QuaternionsRock

@QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, I am aware. Gotta love open source :)

  Were you under the impression that I said anything to the contrary?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot has been banned for use by US House staff members, at least for now⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? It spotted a missing push_back like 600 lines deep for me a few days ago. I’ve also had good success at getting it to spot missing semicolons that C++ compilers can’t because C++ is a stupid language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, seriously: all they are good for is making things sound fancy.

  This is the part of your comment is reductive. The first part just explains how LLMs work, albeit sarcastically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this AI thing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a learning machine

  Should probably use a more careful choice of words if you want to get hung up on semantic arguments

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My only intuition was this: if you take two identical coins and rotate them together (like a pair of gears), it takes one rotation each to reach the starting point. If you now rotate your head along with one of the coins, it will appear standing still, while the other one will be rotating twice as fast.

  I still would have guessed the answer was 6, though. It took me awhile to figure out how extrapolate this model to a 3:1 ratio. As it turns out, it still works, and you get 4, but evidence of that was far from obvious to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate the sentiment, and small-time artists do get way too much shit, but you are somewhat underrepresenting the mechanisms we have in place. YouTube holds the ad revenue generated by disputed content in escrow until the dispute is resolved. DMCA requests, as much as I don’t like them, are rather effective in this day and age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, there are clear advantages to giving credit when both parties are acting in good faith. There is nothing stopping me from claiming that I wrote Macbeth and asking for donations on my Patreon so that I can write Macbeth 2, save for maybe Patreon’s ToS (I haven’t read it). In the absence of all copyright law, I could do that with any work, including ones published this morning by an artist struggling to get by.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a terminally online opinion.

  that’s what crowd funding like Patreon is for, and it’s also how it gets used.

  The vast majority of books are not crowdfunded lmao

  There are hundreds of thousands of sites sharing “copyrighted” material produced for supporters, and yet no artist bothers going after them, because it’s irrelevant.

  The real advantage of copyright to authors is not to prevent any and all unauthorized reproduction of their works, but rather to distinguish genuine reproductions in the marketplace. Authors don’t give a fuck about free online “libraries”, but you best believe shit goes down the second bootleg copies appear on shelves at B&N or on the Kindle Store. Consumers expect purchases made in legal markets to benefit the owner (ideally the creator) of the work.

  For the record, I don’t particularly like the concept of copyright, and I really don’t like current copyright laws. My only concern regarding the complete destruction of copyright is the immense difficulty in determining the creator of the work that it would obviously create. There is absolutely no obligation to provide attribution for public domain works. You can even claim to be the creator yourself, if you wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m happy that you’re able to work on commission, but with all due respect, your logic is somewhat specific to your chosen medium. Various other forms of art—novels come to mind—would not be so unaffected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, I understand that money isn’t the primary incentive for (hopefully all) artists. But I don’t think a system where you effectively cannot make a living as a full-time artist is beneficial for society either. Since you’re an artist, can I ask how you subsist without an alternative source of income?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When you don’t have to please shareholders

  Where did this rumor come from? Private companies have shareholders, too, and they have as much say in the profit direction of the company as shareholders of public companies do.

  Shares ≠ stocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In one sentence, you’ve already demonstrated that you don’t understand how artists subsist at all. You’ve also confused the word “incentive” with “motivation”.