CaptainFever

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by CaptainFever 1y ago
> Consequently I think copyright infringement might actually be worse than stealing. I remember when piracy wasn't theft, and information wanted to be free.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Actually, "the rest of the world" has already legalised AI training in the form of Text and Data Mining Exemption laws.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
> Every time an article like this surfaces, it always seems like the majority of tech folks believe that training AI on copyrighted material is NOT fair use Where are you getting your data from? My conclusions are the exact opposite. (Al
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
They could be liable if they shut down the servers and make the purchase unusable before the end of the minimum contracted duration.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Finally, web browsers work for the user, not the website owners!
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
No, thanks. It is unethical for developers to restrict users -- yes, this includes AI trainers -- from studying the work freely.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Anecdotes don't mean much. For example, most people I know use it. It's just a very normal technology now. For something more substantial than an anecdote, 92% of UK students use AI: https://studenttimes.org/news&#
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
That's true, but IIRC Stop Killing Games goes a bit further and aims for things like the release of server code when the servers get shut down.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
If you believe that destroying books is bad, your issue is with copyright law, not the AI companies. The AI companies are just following copyright law -- they are allowed to move data from one format to another (thereby destroying the origi
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
However, if your JS is disabled (or if you're running LibreJS), you do get redirected to a CAPTCHA which only works sometimes.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
I just use yt-dlp (YTDLnis on Android, which has a great UI that makes it quite YouTube-like). Downloading instead of streaming (read: downloading then automatically deleting) is so much better. 1. It's all offline play, so I can use m
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Because I control my computer, and if I don't want to see ads, I have the right to automatically filter them out on my side. (Yes, yes, and Google has the right to block me from accessing their servers.)
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
I think what the GP meant was that it doesn't compete with that specific work it was trained on. That is, if you want to read Harry Potter, you'd rather buy it (or get it from Anne) than try to wrangle it out of an LLM. Therefor
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Nitpick: Can a license restrict you? I thought it only gave you additional rights, should you choose to accept it, but can't take away rights you have (e.g. the ability to make parodies from it). The restriction comes from IP laws them
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
What does that matter? (Also: you never know, that might be possible some day.) You can still infringe copyright without a computer or printing press; just write out a book that you remember and distribute it.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
It's not your business. This is just the old nothing to hide argument: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
That's not what slop means. This is anything but low-effort or low-quality.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
A classic related article, also using iPhones as OCR servers: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
No experience, but I think the game seems to track it? The default crosshair seems to change depending on what you're aiming at.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Personally, the distinction I draw isn't between corporations and cooperation as per the article ("they make money" is kind of an arbitrary difference IMO), but just that in general maintainers have no obligation to do any so
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
I can't even access the article, I get a 403. Here's a text mirror: I'm lucky enough to have a weird niche ISP available to me, so I'm paying $35 a month for around 600MBit symmetric data. Unfortunately they don't o
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Same. Usually when this happens I just don't visit the website; there's better things to do than fighting a website's anti-bot (I'm a sentient bot). The Internet is huge and full of alternatives. In case others can'
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
IMO weights being downloadable doesn't mean it's open weight. My understanding: - Weight available: You can download the weights. - Open weight: You can download the weights, and it is licensed freely (e.g. public domain
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
They do not have a CLA, and they accepted code from other contributors. Hopefully the rewrite removed all code from third parties. Debian does not seem to have this in their repositories. I urge users to fork the last open version. Do not
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Interesting that they intended to release it as open source in the past, but have instead stayed proprietary.
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Sometimes, doing something is worse than doing nothing at all. > For that matter, using licensing to restrict government abuse obviously isn’t going to work, because licensing relies on state enforcement of rights anyway. If the state it
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Seems to just be the new thing to casually hate on. "If this was vibe coded, this is even worse. This proves that vibe coding is bad."
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
As someone who is pretty strongly pro-AI, I felt that the article was leaning a bit on the anti side. So given our two opinions, I think "moderate" is a pretty good descriptor (people on both sides think you lean towards the other
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
That sounds awful. Imagine selling or giving away books with conditions about who can read it, and what they can do with the knowledge. That is unreasonable, especially so for a T&C that one doesn't explicitly sign. No one should a
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by CaptainFever 1y ago
Interesting to see that this is kicked off by the referal header. Seems like a privacy issue to have your browser tell servers part of your browsing history by default. IIRC, Tor doesn't have that issue.

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