“hallucination” works because everything an LLM outputs is equally true from its perspective. trying to change the word “hallucination” seems to usually lead to the implication that LLMs are lying which is not possible. they don’t currently have the capacity to lie because they don’t have intent and they don’t have a theory of mind.

I don’t agree. I think it’s disingenuous to isolate the decision from the context as if it were made unprompted. it comes across as if you are blaming the admins for something you don’t like - if that’s not your intent, then what is ?

it may seem that way, but that’s not accurate. something had to be done to stem the trolls and lemmy doesn’t provide any tools for less severe action.

On the topic of forums, I do like them, but I find they can often feel less “casual” than reddit/Lemmy. Different etiquette, I think.

I agree and it’s what I like about forums. to someone like me they’re more approachable. discord works best for me with friends, but it’s awkward with people I don’t know well

!greenspace at https://beehaw.org/c/greenspace

re: static content

How does authentication factor into this? even if we exclude marketing/tracking bullshit, there is a very real concern on many sites about people seeing the data they’re allowed to see. There are even legal requirements. If that data (such as health records) is statically held in a blockchain such that anyone can access it by its hash, privacy evaporates, doesn’t it?

the most important things will be preserved naturally.

I believe this is a fallacy. Things get preserved haphazardly or randomly, and “importance” is relative anyway.

wait, I’ve never used quora. whats bad about it

Maybe because I’m using Jerboa, but it feels slower to me. Jerboa has many issues though

that doesn’t really hold because Wikipedia does not struggle with funding in the sense you’re thinking: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

so, survival doesn’t necessarily have to be at stake

I’m having the opposite experience. I feel like it’s already so active here I can’t keep up in bigger communities like this one.

in many ways AH is one of the highest quality and most valuable subreddits on the site. it’s such an important organization that really should live on outside of reddit, but obviously it only got so big because it was part of that ecosystem. I think I might mourn AH more than my smaller niche subs even though I don’t go there often if it does end uo disappearing. I really hope they can migrate successfully somewhere else.

I don’t think it’s fair to say nothing is changing, but “dying” admittedly seems like hyperbole.

Organizations can die slowly or not at all but still be gravely damaged. They are almost certainly making these moves to capture the least critical (most profitable) portions of their userbases and hunker down for survival. Even if the change is extremely painful, they’re (likely) planning for the specific goal of avoiding total death.