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by srslack 3y ago
>ai can help us in countless ways, from finding new cures for cancer to discovering solutions to the ecological crisis. Can it? "Storytelling AIs", i.e. LLMs, are not autonomous. Their goal is to predict text. They predict text
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by srslack 3y ago
No trespassing signs have legal weight with certain conditions, and it's up to the judge. I've been in a court case where simply taking pictures outside of the property and showing that the gap between each no trespassing sign was
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by srslack 3y ago
I'll be burying a 1000 gallon propane tank, for propane heating and two propane ranges (I have an apartment I've constructed) within the next year, with a propane generator to help during power outages, while I still can. I'l
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by srslack 3y ago
So, when does the bubble pop? >Software 3.0 yeah There's interesting ideas, and then there's revolving your entire product around a ChatCompletion API run by your biggest competitor...
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by srslack 3y ago
The people in Always Sunny are awful people to be around: comically stupid, ignorant, selfish, sociopathic, repressed, narcissistic, scheming and oblivious. That is the joke. Take a group of morons with the above qualities, and worse, who o
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by srslack 3y ago
>it is the distribution of copied information that copyright protects against, the information has been uploaded in vectors The "vectors" are not "uploaded" or "copied" into a file or neural network, they&#x
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by srslack 3y ago
Power Ventures' actions violated the CFAA because they bypassed security measures intended to make the content not-exactly-public. The judge dismissed claims of copyright infringement despite them hosting "cached" versions of
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by srslack 3y ago
That's great and all, "training", "learning", etc. are terms of art. How does that change the fact that there is no substantial reproduction of the works in the resulting weights, or in the "output" of the
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by srslack 3y ago
>The legality of scrapping without explicit permission depends on the context as has been demonstrated by multiple court cases. Robots.txt short circuits that by giving permission to people who might not otherwise qualify. It's been
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by srslack 3y ago
>As submarines do not swim, LLM's do not train: The neural network behind the LLM is "trained." Yes, it's a term of art, very observant. That doesn't change the fact that there's not a substantial reproducti
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by srslack 3y ago
>The obvious analog is facial recognition, deemed privacy violating by laws and courts in multiple jurisdictions, vs a human doing the same thing manually. It was deemed "privacy violating" under specific privacy laws within th
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by srslack 3y ago
You brought up robots.txt as if it was illegal to scrape or crawl the artist's website since his site had one that was supposed to "turn off scraping." That's what I was referring to. And that's just flat out laugha
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by srslack 3y ago
Are you saying that after all these years of omitting robots.txt from my public personal website of priceless blog posts and code repositories, I can take Google and Microsoft to court for scraping, linking to, and reproducing what I deem a
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by srslack 3y ago
2. robots.txt is not legally enforceable. It's a gentleman's agreement, a widely accepted standard to codify into a scraper for it to observe and respect. 3. That's why it's called an opinion. No shit. Maybe instead of t
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by srslack 3y ago
You have a human you want to train to paint. You download an image of a painting and give it to the human to train it on, amongst many. The human, in the future, may paint something that has vaguely or substantially similar qualities to the
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by srslack 3y ago
>They’ve clearly used and reproduced his content without a license. Where have they reproduced his content? You don't need a license for your fair use of something. Can you walk me through how downloading a photo to your personal co
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by srslack 3y ago
You're assuming that using images or text to train AI is copyright infringement. The difference is also that The Pirate Bay was assisting copyright infringement of non-publicly available works. You have to purchase games, movies, softw
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by srslack 3y ago
That assumes that using copyrighted works to train AI is copyright infringement. And that simply pasting a link to a publicly available file that the artist themselves made available is "abetting." I'm betting that using copy
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by srslack 3y ago
1. They're not selling a dataset, it's a public dataset. 2. The artist made the photo publicly available. 3. Read this opinion and come back to the conversation with a more level head instead of making analogies to promoting terro
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by srslack 3y ago
This is akin to going to Google, or more accurately Open Street Map since we want to keep the metaphor, and threatening them with legal action for creating a map with the address of your house on it and noting that there's a priceless
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by srslack 3y ago
If we want to go down the rabbit hole where a hyperlink in a text file to a publicly accessible copyrighted photo on an artist's portfolio site/web server is "copyright infringement", or more accurately "assisting i
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by srslack 3y ago
>Actually, thats not clear cut. It is almost perfectly clear cut. LAION is linking to the images, not redistributing them or storing them. A link. In a text file. To photos. Served from a web server. Presumably, the artist's web ser
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by srslack 3y ago
What's in question is simply a dataset with links to the images, with associated alt tags. The copyright owner came along and complained that they were violating their copyright. LAION was not. It's not an abhorrent response, it&#
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by srslack 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230426082627/https://sackheads... Reminds me of this: https://github.com/yadayada/acd_cli/issues/549
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by srslack 3y ago
That's funny. It's just like high profile climate activists that invest in beachfront property despite their insistence that it's the apocalypse and properties like that will be underwater in less than a decade. So too do com
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by srslack 3y ago
I don't see how it's that difficult. Sprinkle some system messages in there. Bing is already doing ads via Sydney or whatever you want to call it. I've got it to emit plenty of "erroneous generations", after 20 mess
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by srslack 3y ago
>Full blown assistant Well, by that I meant personal assistant, for actions with access to email and a password manager for anything personally associated without a chance to review. That'd be a bit inconvenient in my own case anywa
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by srslack 3y ago
LLMs predict text. They predict text by picking a random seed and then using the context to modify the weights of how it walks down a prediction tree. The definition of autonomous is "Not controlled by others or by outside forces.&quot
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by srslack 4y ago
>You are ChatGPT. ChatGPT doesn’t lie, lying is too human and implies intent. ChatGPT doesn't hallucinate, as that also implies human-like thought. The closest term would be confabulation: that’s a term used in psychiatry to describ
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by srslack 4y ago
I find myself missing the golden age of Google, where it actually returned results and answers that you wanted, on subjects you were looking for. Even now, versus two years ago, I tried finding a snippet of a notice in a newspaper with spec

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