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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Kind of reminds me of this screenshot someone took of the fastest growing subreddits back in 2023, and all of them were AI-related, but here's the kicker, I think 8 out of 10 of them had to do with AI waifus and porn.
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Kind of wild to think that all these uncontacted tribes could actually be more like post-apocalyptic survivors rather than a glimpse at our distant neolithic past. Definitely more fun to speculate about.
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Oh, it’s very much possible to create AI models with copyrighted materials. The “impossible” part is turning said AI model into a cash cow without fairly compensating the original rights holder.
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I mean, mess is a bit subjective in Google's case. Sure, they tend to take on a lot of side-projects only to inevitably abandon them, and they did slip behind in the AI race, but there's a huge difference between "stagnant g
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Funny enough I've been using Firefox as my primary browser for well over a decade, but lately I've struggled to continue letting that remain the case just because of how badly managed Mozilla appears to be. The weird AI website bu
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Kind of reminded me of how just before WeWork came crashing down it raised more money at a $47 billion valuation. Besides the fact that both companies have (or rather, had) lofty valuations, there are some other interesting parallels. The
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Pretty neat! Worth keeping in mind though that a lot of that data came from Phoenix, a city that only gets 8 inches of rain a year and has fairly pristine, well-marked roads to match. In a way, Phoenix is the perfect initial testing groun
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I'll admit when I'm wrong. The DOJ announced back in February that it was "preparing to sue", but appears to have never officially filed that lawsuit. My mistake. Nonetheless, I think my point still stands in that the
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I would argue that the regulators made their point pretty clear early on when the DOJ opened a lawsuit against Adobe. The people most responsible for keeping this in limbo were Adobe’s lawyers.
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I think Itch.io has a decent chance of picking up where Bandcamp left off. Out of the box it doesn't have a media player to preview singles on an album, but someone created a media player that you can add to an itch page to provide sa
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Sure, I get that, but to handle a disagreement over money in such a consequential fashion just doesn't make sense to me. They must have understood that to arrive in a position where they have to fire the CEO with little warning is goi
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I have a hard time believing this simply since it seems so ill-conceived. Sure, maybe Sam Altman was being irresponsible and taking risks, but they had an insanely good thing going for them. I'm not saying Sam Altman was responsible
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
His sister on Twitter made some pretty crazy abuse allegations against him a while back, but it didn't seem to get much coverage outside of the usual Twitter crowd. But who knows, maybe there's a connection.
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I had no problems with this article other than the headline calling DALL-E “so good”. If you’re using AI art for anything other than personal curiosity you’re probably using it because it costs next to nothing to make a generated stock imag
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I’m mildly curious if those additional tokens will make AI better, or worse. We arguably trained AI on the good stuff first. Novels. Wikipedia entries. GitHub open-source projects with a lot of stars. What’s left but mediocrity and our
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Thankfully, they're already made their stance on AI clear on Twitter https://twitter.com/Procreate/status/1661210079360700417?lan...
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
So am I to believe some tech figure on Twitter with a large following who has an unnamed source? Or Sam Altman, who himself has said that no work whatsoever has been done nor will be done on GPT-5 in response to the rampant speculation thi
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I still remember some dork on Twitter claiming that a source within the company told him that they had already trained GPT-5. Mind you, this was back in April I think. Kind of reluctant at this point to believe anyone who spreads rumors a
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
This article is merely summarizing a longer article at Bloomberg, in case anyone would like to read something more substantial. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-08/stability...
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Incidentally I was about to comment on how peculiar it is that there are two open-source Retool alternatives backed by Y Combinator. I know, I know, they're covering their bases, but nonetheless find it if only slightly amusing. Piss-o
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
This is a bit of a strange one, but I made a free-to-play game that produces “art” posters as a form of monetization. Still a work in progress, but I was able to finally produce a poster from the game, which felt gratifying. Might post it
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Because until more scientists can replicate this the news is little more substantial than the typical post on /r/futurology on any given day.
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I don't know, I haven't really seen the same level of interest from my "normie" friends that I've seen among the HN-adjacent crowd. None of them seem to be aware of LK-99, let alone care about it. Meanwhile, the G
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Arguments like these are an example of why we need to be reminded of the principle of copyright: to protect artists and creatives from having to compete against themselves in the form of someone simply taking their work and profiting from i
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I really wouldn’t call GUIs a “command-based paradigm”. Feels much more like they’re digital analogues of tools and objects. Your mouse is a tool, and you use it to interface with objects and things, and through special software it can be
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I think op is referring to what I call “capital T tech”, or alternatively, “big internet tech”. There’s plenty of technological improvements within the past 20 years, we just tend to ignore them the further they fall outside of internet-adj
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Personally I always considered the social contract to be that the price of admission for a free social network / online community is that you need to put up with ads and attempts to monetize the data, provided the latter isn’t an unrea
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
I was actually watching this case precisely because it has implications for generative AI
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Honestly, I’d probably agree if such sentiments were expressed by an independent scientist or group of independent scientists. But no, instead Congress is listening to a guy who’s likelihood of being the subject of a Hulu documentary is inc
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by Bjorkbat 3y ago
Lol, thanks Nicky Case, I needed that

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