Nollij

@Nollij@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft argues Supreme Court’s VCR ruling should doom NYT’s OpenAI lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the level of influence in the new content. There were a number of articles that clearly showed derivative (even stolen) work by using innocuous phrases. For instance, any prompt with “video game” and “plumber” will create an unmistakable clone of Mario.

  I suspect the question will be whether these models could produce similar content without using the original content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have pretty well covered how multiple communities serve different purposes. I’m going to cover why that isn’t a problem.

  When you first decide to follow a community on Lemmy- either as a brand new user or an experienced Lemming branching into a new subject, there’s going to be a few ways you find a community.

  The most obvious is a search, which will list the various communities. You’ll check the few most active, and either subscribe or skip each one. Multiple communities isn’t a concern because every Lemmy client will aggregate them in your feed. When you decide to start posting, you’ll have a decent feel for which one(s) are a good match for your content. The downside is cross posting, which is still a problem that needs to be solved.

  The next option, mostly used by new users, is a direct link. Someone tells you about a specific community. You follow the link, read the posts, and decide to subscribe. Other, similar communities don’t matter- the person sending you the link already filtered it down for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When is it okay to drop out of college?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only in certain sectors, like healthcare. It doesn’t matter that healthcare has many/most of the same IT needs/jobs as the rest, the healthcare industry has a mindset that degrees are important.

  But even in those, experience is still king.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to talk in an American accent but how can I transition into it slowly for people who know me without them noticing a sudden change?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By “American accent”, do you mean the style of speaking that’s commonly used in American movies and TV? Because that’s an intentional neutral/ambiguous accent, based primarily on the styles used in the Midwest.

  It doesn’t actually match any region, and it certainly doesn’t match all regions of the US. The accents in New York, California, Texas, and the Deep South all have stark contrasts to this, and to each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is "FUD"?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Others have answered it pretty well, but here’s a more specific example:

  In the long, long ago, IBM was the biggest seller of computer equipment, and by a wide margin. They alone decided the majority of standards in use, as well as what was coming soon. Anticompetitive monopoly tactics were standard there. For the vast majority of customers, you absolutely HAD to be compatible with whatever IBM was selling.

  When one of IBM’s competitors would introduce a new and desirable product, IBM would often issue a press release. They would say that they have something similar in the works, and it won’t be compatible with the other brand. The safe option would be to wait for IBM to release theirs rather than take a risk on a whole new ecosystem. This was all despite the fact that IBM never actually had said product in development.

  As a result, the customers would be afraid of being stuck on something incompatible, with an uncertain future. They wouldn’t buy it, but they would continue to buy their existing IBM options. Eventually the other product would fold (proving their fears correct), and they’d forget what IBM promised.