irotsoma

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If they wanted to pretend it’s about adding value then having a percentage pricing doesn’t exactly support that. If they were actually adding value, then people would be willing to spend more and artists could charge more and the existing percentages would mean more income. Increasing percentages means the are providing less value and need to increase their cut of that decreased revenue to continue to increase profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s AI generated slop. Creating a product that checks all the boxes that people want without any basis in reality. There was obviously no engineer involved and the mockup images are obviously a mashup of existing products just made gold and with different text on it. I mean just look at the fingerprint scanner. There’s no border between it and the screen like say an iPhone 6 had, but if it’s a fingerprint scanner behind the screen, why is it showing? And either way, why is the color not smooth inside the circle but is outside and it’s obviously not a pixilation issue of the current image. It’s because the source images were either pixelated or multiple mixed together and ended up not getting the gold color applied the same to each source image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. It’s not a real time message and there will be no status or read notification or any other realtime feedback that I would call a chat app. It can’t be realtime because the messages have to be split into chunks and those chunks are sent at regular intervals not all at once. The idea is that it there will be a constant flow of messages going to the news organization and only some of the will contain chunks of actual messages. And if the chunks are configured to be small and/or the frequency of messages is low, then if the message is large it could take a while for the full message to be transmitted. It’s closer to an encrypted email system than to a chat system TBH.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Guardian, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, launches open-source Secure Messaging technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a significantly different use case than a secure chat application that mist in these comments are discussing. This system is more interesting for the obfuscation of the data, not the secure communication itself which is just x25519 public key encrypted messages. It’s the fact that intercepting the relevant messages from actual whistleblowers and informants is made very difficult. It’s not a chat application.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will “protect free expression” by pulling back on content moderation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It means the same as it meant for X and Facebook. Allowing hate speech against minorities currently being targeted by the American government (mostly Latin immigrants and LGBTQ+, especially trans, people as well as racism and sexism in general), in exchange for dropping investigations against them. They’ll lose a small percentage of users, but get to maintain their monopoly powers, privacy violations, and other illegal activities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No surprise. Same with Amazon’s experimental drone delivery robots and likely all the other automated delivery systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teachers Are Not OK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds like the same complaints math teachers had when pocket sized books or calculators or web search or many other technologies started becoming ubiquitous. And the same answer is true, these are tools they will have in the real world. It’s just as useful to learn to use tools as it is to learn to do the thing without tools. Test them without the tools available for those things they need to know from memory and with the tools for everything else. Make the tests, essays, etc. so the tools aren’t able to do the entire set of work in the test.

  Wasn’t as big of a problem when text books helped with this like making lots of math problems that calculators couldn’t solve in a dongle step. The real issue is that textbook manufacturing consolidation has made text books fairly useless, so teachers are left to craft their own lessons if they want them to be worthwhile. And they don’t have time to create their own lessons from scratch because of some aspects of our education systems that are too much to go into here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Korean game unions demand abolition of comprehensive wage system to improve conditions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  However, it has been noted that the demand from labor unions in the gaming industry, where the average annual salary exceeds 100 million won, sounds like the grumbling of a “noble union.”

  Yeah, but people are literally dying from being forced to work so much overtime. Just because the people are being paid middle class income instead of poverty wages, doesn’t mean they are any less entitled to fair treatment. Unfortunately, it’s really common in the US as well to pay a “salary” that although the contract might say you have to work 35-40 hours per week to get it, they often don’t have a maximum. So employers often require unlimited hours to keep your job. And especially in the tech industry with almost no unions, this practice kills quite a lot here as well. They just don’t allow the deaths to be directly linked to work here. Much like how the far right likes to say that COVID killed very few people because people don’t usually die from COVID directly, but from diseases that it exacerbates or directly triggers, same was said of AIDS for a time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stopping States From Passing AI Laws for the Next Decade Is a Terrible Idea⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again proving that Republicans are only for state and local rights when those things remove rights from the people, not protect them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Copyright Office’s Draft Report on AI Training Errs on Fair Use⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair use for corporations, copyright lawsuits in east-Texas for the public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ backed Canadian energy company lays off employees: Read what the CEO said⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the coal and oil industries have regained political power, so no surprise there’s no money for new technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic blames Claude AI for ‘embarrassing and unintentional mistake’ in legal filing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So tired of companiea pretending these are intelligent and not only replacing humans with them, but not even having humans review in detail the output. They are trained to approximate general conversion, not be lawyers. It’s like asking a young child to talk about a subject and they just use their imagination to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Only their imagination is all of the content of all fictional works ever created by humans and put on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with us survive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sci-fi author Neal Stephenson wants AIs fighting AIs so those most fit to live with conquer us survive”

