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- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 7 months ago:
“What should we include when we build our humanoid robot?”
“It should stand up in the most unnerving way possible.”
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 7 months ago:
Layoffs are always, always, always a sign of an unhealthy company, regardless of how Wall Steet reacts.
- Comment on First functional human brain tissue produced through 3D printing 9 months ago:
I’m more interested in which filament was used.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 10 months ago:
Thanks for your response. I realize I muddied the waters on my question by mentioning exact copies.
My real question is based on the ‘everything is a remix’ idea. I can create a work ‘in the style of Banksy’ and sell it. The US copyright and trademark laws state that a work only has to be 10% differentiated from the original in order to be legal to use, so creating a piece of work that ‘looks like Banky, but not done by Banksy’ is legal.
So since most AI does not create exact copies, this is where I find the licensing argument possibly weak. I really haven’t seen AI like MidJourney creating exact replicas of works - but admittedly, I am not following every single piece of art created on Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion, or DALL-E, or any of the other platforms, and I’m not an expert in the trademarking laws to the extent I can answer these questions.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 10 months ago:
I think this is a difficult concept to tackle, but the main argument I see about using existing works as ‘training data’ is the idea that ‘everything is a remix’.
I, as a human, can paint an exact copy of a Picasso work or any other artist. This is not illegal and I have no need of a license to do this. I definitely don’t need a license to paint something ‘in the style of Picasso’.
But the question is, what about when a computer does the same thing? What is the difference? Speed? Scale? Anyone can view a picture of the Mona Lisa at any time and make their own painting of it.
I’m not really arguing pro-AI here, although it may sound like it. I’ve just heard the ‘licensing’ argument many times and I’d really like to hear what the difference between a human copying and a computer copying are, if someone knows more about the law.
- Comment on Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction 10 months ago:
So, 95% chance that humans will cause human extinction.
And humans created AI, so even if AI does in the human race, it will still have been humans.
I guess if humans go extinct, it’s close to 100% due to humans.
- Comment on Notorious Airbnb Host Charged with Allegedly Running $8.5M Nationwide Scam | Shray Goel is charged with running an Airbnb scam across 100 U.S. properties. 10 months ago:
Best part of the article:
“Goel’s scheme was uncovered in an in-depth investigation by reporter Allie Conti in 2019, who detangled the plot after being double-booked at one of his properties in Chicago and receiving a suspicious last-minute cancellation. Conti was contacted by the FBI days after the article was published.”
I wish there was more of this. Good investigative journalism has been one of the most powerful weapons in justice, and I fear it’s diminishing rapidly.
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 10 months ago:
I imagine Kick.com might leverage this but who knows
- Comment on YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads 10 months ago:
I’ve seen the Joe Rogan and Dr. Phil ads mentioned in the article, as well as George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks and others. YouTube needs to squash this NOW instead of just pretending they aren’t aware of it.
- Comment on Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era 11 months ago:
Google: “Our search results are better than ever!”
also Google: “Publicly pointing out how you gamed our search results will result in us manually deleting your site from our results. Also, nothing to see here.”
- New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinionmedium.com ↗Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 204 comments
- Comment on Mortgage giant Mr. Cooper hit with cyberattack possibly affecting more than 14 million customers 11 months ago:
Not only is this breach incredibly bad - exposing SSN, DOB, bank account numbers, address - the company slow walked reporting what was happening in real time.
The Hackers were openly posting about the incompetence of Mr. Cooper’s IT team, so security firms and journalists knew that Mr. Cooper was compromised even though the company stated it was ‘just an outage’ then they claimed it impacted 4 million users, when it turned out to over 14 million. Unreal.
- Comment on Why do programmers need private offices with doors? (Do Not Disturb) 11 months ago:
Or we could just work remotely, which is far more productive.
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 11 months ago:
Tickets, yes, door keys, no.
- Comment on A massive tech company exodus is occurring in Texas, reports show 11 months ago:
‘A massive tech exodus’ in the headline, then names 3 large companies who never actually moved to Texas, and 3 companies nobody’s ever heard of.
This isn’t journalism.
- Comment on Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere 11 months ago:
The problem is not that driverless cars won’t be viable. Thw problem is the same as several other industries where a few startups promise tech that hasn’t matured yet, taking in billions of ‘stupid’ money from investors who are greedy but not knowledgeable about the underlying viability of what can realistically be done in a decade.
One hundred years from now? Driverless cars will be old news, so common or maybe even surpassed with something newer. But investors want a 10 year explosion of cash, not a 50 year investment.
- Comment on Discord users are cancelling their Nitro after new mobile layout update 11 months ago:
Lemmy and Reddit users are alwqys simultaneously saying ‘pay people a living wage!’ while also saying ‘no ads, and make it free forever’.
- Comment on Salesforce Signals the Golden Age of Cushy Tech Jobs Is Over 11 months ago:
Ah yes, SalesForce, one of the entrenched bastions supporting dinosaur companies. Apparently they suddenly have their finger on the pulse of the modern workforce, despite not being connected to it.
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 11 months ago:
My guess if you buy a HP printer, they send a Brother laser printer, which is going to make consumers much happier.
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 11 months ago:
That’s a bit of different question. For photos, yes, but most people look to pigment for labels or other because of the UV durability. I suggest going to the gold standard of this: Wilhelm Research
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 11 months ago:
If your photos are worse on a laser printer than an ink jet, you’ve got something set up incorrectly. Hope I don’t sound off putting, but laser is far superior to ink jet. Hell, pretty anything is superior to ink jet.
- Comment on HP executive boasts that its controversial ink subscription model is "locking" in customers 11 months ago:
100%. Bought a Brother laser printer about six years, only replaced the toner twice and the drums just this week.
Prints so much better than ink jet, lasts forever, no subscription to anything.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 11 months ago:
Maybe not rehire, but many companies will actively continue hiring just as many as they lay off. Citibank did this for years. Announce layoffs of 5,000 employees, stock goes up, but also hire 5,000 with no announcement.
Does it eventually kill the company to do this? In many cases, yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Oh stop, this is just more propaganda. All of the data shows remote work is more productive and wildly popular.
- Comment on Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same 11 months ago:
This would lead to awful code, but it’s 100% bullshit.
- Comment on Amazon exec says it’s time for workers to ‘disagree and commit’ to office return — “I don’t have data to back it up, but I know it’s better.” 11 months ago:
Yeah, I’m never commuting again, either.
For companies, your laziest employees are the ones who want to be in the office, because they know that’s the only metric the company is measuring, so they go in and fuck around doing nothing all day.
Companies who don’t get with the remote work program are dinosaurs and will die off over time.
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- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
There are, and have been, but Republicans constantly try and repeal them, calling it ‘deregulation’.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
Only YouTube says downvotes are unnecessary, users want them back and never wanted them removed.
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