@realChem@beehaw.org

realChem

@realChem@beehaw.org

he/him

Materials Science PhD candidate in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

My profile picture is the cover art from https://buttonpoetry.com/product/not-a-lot-of-reasons-to-sing-but-enough/, and was drawn by Casper Pham (recolor by me).

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Tinder Now Letting Rizzless Sad Sacks Pay $500/Month to Message People Without Even Matching (futurism.com)

If you get a message from someone you never matched with on Tinder, it’s not a glitch — it’s part of the app’s expensive new subscription plan that it teased earlier this year, which allows “power users” to send unsolicited messages to non-matches for the small fee of $499 per month....

realChem,

why would I want to use it?

You wouldn’t, but that’s fine with Match Group: JP Morgan[^1] are loving this new monetization strategy. If they think they can get more money out of their users they will, the experience and usefulness of their app be damned. Very similar to aggressively monetized mobile games, but extra icky since they’re monetizing human relationships.

[^1]: I’m sure other investment firms are pleased as well, but JP Morgan was the firm mentioned in the article

realChem,

It seems like you’re working under the core assumption that the trained model itself, rather than just the products thereof, cannot be infringing?

Generally if someone else wants to do something with your copyrighted work – for example your newspaper article – they need a license to do so. This isn’t only the case for direct distribution, it includes things like the creation of electronic copies (which must have been made during training), adaptations, and derivative works. NYT did not grant OpenAI a license to adapt their articles into a training dataset for their models. To use a copyrighted work without a license, you need to be using it under fair use. That’s why it’s relevant: is it fair use to make electronic copies of a copyrighted work and adapt them into a training dataset for a LLM?

You also seem to be assuming that a generative AI model training on a dataset is legally the same as a human learning from those same works. If that’s the case then the answer to my question in the last paragraph is definitely, “yes,” since a human reading the newspaper and learning from it is something that, as you say, “any intelligent rational human being” would agree is fine. However, as far as I know there’s not been any kind of ruling to support the idea that those things are legally equivalent at this point.

Now, if you’d like to start citing code or case law go ahead, I’m happy to be wrong. Who knows, this is the internet, maybe you’re actually a lawyer specializing in copyright law and you’ll point out some fundamental detail of one of these laws that makes my whole comment seem silly (and if so I’d honestly love to read it). I’m not trying to claim that NYT is definitely going to win or anything. My argument is just that this is not especially cut-and-dried, at least from the perspective of a non-expert.

How Quantum Physics Describes Earth’s Weather Patterns | Quanta Magazine (www.quantamagazine.org)

Not what I initially expected this article to be about, but I do love this kind of cross-cutting research that takes ideas from one field and applies them to a seemingly entirely different field. (Also makes me wish I’d been able to take a topology class at some point.)

Neopets is promising a ‘new era’ with an improved website and fixed Flash games (www.theverge.com)

Neopets, the virtual pet website launched in 1999, is promising a “new era” with an improved website and fixed Flash games. They will launch a new unified website on July 20th to fix issues and bring back over 50 Flash games using the Ruffle emulator starting July 25th. A new Neopets mobile game called World of Neopets is...

realChem,

Flash games will work again? Moving away from NFTs? Well dang, I might just make a new neopets account! Lots of nostalgia there, it’d be cool to mess around with again after all these years.

What are your favorite science publications (that aren't primary literature)?

A lot of science communication in the media can be, to say it gently, not the best. Important things get left out, conclusions are often misrepresented or extrapolated to things that they really don't say, and methods are often left out completely....

James Cameron reacts sub implosion: 'I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself' (www.youtube.com)

Film director James Cameron has expertise in designing and testing these submersibles, and he has many criticisms of the design of the sub that imploded, and of the hubris of the CEO who ignored repeated safety warnings from the diving community. He also mentions that the sub seems to have been attempting to resurface when it...

realChem,

Really interesting to hear an actual expert with experience at depth (and at this exact site) discuss this story. I'm glad the anchor didn't cut in too often and let him speak at length. Thank you for sharing!

Stories from UPS part-time employees (youtu.be)

I assume a fair number of folk around this community have been aware of the labor negotiations going on at UPS right now, and the potential strike next month. This video from More Perfect Union that came out today is sharing the stories of a couple of part-time workers (the workers whose exploitation is at the center of the...

realChem,

Defederation completely cuts the ties between instances, so no connection in either direction: lemmy.world users can't see or post here (which is why this was done), and beehaw users can't see or post there. The latter is less than ideal, but it's the only lever of control lemmy has at this point for inter-instance relations. Hopefully things will change as better tooling / more granular controls are implemented.

realChem,

I believe Jerboa on android has a feature to let you have multiple accounts signed in, although I haven't messed with it yet

realChem,

At least for me at least, I personally err on the side of having more freedom to look into places even if that means dealing with a couple of assholes.

This decision was about users from other instances coming here and causing trouble, not beehaw users going elsewhere. The intent isn't to keep users siloed in here. Unfortunately, lemmy currently only supports two modes of interaction between instances: either you federate, or you don't. More technologically mature fediverse platforms like mastodon have more nuanced options, and hopefully we'll get similar options in lemmy soon that will allow, e.g., beehaw users out onto these instances without letting everyone on those instances in here.

How Are Quasiparticles Different From Particles? (youtu.be)

I assume a lot of people here are familiar with PBS Spacetime, but if not you should check them out! This particular video is one of my favorites of theirs, because it's tangentially related to my field of research but also because they do (in my opinion) a really good job of explaining quasiparticles in an intuitive way

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