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This is silly.

Whether it’s “silly” or not is irrelevant, the problem described in the article is real. I have seen innumerable PDFs over the years that were atrocious when it came to the use of those accessibility features, the format’s design factors in to how people use it and people use it terribly. If plain old OCR were enough then this wouldn’t be such a problem.

Ah, they were paid with exposure.

How dare those AIs draw inspiration from the things they’ve seen without compensating the IP holders.

Reminds me of an anecdote I read a while back about a company that was training an LLM and wanted to make it less “sexy”, but a programming error flipped the sign on the weight that was being applied during training. Trainers kept trying to penalize it but that was only encouraging it and the result was an extreme horndog AI.

Unfortunately they found the error and fixed it before ship.

The story is also not saying that AI generates no value, just that it’s not generating revolutionary change-the-world new-Industrial-Revolution levels of value.

Similar to online AI detector tools

Ah, so it’s useless then.

“The majority secretly agrees with me, only a minority of idiots disagree” is a bad assumption no matter which “side” of an issue you’re on. I’m always glad to see options become available but we shouldn’t expect everyone to want them.

Except it’s not denying service, so it’s just a D.

Reality desperately needs a better PR department.

Indeed. And that also applies to getting left-wing politicians to recognize reality, not just the electorate.

This is wildly diverging from “I want the specs for a file format.”

The “google-fu” in this case was to search for “.glb format specification” when seeking the .glb format specification.

This really doesn’t seem like a huge challenge requiring sophisticated skills.

I looked at the sites. Did you? The thing that OP was looking for that they claimed had been made unfindable or “polluted” were perfectly accessible and fine.

It’s only “polluted” if you’re looking for something specific and you refuse to ask for something specific.

If you go into a restaurant and ask them for “a drink” without specifying what drink you want, don’t complain about the quality of the coffee when they bring you a coke.

If you wanted the specification why not search for “.glb format specification”? I did that on Google and the specification was the first hit.

If I wasn’t just so very, very tired, I would find amusement in how this story is going back and forth. “Haha, cybertruck exploded! Stupid Elon!” “Oh, it had a bomb, it was a deliberate explosion. And the cybertruck’s structure stopped anyone outside it from getting hurt…” silence “Ah! It auto-locked, something about cybertruck we can criticize! Stupid Elon!”

And people complain about the “tribalism” in politics these days.

And, ideally, subscribers to this community? There are so many weird takes and misunderstandings about this stuff.

Those jobs are also being replaced by AI. Modern AIs are trained on synthetic data, which is data that was generated from source material specifically for training purposes by other AIs. AIs reformat, rewrite, and vet the source material more reliably and efficiently than humans.

Those sadly will also be replaced over time with machines and there is something we will really lose.

Not all of the things we lose will be sad, though. An AI researcher has the potential to be more thorough and less biased when it comes to digging up and interpreting resources.

If you divide the sides up to “people who care about this stuff” and “people who just want to make games”, then yeah. One side’s doing okay.

Frankly, nobody that’s involved in this fight are looking good to me on either “side.” It’s a fight that shouldn’t be happening at all. This is a game engine. Why is it a battleground for this?