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- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Ha. I knew there was something fishy about that. Anyway, I’m done feeding this troll. I hope he got his worth out of shilling for Altman.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Did I see a sportsball event? I can talk about it to whom I want when I want.
Sure.
Did I buy a physical book? I can take as many photos of it as I want.
Nope. You can’t, for example, take a picture of all the pages and then redistribute those.
Now answer my question if you plan to go after another Daycare, Disney. No more evasions
Only if you tell me whether or not you stopped beating your wife.
What part is confusing you exactly?
I initially thought you were ignorant of how copyright law works, but now I see you’re just wilfully delusional.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Let me get this straight - if a vengeful ex or someone else gets a hand on naked pictures of you, they can do whatever they want to them? You wouldn’t want any limits on their ability to alter them and spread them?
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Yes. Your content and tech. Thanks to laws like these. Not to someone else’s.
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
So what will happen to art if we only disallow AI models from learning from copyrighted performances, whilst still allowing them to do so from public domain and licensed works (and obviously not changing anything for humans who seek inspiration)?
- Comment on The AI-focused COPIED Act would make removing digital watermarks illegal 4 months ago:
Quite the contrary, actually. Thanks to this law you won’t have to watermark something you own, in order to prevent companies to use it for profit.
Unless of course you have the misconception that downloading something that someone else made is the same as owning it. In which case, I understand this might be difficult for you to grasp.
- Comment on Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next 4 months ago:
Not OP, but I also don’t think it’s the same thing. But even if it were, the consequences are nowhere near the same.
A person might be able to learn to replicate an artist’s style, given enough practice and patience, but it would take them a long time, and the most “damage” they could do with that, is create new content at roughly the same rate as the original creator.
It would take an AI infinitely less time to acquire that same skill, and infinitely less time to then create that content. So given those factors, I think there’s an enormous difference between 1 person learning to copy your skill, or a company that does it as a business model.
Btw, if you didn’t know it yet - search engines don’t need to create a large language model in order to find web content. They’ve been working fine (one night even say Better) without doing that.
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 10 months ago:
This actual data is not necessarily representative of the entire situation
You keep saying that, but never back it up with any reason.
Everyone here agrees the data is incomplete, but that it’s the best data we have. Only you keep implying that it’s incorrect because [ever less verifiable, unspecified reasons]. Holy hypocrisy, batman.
- Comment on Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final 11 months ago:
Do you mind? We’re trying to have a circlejerk here.
- Comment on Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI 1 year ago:
I didn’t know those were LLMs.
- Comment on Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI 1 year ago:
You’re missing the point. I’ll make your example more specific.
Well when fraud/rape/murder happens we have laws. So no problems.
Those things happen. Creating a LLM based on copyrighted material without permission happens - it’s not a hypothetical. But even then, giving a punishment after the fact does not make the initial crime “no problem”, as you put it.
- Comment on Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI 1 year ago:
I don’t think anyone is faulting the machines for this, just the people who instruct the machines to do it.
- Comment on Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI 1 year ago:
Would you be okay with applying that argument for any crime?
- Comment on Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI 1 year ago:
Bingo.
- Comment on Authors Are Furious After Finding Their Works on List of Books Used To Train AI 1 year ago:
Using it to (create a tool to) create derivatives of the work on a massive scale.
- Comment on ‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech 1 year ago:
Maybe make your point yourself, instead of asking people to Google it for you?
- Comment on The enshittification marches on – use Signal [WhatsApp] 1 year ago:
“All I did was misrepresent something harmless, done by a company that’s doing so much more horrible things that I shouldn’t be using their product in the first place, and now people are calling me out on it. Clearly, they are wrong.”
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
My bad. I thought clickbait just referred to headlines that don’t deliver. Today I learned.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
Thanks for emphasising I never called the article clickbait, just outrage-bait, circlejerk and low effort.
- Comment on Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News 1 year ago:
I don’t know what you’re talking about. But seeing as Apple won’t even allow other rendering engines on iphones, I doubt Google is bullying them into anything.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s clickbait, but personally I’m not that interested in a retelling of how he started gutting twitter shortly after he bought it last year. Maybe it’s not this article per se, just the straw of musk spam that broke the camels back.
- Comment on The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center 1 year ago:
Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these is why I stopped using twitter and reddit to begin with. Hur dur, Elon bad, upvotes please. I don’t disagree - I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. Time for a mute.
- Comment on Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News 1 year ago:
That’s not on Google though, that’s on the makers of those websites for not wanting to test and support other browsers. Still shitty behaviour, but not googles shitty behaviour.
- Comment on Apple Announces iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus With USB-C Port, Dynamic Island, Frosted Glass Design 1 year ago:
On the other hand: nothing looks as cheap as a shattered glass back, or having to use a cover because the default surface is too slippery for 1hand use.
- Comment on Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! 1 year ago:
Very likely, yes. I guess it also helps to have quite a broad definition of what being a nazi means.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s tricky. Once you state “these subjects are above criticism”, it will become very easy to silence any criticism. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see how such a structure could be abused by those in charge of it.
Who watches the watchmen.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m not sure where the goal posts are now. I thought this started out with deplatforming people who spread misinformation, but now you’re considering half a countries political spectrum?
- Comment on More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user 1 year ago:
A NAS is a home storage server, like Synology that you can use to store images, videos and backups, etc on so you can access them from any computer or device in your home. With a couple of clicks, they can easily run applications like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which are kinda like Dropbox, except you don’t have to pay Dropbox, you’ll just be storing the files on your own service.
If that’s too much to handle, you can still just store your Keepass file in Dropbox, so that it’s available on all your devices. But in the end you’ll still be storing your personal data on someone else’s harddisk.
So in short, is at easy as using a prefab service? No, you’ll have to invest some time, money, and knowledge yourself. But in the end, your data is not gathered in silo together with countless other users, which makes it a lot less attractive for hackers to try and steal it.
- Comment on Meta uses your Facebook data for AI training, but opting out is a "review" game 1 year ago:
Yeah, it’s hilarious :( I have no idea how that’s legal under GDPR. So that’s why I’m part of the small group of WhatsApp-resisting signal users in my country.
- Comment on Meta uses your Facebook data for AI training, but opting out is a "review" game 1 year ago:
saying that if I don’t create an account then they will do it for me
I would report the hell out of them, both to Facebook and HR. That’s literally the definition of identity theft.
Although the point is kind of moot - because of all the people who know you, that do willingly share their everything (including their phone contacts, photos etc), Facebook already has a You-shaped hole, even if you don’t have an account.
So when I got pressured into creating a Facebook account (not as badly as you were though), I was so creeped out by the amount of data they already had on me, I immediately deleted my account. It felt like being invited into someone’s home for the first time and seeing a stalker shrine dedicated to yourself.
“it’s okay, I do this with everyone.”
No, it really is not.