On the plus side, the sheer power consumption of using an LLM to dish out targeted advertisements will be prohibitively expensive. Any agency stupid enough to do this with current technology is gonna go bust.
As for hosting the LLM locally on the viewer’s machine… Remember the furore of shady companies burying crypto miners into their software? This is going to be even more wasteful of system resources and is going to result in such a sluggish user experience that the industry will go bankrupt.
this is a mastodon post, part of the same “network” as lemmy instances. Should it not be possible to have this kind of post as an actual post instad of a screenshot?
Yes but the UX of accessing mastodon content on lemmy isn’t great.
Who else is excited for Rootkit “anticheat/DRM” requirements for web browsers? We all already give games full system access, so why not do the same for cookies?
Another thing that’ll have me just quitting tech altogether. If you need to advertise your product so hard as to ruin something of mine at all times so I’ll HAVE to look at your shit, I’ll spend extra money to never use your shit again. I’ll get rid of everything but one laptop or phone which will do all of my banking and literally nothing else.
God bless NoScript.
Doubt it.
FYI assuming this is genuine, OP is a long-time science fiction writer with a couple novels that take place during or after an AI singularity: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross
Thx for this, added a few of his books to the list of things I need to consume.
Don’t start with Accelerando, or do if you’re a little bit weird.
Haha, lul, that title did seem to stand out a bit from the other ones, but I didn’t read the des.
I might start with Index, Codex, or Saturn - but I’ve intentionally skipped reading the synopsis (not as a spoiler, I’m indifferent to those, just as adhd management to ‘start the thing’ - by keeping the info simple it might seem like an easier pick for my brainhole to chose & allow me to perform the activity, and I feel like I don’t need to do much more research on the author or specific books).
Yup, you can find him on Mastodon now: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112274383742505743
Rule 34 in particular is an excellent read, and expands on some of the concepts in the post.
Risky click of the day.
Excellent title.
He’s also made some damn insightful comments over the years. I wish a little less insightful in this case. He had a programming background and usually isn’t full of shit.
“The Merchant Prince’s” series is deep into pre-Great Recession liberal economics, but still a pretty good read.
I’m not that great at English, what’s the grammar on"merchant Prince’s"?
Is this a prince that’s also a merchant?
Is this a merchant that works or is associated with a prince?
Is it a typo and is supposed to read princess?
Well yeah, NOW IT IS, now that you put the idea out there! Thanks!
I’ll have you know that this is famous sci-fi author Charles David George Stross posting an excerpt from his seminal novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus. The warning is right in the title, I’m sure nobody will be dumb enough to ignore it!
🤞🤞
I will 100% quit using electrically powered screen-besring devices if this becomes a thing. I’ll cold turkey electronic tech instantly, fuck that noise.
I tried to cold turkey technology. I went near insane.
It takes prep, and also, you’re probably not going to truly “cold turkey.” I like music, for instance, and there’s literally only two ways to get music now - streaming or 🏴☠️, so you would have to make plans for that. I’m ok with 🏴☠️ so I’d be set with that for a good while. I also like books, retro games (which I already have a large library of), and physical hobbies that don’t require internet - hiking, etc.
I will not just lay down and accept intrusive Idiocracy levels of ads though. I will literally “cave man” the rest of life if necessary.
There’s more than two ways to get music. I’m looking at a stack of CDs and records right now.
Do modern bands still print CDs? I haven’t bought a CD in so long that I dont think I even own one anymore. I have bought directly from several bands “bandcamp”/other pages and that was cool. Got mp3, FLAC, artworks, lyrics, etc for less than the price of a CD except every penny went to the band.
I love modern tech and don’t want to see it destroyed but I will gladly go insane like a mountain man if they try to find out how many ads they can serve before it causes siezures.
Oh actually you know what you’re probably right 😬 I know modern bands do records still, but I think the last CD I bought was Tranquility Base in like 2016. Bandcamp is great!
I’m totally on board with you. I hate ads, especially when they interrupt music – and double especially when they interrupt music and the ad has its own music that completely shits up the mood!
