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by nonbirithm 3y ago
> "The training of generative AI using our artists’ music [...] begs the question as to which side of history all stakeholders in the music ecosystem want to be on: the side of artists, fans and human creative expression, or on the
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by nonbirithm 3y ago
> You're dealing with principles of communism here. I don't know, the reasoning seems simpler than any school of thought can offer. Humans are bound to 14-16 waking hours per day. A large portion of those hours are taken up by
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by nonbirithm 3y ago
I feel like the backlash against Stable Diffusion had the opposite change in visibility. It revealed that thousands of people wanted a way to produce unique art in the styles of living artists, where some of those people might have gone to
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by nonbirithm 3y ago
Only anecdotal, but there may be cultural problems stemming from the flat structure at Valve that make organizing around products difficult. This video came out 4 years ago so I don't know if anything's changed since then, but it&
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Sounds like a good idea. Some recent Stable Diffusion toolkits like ComfyUI are modular so in theory you'd be able to build a pipeline like this inside the application instead of being constrained to one workflow.
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
The difference is that player pianos can only replay previously existing songs, while Midjourney can create something novel in under a minute. The problem that's being solved is not everyone wants to spend thousands of hours learning h
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
It's interesting how all the overblown controversy around violent video games decades ago can now actually be applied to social media in its current state. It was like some of the pundits were correct in forecasting the potential behav
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
"Napster copyright lawsuits could be a legal earthquake for peer-to-peer file sharing" I think the only effective way of slowing down AI isn't copyright enforcement, but trade secrets. If Midjourney can control who has access
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Sounds like a "color of bits" issue. In practice the courts would care about where the latent coordinates originated from, and if it were only possible to derive them from violation of copyright. Same issue with a copy of Titanic
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Managing everyone's impression of you is how I understand you're supposed to make friends. If you don't fit in with a group then they'll stop wanting to be around you and you'll no longer have them to talk to. Argua
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Not so much about the danger, but Japanese culture is much different from the US; being a collectivist society there is immense pressure on each person to do the right thing. Anyone who doesn't fit in can suffer immense social conseque
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Are mainstream Linux distros as user-friendly to a 10-year-old as the other two operating systems, even if the latter are more anti-consumer? As the article states the author was trying to set up a first-time computer for his son. Which fla
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
> that is mostly a feature because we have found out that the alternative is even worse This is the actual problem, that we've been trained to think that there are no consequences to trying everything ever and we will always be able
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
And similarly, FLoC was invented for the sole purpose of making targeted advertising look legitimate.
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
I have a feeling a lot of these models take advantage of in-built language pattern-matching to which we can't help but ascribe meaning. A puppy can't help but chase a laser pointer because his prey drive compels him to. Likewise t
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
I agree with you, but the difference between being able to tell someone "if you need to install some dependencies in Rust, just use Cargo" and show them the documentation, and whatever the equivalent documentation is in Python are
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
With the sheer brokenness of Python packaging I wish that the Python 2->3 transition had been between two completely different languages, such that the entire thing could have been thrown away. Yet because there was breakage, but not eno
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Yeah, have to wonder how many people, if they had the money, would want to buy out Twitter just to wipe it out. Doesn't a huge chunk of HN hate Twitter and wish it were dead? (Regardless I think that would be useless in the long run, s
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
I can maybe sense some foresight that we didn't have at the time other world-changing technologies were discovered. People reference the printing press often in relation to the arguments against progress, but I haven't seen discus
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
This has been repeated often, but even if it's true, I have to wonder why it's treated as a given with no further exploration. Is it because we as a species will inevitably accept any technological progress once sometime after it&
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
I think he means globalization. All those cultures were probably homogeneous to some extent in their own isolated bubbles. The thing that changed was near-instant global communication. When most people in each society had full visibility in
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Even if all the jobs creating CRUD apps are automated away, there will probably still be an interest in automating them even faster. LLMs are currently the state of the art technique for doing so, hence there will be a continual need for mo
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
It wouldn't be surprising with millions of people's mindsets already conditioned by the convenience of an abundance of content, that if they're handed a piece of tech that can generate it personalized to their preferences in
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
You can promote those values, but all it takes is one person that doesn't operate by the same ethical system as you to invalidate everything. In the case of MAD that means the annihilation of the world. The more people the technology s
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Terrorists would have a field day if they had access to nuclear weapons. The only thing stopping them is that the barrier to independently developing nuclear weapons is so high that it's only practical for powerful nation-states to hav
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
This is a problem that I hope attracts much more scrutiny in the near future, and beyond the domain of what's called "AI" right now. It doesn't feel talked about much at all. It feels like we can analyze the inner workin
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
This a thousand million times. The mislabeling of LLMs and diffusion models as "artificial intelligence" is probably the biggest marketing blunder in the history of technological progress, one that could ironically affect the cour
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Rider is pretty much the only decent option for me, if Linux is a requirement. However not even Rider supports .NET Hot Reloading (Edit and Continue), because Microsoft hasn't implemented runtime support for it in Linux. Doing so would
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
Noticed that there's no author attribution listed in the paper. I can imagine this will become more common as more significant diffusion advances are released.
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by nonbirithm 4y ago
> I feel like this is obvious and yet people keep making this argument for some reason. It's because scores of people coming from non-art domains are suddenly being exposed to the art domain without much real knowledge of working in

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