xenomor

@xenomor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you encounter one of these, absolutely don’t pet it. Instead, kick it. Run over it. Perhaps, light that little robot fucker on fire. But definitely don’t pet it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trailer: youtu.be/iSF0KGsFuI8?si=ZF7KAiSOFYnADzzk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jony Ive confirms he’s working with Sam Altman on a secret project⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really cannot fully express how much I have grown to hate all these motherfuckers and their awful work - and I work in Silicon Valley.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This take is correct although I would make one addition. It is true that copyright violation doesn’t happen when copyrighted material is inputted or when models are trained. While the outputs of these models are not necessarily copyright violations, it is possible for them to violate copyright. The same standards for violation that apply to humans should apply to these models.

  I entirely reject the claims that there should be one standard for humans and another for these models. Every time this debate pops up, people claim some province based on ‘intelligence’ or ‘conscience’ or ‘understanding’ or ‘awareness’. This is a meaningless argument because we have no clear understanding about what those things are. I’m not claiming anything about the nature of these models. I’m just pointing out that people love to apply an undefined standard to them.

  We should apply the same copyright standards to people, models, or old-school algorithms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with what creeps like Mann are claiming comes down to the difference between “art” and buying an “interest” in art as a speculative investment. Mann conflates these two ideas, trying to bestow the wholesomeness of artistic expression with his investment business venture. I’m all in favor of getting artists paid, and structuring society in a way that encourages the production of art, but Mann wants to weaken securities regulations and consumer protections to do that. That’s a terrible idea because it will lead to many more people being conned and defrauded.

  If investors were merely trying to support an artist’s work, and not seeking to profit from their investment, they wouldn’t need a securities mechanism like NFTs to do it. We already have money for that.

  If a side effect of regulating NFTs as securities is to somehow damage the regular fine art marketplace, as I think Mann’s suit is warning, that is no great loss for society. The fine art market is a blight, a fraud-riddled playground for ultra wealthy douchebags and does nothing to advance art or promote the creation of artworks writ large.

