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by smt88 2y ago
We should be horrified and thank the many people who have blown the whistle about Sam Altman. He is dangerously greedy and has no principles.
902.
by smt88 2y ago
That is a small and extremely specific industry. It is not the norm. Most people don't have customers who are existentially terrified over AI replacing them.
903.
by smt88 2y ago
> If Apple can convince people that this isn't an open channel to their data by OpenAI, then this is a nothing burger. If not there will be a lot of companies rethinking Apple. I completely disagree. Most companies so far have sho
904.
by smt88 2y ago
transparently: Government surveillance in Amsterdam is not done secretly. legally: The citizens of Amsterdam have not chosen to elect officials who would make surveillance illegal in the city. Your example is not the same context we're
905.
by smt88 2y ago
Surveillance is bad, but let's not pretend that all surveillance is equal. It's much less harmful to be transparently, legally surveilled by your local democratic govt than to be secretly surveilled by an antagonistic authoritaria
906.
by smt88 2y ago
HN was founded by a VC. It was always pro-establishment.
907.
by smt88 2y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is a direct and reasonable answer to my question.
908.
by smt88 2y ago
> getting a shittier job does NOT improve the economy Who do you think believes this? Who are you arguing against, exactly?
909.
by smt88 2y ago
I don't understand what your point is. The article is highlighting the environmental cost of war, specifically this war. There is nothing muddled or contradictory in that message.
910.
by smt88 2y ago
Quora has been the same regurgitated garbage as Yahoo Answers for more than 10 years. I'm not sure why this eulogy took so long to arrive.
911.
by smt88 2y ago
You can be "not that rare" and still not worth producing a car for. We've seen the same thing with small phones.
912.
by smt88 2y ago
Not sure about spyware, but Mazda committed to getting rid of touch controls for the actual functions of the car (shifting, A/C, etc.)
913.
by smt88 2y ago
No. Google does not intentionally publish details of their search ranking algorithm.
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by smt88 2y ago
Absolutely. The only reason it would be false is if: - Google cared more about search quality than their ad business - This kind of self-dealing were illegal, easily-prosecuted, and heavily fined - Google were an ethical company We know tha
915.
by smt88 2y ago
Windows is also case-insensitive but case-preserving
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by smt88 2y ago
> That's how it should be Why? Windows is also not case-sensitive, so it's not like there's a near-universal convention that S3 is ignoring. Case sensitivity in file names is surprising even to non-technical people. If s
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by smt88 2y ago
We don't call Gmail, Flickr, and HN "serverless" because we're not trying to distinguish them from managing servers and because they're not infrastructure. Wikipedia defines serverless as follows: > "Serverl
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by smt88 2y ago
Counterpoint: you can't separate technology, especially powerful/influential products like OpenAI's, without talking about their governance. The ethics of OpenAI directly affect my career and life. They affect the future elec
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by smt88 2y ago
The only enviable thing about Altman is that he's rich, and I doubt anyone here hates all rich people out of jealousy.
920.
by smt88 2y ago
S3 is absolutely "serverless" storage in the same way Lambda is "serverless" compute: it's a service that abstracts away the underlying servers. If the host is managing servers in a way that makes it impossible for
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by smt88 2y ago
It's not related to Gemini. I suspect they're putting non-LLM stuff behind the Gemini paywall to make Gemini look more profitable than it is. Like most LLM rollouts, it could maybe become cashflow-positive, but it will likely ne
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by smt88 2y ago
Over-charging is a legal way to effectively deny service. When I'm offered jobs I don't want, I sometimes tell them my salary is 3x what I really need.
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by smt88 2y ago
The headline says "Pro-Palestinian" content, but then it only talks about Hamas and Houthis. For example: > A little-noticed readout for a May 15 Hague meeting between the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism El
924.
by smt88 2y ago
How would any nation stop it? And why would you want a nation to have so much control over speech that they could stop all deceptive content? The problem isn't the nation. It's the cheap availability of software that produces lies
925.
by smt88 2y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/indian-elections-ai-deepfakes/
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by smt88 2y ago
LLMs already created a trust/truth apocalypse in India in the most recent elections. There are fake videos (or accusations of fake videos!) absolutely flooding WhatsApp. A lot of people there can't tell what's real.
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by smt88 2y ago
I don't think the headline does this justice: > net loss of $327.6 million on just $770,500 in revenue in the first quarter of 2024 For context, the net loss is 425x revenue. This is one of the most spectacularly unsuccessful busi
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by smt88 2y ago
That case seems completely dissimilar to what OpenAI did. Frito-Lay copied a song by Waits (with different lyrics) and had an impersonator sing it. Witnesses testified they thought Waits had sung the song. If OpenAI were to anonymously copy
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by smt88 2y ago
Courts have settled almost nothing related to AI. We don't even know if training AI using copyrighted works is a violating of copyright law. Please point to a case where someone was successfully sued for sounding too much like a celebr
930.
by smt88 2y ago
I mostly agree with you, but I actually don't think it matters if it sounded exactly like her or not. The crime is in the training: did they use her voice or not? If someone licenses an impersonator's voice and it gets very close

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