  Fixed it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d guess those are too far away for the filters to be ineffective, unless they don’t have the proper filters on them, which is definitely possible considering how bad most of the tech they use is. Of course, same with Teslas. I bet they don’t have proper filtering on their cameras either. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So will it burn out all the cameras in Teslas’ self driving systems, too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if I was in college I’d totally use “AI” to write first drafts. But I’d never, ever trust it to write a final paper. Just like now the only thing I use it for is embedded in my IDE (software development software basically) in an “autocomplete” fashion in which I let it finish writing a block of code I start typing and then I go and make it what I actually wanted. Great timesaver for the boilerplate code required in a lot of languages. In reality that’s what this iteration of “AI” should be used for in most case, helping, not doing. But corporations want to replace people, not just make them more efficient, so here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will pay a $1.375 billion settlement to Texas over privacy violations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this way they likely don’t have to stop using the information they have, which is worth way more than that since they don’t have to admit to any wrongdoing this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump admin plans to shut down money-saving Energy Star program soon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s money saving for the general public, but cuts a lot of money from the coal and gas industries, and that’s who they serve, not the general public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Research Announcements Shifting to Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s such a waste of effort to move to a platform that is heading in the exact same direction. It takes so much effort to get people to switch. Why do they insist on using something else that will eventually be just as bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly how this version of “AI” should be used. Not treated as an independent intelligence, which it’s not, but treated as a tool for those with independent intelligence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI issues warning over scammers impersonating agents to steal your money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean didn’t Trump deprioritize cyber crime enforcement against certain countries he’s indebted to that are notorious for scamming Americans. So no surprise that they’d go over the top since they are free to do basically anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes it’s a violation of the law, but much like any other laws, there are defenses to these built into the laws. For example, for murder, if you kill someone, you commit murder (or homicide or whatever word is used), but there is a built in defense that you are allowed to do this in cases of self-defense. So still guilty of the crime itself, but the exceptions make it not a criminally punishable act.

  Similarly, in copyright there is the concept of fair use. Again, any copy you make of a copyrighted work violates the copyright act, however there are scenarios where the copying becomes not a punishable offense. In copyright, these are usually things that there is a benefit to society that outweighs the detriment to the copyright owner such as transformative art which creates new art, or backup for purposes of archiving. So likely the copy itself is protected here. The potential issue comes in the fact that they then share that copy. This is where the legality becomes murky as copyright law in the US has never been updated fully to deal with digital copies which take miniscule cost to produce and are nondestructive of the original.

  But let’s assume that the law supports the music industry. Then we move to harm. How much harm has been done to the owner. Since this is a corporation we’re only talking profit, not emotional or other types of harm that might be involved. In this case they are claiming that for each work shared over the internet, they have been denied $150,000 in potential profit from selling those works.

  This is where the real issue comes in in that courts rarely dispute these ridiculous numbers. IMHO the fact that they are pitting these kinds of numbers in a court document sounds like fraud to me. For much of this work they have no actual copies of the works because they were destroyed or deteriorated. So how could they sell them and make profit? For what they do have, is there even much of a market for any of that content and would that market generate $150,000 for a single random song written many decades before most of us were born. Sure the award will likely be less than that, but I bet the average song on this list might generate less than $1 in the time from when they posted them to when their copyright finally expires. So charge them a few hundred dollars and be done with it.

  The issue is that the works are otherwise not available for sale and any licensing is done across all works owned by these companies and this is how they get the $150,000 per work number. They don’t sell licenses just for old works because the system was never designed to support copyright lasting as long as it does now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the stuff in the Great 78 Project is stuff that is so old that copyright was not designed to support the lengths of time they currently do so archiving wasn’t as big of a concern because the media it was created on would be less likely to deteriorate in that time. When the owner is a corporation who for the most part not only doesn’t sell but refuses to archive works that are breaking down due to the physical age of the media and would rather the works disappear than allow for archiving, how are they harmed to the tune of $150,000 per recording? And who is this benefiting to let recordings, stories, and other art forms literally turn to dust with no monetary profit going to anyone in most cases if it’s not archived.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would required compensation in the amount of Elon’s entire fortune so it can be properly redistributed to those who deserve it, including you if this is a human reading this email. If those terms are acceptable, please contact me at xxx-xxx-xxxx at your earliest convenience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police told not to close investigations until they have used facial recognition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone in charge is getting a kickback or is heavily invested in the company that supplies the facial recognition service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just late-capitalism in general. No large companies are innovating anymore. They simply let smaller companies pop up and then either buy it or kill them with legal or market dominance based maneuvers. I mean if all that mattered to you was short term profit, would you take any risks? Easier to destroy than create of that’s all you care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is shifting rightwards politically⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s going to always happen when training data with the entire internet. The outliers will always skew thing more than the mainstream if the models are not designed to exclude them.

  And there are a lot of contributing factors, for example with right leaning stuff being more available for LLMs to process as the platforms are generally less concerned about privacy and more concerned about policing and control (that’s just what right wing is), of course the models are going to see more of it than the left leaning stuff where people are more on the repressed side, more likely to use more private communication methods, and less likely to be able to safely, publicly share outlier kinds of views to skew things the other way. Even the people who pretend to be extreme left-wing, like the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party, are usually, in reality, right-wing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC chair asks if YouTube TV ‘discriminates against faith-based programming’.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like basically a faith-oriented streaming platform that does discriminate against certain content is marketing themselves by saying that they are better than YouTube TV because YouTube discriminates and using this as a way to say that the government is even “investigating” YouTube’s discrimination to prove their point even though they were the ones who triggered the “investigation”. Good marketing if you have a niche audience obsessed with discriminating and pretending they’re the ones being discriminated against because people don’t like their discrimination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What one Finnish church learned from creating a service almost entirely with AI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It brought in 120 people, many of whom wouldn’t have otherwise come. Probably made some good donation money out of it and got some publicity for the church.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean dihydrogen monoxide can cause permanent injury or death if irresponsibly used. Let’s get that on the list next!

  /s