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Thanks for all the info. The free translation is all I’ve ever used. I don’t want it doing anything more than a literal translation of text. The whole reason I want to read the papers is so I can generate my own summaries, opinions, and so on. The model doing that would take all the fun away from me.

Serious question - is there a non-AI tool that can translate biological research into something I can understand?

I’ll usually try the browser’s built in translation tool, but that is already an LLM anyway, isn’t it?

When I try to read serious research and not just photo captions often times it just becomes useless word salad since it can’t handle technical terminology. Someone once suggested I try the free Deepl translation, and that has been the most consistent thing to handle jargon.

I’m not a techie person, so I don’t know every option out there. A lot of what I want to read is studies about rare animals, and I’m stuck with what languages the studies are written in. It’s very niche stuff and nobody out there is in a rush to translate it by hand. If you’ve got a more ethical tool that can get the job done, I’d be more than happy to try it.

If you think I’m a garbage human for translating maybe 6 or 8 groundbreaking papers a year, you’re entitled to your opinion, and it is what it is, but if your solution for me is to just stay ignorant and not try to learn all I can about what I’m passionate about, then yeah, we’re not going to agree on this.

I don’t game much or know anything about game development, but that was a very interesting and timely article.

Most of my posting here is sharing wildlife photography. I work part time with animals at a rehab clinic, and every week I see them do things I never expected. One might think my experience would help me pick out AI generated or altered photos, and many times it does, but sometimes animals do really improbable stuff I would never expect to see, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do those things.

I made a post today about two really exciting photos I came across. I wanted to share them because I felt they were very unique, but one was flagged as AI by Meta’s AI, and another was being mildly brigaded saying “these animals would never do that” but both photos looked real to me. Both seemed to be legit photographers with large portfolios of pics in consistent styles.

Lemmings here get pretty rightfully angry at AI posts, so I addressed the community saying I’m over 90 percent confident these are real, is that good enough for you guys?

I felt so bad these photographers both captured images that people should be excited to see, especially the one with really rare animal behavior, but I felt they were being punished by a not insignificant amount of people by being falsely accused. Both offered some proof, but with me not knowing much about photography, I didn’t always know what is Photoshop or Lightroom style post processing vs AI manipulation. I want to share amazing pics, especially of really rare stuff, and I try to maintain a pretty respectable educational vibe to the community, so I worry about sharing fake stuff in times like this and losing credibility. If this was my job like as it is for these games devs, that would be really demotivational.

I use AI as a last resort for translations of text I really want to read, but other than that, I feel I see way more harm than good coming from generative AI. Add to that the environmental costs that seem to be growing exponentially, and it’s making me an unhappy camper all around…

I’m also a noob with tech anymore. My old faithful router started dropping this year, replaced it with the Flint 2 earlier this year because I also wanted OpenWRT. It comes with OpenWRT installed, but I don’t think it’s the plain old vanilla OpenWRT, so when I hooked it up and started setting it up, it needs a firmware update anyway, so I installed the actual OpenWRT from their site. It’s been great since, totally happy with it.

Yayyyyy!

This title update is available on both consoles and PC, but only for the current-gen versions (PS5, Xbox Series X|S). We checked the PS4 version, and it seems it hasn’t gotten the patch, and we doubt it ever will.

Nooooo!

Casual gamer…only have PS4 🥺

We’re all just a little peculiar in our own ways. I used to be a lot more self-centered and angry before I got diagnosed with major depression, and the people that are left have always stuck by me even when I didn’t deserve it many times.

My wife and I many times don’t see each other much during the week. She works many 12 hour shifts, and her actual days are the weekends and alternate Fri or Mon for the third day, but she picks up lots of extra shifts for the overtime. I work my clinic shift on Sundays. She’s always gone, and it gets my butt out of bed so I don’t sleep the weekend away as I’d otherwise probably do.

We both enjoy animals, so she’s down to go to the zoos and aquariums I want to see when we travel, and she was actually the one that wanted the behind the scenes adventure on this trip, which surprised me. I didn’t expect to actually touch anything, so that was a great experience for the both of us.

My other friends will often enjoy a story of 2 and they think it’s cool I do it, but I don’t think they care too much otherwise.

This seems to be what she falls under. 😅

She understands they are good, she just does not wish to knowingly share space with them due to her mind categorizing them as creepy-crawlies.

Much like with most of my other friends, she’s happy I have them, but she wishes to spend no time with them. 😂

Those poor cats get spooked by those cucumbers… 😂

The wife and I have reached a peace deal with spiders. She knows I leave them in the house, I just need to make sure she doesn’t see them.

My coworker and I have both been ensuring spiders get moved out of high human traffic areas.

I love my slithery friends! Met a chonky python at the zoo yesterday and got to give him pets. Even came home at night to a wiggly garter snake on the welcome mat. Glad I saw him in the shadows, I’d have felt terrible if I hurt it.

I’d be happy to include some more snakes. They could always use positive coverage.