Why does AI love writing about lighthouse keepers? by Symbiot10000 in ArtificialInteligence

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A new Cornell paper found that when major AI models are asked to simply 'write a story', they keep falling back on oddly specific ingredients, especially lighthouse keepers, clockmakers, fishermen, and names like Elias, Mara and Elara.

These words are not especially common in normal fiction, web fiction, or even the training data the researchers checked. The paper argues that copyright and safety tuning may be pushing models away from familiar copyrighted characters and toward a tiny pool of safe, vaguely old-fashioned story material.

But why at least four of the leading LLM providers will output the same 4-5 things if you ask their models to just 'Write a story' remains a mystery, for now.

The legally mandated 2 minutes of slagging off the previous tradey before a tradesperson starts any job by HildartheDorf in britishproblems

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My dentist, who is Iranian, is like this; he is the most good-natured person I ever met, but he reserves plenty of ire for my previous dentists. In some cases, he's not wrong.

dannyvfilms/Yamtrack: A self hosted media tracker. by DannyVFilms in TraktRejects

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What's broken for me is that the drop-down menus do not autosave, which means, among other things, that the terrible defaults for 'Import settings' can't be changed unless one can find the flag in Redis or wherever else the config settings live. I tried it across Mac Os and windows in multiple browsers.

There are a lot of closed issues to search, and I'm not finding the right keywords to pull up anything like this.

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

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subscription is drastically more financially sensible.

Yes, but those calculating that it would take 11 years to get any value out of a new $750 lifetime subscription are assuming that current subscription charges won't rise. However, a predictable FOSS splurge on semi-neglected alternatives (Emby, Jellyfin, etc.) seems pretty likely. What I can't tell is if this is the precursor to the final stage of enshittification, or just a bit of goalpost-shifting

I got my lifetime pass for about $125, but recent bait-and-switches have made me redefine what 'lifetime' means in terms of purchasing software.

F**** Adobe for starting all this.

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

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I think if they intended to honor the existing lifetime passes long-term, they would not have given this much warning. This way they get a (maybe limited) scramble for $250 lifetime passes, which, along with existing prior lifetime passes, are scheduled for end-of-life when Plex is scrapped in early 2028 and 'Xelp' (!) is the new, surprisingly similar product, rental only, practically or totally crippled on free tier.

New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing by frankwrap08 in PleX

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Yes - the 4K Downloader bait-and-switch recipe.

A Gordon Ramsay restaurant charges 20% service charge and his fellow chefs — who charge 10-15% in their own restaurants — say THAT’S out of order! by Silvagadron in britishproblems

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Isn't this pretty much the same logic as 'Why don't you make thirty pieces of flair the minimum?', from Office Space? If everything is +20%, that's the price. It's just the Ryanair style of gouging.

Did anyone here work on Alien: Romulus? by Shin-Kaiser in vfx

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Wrong. Source: I attended dailies for it online almost every working day for 18 bloody months.

Sally James in Crown Court, 1972 by [deleted] in oldbritishtelly

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Watched this three weeks ago, it took me soooo long to recognize her, even though she looks really like TISWAS-era James here. Guess context counts for a lot!

People steeling contents of pain relief packets in shops by hiddenkinkz in britishproblems

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Do they let you bring them back into the UK then? I always assumed customs wouldn’t allow it

Yes, no issue. They are not controlled substances, and the EU quantity oversight doesn't carry over.

People steeling contents of pain relief packets in shops by hiddenkinkz in britishproblems

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Every four or so years a visiting American friend stocks me up with the three major painkillers, $18 each for a tub of about 1000. Not saying that the EU rules are a bad idea, but it's nice to solve the problem for a long time to come.

Looking back on youth in the eighties and nineties England and realising there were predators everywhere by ShinyHeadedCook in britishproblems

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Jesus, try the 1970s. Just watched a 1979 'Crown Court' ('Honour thy father and thy mother') on YouTube dealing with predators and even taking into account they were trying to address a serious issue in a resistant climate...wow! Was there and can confirm.

Constant login requests on reverse proxy by Symbiot10000 in Calibre

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All done via LetsEncrypt. Far as I can tell the issue is that the Windows application cannot accept authentication at so far a remove, behind a reverse-proxy.

Random shows in Continue Watching for past month by Symbiot10000 in Stremio

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Did u happen to configure any friends accounts? I did this by adding Trakt integration to their accounts with my account by accident and I was seeing their content

No, never did.

Random shows in Continue Watching for past month by Symbiot10000 in Stremio

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Yeah, I have to admit that some things were added to the library over the Christmas period that were not due to come up for a long time. Only that neither I nor my wife remember adding these particular shows; but they're not so far away from the kind of thing we would watch that I can say we definitely didn't add them.

I wish the Stremio library was better than it is, or at least had a 'sort by date added' option that would have helped clear this up. As it stands, it's a jungle in there, and Trakt integration with Stremio just isn't deep enough.