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  • ruan@lemmy.eco.brtomemes@lemmy.worldAdult life in 2026, so beautiful
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    Yes, but most of the paid “LLMs” are not actually just LLMs, they have specific aritimetic modules that end up being activated for most math questions that actual LLMs suck at, however are pretty easy for arithmetic modules, like simple calculations, unit conversions, etc…

    So yeah, any edge “LLM” tool currently will always get the original question asked here CORRECT even on the free tiers, you can test it yourself on Google Search itself in “AI mode”, on ChatGPT, or DeepSeek…

    So you are technically correctly in saying that LLMs suck and cannot be trusted for math in almost any case. However you are wrong on implying that ChatGPT, or other commercial models are just LLMs, they are not.

    P.S.: I’m not condoning the use of AI to resolve math related questiona, nor saying that their replies should be trusted, just stating the fact that actual “AI” products use more than just a large language model to generate their responses, and for math related questions most “AI” today will get arithmetic question answered correctly NOT DEPENDING on having training for the exact questiona being asked since they can identify a math arithmetic question being asked and instead of trying to fully generate the answer with the model itself, which would lack the training data to be able to process such wide range of possible question, they generate placeholders internally and let a arithmetic like module do the calculations, which take negligible processing power to be cacoulated by CPUs.







  • It’s government trying to control people all over again.

    … Are you going to argue the current state of affairs in Brazil where international multibillion-dollar companies directly earn money from child exploitation done in their “social networks” and don’t want to collaborate with Brazil’s judicial system most of the times, or argue they can’t do anything, or that they can’t be liable for the user generated content… is all fine?

    This law mainly intends to create judicial means to make those companies that control big social networks that are widely used in Brazil more responsible towards previous existing laws, by making them liable to implement mitigatory measures to restrict access of children (or any person under 18) to content forbidden by Brazilian law (deemed as inappropriate for such ages).

    Also, I don´t know what the hell do you think, but like, Brazil is not the USA where the federal government does not have info on all citizens.

    Here in Brazil virtually 100% of citizens already have official government IDs, where the person “biometry” is collected (fingerprints and user facial photo), which contains basically associates a person’s very sensitive info (full name, local and date of birth, affiliation, photo, fingerprints) with a government unique ID (CPF). Brazilians are basically obliged to get such ID at birth. There are laws (LGPD) that force the federal government to be very careful whilst storing and handling such data, and give citizens rights to sue anyone, private companies or the government itself, if their data is mishandled or collected and used for different means of what the person allowed for such data to be used. Also, there already exists the “gov.br” app, which stores citizens facial 3D info for more than like, half of the population.

    So, if anything, you are like, 30 years late into government “controlling” people in Brazil.

    Bolsonaro (Flávio) will probably make an argument saying that under him people will be free from control or something like that, but it’s just bullshit. What we would get under him is brazilian ICE (Internal Customs Enforcement - isn’t that funny).

    If that’s your concern, be sure the government already possess all this data, but, unlike the USA, there are government workers here at multiple levels that would be a big barrier for such misuse of the data like Elon Musk did with DOGE, collecting data of the US citizens for personal use in a few weeks. First anyone to do that would have to get rid of “stability” of the public servants, so all public servants at such positions in Brazil could be replaced by people politically aligned to the government, and/or all public companies that handle sensitive data for the government, like DATASUS and SERPRO, would have to be privatized.


  • Speaking as a brazilian resident, the law will not be enforced. No such laws are ever enforced here. Everybody openly pirates everything, people sell retro gaming systems preloaded with thousands of ROMs openly online and in physical shops, and the government doesn’t even have 1% of the surveillance infrastructure needed to make enforcement attractive. The law is just electoral posturing and lip service to please evangelical idiots… but I repeat myself.

    The law will most likely be enforced where it matters: smartphones from companies that “manufacture” them in Brazil (which is like 90% of market share of smartphones in Brazil).

    So both Android and iOS will most likely start requiring some official ID to be provided or facial recognition to setup the device and/or to access both Play Store or App Store, which yeah, seems a bit concerning.

