FaceDeer

FaceDeer, 3 days ago

Better a dozen innocent men go to prison than one guilty man go free?

FaceDeer, 3 days ago

Image-generating AI is capable of generating images that are not like anything that was in its training set.

FaceDeer, 3 days ago

Camera-makers, too. And people who make pencils. Lock the whole lot up, the sickos.

FaceDeer, 3 days ago

If AI has the means to generate inappropriate material, then that means the developers have allowed it to train from inappropriate material.

That's not how generative AI works. It's capable of creating images that include novel elements that weren't in the training set.

Go ahead and ask one to generate a bonkers image description that doesn't exist in its training data and there's a good chance it'll be able to make one for you. The classic example is an "avocado chair", which an early image generator was able to produce many plausible images of despite only having been trained on images of avocados and chairs. It understood the two general concepts and was able to figure out how to meld them into a common depiction.

FaceDeer, 5 days ago

I once had someone respond with astonishment; "but you're such a good person!" When they found out.

Thanks, I guess?

FaceDeer, 5 days ago

But then you get that awkward situation where you go on vacation, open your luggage to get a fresh pair of socks or whatever, and find that you brought nothing but guns and ammo along with you on your trip.

FaceDeer, 6 days ago

The only way I can imagine this working is by twisting the definition of the words "search engine" enough that you can claim that there aren't search engines, but really there are still, just under a different name.

Search engines aren't actually the "problem" that OP is wanting to address, here, though. He just doesn't like the specific search engines that actually exist right now. What he should really be asking is how a search engine could be implemented that doesn't have the particular flaws that he's bothered by.

FaceDeer, 13 days ago

You answered your question in the sentence right after your question. The landlord owns the property and so he can do what he wants with it. He's letting you live there but has decided he wants something in exchange for letting you live there. If currency didn't exist he'd want something else in exchange.

FaceDeer, 15 days ago

So, Microsoft recognized and responded to all the complaints by removing the feature that people were objecting to.

Resulting headline: "Microsoft is trying to hide the evidence that they were thinking of doing that thing we hated! Hate them harder!"

Do people want companies to just ignore complaints completely because there's no way to satisfy anyone anyway?

FaceDeer, 16 days ago

Ukraine's approach is very different from Russia's when you look at the details, though. They're not taking rapists or murderers, and they only accept applications if you have three years or less left in your sentence.

FaceDeer, 16 days ago

Maybe for people who have no clue how to work with an LLM. They don't have to be perfect to still be incredibly valuable, I make use of them all the time and hallucinations aren't a problem if you use the right tools for the job in the right way.

FaceDeer, 17 days ago

In Weinstein's case the prosecution brought in testimony from women who weren't part of the charges that were actually being tried, though, which is a pretty big difference from what happened here. Clifford is kind of central to this case.

FaceDeer, 18 days ago

After he finishes bombing Rafah flat, of course. One must focus on priorities in a crisis.

FaceDeer, 18 days ago

Evidently most of the fandom needs to have it beaten over their heads a bit more blatantly than that.

Another thing that would have been helpful is if it was made clearer just how monstrous the Ewoks actually are. There wouldn't be as much shame to the Imperials for losing against them if people had only internalized a bit better that:

• Ewoks are strong enough that they can haul Redwood-sized logs up into the canopy to build deadfalls, using only crude vine ropes and muscles, and do it quietly enough that the nearby Imperial garrison didn't notice.
• They are stealthy enough that an ordinary hunting party can sneak up on an elite Rebel strike force (including a Jedi).
• That hunting party was hunting a 3-meter-tall boar-wolf, by the way. Ewoks hunt these routinely.
• Endor is full of predators like that, and despite that the Ewoks let their children wander the forest on their own. Upon being confronted with an armor-clad alien wielding a blaster weapon and riding a flying machine, one of those lone children thought to himself: "guess I'd better kill him." Leia helped, of course, but the Ewok couldn't have known she would.
• One of their literal gods, personified in the form of a physical avatar before them, ordered the Ewoks not to burn some people alive and devour their flesh. The Ewoks hesitated for half a second and then resumed piling the firewood with a jaunty song. Gods are spiffy and all, but don't get in between Ewoks and their cannibalism.

FaceDeer, 18 days ago

"They fly now" is a similarly atrocious example given that they've been flying for decades, just not in any of the main trilogy movies yet.

FaceDeer, 19 days ago

Gallium wants a word.

FaceDeer, 22 days ago

OP asked "how can I accomplish goal X?"

You responded "Goal X sucks, you should accomplish goal Y instead!"

That's not exactly useful.

FaceDeer, 22 days ago

A nice feature to note is that Ukraine is charging people for this sort of corruption.

Instead of, you know, letting them run for president again.

FaceDeer, 23 days ago

Indeed, which is why I'm furious at the Internet Archive's leadership for merrily dancing out into a minefield completely unbidden.

FaceDeer, 24 days ago

A lack of understanding about how copyright and licensing works.

FaceDeer, 24 days ago

Except that's probably not what they're for, I saw a video recently (I think it was this one) that went into detail about the reasons why it doesn't make much sense for these to be a knitting tool.

FaceDeer, 24 days ago

I know this is a popular thing to be angry about, but this time there was an actual fine. The consequences are being ratcheted up. The judge is just taking as much care as possible to make sure that all the "t"s are crossed and "i"s dotted along the way, otherwise he risks the whole trial being thrown out in the end. Look at some of the other high-profile "this rich guy's guilty as sin but got off anyway" cases, they often boil down to some screw-up that doesn't disprove the overall case but still invalidates the trial. Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby pop to mind.

FaceDeer, 24 days ago

Yes, but as I explained, the judge is proceeding by steps up the ladder of consequences. The next time Trump violates a gag order he can now say "I have demonstrated that fines are insufficient, and so I'm moving on to jail time."

FaceDeer, 25 days ago

There's already Conservapedia.

FaceDeer, 29 days ago

the trial judge improperly allowed women to testify about allegations against the ex-movie mogul that weren’t part of the case.

Well, yeah, that's a pretty major problem. If they're bringing in allegations that aren't part of the case how is the defendant supposed to defend himself against that?

Everyone getting angry about this as a miscarriage of justice, I agree, but direct that anger at the judge and prosecutors who screwed it up so badly. Echoes of Cosby getting off due to a prosecutor making a stupid deal, or OJ getting off because the police apparently tried to frame a guilty man.