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by nickvincent 5y ago
Regardless of how the (potentially very impactful) debate about licensing and copyright plays out, I think many here would agree this constitutes an "exploitation" of labor, at least in a mild sense. Optimistically, Copilot could
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by nickvincent 6y ago
Section III definitely connects the choice to use this term to economics ("In an economic market, supply and demand are said to be aligned through a price mechanism. Alignment is reached because lower demand decreases prices,
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by nickvincent 6y ago
The "Why" section of the AdNauseam FAQ has some good thoughts on this: https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam/wiki/FAQ#does-the-project... e.g. "We believe obfuscation is an important form of resis
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by nickvincent 6y ago
Should also add, here's the pre-print link for the full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09995
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by nickvincent 6y ago
Hey all, I'm the one of the authors of the conference paper discussed here and was quoted in this. Glad to see it's interesting to HN! Wanted to briefly highlight a couple points that I think will be interesting to the HN audience
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by nickvincent 6y ago
I'm curious about this as well! Search results sent me to this Twitter thread which suggests it was still a mystery in Aug 2020: https://twitter.com/vboykis/status/1290030614410702848?lang=... To speculate a
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by nickvincent 6y ago
Definitely agree that there will be cases in which a computer vision operator ships features specifically intended to create a new automatic defense. One thing that seems unique to technologies that are mostly just statistical learning is t
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by nickvincent 6y ago
There's a theme in this discussion that ML operators will just train new models on adversarially perturbed data. I don't think this is necessarily true at all! The proliferation of tools like this and the "LowKey" paper&
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by nickvincent 6y ago
Hey HN, I wanted to share this very related, but completely unaffiliated and independent initiative I’ve been a part of: https://datadividends.org . To quote the website, we’re “an ad-hoc team of scholars and practitioners (with
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by nickvincent 8y ago
This is extremely cool/useful. Really appreciated how well the project is explained/motivated, e.g. the DESIGN.md file. Thanks for making it public! Question about the long-term vision: do you see this as potentially being an educ