p03locke

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  State monopolies are fine. The government is owned by the people, and when corporations don’t think an industry is profitable, the government’s job is to step it and take on that job themselves. That’s how we end up with utilities, 911 services, the post office (back when it wasn’t fucked with by Republicans).

  The problem with copyrights is the corporate stank that gatekeeps enforcement. When a large corporate entity sues a small party, the small party is fucked.

  Also, Mark Twain and Disney fucked up the length of copyright over the last 150 years. The social agreement was that we were supposed to get most of this shit into public domain in a reasonable amount of time. 80 years + life of the author is not a fucking reasonable amount of time, by any stretch of the imagination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyrights exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

  So, fuck them. Let AI destroy the fabric of copyrights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump: It's Not Doable for AI Companies to Pay for All Copyrighted Input * TorrentFreak⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a dumb fucking argument in general.

  LLM models are not magic. They don’t store the entirety of human history in a 10-20GB file. That’s a fucking stupid idea. They look at something, process some weights, and move on to the next thing.

  It’s like going on Google Image Search, and seeing all of the copyrighted images on your browser. You didn’t “steal” those, just because it was downloaded. That’s not how copyright works.

  Please stop parroting this stupid fucking argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely forgot that Holden was part of that commune of, what, eight mothers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a shame, because ComfyUI can be so much more than just image generation. And just because there’s a lot of string processing for LLMs doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to capture in an I/O interface, especially when it comes to preserving chat history. Save data, load data, ask new questions, etc.

  ChatGPT is pretty damn powerful, I’ll admit. But, all of its components need to be localized, especially since something like a Mixture of Experts model could be split down to base models and loaded/unloaded as necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ComfyUI is just a bunch of Python code tied into I/O nodes. I’m surprised there isn’t a good set of nodes for SGLang yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you used any good ComfyUI workflows specifically for chat LLMs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no. Not buying that Elon is trans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My hope is that the “AI” craze culminates in a race to the bottom where we end up in a less terrible state: local models on people’s phones, reaching out to reputable websites for queries and redirection.

  We’re already heading there. But, it’s not going to happen by sitting on your hands and waiting for the billionaires to hand you these local models on a silver platter. You honestly believe the overlords that own your phone will give you shit for free? They want you hooked on subscriptions, that send all of your personal data and social security numbers to their huge databases, until the day you die. And then they’ll sell that data to your children and your grandchildren just to make even more profit.

  You have to take it. You have to find it yourself. You found Lemmy. Good. So, go find other shit. Discover open source. Discover piracy. Discover Linux. Stay on top of it.

  Google just killed uBlock Origin, but I’m using Firefox, because the writing was on the wall at least a year ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stared at it for 10 seconds, which is double the advertised time it’s expected to explode. I want a refund!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lies. I see no self-destruction in action here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is eating up Pennsylvania's power, governor threatens to pull state from the grid — new plants aren't being built fast enough to keep up with demand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI existed before LLMs. People called NPCs and enemy character patterns “AI”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. There are other ways of influencing the numbers that tools use. Most of them have their own internal voting systems, so that humans can give feedback to directly influence the LLM.

  Diffusion models have LoRAs, and the models themselves can be trained on top of the base model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your co-worker is bad at his job, and doesn’t understand programming.

  LLMs are cool tech, but I’m gonna code review everything, whether it comes from a human or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. As much as everybody wants to shit on Zuckerberg, you can’t recreate exact copies with LLMs of any sort. You can’t claim that a 12GB image creation model somehow houses the entirety of all human-generated images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, a smart watch with no display. Very cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, now apply that argument to the next levels upstream, the ISP, backbone providers, CDN providers, the domain name holders, the SSL certificate trust companies. They all earn money with it.

  You see how ridiculous that argument becomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they had confidence in their reporting, they wouldn’t post this in their Opinion section.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a common problem. People writing bot scrapers for public data, which costs a lot of bandwidth, when they could have easily just downloaded the entire dataset from a dedicated link. Finding better ways to tell them “Hey, morons, go download the goddamn link!” saves on that bandwidth and web server CPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you forget just how much money was dumped into Quibi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just wrong. If you write a book, you own that book. Many people sell art.

  If you want to publish a book, you have to contact a publisher, and they will acquire the rights to publish your book. If you want to publish an album, you have to give up your rights to the music publisher. You don’t really “own” your media at that point.

  Also, compared to the number of artists out there, many people don’t sell art. A select few sell art, and the rest are broke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyrights aren’t for you, or for that artist that writes a song, or paints a picture. They exists to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

  As such, I would like to extend this to ‘delete all copyright law’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Meta exec tells Senate Zuck dangled US citizen data in bid to enter China⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure he dangled it, and then handed it over, like the traitor he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t see the contents of the post, because I assume it’s available to members only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a shit take.

  I swear everybody here is fucking black and white, with no room for nuance. This is how cults and echo chambers get started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can steal your voice, and there's not much you can do about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because AI and LLMs especially have become the new bogeyman to blame what amounts to technological shifts that society has not adapt to. All AI has done has made technology more accessible and available to the common man.