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by rpdillon 1y ago
His point is more that if you're walking down the sidewalk on a cop asks you for your ID, you're under no obligation to provide it. But now that ICE is carrying facial recognition scanners that you're not allowed to opt out o
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by rpdillon 1y ago
The linked article is making the point that the judge is claiming that they are preserving privacy with this order because they believe in de-anonymization of the data set. The judge appears to have no understanding of how re-identification
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by rpdillon 1y ago
So an interesting intellectual exercise is to try to figure out how you would create a power user toggle that is coercion resistant. The best I've been able to come up with is a timed lockout that is random in how long it takes to allo
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by rpdillon 1y ago
When I looked for the base of this lawsuit, I was looking for some kind of monetary damage that the New York Times had suffered as a result of open AI's actions, like specific cases where their work has been reproduced or people cancel
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by rpdillon 1y ago
But wait, isn't this what we want? This means the models can be very powerful and that people have to use their judgment when they produce output so that they are held accountable for whether or not they produced something that was inf
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by rpdillon 1y ago
How do you feel about Google vacuuming up the world's data when they created a search engine? I feel like everybody just ignores this because Google was ostensibly sending traffic to the resulting site. The actual infringement of scrap
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by rpdillon 1y ago
This is a good observation! The LLM can tell you to kill yourself. The rope can actually actually help you do it.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
It's really interesting living through this revolution because it's pretty obvious to me that the outcome here needs to be that training is fair use, pirating materials you train on is not going to end up being okay, and the user
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Very much appreciate the clarification and nuance here. I understand that legally they don't have to provide any of this detail, but I'm also somewhat astonished that there doesn't appear to be any evidence that they've
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Notably absent from their complaint is any suggestion that they've been harmed by a reduction in readership as a result of OpenAI's emergence.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
> preserve their business model of writing about things that happen and selling the publication. To me it seems reasonable they'd want to keep doing that Be very wary of companies that look to change the landscape to preserve their
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by rpdillon 1y ago
The problem is that the publishing industry seems to think their job is to print ink on paper, and they reluctantly admit that this probably also involves putting pixels on a screen. They're hideously anti-tech and they completely igno
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by rpdillon 1y ago
> then suddenly nobody read my paper anymore This is the part that Times won't talk about because people stopped reading their paper long before AI, and they haven't been able to point to any credible harm in terms of reduced r
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by rpdillon 1y ago
It's not credible. Using AI to regurgitate news articles is not a good use of the tool, and it is not credible that any statistically significant portion of their user base is using the tool for that.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Seems to me my right to privacy is far more important than their right to copyright enforcement.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
This response is misleading. Almost all computer services keep logs for a short period of time, so the court order to retain existing information is quite a bit more powerful than a layman would think. Because a huge amount of data is retai
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Because the court ordered them to retain the records longer than they normally would.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
It's strange to me that you conclude that accumulating six zeros indicates luck, but accumulating nine zeros indicates skill. Why doesn't it indicate just more extraordinary luck?
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Yeah, perfect enforcement is dystopian. I don't think most people understand this, but your point is very well taken.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
This is extremely common. I think Alan Perlis captured this sentiment in his Epigrams in Programming when he said "lisp programmers see the value of everything and the cost of nothing." I frequently find that advocates ignore cost
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Yeah, this is exactly what I've been waiting for for quite a long time. I'm very excited.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
This is exactly what I do. Works pretty well. I've never needed to restrict the play store. I just tell them not to use it.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
My observation is that section does not articulate any harm. It _claims_ harm, but doesn't actually explain what the harm is. Reduced profits? Lower readership? All they say is "OpenAI violated our copyrights, and we deserve mon
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Training has sometimes been held to be fair use under certain circumstances, but in determining fair use, one of the four factors that is considered is how it affects the market for the work being infringed. I would expect that determining
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Yes, the Carboniferous Period! I learned about this a few years ago and was astonished. > The world at beginning of the Carboniferous period was a humid, tropical place. Seasons, if any, were indistinct. The Carboniferous trees and plant
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I wouldn't want to make it out like I think OpenAI is the good guy here. I don't. But conversations people thought they were having with OpenAI in private are now going to be scoured by the New York Times' lawyers. I'm a
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I've been using single file for five years and I've never had this issue for what it's worth. I keep a directory called Archives on my Synology that I expose with Copy Party, and I routinely back up web pages and then drop th
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by rpdillon 1y ago
If posed a novel problem, I think they would generate a new opinion.
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by rpdillon 1y ago
Yes, you can snapshot your entire life and try to have it be isolated from online. I know because I do this all the time, but the reality is the world moves forward, and the point of the post is that the trend is towards these customer host
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by rpdillon 1y ago
I've thought a bit about this since you made the comment, and I think your point about education in particular has a lot of merit. I would normally dispute how you phrased your last sentence, but I've noticed this decline in how b

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