    Also, if you read the law: https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2023-2026/2025/lei/L15211.htm, or in this PDF in English: https://www.gov.br/mdh/pt-br/assuntos/noticias/2025/novembro/brasil-apresenta-avancos-em-seguranca-digital-da-infancia-e-lanca-eca-digital-em-ingles-durante-cupula-social-do-g20-na-africa-do-sul/eca-digital-ing-v2.pdf?ref=itsfoss.com, you can see the only thing an operating system (that does not come with under 18 age improper content, like pornographic content, in it’s installation media) really needs to implement is a self-declaration of being “age appropriate” to use the system, otherwise deny the installation of the OS.

    Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:

    I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);

    II – permitir que os pais ou responsáveis legais configurem mecanismos de supervisão parental voluntários e supervisionem, de forma ativa, o acesso de crianças e de adolescentes a aplicativos e conteúdos; e

    III – possibilitar, por meio de Interface de Programação de Aplicações (Application Programming Interface – API) segura e pautada pela proteção da privacidade desde o padrão, o fornecimento de sinal de idade aos provedores de aplicações de internet, exclusivamente para o cumprimento das finalidades desta Lei e com salvaguardas técnicas adequadas.

    § 1º O fornecimento de sinal de idade por meio de APIs deverá observar o princípio da minimização de dados, vedado qualquer compartilhamento contínuo, automatizado e irrestrito de dados pessoais de crianças e de adolescentes.

    § 2º A autorização para download de aplicativos por crianças e adolescentes dependerá de consentimento livre e informado dos pais ou responsáveis legais, prestado nos termos da legislação vigente, respeitada a autonomia progressiva, vedada a presunção de autorização na hipótese de ausência de manifestação dos pais ou responsáveis legais.

    § 3º Ato do Poder Executivo regulamentará os requisitos mínimos de transparência, de segurança e de interoperabilidade para os mecanismos de aferição de idade e de supervisão parental adotados pelos sistemas operacionais e pelas lojas de aplicativos.

    The part where the operating system must implement age verification is here:

    Art. 12. Os provedores de lojas de aplicações de internet e de sistemas operacionais de terminais deverão:

    I – tomar medidas proporcionais, auditáveis e tecnicamente seguras para aferir a idade ou a faixa etária dos usuários, observados os princípios previstos no art. 6º da Lei nº 13.709, de 14 de agosto de 2018 (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais);

    Which has been officially translated in the PDF to :

    Art. 12. Providers of internet application stores and terminal operating systems shall:

    I – take proportional, auditable, and technically secure measures to ascertain the age or age range of users, subject to the principles provided for in Art. 6 of Law No. 13,709, of August 14, 2018 (Brazilian Data Protection Law);

    The II there, that states:

    II – allow parents or legal guardians to configure voluntary parental supervision mechanisms and to actively supervise the access of children and adolescents to applications and content; and

    Is totally optional, there’s no way any judge in Brazil could enforce that as mandatory to be implemented in all OSes and punish any OS that denies installation for under 18 age citizens of Brazil and does not provide such parental supervision mechanisms.

    Now, for any digital media or computer application that either contains or provides direct access to age restricted content from the internet I suppose article 9 applies:

    Art. 9º Os fornecedores de produtos ou serviços de tecnologia da informação que disponibilizarem conteúdo, produto ou serviço cuja oferta ou acesso seja impróprio, inadequado ou proibido para menores de 18 (dezoito) anos de idade deverão adotar medidas eficazes para impedir o seu acesso por crianças e adolescentes no âmbito de seus serviços e produtos.

    § 1º Para dar efetividade ao disposto no caput, deverão ser adotados mecanismos confiáveis de verificação de idade a cada acesso do usuário ao conteúdo, produto ou serviço de que trata o caput deste artigo, vedada a autodeclaração.

    § 2º Para os fins desta Lei, consideram-se impróprios ou inadequados para crianças e adolescentes os produtos, serviços ou conteúdos de tecnologia da informação que contenham material pornográfico, ou quaisquer outros vedados pela legislação vigente.

    § 3º Os provedores de aplicações de internet que disponibilizarem conteúdo pornográfico deverão impedir a criação de contas ou de perfis por crianças e adolescentes no âmbito de seus serviços.

