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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
Besides the things other comments mentioned: There is a longstanding sentiment that "It can't happen here". The wider public in America more or less blocks out the risks involved. "They're not actually going to bl
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
That's a red herring. The problem is that these are fundamentally NOT reasoning systems. Even when contorted into "reasoning" models, these are just stochastic parrots guessing the next words in the hopes that it's the
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> I don't think that's true for their VR/MR hardware. They literally record the cameras and 'screen', then send it off to their servers. The VR hardware absolutely spies on you. Even if you tell it not to, it sti
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> You can easily be undercut. If you're successful selling FOSS, it's because you've made it really easy for your customers, been really helpful to them, or because they want to pay you because they like you, probably beca
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Under copyleft you pay for free code with more code You do not. There is nothing in the GPL that mandates you contribute. You can simply use the software as-is, and never contribute. Sit on your hands when there's a major exploit
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> So it's Free as in speech, not as in beer. See how in my comment I use 4 synonyms for "free", including "gratis"? That was not just trying to sound cool. That was trying (and evidently, failing, given you'
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> They've just legally given up all the coercive options, so the only tool left is complaint My previous comment on this was unclear. The very act of complaining about it betrays the idea that it's "freedom". Either c
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> if the end user can't use it for commercial purposes then the software is by definition not FOSS software. Okay but like, who cares. The definition of "Free Software" is just whatever RMS screeches about. The OSI is rath
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
Public transit companies that make tickets explicitly free and then get upset nobody pays them would get laughed out the room for bemoaning "free-riders". It may be a "technically correct" use of the word, but it's
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
It is not "free riding" to take the software that is explicitly given away, for free, gratis, nada, nothing, and not pay anything in return. "I want this to be given away free for ideological reasons but you must also pay me&
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
Different tasks then? If you are using VLMs in the context of medical imaging, I have concerns. That is not a place to use hallucinatory AI. But yes, the transformer model itself isn't useless. It's the application of it. OCR, i
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Anyone who says AI is useless Most of those people are a bit bad at making their case. What they mean but don't convey well is that AI is useless for it's proclaimed uses . You are correct that LLMs are pretty good at guessi
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> "Silicon Valley" is not an actor (human or organization of humans) that decided any such thing. Oh come on, you understand full well that they're referring to the wider SV business/software development "ecosyst
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> To be fair, Brendan Eich was making a scripting language for the 90's web. He was, and he doesn't deserve the full blame for being bad at designing a language when that wasn't his prior job or field of specialization. Bu
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> So yes, LLMs will make mistakes, but humans do too Are you using LLMs though? Because pretty much all of these systems are fairly normal classifiers, what would've been called Machine Learning 2-3 years ago. The "AI hype is r
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> sorry, not to nitpick, but I am really not a fan of one-based indexing It is very funny how this is just the one sole criticism that always gets brought up. Not that other problems don't exist, but they're not very talked a
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
Do keep in mind that both Trump and Andreessen & co are not interested in deregulation for ideological reasons, only because this specific deregulation is favourable for the men in question. It's not about "open AI" but j
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Also OpenAI in no way has a monopoly of the kind that Visa/MC has. I think this is misreading how literal the comparison is meant to be; Sherwood's running a bunch of "OpenAI is X" articles today. This is not about
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Meanwhile, no one answers this because they are getting value. You're literally doing the same thing you're accusing of. Every HN thread is full of AI boosters claiming AI to be the future with no backing evidence. Riddle me
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
It's a good example of how ridiculous the AI training situation is. They claim it's fair use for them to steal all data they want, but you're not allowed to use AI data output, despite this data literally not being subject to
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> but the facts that he was in possession of were not only widely known at the time but were the subject of an ongoing lawsuit that had launched months prior. That is an exceedingly charitable read of these lawsuits. Everyone knows LLMs
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Some oddly defensive reactions here. They're not odd. These reactions pop up to all criticism of the current tech hype bubble. Happened with metaverse, NFTs, blockchain, etc. They know that the emperor has no clothes. That the mom
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
Startups , not big tech companies.
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Am I reading the wrong page? Yes. That's a separate investigation; "Today's action focuses specifically on the assessment of Meta's practices under EU consumer law and is distinct from the ongoing ... , and the asse
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> EU didn't go into an uncontrolled spree investing every company that had .com in its name and ruined thousands of lives and wasted billions of dollars. This is the thing that so many Americans in tech don't seem to understand
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
I have some excellent news for you about the legality of targeted advertising under the GDPR. The GDPR is very clear about this. Advertising is not a legitimate interest or a functionally-required data processing, ergo, it may only be don
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
A piece of advice: Avoid using general and indirect terms like "Them" when referring to the state of Israel and/or it's government. Antisemites deliberately use such language to conflate the Israeli government with the g
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
It is Israel's problem either way. Either Israel is involved themselves, which is quite plausible given their history of this shit. Or Israel is not involved, and they massively fucked up by letting their malware be used against their
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> Consider that the alternative to reading the summary often isn't reading the entire text yourself. It's reading nothing. Having no information is always preferable to having wrong information .
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by ADeerAppeared 2y ago
> If you ask an intern to summarize some text, you trust them to do a half decent job Yes. And if I were to propose that we filter all information we consume through completel unqualified interns summarizing it, I'd be laughed out o

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