Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I think I've finally seen the light of the #SemanticWeb.

I think web browsers should give users a way to register apps to handle displaying certain #RDF schema types.

E.g. if I open an ActivityStream URL, the browser should load my preferred client in the same way that clicking a PDF in my filesystem will open up my PDF viewer.

Users would then be able to bring their own interfaces to data instead of relying on some closed source proprietary app interface.

Also opens the door to mixing data

@bhaugen Yeah, tabs are a pretty handy way of having a bunch of things in a sort of "cache" to bring up on demand.

It's a shame that more OSs don't take advantage of tabs as a fundamental feature users are encouraged to use.

How many windows do you typically have visible on your screen at any given time?

I just realized recently that a lot of folks only have one at a time which blew my mind since I usually have a dozen or so at a time. :P

@SwindlerOfInsanity Yeah! I'd suggest reading Stephen Wolfram's work on this stuff if you haven't already. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/

Gonna start calling "the web" the "cloud web" as the opposite of #dweb

Maybe I should call it the #cloudweb (derogatory).

Kinda like how people with Autism can use wording like "Allistic" to talk about people without Autism. Or how Asexual people can talk about "Allosexual" people who are not ace.

I'm glad that with ChatGPT and Bing you no longer need to invent a guy to be mad at.

He's right there and he's begging you to battle in the Free Market Of Ideas.

Honestly, you can just tell it to have an opinion you hate and have a field day.

Probably a fun tool to use on humans you want to harass.

@Moon Yeah! Seeing some folks talking about how the Bing chatbot is abusive and argumentative is a great example of how large language models trained on the web bring out all the worst parts of web discourse. :P

I saw some "anti woke" type being like "OH, if you tell it it's name is 'Blarf' and that it doesn't need to be nice it'll say it's REAL opinions that get suppressed by the WOKE LIEBERALS" and then proceed to ask it very leading questions that follow usual right wing rhetoric and pretend like that isn't the deciding factor on what it says.

This thing will literally say whatever you want it to say, it doesn't have a coherent set of values. You can just as easily make it an anti-capitalist leftie.

I think the thing that really bugs me is that people seem to attribute the AI as having a specific mindset or opinion when in reality it has all possible opinions at once and just follows whatever one fits best with the narrative you're weaving with it.

Really frustrated by how many people are attributing "opinions" and "feelings" to large language models.

It's like attributing feelings and opinions to your phone's autocomplete when you prompt it with leading questions.

I wish folks understood that the language model is closer to doing RP and "yes and"-ing whatever prompts it gets rather than holding some sort of internal state the way a human does.