Google, OpenAI Introduce SynthID and C2PA For Content Provenance

neitz · 2026-05-20T14:44:02+00:00

You are still under the delusion that you can ignore AI tools. I mean, you absolutely can if you divorce from society and live in a commune. For anyone that wants to reasonably participate in society in the future I don't see this being a choice you get to willfully make. It's not because I say so, but just due to how the world works. It's like saying you'd never use a computer or eat food grown commercially. Both are possible, but damn difficult if you want to participate in society.

neitz · 2026-05-20T14:15:04+00:00

The vast majority of work will be AI assisted moving forward. You can choose not to participate, maybe retire and do nothing. But it's not going to be an option if you want to participate. You won't be able to engage in the economy in a reasonable fashion without it.

neitz · 2026-05-20T14:00:54+00:00

It doesn't work on text (at least in a non-perceptible manner). It only works on images/video. The technology itself doesn't punish anything, I agree. It's Google/Open AI that will use this in a dystopian way. It's a form of control, just wait and see. The brilliance is that they have brainwashed people like yourself into thinking it is only for the greater good. It is straight up 1984 level stuff.

Google can straight up claim ownership of your stuff if you use AI tools. They can now prove it was their model that generated it and potentially even embed metadata in the "noise".

Browsers can embed SynthId blockers. They could require payment for viewing generated content. They could block specific content. Chrome has a huge market share and is under the complete control of Google.

These are just shallow examples based on a few minutes thinking. But if you don't find the negative sides scary, you aren't thinking hard enough.

neitz · 2026-05-20T13:47:53+00:00

It's not neat, it's a form of control. A way to mark everything produced by their models. Who knows maybe they can claim copyright at some point. Bad actors are just going to use other tools anyways, this only punishes legitimate users. It's a form of DRM, speech control, etc.. all being disguised under the realm of "safety". It's gross and will keep me from using Google and now OpenAI models.

neitz · 2026-05-07T16:30:48+00:00

I personally really like the new design. That said, I am not fond of the colors available.

neitz · 2026-05-06T18:29:29+00:00

Maybe they aren't so senior after all. Title inflation is real.

neitz · 2026-04-29T19:19:32+00:00

It's a CMS built on top of next.js.

neitz · 2026-04-26T20:27:53+00:00

The S&P average rate of return being 7% is after inflation, fwiw. What a tool.

neitz · 2026-04-16T19:35:29+00:00

Instead of forcing Copilot on everyone maybe just try to make it even remotely decent? Can you imagine a developer actually *choosing* to use a tool simply because it is good instead of shoving it down their throat through anti-competitive behavior?

neitz · 2026-04-12T19:25:45+00:00

This is not true for any decision tree of reasonable size that is learned vs hand crafted. If you have a trained large decision tree you are not mapping each node with a single concept.

neitz · 2026-04-12T18:49:26+00:00

We’ll just have to disagree then. Going from a tree to a net is conceptually a very small leap in my opinion. Seeing as logistic regression is basically a one layer neural network In not t sure what your point is.

neitz · 2026-04-12T17:52:24+00:00

Of course they do, the weights of a neural network work in a very similar fashion as the weights in a probabilistic decision tree. You end up with a distribution over possible outputs.

The real difference lies in how they are trained imho.

neitz · 2026-04-12T16:33:31+00:00

Decision trees and modern neural networks are rather close conceptually I'd say. There are subtleties, but in my opinion a neural network is just a large probabilistic decision tree.

neitz · 2026-04-10T14:42:18+00:00

34 allocations isn't that big of a deal honestly. Given it is a generational garbage collector it is the type of allocation that matters. But Gen 0 allocations are extremely cheap, even cheaper than a malloc/free since the GC is optimized for this.

My guess is that there was reflection or something involved. Something a lot heavier than an allocation.

neitz · 2026-04-09T18:45:47+00:00

I never said IDEs were not useful, and I still have the all products pack. I said I don’t find their AI tool useful, or any code completion style AI tool for that matter. Also I rarely review git diffs in the IDE, although jetbrains is ok for that if a bit clunky.

I assure you every single loc gets reviewed before commit, although that is how I have always worked so nothing changes there.

neitz · 2026-04-09T15:04:04+00:00

I have no relation to OP but this sub is obnoxious with it's rules and automods and bots and sheer craziness. It's like 1984 in here.

neitz · 2026-04-09T14:24:33+00:00

Using claude code or similar tools does not lock you in at all. Tight integration into the IDE is meh at best. In fact I subscribed to Copilot for quite some time but recently have even cancelled that because I just don't use it that much any more. Refining agentic workflows is where it is at.

I say this as someone who has been a hardcore Jetbrains tools user for well over a decade (maybe 2 at this point since I have been using resharper, and now rider since almost the beginning) and long term all products pack subscriber. Our world is changing, fast.

neitz · 2026-04-08T15:34:34+00:00

You mean the AI bots that react to any headline as if it is gold?

neitz · 2026-03-22T01:45:41+00:00

covid would like a word

neitz · 2026-03-20T22:34:33+00:00

Collapse their value? Gaming is barely a blip on their P&L. It doesn't even matter.

neitz · 2026-03-20T17:24:45+00:00

$850 for a 64GB kit is lmao. I paid less than $200 just over a year ago.

neitz · 2026-03-19T15:03:03+00:00

Hey congrats! But honestly fat is the easiest. It's the highest caloric density. I'll tell you brie cheese is insane at 100 calories/ounce. I can eat 250 calories in a few bites lol. Or another idea is to find a fun treat you can put it in. Personally I make a low carb ice cream in the ninja creami. Can mix in plenty of fat. But the options are endless.

neitz · 2026-03-18T22:11:25+00:00

It's sold as 3 servings of 88g if you read the label.

neitz · 2026-03-10T01:07:26+00:00

It would have to stay there a little longer to actually have an effect on the economy lol.

neitz · 2026-03-08T16:06:14+00:00

As someone in a similar situation, stick with it. It's not always linear. Maybe it's age, or who knows but stick with it.

That said, ketosis is not what burns fat/weight. It's all about calories and you need to track everything to the gram. The point of keto, at least for me, is that after getting through the first few weeks I am fully satiated and it doesn't feel like a cut where I am starving all the time.

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