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by Taywee 4y ago
I'm a total GPL fanboy, but that would not only invalidate GPL, but make it legal to disassemble, modify, and redistribute all proprietary software less than 10 years old. I don't think it's a great thing, or a horrible one;
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by Taywee 4y ago
Even in America, I've had to pirate TV shows from England because they simply weren't available here, won't air here, and aren't sold anywhere, even in England. I can't watch Big Fat Quiz of Everything legally at al
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by Taywee 4y ago
I wonder if a large part of what makes social media unhealthy is exposing human nature to mass communication. I hate Facebook and Twitter as much as the next person, but maybe humans haven't evolved to be able to instantly reach an aud
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by Taywee 4y ago
I have the same thought, full of jealousy, because I used to waste my time in exactly the same kind of way, and I don't do it so much anymore. I should probably set aside more of my time to waste on something pleasurable and useless.
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by Taywee 4y ago
I think that's an ungenerous read. I read it more as "there is built up frustration here around this guy, so you'll see more of this venting right now." And that makes sense to me. I don't think the comment is const
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by Taywee 4y ago
If they competed with me by throwing my product through a decompiler, fed it into an AI model, and selling the generated output, I'd be pretty upset about it. Which is pretty close to the actual issue here, that artists did not give th
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by Taywee 4y ago
From that link, criminal copyright infringement depends on specific circumstances that don't directly apply here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506
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by Taywee 4y ago
It's civil vs criminal law. Illegal usually implies breaking a law and committing a crime. Copyright infringement is a civil matter, not criminal.
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by Taywee 4y ago
Sure, but this isn't philosophy. An AI model that contains every image is a copyright derivative of all those images and so is the output generated from it. It's not an abstract concept or a human brain. It's a pile of real b
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by Taywee 4y ago
A human can grow and learn based on their own experiences separate from their art image input. They'll sometimes get creative and develop their own unique style. Through all analogies, the AI is still a program with input and output. P
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by Taywee 4y ago
If you can find a copyrighted work in that model that wasn't put there with permission, then why would that model and its output not violate the copyright?
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by Taywee 4y ago
That's still automated in the same way that a compiler is automated. A compiler doesn't remove the copyright, neither does a decompiler. This isn't different enough to have different copyright rules. There are more layers to
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by Taywee 4y ago
Copyright isn't level legal vs illegal, it's infringing vs non-infringing. Fan art very often could be argued to be infringing, but no company has any reason to pursue it in the vast majority of cases, so they just don't. It&
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by Taywee 4y ago
An AI is not a person. Automated transformation does not remove the original copyright, otherwise decompilers would as well. That the process is similar to a real person is not actually important, because it's still an automated transf
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by Taywee 4y ago
I basically never vote on anything. I dislike the psychological effect of gamification of conversation. I understand the benefits, but at Reddit, the voting system has a distinctly addictive effect and very quickly degrades all discussion t
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by Taywee 4y ago
The war is not lost. The goal isn't to try to force people to never be able to use AI to generate art, but to force them to only use input that they gave permission to use. AI replacing artists functionally is just the surface fear. Th
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by Taywee 4y ago
Poverty is directly statistically correlated with poorer test scores and lower IQ. Your hard work and test scores don't contradict those statistics.
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by Taywee 4y ago
So it's just another face of the current campaigning for minimum wage changes and tax cuts. Doesn't sound like a massive flaw to me.
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by Taywee 4y ago
`x->foo()` in C++ often isn't just "crashy", but undefined behavior. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional/operator * > The behavior is undefined if *this does not c
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by Taywee 4y ago
> which in 20 years it will, and I wasn't that hopeful 20 years ago That's too optimistic. C++ would easily die in 20 years if it didn't already have 30+ years of still-active legacy that can't easily be converted or
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by Taywee 4y ago
Presumption of innocence is an important principle for all of society. It's not just some heady legal principle that doesn't apply to non-state entities. Why do you think that the state is the only entity that can deprive people
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by Taywee 4y ago
From the agency that compiled the report: "The report found no evidence that Webb was either a leader or proponent of firing government employees for their sexual orientation." I haven't read the 80+ page report in its entire
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by Taywee 4y ago
Since there's no evidence that he did anything wrong, it doesn't make any sense to just assume that he's guilty due to being in an administrative position during the time.
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by Taywee 4y ago
What participation? The NASA finding is that he had no direct involvement.
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by Taywee 4y ago
He was the administrator of NASA during much of the Apollo program, so it's not like he's entirely irrelevant.
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by Taywee 4y ago
Depends on the bacon. You can get uncured bacon without any added nitrates or flavorings at all.
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by Taywee 4y ago
I agree entirely, but it's not relevant to my point. Understanding the problems with an entity is completely different from assuming that every bad rumor about that entity is true, or taking the position that the entity can never actua
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by Taywee 4y ago
They did test that the vaccine reduced risk of transmission and contraction of the disease, and testing for fertility didn't make sense anyway (and recent studies verify that it has no effect on fertility anyway) so I don't know w
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by Taywee 4y ago
"Correcting the record" isn't inherently malicious, and a company attacking something does not indicate a likely cover up. That reasoning is overly cynical and fallacious. I'm no fan of corporations or overlarge industri
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by Taywee 4y ago
Oh, I know, I'm just pointing out that a self-hosted compiler is a different ballgame than a runtime being written in the language that runs on it. Without some degree of AOT compilation (usually of a subset or dialect of the language

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