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by martin-t 10mo ago
Thanks for the links, I'll read them in more detail later. There's a couple issues I see: 1) All of the concepts were developed with the idea that only humans are capable of certain kinds of work needed for producing IP. A human w
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The issue is that everyone is focusing on verbatim (or "too similar") reproduction. LLMs themselves are compressed models of the training data. The trick is the compression is highly lossy by being able to detect higher-order patt
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To be honest, I haven't looked at any statistics but I imagine a tiny few of those looking for gold found any and got rich, the most either didn't find anything, died of illness or exposure or got robbed. I just like the quote as
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by martin-t 10mo ago
Moving training won't help them if their paying customers are in jurisdictions which do respect copyright as written and intended.
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And HN does its thing again - at least 3 downvotes, 0 replies. If you disagree, say why, otherwise I have to assume my argument is correct and nobody has any counterarguments but people who profit from this hate it being seen.
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by martin-t 10mo ago
With LLMs, if you did the first in the past, then no matter what license you chose, your work is now in the second category, except you don't get a dime.
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by martin-t 10mo ago
I've also been hearing variations of your comment a lot too and correct me if I am wrong but I think they always implicitly assume that LLMs are more useful for the low-intellectual stuff than solving the high-intellectual core of the
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by martin-t 10mo ago
> Not just to the people I agree with, but to anyone who needs to use a computer. Why not say "... but to the people I disagree with"? Would you be OK knowing your code is used to cause more harm than good? Would you still cont
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During the gold rush, it is said, the only people who made money were the ones selling the pickaxes. A"I" companies are ~selling~ renting the pickaxes of today. (I didn't come up with this quote but I can't find the sour
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I recall a basics of law class saying that in some countries (e.g. Czech Republic), open source contributors have the right to small compensation if their work is used to a large financial benefit. At some point, I'll have to look it u
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If you want, I made a coherent argument about how the mechanics of LLMs mean both their training and inference is plagiarism and should be copyright infringement.[0] TL;DR it's about reproducing higher order patterns instead of word fo
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> programmer who actually do like the actual typing It's not about the typing, it's about the understanding. LLM coding is like reading a math textbook without trying to solve any of the problems. You get an overview, you get a
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by martin-t 10mo ago
No, you're absolutely right. LLMs are labor theft on an industrial scale. I spent 10 years writing open source, I haven't touched it in the last 2. I wrote for multiple reasons none of which any longer apply: - I believe every sof
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by martin-t 10mo ago
I think about better voting systems all the time (one major issue being downvote can mean "I want fewer people to see this", "I disagree", and "This is factually wrong" and you never know which. But I am not su
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Y'know how "users" of modern tech are the product? And how the developers were completely fine with creating such systems? Well, turns out developers are now the product too. Good job everyone.
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> Two wrongs don’t make a right. I hate this statement with a passion. Let's ignore the politics of the current situation for a while and look at the first principles of right and wrong. 1) When somebody knowingly and intentionally
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> the people are increasingly voting to go down the cliff, just to shake things up a bit. 1) I think a lot of people (correctly) feel that their quality of life is not improving the way it should be according to the (so often discussed)
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I see the real problem as having a president in the first place. Politics is about compromise and achieving mutual benefit. Electing a singular person is contrary to both.
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> Some of today’s autocratic leaders are incredibly smart and educated people and still took the wrong turn This assumes every person has the same goals. The reality is that the privileged (autocrats at the extreme end of the spectrum) h
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by martin-t 10mo ago
> democracy relies on an educated electorate, but access to really excellent education is minimal globally 1) Even locally in countries where education is decent, democracy seems to be weakening, with authoritarianism rising. 2) People t
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by martin-t 10mo ago
A true democracy would be people voting on laws directly and having the _option_ to appoint an assistant to vote for them. That's right - politicians would not be "leaders" but assistants who could be removed or replaced at a
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by martin-t 10mo ago
I don't mean to sound like the stereotypical "I did X and turned out fine" but... I grew up with an internet access on my computer in my room without anybody watching over my back and without any restrictions and nothing bad
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by martin-t 10mo ago
Leaking bits of individuality is one issue. The other is that once a tech choice becomes too niche, it stops being supported: - Technically anyone can run their own email server but from what I hear if you do, some providers will treat you
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If targeted advertising is your main threat, then you are lucky to _currently_ live in a country whose government _currently_ does not consider you an enemy or potential enemy. Many people are not that lucky and many people will become unlu
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by martin-t 10mo ago
> Until they've been burned Or as someone put it: "You can't make people care". Most western countries are democracies because people in the past got burned by dictatorships (including monarchies). Many of them died b
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Sure, but I want everybody to do it. I've seen too many times where a person presented an idea to a group, the idea was publicly shunned by the group, then later a few members of the group discussed the idea in private amongst each o
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I'd add to that: If you recognize a good design presented poorly, be the one to stand up and present it well, otherwise you will be stuck with the bad one.
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Sometimes the train conductor will admit it or you can tell because the reason they give is different each time. I find it stupid, it is what it is, just say it. This double speak serves no purpose.
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by martin-t 10mo ago
I chose unalive because i didn't know google trends allowed searching for asterisks. Appears it does. k*ll was apparently used even before tiktok but usage increased markedly around the same time as unalive appeared. Interestingly d*ad
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Correlation is not causation but I challenge anyone to come up with a different cause: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tiktok,u... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?d

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