treefrog
@treefrog@lemm.ee
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Corporations are inherently evil.
- Comment on The US Supreme Court Has Handed Big Tech a Big Gift 4 months ago:
Fucked up is a matter of perspective. If you’re an oligarch, it’s all going according to plan.
- Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content 4 months ago:
Yeah I know. But I wanted to point out that the comment in the article wasn’t so much a real consideration as business risk of analysis 101. Along with a healthy amount of corporate spin.
- Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content 4 months ago:
A spokeswoman for OpenAI declined to comment beyond pointing BI to a corporate blogpost from May, in which the company says it takes web crawler permissions “into account each time we train a new model.
The translation for this is do we stand to profit more than we stand to be fined
- Comment on This is going to set back medical trust for years 4 months ago:
I’m a trans person that lives in a purple state.
Watching stuff like this happen in other states makes me afraid to get healthcare even here where it’s currently safe and accessible.
So, actions like this affect all trans people. As many other posters mentioned, it’s a terrorist act. The intention is to keep trans people afraid so we don’t seek healthcare.
- Comment on Will self driving trucks hit the roads with nobody on board or will they keep a human supervisor? 6 months ago:
Only less efficient.
- Comment on Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement and ‘Fake News’ Hallicunations 6 months ago:
That’s also happening, yes. But ChatGPT is also reproducing large chunks of training data verbatim.
This isn’t just about using ChatGPT to summarize articles or bypass paywalls. But also about copyright infringement (and no, reproducing large chunks of training data verbatim is not fair use).
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 6 months ago:
People are naturally going to pay less attention the more cars drive for them. You can’t partially automate steering. Driver assisted steering is as close as it can be before the liability needs to fall on Tesla and other software manufacturers. A car isn’t a plane. The driver needs to be in control when split second decisions happen, like a child running after a ball.
If I’m paying for an autopilot, I’m not the pilot. I.e., the driver. The car is. And Tesla’s marketing bullshit and lawyers are going to fail here. This does not fall under puffery. It’s false advertising that’s causing consumers to place undue trust in a product. And the insurance industry is quite concerned just where the liability falls in all of this as well. And as they’re the ones currently having to pay out claims when Tesla wins, they have a vested interest seeing that Tesla doesn’t.
- Comment on Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say 6 months ago:
Been waiting for this headline since this time last year. AI simulations are going to get used a lot for both revenge and black mail.
- Comment on How do I deal with billing close relatives from work as an entrepreneur? 6 months ago:
Maybe offer a small friends and family discount while stressing things can’t be under the table for tax reasons.
- Comment on Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it 6 months ago:
I don’t know why anybody downvoted you, but by release build I think we are talking about the same thing.
My comment was basically I don’t buy Bethesda products until they’ve been on the market for at least a year because they’re so fucking buggy and I know they’re going to go on sale anyway.
- Comment on Bethesda teases The Elder Scrolls 6 in anniversary message and brags its developers are already 'playing early builds' and loving it 6 months ago:
Considering how buggy the release builds are I can’t believe they’re having that much fun with early belts
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 6 months ago:
Sounds like they were arrested for trespassing and because they were protesting inside the CEOs office amongst other places.
At stake is that this cloud technology will be used for military applications by IDF and ultimately help perpetuate genocide .
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
New pipe and inner tune still work fine.
- Comment on Finally, someone to take care of the three frogs in my yard! 6 months ago:
Actually, that’s just me. A frog that juggles regular things. I don’t juggle frogs, sorry.
- Comment on Elon Musk Doubles Down on Mars Dreams and Details What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship 6 months ago:
Can we just strap Jeff and Elon to a rocket and shoot them at Mars? They both seem like they’re in such a hurry, I feel like we should help them.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 8 months ago:
I was referring to quality lol
I can buy a pack of American Spirits and half a smoke will satisfy me.
I finish a Camel, and I’m like, wtf happened to that thing?
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 8 months ago:
Huh… I was basing this info off huberman labs episode on nicotine. He’s usually very accurate (he’s a neurobiologist and a professor at a major university)
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 8 months ago:
It’s also more addictive than tobacco. Which isn’t saying it’s not safer. But the vape ROA hits the brain faster than smoking. This reinforces the addiction cycle more effectively.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 8 months ago:
Here’s an example.
I was advertised camel smokes as a kid.
Everytime I relapse it’s on camels. Camels are shitty and cheap.
I relapse and then switch to a brand that’s not garbage. Then figure out again how to beat the addiction.
It’s a substance use disorder directly caused by advertising. And cancer causing (so my physical environment).
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 9 months ago:
Property is a spook generally.
- Comment on The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 10 months ago:
Not the original comment but I think the difference you’re looking for is in the copying and distribution. The OC makes the false assumption that the data set is full copies of every object fed into it rather than sets of common characteristics.
For example, my own mind has a concept tree. Tree is not a copy of every tree I’ve ever known but more like lists of common characteristics that define treeness based on information I’ve gathered about treeness (my data set).
Piracy is piracy not because of how it’s consumed, but rather, how it’s distributed and stored, as full copies of the object. Datasets are not copies, in other words. And thus copyright doesn’t apply.
Reading an article to get an idea about what articleness is, is fair use. Reading an article to reproduce it verbatim is not. And as of now, I don’t believe LLMa are doing the later.
- Comment on TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms 10 months ago:
They’re also often signed by minors who cannot be legally bound to a contract
- Comment on Google Will Turn Off Cookies for 30 Million People on January 4 10 months ago:
OC forgot that we’re the product
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 10 months ago:
I bought a $100 2023 phone and I use the headphone jack
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
Same. I bet Dropbox is running damage control on it.
Article said this news already hit other social media platforms.
- Comment on Virginia sheriff's office says Tesla was running on Autopilot moments before tractor-trailer crash 11 months ago:
Lol, yeah. Like that.
- Comment on Virginia sheriff's office says Tesla was running on Autopilot moments before tractor-trailer crash 11 months ago:
The reason it wasn’t the moment of the crash is because it’s programmed to disengage if a crash can’t be avoided so that Tesla can skirt liability.
This would be like a drunk driver letting go of the wheel the moment before a crash and telling the judge, ‘your honor. I wasn’t driving when the car wrecked.’
I hope Tesla gets held accountable.
- Comment on Google proposes Project Ellmann, a chatbot that intimately knows you 11 months ago:
Why have a bot just figure out what you want when it you can also have it do direct marketing?
This announcement wasn’t for consumers, but advertisers.
- Comment on Google proposes Project Ellmann, a chatbot that intimately knows you 11 months ago:
They’re marketing this as a personal salesbot to advertisers now. That’s what changed.