    So, yeah, if you are providing an operating system that itself comes with any age restricted content as Brazilian law stipulates (such as pornographic content), I think self-reporting of age would be damned insufficient due to § 1º there:

    Art. 9. Providers of information technology products or services that make available content, products, or services whose offer or access is improper, inadequate, or prohibited for persons under 18 (eighteen) years of age shall adopt effective measures to prevent their access by children and adolescents within the scope of their services and products.

    § 1. To effectuate the provision of the caput, reliable age verification mechanisms shall be adopted for each user access to the content, product, or service referred to in the caput of this article, with self-declaration being prohibited

    If there’s anything I’m missing here please point out.


  • I have never used a LLM to write any of my comments on the internet, neither here nor in any social network I have an account. And about the bullet points, in places that accept MarkDown similar syntax I tend to use bullet points because it’s a feature that helps lay out the ideas in a good formatting for the reader when there’s enumerations, lists, or similar things involved.

    But yeah, you will never find comments of mine in, lets say, Instagram, with bullet points, because the editor of the app there sucks, you would have to type your comment in a external app which creates the bullet points characters already in a newline (you cannot even normally break lines in Instagram comments lol, it’s really unsanitary haha), and I ain’t gonna do that.




  • ruan@lemmy.eco.brtoFuck AI@lemmy.worldAI "educator" is mad at people for stealing prompts
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    LLMs are a pretty good tool to summarize any subject, or present it with different words or in a different approach… They are a statistical word predictor tool after all.

    So yeah, if you understand that LLMs:

    • don’t possess intelligence;
    • they are just reproducing patterns from the training material used;
    • it’s impossible for them to contain ALL “knowledge” from the training material;
    • the “context” provided directly influences the response

    Then, I’d say that LLMs can be used as a very good facilitator to learn about almost any subject that has already been documented in any word format in almost any language.





  • Because that’s exacly how marketing works… And, also, surely business only sell what the market is already being used to buy…

    You can manufacture almost any demand if you are large enough…

    Just look at latest example of Apple iPhone. Pretty sure that before 2020 you would say that “people don’t like colors on iPhones”, but it just so happened there was not even a choice for colors… Go ask around iPhone users nowadays what is their preferred iPhone color… Pretty sure colored iPhones will be one of their preferred in more than 33% of the instances. You can’t say that a negligible marketshare.



  • This just proves you are not the average user of YouTube…

    The average user of YouTube user either their TV app or their official mobile app, not the website.

    Me too, I also use adblockers when accessing it via the website in my computer, however when I’m watching things on living room I have to use the official apps.

    So yeah, most users suffer with their ads because it’s easier to use the official apps.

    YouTube app already comes installed in most Smart TVs, already comes installed in almost all Android phones (which is majority of the marketshare worldwide)…



  • It’s almost impossible for any of those to suceed beyond being niche because its not viable to run against the economics of scale and the practicality of the corporate solutions provided by the Big Techs companies in capitalist countries.

    Believe me, I’ve tried to talk to real people about the dangers of sending data to a single company like Google (Alphabet) or Facebook (Meta) and depending on that for media comsumption, how it can and how it’s really used to manipulate public opinion on countries… The fact is that for non-tech and non-privacy minded people (which I’d sure Must be 99.9% of the population) they really don’t seem to care, they just wanna a “free” service that they turn on the TV and there are the videos of their “influencers” or YouTube channels to watch, on YouTube I really hate how it shoves ads like there’s no tomorrow nowadays every 5 minutes, but I also understand there’s a cost to run their business, I, myself, if were to pay for similar service provided without ads I’d pretty sure the YouTube Premium offering would still being a bargain since Google’s infractucture and running costs are really optimized.

    So yeah, I really don’t believe any capitalist country can compete with the Big Techs companies, they are probably deeply rooted into common user behavior in all capitalist country, in the capitalist “democracies” it’s impossible to lobby against them in privacy concerns since they can easily sway public opinion in their favor with invisible chances to their content delivery, so anyone trying would have to have a lot of resources to do so (a popular movement without money funding in a capitalist society is basically doomed, theres a very pow chance to suceed imo) and any national alternative, or any actual alternative to their services is almost impossible to suceed since they already have their economy of scale set up with minimal costs and they can also run years on and on with a loss untill any competition does due to being unable to compete with their lower artificial prices.