Zedstrian

@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Rogue Officers Turned a Nationwide Camera Network Into a Tool for Stalking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t need to ‘turn’ it into anything; it was designed to be a nationwide tool for stalking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ideally, the end user by not partaking in shitty AI products, but I don’t have much faith in the average end user’s aversion to slop.

  AI is being injected into everything without any consideration for its necessity, privacy implications, or environmental impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Wants to Build a ‘Rebel Alliance’ for Open-Source AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even open source AI used for needless purposes contributes to wasteful resource usage that harms the environment just as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I disagree about AI outputting slop that doesn’t match reality, but when the images are needed for scientific purposes, people shouldn’t be trying to ‘recreate’ anything—whether themselves or with AI—but instead take photographs with that content there in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Human editing is a problem too, but AI is making the edits more commonplace and harder to notice. Any policy changes should therefore bar both types of editing, but AI edits are a far greater threat because one doesn’t need to be skilled to make them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because AI edits are far easier and quicker for most people than Photoshop, with the end result being worsened by slop generated in the gap left behind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-altered images on birdwatching forums putting research at risk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Users can create high-quality fake images in seconds – or enhance a photograph by asking the AI to remove a branch or leaf that might be obscuring part of the subject, which can inadvertently introduce significant changes.

  Using AI even to edit a photo turns it into a piece of fiction; better to either accept a degree of imperfection or just take a few pictures and pick one’s favorite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 – Breyer: "Our children lose out"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Needing a supermajority to prevent a proposal from coming into force seems backwards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Charging Starlink Customers Gigantic Bogus Fees Because Its Network Is Being Crushed by “High Demand”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they can get people to pay $1,500 fees for access, surely that money would be better directed towards installing fiber in these rural areas to circumvent the need for highly expensive satellite infrastructure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI doesn’t work, bribery might?

  Clearly that’s just the Chinese understanding how American politics works. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Memory prices tipped to fall as China starts flooding the market with DRAM and NAND chips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Flooding the market” AKA increasing supply to meet demand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If anything, rising fuel prices would make RTO mandates even more effective at generating stealth layoffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mathieu Comandon Explains His Use of AI in Lutris Development (my interview!)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, there is enough open source code available that I would hope Anthropic doesn’t feel the need to train their models on potentially litigious code base.

  The problem with this statement is twofold. Firstly, it is unrealistic to assume that leading AI companies are staying entirely above board in terms of code licensing. With how widespread AI is, this makes it all the harder for developers to enforce their licenses when many developers inevitably violate the terms of them without knowing. Even if that code is open source, licensing terms typically require attribution that an AI is unlikely to provide for every segment of code cobbled together.

  When the developers that had their code taken and reused are unable to know who reused it, it is disingenuous to work under a ‘take first, ask later’ mentality.