FaceDeer

FaceDeer, 2 days ago

First, you need to figure out exactly what it is that the "blame" is for.

If the problem is the abuse of children, well, none of that actually happened in this case so there's no blame to begin with.

If the problem is possession of CSAM, then that's on the guy who generated them since they didn't exist at any point before then. The trainers wouldn't have needed to have any of that in the training set so if you want to blame them you're going to need to do a completely separate investigation into that, the ability of the AI to generate images like that doesn't prove anything.

If the problem is the creation of CSAM, then again, it's the guy who generated them.

If it's the provision of general-purpose art tools that were later used to create CSAM, then sure, the AI trainers are in trouble. As are the camera makers and the pencil makers, as I mentioned sarcastically in my first comment.

FaceDeer, 2 days ago

It's possible to legally photograph young people. Completely ordinary legal photographs of young people exist, from which an AI can learn the concept of what a young person looks like.

FaceDeer, 2 days ago

You obviously don't understand squat about AI.

Ha.

AI only knows what has gone through it's training data, both from the developers and the end users.

Yes, and as I've said repeatedly, it's able to synthesize novel images from the things it has learned.

If you train an AI with pictures of green cars and pictures of red apples, it'll be able to figure out how to generate images of red cars and green apples for you.

FaceDeer, 5 days ago

With comments like this he likely goes through new accounts on a very rapid pace.

FaceDeer, 7 days ago

Also pretty sure training LLMs after someone opts out is illegal?

Why? There have been a couple of lawsuits launched in various jurisdictions claiming LLM training is copyright violation but IMO they're pretty weak and none of them have reached a conclusion. The "opting" status of the writer doesn't seem relevant if copyright doesn't apply in the first place.

FaceDeer, 13 days ago

I should note that currency and capitalism are not the same thing. Pretty much every existing economic system has currency of some form, it's just a way of tracking the relative values of various things so that people can make agreements about who gets what.

FaceDeer, 15 days ago

This is a bill that's only just now being put up for signature.

FaceDeer, 18 days ago

even if it demanded Simone Biles levels of mental gymnastics to save Carrie Fisher's most emotionally resonant moment from ROTJ

I don't think it's "gymnastics" to imagine that an orphan toddler might end up with some false memories of what she imagines her mother was like.

What I'd rather have had as a tiny change to "improve" the situation would be to confirm that Palpatine used some kind of Dark Side alchemy to drain Padme's life to keep Vader alive, I really like that notion. Wouldn't need to be with dialogue, even, just have some kind of scene showing Palpatine meditating and channeling something.

FaceDeer, 22 days ago

People find a shiny new word that sounds clever. They start using it so that they sound clever too. They like sounding clever, so they use it a lot. They start using it for things that it doesn't actually mean, until it loses all meaning other than the most generic "I don't like that." The word becomes enshittified and people eventually stop using it.

Needing a substitute, people find a new word...

FaceDeer, 23 days ago

Also, they're commonly found stored with people's valuables - coin stashes, jewelry, etc. They were clearly valuable. Many of them don't appear to have any wear on them either, so if they had a utilitarian use it likely didn't involve lashing stuff together.

FaceDeer, 27 days ago

That list is out of date, several of those items have already been accomplished.

FaceDeer, 29 days ago

Pointless vandalism. The original comments are already archived, this will accomplish nothing except make Google results even worse for people.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

The founding fathers also kept slaves and didn't let women vote. I'm tired of how Americans deify them, I suggest citing economists as authorities on economics instead of 18th century wealthy landowners.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

Reusable rocketry, specifically SpaceX Starship. If it pans out it's going to completely change our access to space and make many of those old dreams from the 1970s plausible.

RNA vaccines for basically everything, including customized vaccines for cancer. There's also actual progress happening in general cures for autoimmune diseases.

Is robotics too close to AI? There are multiple companies working on general-purpose humanoid robots intended for mass production with price targets in the ten to twenty thousand dollar range, we may be getting within sight of actual robot butlers.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

Is anyone advocating letting him walk free? This is a false dichotomy.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

Unfortunately they lost Karelia. It wasn't the great victory the memes make it out to be.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

You're providing a prime example of misunderstanding. The term AI has been in professional use for a wide variety of algorithms, including machine learning and neural nets like LLMs, since the Dartmouth conference in 1956. It's the people who only know what AI is like from Star Trek and other such sources that are misinformed.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

No, he's not. Kbin was recently down for a week. Then voting and comment counts broke. Before all that I had to get into the habit of reloading the page I was on every time I wanted to vote on something. It's a terrible user experience.

That's not to say I don't like him or he's not a good dev or whatever. Just that people have limits and it sure seems like he's bumping against his.

FaceDeer, 1 month ago

If I want something other than Star Trek then I will watch something other than Star Trek.

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

I remember a long time ago, like maybe a decade or more, the regular we-can-see-they're-ads ads on Reddit could have comments enabled if the ad buyer wanted. I remember jumping in on a few of them and they actually weren't bad, at least in the ones I went into (a biased sample to be sure). If the ads weren't obnoxious or misleading I could see it going not too badly.

At some point adblock got good enough that I stopped seeing ads on Reddit any more, though, so I don't know when they stopped that practice.

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

Self-driving? Better round up a mob and torch it.

They'd better not be training that AI on any potholes I helped create!

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

By "Hamas" do you mean "the civilian population of Gaza?" Because I'm not sure how Hamas could possibily make use of a peir that is built and controlled exclusively by the US Navy to deliver humanitarian supplies.

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

Yeah, that soldier has feral instincts and is physically better suited to living in the wild. Who would you rather be hunted by in the wilderness of the Donbas, some monkey-boy who's play-acting at being a predator and is relying on fancy electronics in a vain attempt to enhance its senses, or that thing for whom it's second nature?

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

Software Engineering too, I just use std::numbers::pi. Don't know how many digits it is offhand.

FaceDeer, 2 months ago

It's important to note that "doing well financially" isn't just revenue and user count, it's also expenditures. If Twitter has managed to cut costs by more than whatever its income has dropped by then that could well be a good outcome for it, I've heard it wasn't profitable when Musk took it over.

It's kind of ironic how big companies are frequently criticized for fixating on "endless growth" and "line goes up", and then when a company or organization sheds that it also looks bad.