Yea same. And I’m a Systems Admin lol
Reminds me of Futurama, “we all have commercials in our dreams” scene.
Leela: Didn’t you have ad’s in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No siree!
Quit squaking, flesh wad. Nobody’s forcing you to buy anything.
I don’t want to be forced to watch ads either, ass wad.
You can likely rest very well assured that when BigCorp overlords saw the dystopian shit in movies like Demolition Man, RoboCop, Idiocracy, etc., their eyes lit up with a horrid glow and they told each other, “This is brilliant! We absolutely must make this happen!”
Only a matter of time until some company comes up with BlipVerts.
Yeah this is why I’ve made it a goal to read more often
Well I’d recommend giving Charlie Stross’s books a read.
Personally I’ve only read Rule 34 which was a good book.
I’m not scared of AI advertising because it will be impossible to sell. There are 3 issues:
- No marketing agency would ever have the balls to say “we’ve checked our database and there is no one who would click on your ad.”
- Any marketing department that gets told their ad has a near 100% click through rate would demand to be shown to more people because “obviously there’s a massive audience for our product.”
- There would be situations where the AI could not find an ad that the person would click on and the AI would shit itself because it would be prompted to “always show an ad”
We already could have the option to only relevant ads but no ad company would because it’s being paid to shove ads in front of eyeballs.
Dev here. Javascript engines (especially Chromium) have a memory limit (as per
performance.memory.jsHeapSizeLimit), in best case scenarios, 4GB max.LocalStorageandSessionStorage(JS features that would be used to store the neural network weights and training data) have even lower limits. While I fear that locally AI-driven advertisement could happen in a closer future, it’s not currently technically feasible in current Chromium (Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Opera, etc) and Gecko (Firefox) implementations.It would just slowly accumulate it over time, little bit here, little bit there until it has a fleet of stuff to serve you in a queue, so while you’re making more and more bits for more videos, it’s serving you videos while you make bits of new videos and sharing them over websockets that JS CDNS force-feed our browsers to centralized servers to offload similar users with similar ad-tastes to also help compile.
Some shit like that. Adtech is cyber terrorism. Never forget.
Then Alphabet will come up with a new bullshit idea, “remove the limits for ‘trusted’ advertisers” so that they can inject more code than allowed as long as they keep paying for their ad “partnership”
remove the limits for ‘trusted’ advertisers
Exactly… Including themselves, as they are a major player in advertising market (Google Adsense).
That’s why we need to fight against chromium monopoly
It became difficult as Web technologies grown complexier, such as implementing native CPU instructions through WASM, bluetooth through Web Bluetooth, 3D graphics through WebGL, NFC, motion sensors, serial ports, and so on. Nowadays, it’s simply too hard to maintain a browser engine, because many of the former alternatives were abandoned and became deprecated.
I dare anyone to even just compile a document containing all the standards you’d need to implement
Actually, there is a compilation of all the standards specifications. It’s on W3 (World Wide Web Consortium), where all the technical details are deeply documented (called “Technical Reports”), available on https://www.w3.org/TR/ . To this day, there are 309 published Technical Reports regarding “Standard” specifications.
Fun fact: while seeking for the link to send here, I came across a Candidate Standard entitled “Web Neural Network API”, published exactly yesterday. Seems like they’re intending to implement browser-native neural network capabilities inside Web specifications, and seems like the “closer future” I mentioned is even closer… 🤔
I really hope you don’t know about this 4GB limit specifically because you’ve run up against it while doing anything real-world.
Canvas code can get out of hand very quickly if not done right
I’ve made exactly two projects that utilized canvas, both of which I “released” in a sense. One contains 248kb of JS code and the other contains 246kb. That’s before it’s minified.
So I guess that means I did my canvas code right. Lol.
(Unless you meant 3d canvas or WebGL stuff with which I haven’t played.)
I think they’re referring to the memory footprint, not the source code file size.
Code size isn’t really related to how much graphics data you’re throwing in RAM
Not yet, but I often code myself some experiments involving datasets (i like to experiment with Natural Language Processing, randomness, programmatic art and demoscenes, the list goes on).
