023, and I am so fucking angry, upset and disheartened.

At this point, I am not really sure if I want to continue writing (or at least publishing what I write) - I was beginning to feel deflated anyway, as giving support and motivation to others. and not feeling as though I get much back myself was killing my spark for fandom a little. Finding this out has killed it stone dead.

[cyle]

still confused how to make any of these LLMs useful to me.

while my daughter was napping, i downloaded lm studio and got a dozen of the most popular open source LLMs running on my PC, and they work great with very low latency, but i can't come up with anything to do with them but make boring toy scripts to do stupid shit.

as a test, i fed deepseek r1, llama 3.2, and mistral-small a big spreadsheet of data we've been collecting about my newborn daughter (all of this locally, not transmitting anything off my computer, because i don't want anybody with that data except, y'know, doctors) to see how it compared with several real doctors' advice and prognoses. all of the LLMs suggestions were between generically correct and hilariously wrong. alarmingly wrong in some cases, but usually ending with the suggestion to "consult a medical professional" -- yeah, duh. pretty much no better than old school unreliable WebMD.

then i tried doing some prompt engineering to punch up some of my writing, and everything ended up sounding like it was written by an LLM. i don't get why anybody wants this. i can tell that LLM feel, and i think a lot of people can now, given the horrible sales emails i get every day that sound like they were "punched up" by an LLM. it's got a stink to it. maybe we'll all get used to it; i bet most non-tech people have no clue.

i may write a small script to try to tag some of my blogs' posts for me, because i'm really bad at doing so, but i have very little faith in the open source vision LLMs' ability to classify images. it'll probably not work how i hope. that still feels like something you gotta pay for to get good results.

all of this keeps making me think of ffmpeg. a super cool, tiny, useful program that is very extensible and great at performing a certain task: transcoding media. it used to be horribly annoying to transcode media, and then ffmpeg came along and made it all stupidly simple overnight, but nobody noticed. there was no industry bubble around it.

LLMs feel like they're competing for a space that ubiquitous and useful that we'll take for granted today like ffmpeg. they just haven't fully grasped and appreciated that smallness yet. there isn't money to be made here.

[duncanor]

I still think it's insane that Quackity launched a AI-powered translation tool and just didn't talk about the pricing.

This shit should cost 5$ monthly AT WORST.

But the lowest tier is actually 10$ WEEKLY.

That's 4x a Netflix subscription.

That's 40 bucks a month, or around 500 bucks a year. For a translation tool.. Using what I assume is mainly Google translate as its base..

That's the kind of greed we only talk in the Bible..

[the-kreizler-institute]

I can't BELIEVE I haven't found a single Daforge smut fic in which Data has bodyparts stuck in a certain position somehow

[ilkkawhat]

The Dark Presence...Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!

[radbeetle]

I rarely do this kind of thing but something just went wrong with my PC and I need to take it in to get fixed because with all my health stuff I just can't manage on my own. If anyone has ever thought of supporting me it would be a great time

[star-track]

read ghost ship yesterday and (1) gayyyyyyy but could have been gayer, they should have reunion kissed (2) the emotional range they gave data is absolutely insane im so mad these are noncanon books and (3) damn they really wrote measure of a man a season early huh

[queen-mabs-revenge]

communist generative ai boosters on this website truly like

[st5lker]

actually i will get into it kind of but its not really that profound or deep i was just talking about how there are applications people don’t think about which i really cannot reasonably consider “cheating” but rather just time saving like having it proofread for simple grammatical errors you missed, quickly search through long documents for specific things/points of note, transcribe images of handwritten notes into plain text, do rough machine translations, etc etc most of which really nothing else can do as accurately or intelligently as an llm can and theres really no reason they have to be done manually by a human except for like pride or if you’re too stupid to read over what it outputs before using it. but when everyone talks about ai they only think about saying “write my essay for me” which like yeah thats going to take away any actual benefit you could gain from writing it and make up sources and shit but thats not the extent of it and people who are way too proud about having never once used an ai are corny about it and barely understand what ai even is and can do (because they do not use it)

[where-the-water-flows]

If you know how to do it you can use someone’s phone number to find their full legal name and home address. It’s just a bit of Google and knowing what websites stores this kind of info. Saw your tags asking how a phone number could verify someone’s age

So, I appreciate you dropping into my askbox to pass that info on - genuinely, it's kind of you - and I can see how my tags came across, but what I actually meant wasn't 'how can you find info on someone just with their phone number??' -- I actually do exactly that kind of thing in my day job pretty regularly, and I have to conform to a lot of real strict ethic constraints that uh, bluntly, random discord moderators...do not.