  Mann has ridden the crypto speculative bubble and has an inflated impression of the value of his work. He thinks the money is compensation, but it’s largely just a side effect of crypto bros forever trying to find a greater fool to hold the bag in a pyramid scheme. In that effort, his lawsuit is basically a marketing campaign for his investment business. I hope the court puts an end to this once and for all, but I’m not optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Bitcoin Conference fundraiser tickets top out at $844,600 for Nashville soiree⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a man of the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to clarify what I said: I know that there are good people working in these corporations, and I know that good sometimes happens. What I am saying is that the organization itself doesn’t care the way they are often given credit for by their own marketing, media coverage, and public perception. The incentives that are foundational to these organizations are antithetical to achieving anything beyond revenue that is either widespread or long-term in nature. I am all in favor of holding corporations accountable, and pressuring them to be better members of our society, but people should never fool themselves into thinking that meaningful, sustainable change on social or environmental issues will ever result from actions taken by corporations. Those kinds of changes can only come from governments that are open and accountable to their people, and have the confidence to check the actions of private industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything that corporations do, that isn’t directly oriented toward revenue generation, is window dressing, marketing, and bullshit. They don’t actually care about addressing social ailments like inequity, they don’t care about environmental destruction. While individuals within these organizations may believe in these causes, the machine itself is just lying when they parade these initiatives out. They don’t care about their workforce (beyond maintaining functionality), and they certainly don’t care about their society. If these corporations were people, they’d be considered sociopaths, with ZERO exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of Twitter/X ad boycott perpetrators⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boycotts are speech. Calling for boycotts is speech. I’ve been told by every corporate leader and the Supreme Court that spending money is a form of speech. I would think that a free speech advocate would appreciate these things. Of course, like all outspoken libertarians, Musk’s positions are not well considered, consistent, nor actually libertarian when it doesn’t suit his own business or ideological* interests. This dude sucks at everything he does and his success perfectly demonstrates the fallacy of meritocracy in this society.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had very modest needs for Windows. It was not my primary computing device, but there was one application that I ran on an older laptop all the time. All the recent drama pushed me to investigate a bit and I learned that the app is also on Linux. I was able to wipe and install Linux Mint easily despite not really knowing much about either OS. There are a lot of guides on youtube about the process that helped make it easy. Laptop is running well so far. I’m also using this as as a test to see if I can replace much of my Apple stuff with Linux as those devices start to age out. Thanks for the little push Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China could start building world’s biggest particle collider in 2027⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to understand how the size/capability of this proposed facility compares to both CERN and also the never completed Superconducting Supercollider. I will never get over the fact that, as Americans, we could have had a huge lead in this research. We started to build it, then decided to stop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Says It Won’t Train AI Using Artists’ Work. Creatives Aren’t Convinced⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems to happen every time a technology company grows beyond some threshold of size/market share/revenue. I can’t think of a single exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Could Take Four Generations to Reach 'Ideal Form'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that ‘ideal form’ here is a pair of regular-ish glasses. That ain’t happening in four generations unless you’re going to be real creative about what a generation is. It certainly isn’t four years away, like the analogies to iPhones and Apple Watches implies. That’s going to require an absolutely wild amount of innovation to achieve. And, even if that happens, such new technology is going to take many further generations to become remotely affordable enough to be priced for anything like mainstream adoption. Pile all that on top of the lingering curiosities about what problems this interface model actually solves, and the cultural shifts that will be required to get people comfortable to accept pervasive face cameras in social settings, and you’ve got a product line that has niche appeal written all over it for at least another decade or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never been more excited to not buy a product in my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost Half of Warren Buffett-led Berkshire Hathaway's $365 Billion Portfolio Is Invested in Only 1 Stock⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All those resources available to them, and the biggest idea they’ve come up with in the better part of a decade is that dumb face computer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. Britain is powerless to act⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Someone downloaded photos that people willingly uploaded to a public network? You don’t say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Narwhal just went behind the paywhal for me to today. So, I guess I’m finally done with Reddit now? I’ve been in there at least 14 years. It’s just wild to me that I lost Twitter and Reddit after so much time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is preparing to bring on Amazon as a customer of its 365 cloud tools in a $1 billion megadeal, according to an internal document⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good news. I’m in favor of anything that makes it more difficult for Amazon to operate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC will block ChatGPT AI from scraping its content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be illegal for entities like BBC to do this. Copyright is meant to be a temporary, limited construct that carves out an opportunity for creators to profit from their works. It is not perpetual legal dominion over specific ideas. Entities that harvest content to train LLMs should pay for access like everyone else, but after that, they can use the information they learn however they see fit. Now, if their product plagiarizes, or doesn’t properly attribute authorship, that is a problem. But it’s a different issue from what the BBC is fighting here.

  I think there are some content creators that believe they are owed royalties if you even think about a piece they wrote or drew. That is, of course, absurd in terms of human minds. It’s also absurd in terms of other kinds of minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business owner 'hires' ChatGPT for customer service, then fires the humans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Working conditions in this industry are not great. The turnover rate can reach 80% sometimes. It can be a difficult, stressful and low paid job that few people enjoy. At the same time, the demand for this work keeps increasing as more and more of consumer activity shifts online and remote. It seems to me that the technology may be a net benefit in this case. The public and its regulatory authority should, however, keep a close eye on developments to make sure humans are not left behind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta admits that it trains its AI on your Instagram and Facebook posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time I read a new story about another example of this, I struggle to understand why people are getting outraged. Did you have some expectation of privacy when you published your thing to the world-connected network run by profit-seeking corporations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If accurate, this is a perfect example of the principle of ‘enshitification’ in action. That is, a good service or product becoming increasingly terrible as its development is continuously perverted by revenue related incentives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft demands a level playing field so that its own unfair practices are able to compete in the free market of unfair practices. It’s the American way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not opposed to new nuclear energy in principle. However Microsoft, an unrelentingly bad organization that consistently acts in bad faith to its customers, employees and businesses parters, and is seemingly dedicated to making awful products that never meaningfully improve, is not something I would trust to do nuclear safely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cruise CEO says SF ‘should be rolling out the red carpet’ for robotaxis, threatens to maybe leave town⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please, please, please leave town.