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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
At some point Insurance is going to require companies to obtain paper copies of any documentation/policies, precisely to avoid this kind of situation. It may take a while to get there though. It'll probably take a couple of big in
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> I suppose some big science publishers are blocking AI bots too. That's a travesty, considering that a huge chunk of science is public-funded; the public is being denied the benefits of what they're paying for, essentially.
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That is a good question. However, copyright exists (for a limited time) to allow for them to be compensated. AI doesn't change that. It feels like blocking AI-use is a ploy to extract additional revenue. If their content is regurgitate
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What's that famous quote - those who do not learn from history ... BUT, it's hard to learn from history if there's no history to learn...
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They probably have internal archives if they're smart; but that isn't accessible to the public. I think the issue isn't whether the data is archived, but whether that information is available to the public for the foreseeable
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Did you have rate limits built in? Ultimately scraping tools will need to mimic humans. Ironic. I wonder if bots/ai will need to build their own specialized internet for faster sharing of data, with human centered interfaces to human s
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In the US at least, there is no expectation of privacy in public. Why should these websites that are public-facing get an exemption from that? Serving up content to the public should imply archivability. Sometimes it feels like ai-use conce
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by ninjagoo 9mo ago
Perhaps the AI slop isn't worth preserving, but the unarchivability of news and other useful content has implications for future public discourse, historians, legal matters and who knows what else. In the past libraries used to preserv
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News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns(niemanlab.org)
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Publishers like The Guardian and NYT are blocking the IA/Wayback Machine. 20% of news websites are blocking both IA and Common Crawl. As an example, https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/james-van
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Maybe the solution is to accept that anonymity comes with the trade-off that bots will also participate. The dependency then is on effective moderation. Perhaps effective moderation is achievable today through, dare I say it - bots? They ce
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Because town hall meetings don't work in an authoritarian world.
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Is that even feasible? Thinking of it like security certificates for humans. Can there really be anonymity if a cert signature chain has to be trusted? CAs and intermediaries can always trace certs back?
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Society is not ready for an AI world: any platform that does not guarantee anonymity will be of limited utility for social discourse in a world lurching towards authoritarianism, and any platform that does guarantee anonymity can no longer
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> Just read the other comments in this thread, all the evidence you need is in plain sight. Do anecdotes constitute citable/useful data for OSes with millions of users? Especially for comparison? > Conversely, I’ve been on window
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> I might be starting down the path of introducing Linux to family members soon. I need to make sure I have enough spare time for the initial 'speed hump' of transition questions... The first couple of months are high touch aft
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> despite recurring driver and dependency issues, compatibility problems, etc Citation needed. Uncited, I would posit that those complaints haven't really been a thing for at least a couple of decades. And any issues have been far l
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Windows has always been a bit of a high-maintenance OS. To keep it running well used to consume a lot of time on a weekly/monthly basis. That went down to almost nothing after I switched to Ubuntu LTS a couple of decades ago. Heard it
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> I don't think Linux will ever be easy enough that I could recommend it to an elderly neighbor. If it helps, I setup a few elderly folks (now approaching 80s) across two continents that have been merrily using Linux/Ubuntu-LT
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Switching OSes is a major undertaking for power users, which I assume you are. Less so for someone who uses the browser, email, and plays some games. As a power user, there's no point trying out OSes occasionally, unless that's yo
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> When do we get the Star Trek / Orville dream of every job is a good job? When jobs are no longer necessary to live, and you do a job because you want to ... Presumably the psychology of people in Star Trek's Starfleet and The
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> In the end, I think the dream underneath this dream is about being able to manifest things into reality without having to get into the details. > The details are what stops it from working in every form it's been tried. Since t
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Stephen Schwab has hit the nail on the head as far as the replacement pattern applies to software development. But he missed the opportunity to recognize that the replacement pattern is, in fact, a broader principle. Or perhaps he did recog
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Android started out as an open ecosystem that is slowly being closed. How much funding would it take to re-create a credible open-source ecosystem for phones?
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Soviet Union - was that really opposition to oppression that succeeded or the state collapsed internally - disintegrated? British India could be good example - but there's a case to be made that it was overthrow of an external colonial
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Why can't it be jammed? Can't any radio signal can be jammed by a stronger one?
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That old maxim - the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it - no longer true unfortunately. Larger and larger swathes of the world population are coming under the purview of governments and corporations that are techn
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interesting that this item has disappeared off the front pages completely, while items with much fewer comments persist...
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There is a case to be made that overcoming oppression is extremely hard to achieve in populations over 50 million. Are there any successful examples where this has happened?
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That old maxim - the internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it - no longer true unfortunately. Larger and larger swathes of the world population are coming under the purview of governments and corporations that are techn

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