What I was actually getting at is the fact that, assuming the hypothetical server is just using a phone number as age verification (and doing data broker/google search on that), how in the hell is it controlling for someone doing what people under the arbitrary age limit du jour have been doing since we started implementing this sort of check, ie, lying like rugs and supplying info for someone in their family/social circle instead who is older than [whatever age].

like. sure. maybe you get a phone number for age verification. awesome. plug that into your data broker/google/etc of choice, run your searches, and ok, it belongs to jane smith, 38 years old, accountant who lives in ballarat, she's totally fine to join the 18+ server! come on in jane, the smut is plentiful and the doves are extremely dead. Jane smith has a kid. jane smith's kid is 15. jane smith's kid isn't allowed in the server, because it's an 18+ only server.

jane smith's kid almost certainly knows their mum's mobile number.

how the hell can Hypothetical Server Mod control for 15 year old jane smith's kid putting in jane smith's mobile number instead of their own? and also, separately, how the hell is HSM dealing with the many -- many many many -- different privacy laws around the globe?

not just in terms of handling that sort of information on people (and also requesting it in the first place!), but also just. some countries you can get so much fucking info on someone! (the US. I'm talking about the US.)

some you can't. because privacy laws, because the info isn't publicly accessible, because it's not online and is only in hard copy at the local government office, because it's collated but only in a nonenglish language, because it's geolocked-- etc.

also, like. even if the hypothetical phone number brings up someone in the US, and also your hypothetical mod team has decided, y'know, fuck privacy laws, security of information and data ethics can take a long walk off a short pier, we're keeping this server 18+ or dying trying!

data brokers aren't...actually consistently what you would call...super accurate, or like, accurate at all. if you have a unique name, yeah, sure, you're probably kinda fucked! (assuming you're in, again, somewhere the data brokers focus) but like. if you're named something a little more common - say, james smith, or maria sanchez in the US- uh. well. there sure are a lot of people you could be, and some of them - most of them! - are over 18.

and ok, sure, a phone number is (usually) only associated with one person, but. you can get a lot of false positives, false negatives, and straight up 'we don't know 🤪', the latter of which is sometimes hidden by the databrokers going 'our best guess is that this person is: An Age!! somewhere between 0 and 200 years old. 😇'

again, I use this stuff for work, I can tell you exactly how inaccurate it can get as soon as you throw something like 'not based in the US/UK' or 'uses a nickname/multiple name formats' or 'isn't super online' or 'older than 65 and not turbo wealthy' at some of these - I've had more than one confidently tell me that [my wallet name] is an accountant based in darwin who makes horror films in alice springs on the side, and also, is 26, and had 2-3 kids with her husband Lauchlan.

literally none of these facts are true. like. even vaguely.

and that can of worms doesn't even get into if someone has requested to be removed from data broker databases and/or takes online privacy Very Seriously and/or is just fundamentally ungoogleable, which is...more common than you'd think. less common than you'd like, but more common than you think, even before google started enshittifying itself out of existence.

which is why when you're trying to do things like prove your identity to uhhh goverments, banks, etc, they want multiple forms of ID, one of which is usually a photo ID, none of which anyone should be sending to a random on discord, or, frankly, asking for from a random on discord, both bc my god privacy and security risk but also like. handling that information can actually have legal requirements!

anyway. extremely long ramble on the failings of databrokers over, I appreciate you reaching out to help explain and it was very kind of you anon, sorry that I have. uhhhh kind of a lot of professional feelings about data privacy and basic social engineering, by which I mean saying 'no I'm totally 18 pinkie swear' in the grand tradition of teens wanting to get into age locked areas ever, your forebears lied on LJ so you could lie on discord.