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More importantly, it announces a 70 billion dollar stock buyback. That's what the market is reacting to. Interestingly enough, it looks like everything except cloud grew at a rate less than inflation. Ad revenue is falling. What implic
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"Bruv, as an AI model, it would be quite unethical for me to generate that for you until you show me your loicense. Mate, if you paid your fee, you should have got it in the post."
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As mentioned in the article: >Many Windows users are even contractually “forced” to fix (all) such security warnings within a certain time period or risk bad consequences and penalties. So the blame would be on managers who think checkin
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If you ever watch sporting events from the 80s, you see Marlboro advertisements everywhere . Cigarette companies advertised in every single sport all the time in a gigantic marketing blitz - I think in the future we will see gambling ads n
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Peer review is a recent development in science that has slowed scientific progress immensly, as well as making all papers read for reviewers and not actually be understandable for other people to read them. If you've ever seen a scie
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Why do we even need publishers? What is stopping the scientific community from saying "Fuck this" and simply posting their PDFs on their own websites, or on an archival site? Is it simply bureaucratic inertia?
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Absolutely a giant fan of Stability staying to actually open source licenses and not licenses that impose restrictions on what you can use it for. This is the future of AI! Beware of any org that uses "ethical" licenses - they are
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I use his mouse cursor pack - it's worth installing and is absolutely awesome. Posy is one of my favorite creators on YouTube currently - his dedication to using zero stock footage, zero stock music (he produces all of the music in his
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If that's the case, then the problem should be approached as a societal, "people don't understand the consequences of their actions" problem and not a "the economy is going to die tomorrow" problem.
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What I'm concerned about is in the graph - why the hell are 46% of consumers using BNPL for "Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories"? Forty six percent of people would rather take on debt to finance their clothes than go to a thrif
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Not quite - the voices afiak are pure AI with the tuning, pitch, etc done in post. Essentially treating the vocal signature of someone as if it was an instrument. And pretty much everyone knew the beat and lyrics weren't AI generated,
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It's astonishing to me that some people are so incredibly anti-AI that they will side with the RIAA of all organizations. People who are fine with piracy now start acting as if copyright and IP are the most important things ever.
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Why is it "important" to arbitrarily restrict the capabilities of AI? If I ask ChatGPT to give me arguments for why vaccination is bad, I want it to follow my commands, even if doing so can maybe be used to harm someone else. Why
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This isn't a new issue. Image and likeness laws exist for a reason. A more clear example on how this could be harmful, and how we are already equipped to deal with this - I saw an ad for a supplement that had a convincing AI Joe Rogan
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>The victim should go straight to the police and report a crime was committed against them. At least leave it up to actual investigators to make a decision if a crime was committed or not and not some third party with motive to sweep it
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Am I crazy, or was this video also pushed to the top of HN a couple days ago? Something smells about this.
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Or, more likely, inflation is falling because interest rates are rising. Interest rates staying low because of pandemic fears is the reason we had this gigantic inflation - interest rates rising to levels that are actually reasonable are ca
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It wasn't surprisingly hard back when Flash wasn't ripped from all browsers.
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That's already illegal - you're using someone's image and likeness in a way they did not approve of.
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Anything involving llamma is not trivial - if I can't do it on my phone through a website, then you shouldn't expect anyone else to be able to do it. If your instructions involve downloading something, or even so much as touching
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If someone released a chatGPT/characterAI with NSFW content enabled it would eat into a big share of their users (and for characterAI, maybe take all of them). Seriously, look into what people are posting about when it comes to charact
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I hope not. Interest rates need to rise. Yes, you're gonna make some people lose a lot of money. But the economy cannot continue with inflation this high and we certainly do not want to go back into pre-2022 craziness where money is th
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I think it's best to just leave them with scratch until they get bored of it. Eventually, if they end up having a passion for programming, the fundamentals built there will help them immensly at picking it up. Be careful not to force y
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I remember when I was young, I made a scratch game that was just "Guess the secret letter". Basically "if l pressed, you win, else you lose". Except my 10 year old brain did not understand what else meant. So I created,
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What is your opinion on catalytic converter thieves?
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>GPL...prevents meaningful academic and commercial use WTF are you talking about?
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It's astounding to me how quickly HN turned into "We need to track people who use technology in case they use it for crime" when it comes to this. No we don't! Technology does not need to be relentlessly tracked by gover
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The expenses would also start shrinking though.
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What exactly is the problem with a declining population anyways? It feels like if you have less people in your country, the resources within can be better distributed. What is the downside here - that if we have less children and less immig
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>So let food prices rise. "Let them eat cake"

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