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by 23B1 2y ago
This is a silly argument made by environmentalists for decades now, often to promote failed policies; plastic recycling, ethanol subsidies, and most egregious the prevention of progress around nuclear power. Not only does moralizing often b
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by 23B1 2y ago
I'd be curious to know if this is a fair comparison. A brief search revealed little. I can see either side of the argument, and probably the result would change based on bounding conditions; for instance, how many more people have &#x2
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by 23B1 2y ago
Shooting on film is a protest against the ubiquity and inhumanness of digital photography, and ultimately the commodification of memory. I use a polaroid camera these days. It is messy and wrong and dark and unreliable and bulky and expensi
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by 23B1 2y ago
I remember early days building some of this stuff with Flash. Good times. Back then, you had to do quite a bit of work to make it yours, and it felt fresh and risky. Now, digitally-generated images (including photography) is totally ubiquit
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by 23B1 2y ago
The irony being that probably some regulation is a good idea - but the only people with sufficient influence to enact top-down regulation are also the ones who hold the purse strings. This is where capitalism breaks down, when it comes to
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by 23B1 2y ago
No, this just puts the fox in the henhouse. Systems of checks-and-balances between independent entities exist for a reason. Without them internally, it'll just fall to regulators, which of course is what shareholders want; to privatize
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by 23B1 2y ago
Think of it like the industrial revolution. No environmentalist, shouting for analysis, regulation, or transparency would have survived that era, they'd've been steamrolled. Now we're left with many long-term problems, even g
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by 23B1 2y ago
And just like that, a drawbridge across OAI's moat.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Have stared at this logo for far too long, at some terminal in the middle of a too-cold server room, contemplating my life choices.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Authoritarian regimes have learned from China how to puppeteer with both hands.
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by 23B1 2y ago
This is more a function of the commercial incentives of AI companies than it is a function of the LLMs themselves. Y'know, the same commercial incentives of just about every other enterprise.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Nor should it happen. Analogies - including anthopromorphization – are part-and-parcel to communication; pedantically policing people who have legitimate concerns about their livelihood is Big Tech Brain.
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by 23B1 2y ago
Marketing is a corporate behavior that is tied to sales, brand equity, expansion, product innovation, and financial performance. Criticizing it is as legitimate as criticizing accounting practices or device capabilities.
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by 23B1 2y ago
THESE are the sort of comments I come to HN for, and I am just drinking it up.
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by 23B1 2y ago
me big dumb
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by 23B1 2y ago
What an odd comment. How are you defining 'success' and 'market edge' in this scenario? EDIT: just saw the sarcasm tag, sorry
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by 23B1 2y ago
The miasma cometh, followed swiftly by the death of the internet as it stands. Authentication, verification, and curatorial products will be the next gold rush – and smart investors should be skating to where that puck is gonna be.
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by 23B1 2y ago
which robber baron era ¬_¬
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by 23B1 2y ago
That's... a fair point.
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by 23B1 2y ago
There's no irony in realpolitik.
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by 23B1 2y ago
This is the end of Web 2.0. There will be a blip on signal/noise ratio (which wasn't that great to begin with, 99.9% of UGC is trash anyway) as procedurally-generated content floods sites with even more nonsense – and then once th
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by 23B1 2y ago
Fortunately most lawmakers, for all their problems and issues, don't give a damn about pendantic nerds and will steamroll right over that argument - and rightfully so. This is one of those "I never agreed until it happened to me&q
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by 23B1 3y ago
Would rather DOJ go after AMZN and their peers than Livenation. Priorities vs. pandering.
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by 23B1 3y ago
But your argument was wrong. People do not have the 'right' to do as they please with the image of another person. Plenty of constraints to speech exist, some are silly, some very reasonable.
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by 23B1 3y ago
"It's the law" isn't a valid argument in the face of technological change. When laws are changed with careful consideration, for both individual rights and social good – well, that's the very essence of the social c
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by 23B1 3y ago
Creepshots are not /between/ anyone. Only one person even knows about it.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Then you've clearly failed to think about those downstream effects. It's okay, a lot of people – not just in tech – find this challenging.
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by 23B1 3y ago
You should think long and hard about the second- and third-order effects.
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by 23B1 3y ago
It's an unpopular view here on HN, but their minds will change when it's their sisters or their daughters.
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by 23B1 3y ago
Should be an offense everywhere. "Free speech" is a very nebulous concept to be sure, but this should be a hard limit everywhere.

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