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by munk-a 7mo ago
That is a huge danger. Legally speaking it's not an issue since misusing a tool doesn't relieve liability (in most circumstances - all the trivial ones at least)... but that's a more significant political issue as evidenced
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by munk-a 7mo ago
We also need to question how many people might go through the same process without eventual exoneration and how much going through this process costs individuals. Being falsely prosecuted comes usually imparts a permanent black mark in sea
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by munk-a 7mo ago
It's both. It's good to acknowledge that AI is easy to misuse in this manner but it doesn't detract from the fact that the ultimate responsibility lies in those that should be verifying the tool output. There is far too litt
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The spammers wouldn't pay it once though - the idea is that it's a good way to scale moderation. Each time an admin needs to ban a user there is a 10$ subsidy supporting that action - and if the bots come back then they get to pa
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Can McKinsey fund McKinsey by consulting for McKinsey? Could we oroborus corporate consulting so that those consultants could be trapped in a loop and those of us doing useful work wouldn't need to interact with them anymore?
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by munk-a 7mo ago
You could mirror article postings and upvotes to another site and let AI play around there - if it's interesting to people maybe it will gain a following. I don't see any reason it'd need to happen in this specific forum as
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I'm going to guess we'll eventually settle onto a psuedo-anonymous cert system like HTTPS where some companies are entrusted with verification and if that company says "That's definitely a human" it'll fly - no
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by munk-a 7mo ago
AI generated comments can also be verified and caught in many ways. I'd guess that it's statistically more likely for a murder to be resolved than a random AI comment to be detected but I'm not actually sure. There are a lo
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I consider minimizing a natural decline with artificial subsidies as ramping up - maybe a fairer phrase would be "dragging out production" but either way the administration is putting a thumb on their scale to counter natural mark
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Reviewing code changes (generally) takes more time than writing code changes for a pretty significant chunk of engineers. If we're optimizing slop code writing at the expense of more senior's time being funneled into detailed rev
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by munk-a 7mo ago
A long list of contribution PRs are seen as a resume currency in the modern world. A way to game that system is to autogenerate a whole bunch of PRs and hope some of them are accepted to buff your resume. Our issue is that we've been
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I've heard that the government has terabytes of data on people that spend far too much time thinking of the children.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Trump had a few executive orders that derailed phase out plans and the DoE released a coal plant refurbishing subsidy[1]. 1. https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-...
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Yea, at the end of the day a big part of this question comes down to whether that copying is fair use and that is an open question with the transformative nature being the primary point in favor of the LLM. But it is copying from some work
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I want to briefly pick at this: > you're going to need to pass new laws that may wind up radically redefining intellectual property You're correct that this is one route to resolving the situation, but I think it's reasona
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by munk-a 7mo ago
It's absolutely prohibited to copy and redistribute for commercial purposes materials that you're unlicensed to do so with. This isn't an issue when it comes to the copy-left scenario (though it may potentially enforce trans
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by munk-a 7mo ago
As much as I'd like a quick hack to disable raybands recording me - that feels like a pretty slam dunk case of destruction of property.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Coal is so deeply irrational. Only when you plug your ears and scream can you block out comprehension of the massive local externalities that make it inefficient compared to other energy options. It is cheap to setup with minimal access
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The US is in an excellent position to massively harness wind and solar and yet right now it's dialing up the coal usage. I am comfortable celebrating Iceland's decision to not be maliciously dependent on fossil fuels.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
The actions of oracle lately seem extremely misaligned to maximize stonks - it's extremely political, more than is necessary to merely keep in the good graces of the current administration.
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by munk-a 7mo ago
There's compelling reasons for all sorts of home devices to be connected to the internet[1] but the rub is that ToS flexibility and software updates make this a backdoor waiting to happen. I feel like our legal system has significantl
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I care a little bit - I think it's genuinely disappointing that your privacy can be so thoroughly compromised by interesting uses of metadata... but I also won't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. It'd be great is peo
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Yea, a finding that training is transformative would be pretty significant and it's likely that the precedent of thumbnail creation being deemed transformative would likely steer us towards such a finding. Transformative is always a h
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by munk-a 7mo ago
I think the missing thing here is that the license violation already happened. Most of the big models trained on data in a manner that violated terms of service. We'll need a court case but I think it's extremely reasonable to c
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by munk-a 7mo ago
Won't this cause significant legal issues in two party consent states and have a huge potential to run afoul of revenge porn laws?
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by munk-a 7mo ago
There isn't one perfect way to design things since our needs are different. A relative of mine has failing eyesight and requires high contrast - while I am quite sensitive to bright lights and need to dim my screens beyond what most p
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by munk-a 7mo ago
You can find excellent examples of english written before capital letters (or even spaces) were standard and they tend to be significantly harder to parse because we're not used to parsing them. Familiarity is part of the problem but
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by munk-a 8mo ago
At this point I'll just switch vendors. I don't have the bandwidth to babysit all the different ways MSFT tries to break tools to bother using them.
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by munk-a 8mo ago
It isn't compatible with TeX/LaTeX but it does serve the same purpose (and converters are available). I don't disagree it's a weak name, though. The naming implies some sort of rich LaTeX editor plugin for emacs - I ne
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by munk-a 8mo ago
I don't personally care about the distinction especially since AI usually 'improves' things by making it more verbose. Don't waste tokens to force me to read more useless words about your position - just state it plainl

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