Megathread #6 for news/updates/discussion of AI chatbots and image generators
The hype continues. Here is the previous thread.
The hype continues. Here is the previous thread.
Everyone uses and knows about social media, YouTube, Netflix etc. But what about the hidden gems on the App Store that aren’t trying to squeeze as much money and attention from you as possible?
The hype continues. Here is the previous thread.
Not sure it will be worth a full megathread, but there is some news.
The hype continues. Here is the previous thread.
Welcome to Tildes first Turing Test.
Rules:
@NaraVara, if this is clear, do you want to give this a go?
Edit: minor formatting
The hype continues. Here is the previous one.
As an old, I prefer the old reddit. Which, lets be honest, has been going away for a while.
But so long as I could browse on my phone via i.reddit.com, I was happily entertained by time there.
No longer. And I'm saddened by it. It was an imperfect community, but its good parts are replicated nowhere else as far as I can tell, Tildes notwithstanding. Although, if Tildes were maybe 2-3x as busy and had more para-reality* fans, it'd be really darn close. I am still sad, and sad that we can't keep awesome things that generate a lot of community benefit but low income (see also, usenet). Probably, it's a good dead cow.**
*As a true believer (tm), I hesitate to use the word conspiracy, because it has gained so many negative associations with far right absurdity and violence. Among the more serious members of the community, we have yet to come up with an easy to use term. Another thing in the world I am sad about. For the record, I don't believe the election was stolen, but I also don't believe Kennedy was assassinated by Oswald, or at least not him alone.
**if anyone is interested, I relay the story of the Wise Man, the Poor Family, and Their Cow.
I'm spending time at a new city and Google Maps is shit for walking. It's hard to say exactly what's wrong with it, everything feels wrong. Car centric logic just doesn't work for walking I guess (yes I'm using the walking mode). It feels bad, unreliable, and I'm lost all the time. Yesterday I ended up 2 hours away from my destination and had to call an Uber (big humiliation!). Walking is my preferable way of urban exploration and I hate talking to strangers.
What I want is a simple compass that tells me "go to that general direction and you'll get there". No map, no street names. Just an arrow and a linear distance (like, in a straight line). Like a videogame. Without foreknowledge, street names are just confusing and unnecessary. I can handle the route myself.
Does such an app exists?
I'm not sure anything quite like this has happened before. What problems could happen as a result of this?
Hype is still going strong since the previous one.