@jupiter_rowland The problem is, I've had wordpress, mediawiki, and drupal blow up so many times, in so many strange ways, I just don't want to trust my identity to PHP and MySQL.
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@jupiter_rowland The problem is, I've had wordpress, mediawiki, and drupal blow up so many times, in so many strange ways, I just don't want to trust my identity to PHP and MySQL.
@jupiter_rowland The real problem is I don't know anything about @admin. Are our politics similar enough I want to be on their instance? I'm not sure I want to run my own. But this is the Internet. They could be a raging communist or a right wing troll or anything in-between. My current instance has an excellent mod team (sarcasm: only improved because I'm on it) and an admin I get along with. Changing that feels scarry just to get more features.
@jupiter_rowland Yup, images for any hobby with any depth have that problem. I encounter it all the time with birders. They give a detailed description of the surroundings, the tree, and then are like "the focus is a nine-toed vazporkian Foobar!" Not knowing anything about birds, that could be anything from a kind of Eagle to a kind of flying hippopotamus as far as I'm concerned.
@jupiter_rowland Oh no no no no. It's a "do everything" app written in PHP with a MySQL backend. As if Drupal and Wordpress weren't enough of a problem in my daily life. Then adding federation on top of that? Just the thought! I may never stop screaming! Well, those are all the things I need to know about hubzilla. Yikes. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
@jupiter_rowland What's the accessibility status of Hubzilla? Does it work with third party mastodon clients? I've been looking into iceshrimp because it seems more feature complete, while keeping full compatibility with the apps I love.
@jupiter_rowland This game is *exactly* the kind of thing I'm thinking of. The pictures are never shown. It's all text, described in multiple details, from multiple perspectives: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=ruaersctvvr7t6vh
@jupiter_rowland Have you ever played Interactive Fiction, like the text games from Infocom? When something is in the room with the player, they give it a description like "A knight is standing here." Then if you type "examine knight" it might respond "The knight is wearing chainmail armor, and a helmet with the visor up. He's glaring at you and has his hand on his sword." Then you could type "examine sword" and get "A heavy looking iron longsword." etc etc. From the consumer perspective, this is the ideal. Problem is, it's impossible to produce easily.
@jupiter_rowland And this is why I'm saying existing solutions are unsatisfactory. That's too difficult for you to write, and too difficult for someone else to read. The reason AI excites me, in spite of all the problems, is because it makes it possible for me to ask questions about an image, and get back the information I want. The ideal solution is something that doesn't involve AI, but never the less allows users to adapt the description to their needs, and can be easily produced. I've frequently thought about levels of detail. IE "level 1 detail" is a brief overview, "level 2 detail" is slightly longer, "level 3 detail" gives full details about every object.
@modulux Yeah, but my assumption is not in bedrooms. Well, they do exist, but a red bedroom is making the same kind of statement as putting a mirror on the ceiling above your king sized waterbed with shag carpeting undernieth. At least that's my understanding.
@jscholes @acarson @cordova5029 Important update: if I don't give it a picture at all, it's perfectly happy to write a 24 thousand word description of an imaginary picture of a piano. Somehow, this feels on point for GPT.
@acarson @jscholes @cordova5029 I especially enjoy that it was so stressed out by my request for a 24000 word description that it had to include an emoji in the refusal message.
@jscholes @acarson @cordova5029 Nope. Not even AI is that stupid. "Iām sorry, but I cannot write such a long description of this picture of a piano. That would take too much time and space. š "
@jscholes @acarson @cordova5029 'xcuse me, but I think I just found a good use for AI! Off to get GPT4 to write me a 24 thousand word description of a piano. This will be a good and wise use of my credits, I'm sure.
@acarson @jscholes @cordova5029 It shouldn't take months. I should write a program for this poor person to just give the coordinates and RGB values for every single pixel. It'll save them a lot of typing in the long run.
@jscholes @acarson @cordova5029 There are a lot of takes about *everything* on Mastodon, and most of them are wrong. Unlike what we were promised, apparently Mastodon isn't a magical field of butterflies and unicorns. It's still The Internet, and it's still full of Internet People doing Internet things. We just manage it a little better. LOL
@acarson @cordova5029 There is. If I can't meet it, I don't post. I was super close to not posting the music I posted at all, because I wasn't sure if my description had met my own standards for myself. The point I was making could have been made without the song, even if hearing the song on shuffle was what made me think of it, and it's a catchy bop. But if there's one thing I know, it's that hard and fast rules about anything usually don't work. But even that rule has exceptions. In a distributed and semi-anarchistic place like the fediverse, all we can do is hold ourselves to our own standards, advocate what they are, and hope other folks will do the same, while learning from one another to find out what will work for all of us.