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Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI” (deadline.com)
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[–] 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Drives me nuts that the capital "I" looks the same as lower case "L". What happened to the top and bottom line on the "I"?

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Nothing happened to it. It's there in some fonts, and not in others.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    This is why I force OpenDyslexic on every website. I can't stand I's looking like l's, 0's looking like O's, etc. Also because I'm dyslexic.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Oh wow. That font has a lot of personality. Looks too much like everything is a 1960s concert poster to me. Braille institute Atkinson font is a less extreme alternative. I like Source Sans 3.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah at first it looks hideous, but also every letter is extremely distinct from each other, so reading actually becomes easy for me. Of all things, comic sans is also a very good font for dyslexics. I'd rather have something ugly that is legible.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    So I've been wondering about this, does this kind of font make reading easier immediately for you, or does it take a bit until you've gotten used to and, idk, learned the shapes of the individual letters, after which it's then faster?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.

    I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I'm like, ok wow I didn't even notice how hard it was before 😂

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    That's super interesting, and a funny personal story, thanks for sharing!

    A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context

    I mean, as far as I know that, plus the rough shape/outline of each word, is how fast non-dyslexic readers read in general, at least for common words, haha. Actually reading letter-by-letter is relatively rare

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago*

    But to get to the point, some dudes created Helvetica, which was adapted later, like Judaism to Christianity, to create Arial.

    ExplanationThe reason being, Helvetica was made in the 1950s as exclusive for IBM and Microsoft didn't want to pay for it, so they had their own exclusive made in the 1980s, a legally distinct but practically identical version.

    This is the category called Sans-Serif

    ExplanationThe name means 'without serifs', which are 'extra' identifiable pieces on the characters on the bottom like flicks on a and l or the feet on the i, I and 1

    Popular serif styles from multiple sources exist ::: spoiler such as: From Apple:

    • New York

    From Google:

    • Roboto
    • Merriweather
    • Lora

    From Microsoft:

    • Georgia
    • Aptos Serif
    • Cambria

    Open source:

    • EB Garamond
    • Instrument Serif
    • Libre Baskerville
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  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Alright please forgive me for this one transgression of using Gemini, but this is one statistical likelihood that feels creepy

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Your transgression is completely unforgiven

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    AI has evolved to the point where the first task is to manage the emotions of the human. And then hallucinate a proper sounding response.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I hate the way A.I. condescendingly talks down to me like I'm on the verge of hysterics, and then butters me up to try and make me feel good. It's so manipulative and gross and practically negging + love bombing. I try to avoid interacting with them if possible.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    you can literally change how it talks to you in the settings...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    In my experience that just changes the "flavour of badness" rather than making it actually good. For example, if I made it "direct", it would incessantly nitpick everything I say and tell me I'm wrong and stupid constantly, even when I'm absolutely correct. It would just make up fake facts to prove me wrong. So basically Reddit argument confidently incorrect mode. I'm not surprised people get psychosis from those things, it's probably about as good for your mental health as interacting with narcissists.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    im not downvoting you

    but this is just stupid, there’s literally a billion people who use it daily

    claude has none of this nonsense you speak of

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    I remove my own upvote from my comments because I like things starting at 0.

    Also, billions eat fast food every day, doesn't make it good for you. I've tried all the A.I., because I believe in order to hate something, you must understand it first. Claude kept trying to do everything for me, even when I didn't want it to. As a hypothetical example, if I asked it to explain a math problem without giving me the answer, it would give me the answer anyway. I don't want something to help me that much, I like doing things mostly myself, with some assistance if needed. It causes damage to your skills, independence, and sense of value and worth in your work, if something is just like, "hey let me just quickly trivialise your entire idea and do it for you".

    From my experience every single A.I. is toxic or weird or subtly damaging to interact with, without exception. There's just something unnatural about the way it communicates.

    I won't blame anyone for using it, that's their own choice. But I really try not to for my own health.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    That's funny I do the same thing but have different results to you

    That issue with ai giving the answer away was still a feature in the local models but in the last 6 months with Qwen and Gemma being released is way better

    I would ask things like 'Give me a french word to practice and don't tell me the translation' and it would say:

    Try translating Bonjour! (Hello)

    And I would have to clarify and then it would forget it was the pits but this has stopped happening with later local models like Qwen and Gemma

    Maybe give Claude another go, Sonnet 5 just came out and be strict with your question: say tell me how to answer this problem but you MUST NOT tell me the answer, you can use other examples but not this one, etc

    and see how you go

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