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by dTal 1mo ago
Hacker News summarized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdhwTXwhA4c
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by dTal 1mo ago
It's not "neutral machine-based enforcement", it's a general purpose panopticon that tracks and logs everything, ready to be queried later by arbitrary people for arbitrary reasons.
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by dTal 1mo ago
useful heuristic: every comment I've seen with excessive 9s was nonsense You really think if I asked 200,000 people in my city, only one would have heard of Meta RayBans? when there are billboards, magazine ads, and window stickers in
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by dTal 1mo ago
I respect your overall point but I think the picture is more nuanced than that. "Computer" as a term is simply unpopular, in favor of something referencing the intended application, as determined by things like the form factor: Gr
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by dTal 1mo ago
Microsoft sell locked down PCs today . Secure Boot cannot be disabled, nor new keys enrolled, on Windows PCs that ship with an ARM processor (yes they exist). It's as if Apple decided to lock down Macbooks when they switched to M-seri
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by dTal 1mo ago
>Camera saw red, you didn't. But, again, you cannot consider flawed human perception to be the ground truth! Photonically, the red eye is the ground truth. If you were looking through the viewfinder, you should also have seen the
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by dTal 1mo ago
Is that a desirable state of affairs?
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by dTal 1mo ago
It could be Mister Rogers himself for all I fucking care, no cameras in the bathroom please.
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by dTal 1mo ago
Not "banned" per se, but functionally impossible to run on hardware that's powerful enough to be useful. It's not a stretch to imagine GPU drivers that refuse to run unless installed on a fully "attested" syste
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by dTal 1mo ago
That's precisely the point - with AI, "a few geeks" turns into "everyone".
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by dTal 1mo ago
That doesn't seem like a very sharp line (hah). "Abstract geometrical or statistical features like edges" have semantic meaning . An "edge" is just an area of the image with a high derivative, but as soon as you u
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by dTal 1mo ago
The layperson also doesn't really consider the result of their smartphone app to be "processed", until they get slapped in the face with it. The layperson's intuition isn't reliable.
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by dTal 1mo ago
Hah. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all American companies.
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by dTal 1mo ago
What constitutes a "meaningful" difference? If you replace flash-induced red eyes with a more plausible (yet inaccurate) eye color, people are perfectly happy with that, even though the camera indeed saw red photons. They're
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by dTal 1mo ago
I don't think it's intentional. This behavior is a straightforward consequence of training something on pairs of "real" and "degraded" images. It learns what images look like and does the best it can. Philosoph
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by dTal 1mo ago
If it's watermarked then it's by definition inauthentic. Watermarking is in-band signal manipulation.
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by dTal 1mo ago
Mmm, software too though. Even those with capable hardware (Macbook Pro for instance) are usually incapable of getting over the hump of assembling an inference framework, agentic harness etc. If that ever becomes easy, watch out! Government
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by dTal 1mo ago
In the short term, governments can suppress free distribution of open weight LLMs. For instance, they could "ask" Hugginface to require an account with a university affiliated email address to download anything. It won't sto
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by dTal 1mo ago
To be clear, we agree. The problem is that unless local AIs become "normie friendly" real damn quick , we're gonna lose em, because they're damned inconvenient to power. That is what I fear.
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by dTal 1mo ago
Do you not want "normies" to have local AI? Do you believe that your ability to use esoteric software makes you special, makes you immune to law? The days where you can find refuge in running "weird hacker crap" instead
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by dTal 1mo ago
Local models enable: - watermark-free generation - the stripping of watermarking from the output of SAAS models Any discussion of watermarking is dead in the water in a world where we are permitted to have these things. I fear for the futur
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by dTal 1mo ago
It's important to distinguish "watermark" from "signature" (and the text/binary distinction is not relevant here): Signatures are extra data, added out-of-band to the existing data. Out of band data, by defin
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by dTal 2mo ago
So you're okay with more and more power held by fewer and fewer people, but balk at all the power held by one person. Where is the line, how will you recognize it, and having done so how will you arrest the trend?
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by dTal 2mo ago
Old reddit still works for me; however, ten minutes ago I encountered - for the first time ever - a mandatory signup modal on new reddit. The only options for viewing the thread without an account were old reddit, or DOM manipulation. They
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by dTal 2mo ago
That's like saying "I would be fine with people shooting at me, if only the bullets were replaced with quarters and they were carefully handed over instead of fired at high velocity".
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by dTal 2mo ago
That makes perfect sense - the less you are able to assess "harm" for yourself (because you are not educated or worldly) the more you should rely on external cultural consensus.
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by dTal 2mo ago
That's it! They (rather dubiously) claimed it came from a recycled Russian coke can, if I recall.
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by dTal 2mo ago
Hardly anybody is talking about the biggest political aspect of open weight LLMs (actually, any LLMs): Because they instantly and reliably(tm) give you the information you want in the format you want it in, they are going to replace the web
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by dTal 2mo ago
Oh goody, an expert in a question I've always wanted to ask. Once upon a time, I encountered a sort of interactive museum book called "Earthsearch". One of its "exhibits" was a color wheel, made of two spinnable pie
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by dTal 2mo ago
That's like inhaling a virus to see if it's contagious. Reading text generated by a model tuned with RLHF is a dangerous pastime. It's all too easy to reach past a human's critical thinking and push the pleasure buttons.

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