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- Comment on This Week in AI: OpenAI considers allowing AI porn | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Just train a couple LoRAs and you can add in the vectors needed for doing whatever you want. “Circumventing” “safeguards” in this case means using a feature built into the system already. I have been making AI porn from the start. The day in installed their local framework for using it and got a Rick Astly image instead of anime tits I went and found their censorship function and neutered it. It is just python code, super easy to do.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 week ago:
I saw that line and immediately thought “oh ho ho, we have a loophole. This wasn’t a subjective review, it was entirely objective. The game is objectively shit.”
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 1 week ago:
My hot take, in the digital age, all direct marketing should be opt-in with the platform. Opt-in for industries with the ability to ban specific advertisers.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 1 week ago:
Yo ho ho my friend. Yo ho ho.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
As far as I’m concerned the inclusion of the “anti-DoTA” clause in their EULA murdered it for me. I was so excited. KSP is one of my favorite games of all times, largely as a result of the vibrant and very technically advanced modding community. Same goes for essentially all of my favorites; Rimworld, Backpack Hero, Factorio. The free labor that expands the games in major ways extends the value of my money and let’s me have fun forever in them.
Putting in a clause in a EULA which automatically and irrevocably assumes all ownership and rights to any code or assets that are created for a game is just too far. Assuming rights at all is a huge issue for me, but I can accept that it is beneficial to assume royalty free licenses to the mods, I’ll even begrudgingly accept clauses that allow developers to gaffle features and optimizations from mods without giving remuneration or even acknowledgment. But wholesale ownership that revokes all rights and licenses for the independent 3rd party creator. Fuck that. I will never support a game that I find out is treating the people who keep games alive and relevant for decades for free like that.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 3 weeks ago:
As a mathematician this genuinely hurts. Lol.
- Comment on If people from the US love the imperial system so much, why are their musicians using metronomes instead of footonomes? 3 weeks ago:
My brother! I literally came to comment “If musicians love the metric system so much, why do they still use fractional notes?”
- Comment on Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying 4 weeks ago:
That little “derivative works” bit in the middle gives them license to use the files stored in Creative Cloud to train AIs. So yes, they are using their data sets that they have license for. It just happens to be our data that they took the license on and we paid them to do it.
- Comment on Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying 4 weeks ago:
That’s fun, glad to see they are paying people now. I didn’t see in there when in the multi-years long process it takes to develop tool-sets and train checkpoints they paid for the rights to create derivative works. The article is dated a few days ago and it is present tense. They are NOW paying. The AI is trained. The tool is built. It takes tens of thousands of images to train a generative model from scratch, I would expect decades of footage for a video model. So if the model is trained, and them paying is new…?
Also, they don’t have to ask, or pay… They already have the rights for all content stored in Creative Cloud (EULA Link). Adobe Creative Cloud EULA
Legally, an AI training is a “derivative work”, so I would need a letter from the lead engineers on the AI dev team at Adobe, signed by every dev who has worked on it, stating that they only used paid training material at every stage of development of the tools, disseminated separately from any official Adobe channel before I would believe that the greedy gaping maw that is Adobe did not just use the millions of images and thousands of years of footage they have legal right to use that THEY are actually PAID for. They know they can pay now because it is a drop in the bucket compared to the Creative Cloud fees and is great PR and an even better smokescreen. There is precisely 0 chance they are going to receive enough good, usable footage through this program to train an AI from scratch.
- Comment on Adobe's new generative AI tools for video are absolutely terrifying 4 weeks ago:
Can we take a minute and stop to assess where Adobe is obtaining its training data? Everyone is all up in arms about the OpenAI devs scraping DA and such, but Adobe is 100% training on the entirety of Behance and the Adobe Cloud. Things that are not public, our personal files that we never intended others to be seen. Our private albums of our children, or our wives/husbands/partners, or parts of NDA restricted projects that are stored in Adobe Cloud automatically that are supposedly not in violation of our NDAs.
Where are the pitchforks? Where is the outrage? This is 1000x worse than some desperate AI engineer staring at a publicly visible and available training set that is already tagged and described in detail that was begging to be used. People lost their shit over that one. Why does Adobe get a pass?
- Comment on Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms 4 weeks ago:
Eh, its more of an oligopolistic cohort, but yeah. There is a strong argument to be made to classify all communication technology broadly as a utility under the telecom umbrella. That way it can cover all past and future technologies.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Sometimes I really hate the modern world. Especially working remotely doing what could be asynchronous work with colleagues, why the hell can’t we just sleep whenever we want, as long as the work gets done.
- Comment on Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms 4 weeks ago:
Yup, as I mentioned in my other response to Mr. Strawman that is the difference between a private corporation and a utility. Utilities ARE subject to the first and fourth amendment protections because they are a strange hybrid between public and private.
- Comment on Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms 4 weeks ago:
Way to strawman my man. SMS is not the only mode of communication and SMS and cell phone communication in general fall under a whole litiny of laws because they are considered a utility along with landlines. This extends the constitutional protections for the first and fourth ammendment protections to them. Your initial suggestion was a fallacious argument to start because utilities are not wholly private corporations, and thus do not qualify for the initial discussion. I tried to save it by suggesting that alternative means of communication which are utilized that serve the exact same purpose as SMS and telephone calls but are controlled wholly by private corporations DO fall victim to arbitrary censorship and it is allowed because they are not subject in their business dealings with consumers by any state or federal oversight.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I noticed my rythem in absence of anything teathering it to the socially acceptable world is about 28 hours. Weird that I am not alone in this apparently.
- Comment on Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms 4 weeks ago:
Already happens. Facebook and other message systems have content filters built in to their chat systems.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
I have genuinely had exactly this conversation with only the names changed. Multiple times.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
I actually had this happen once. My mental health actually improved, but it was untenable for my job and social life unfortunately. It was kinda nice for a couple months though.
- Comment on Sex-ed content creators discuss shadowbanning and censorship on Meta platforms 4 weeks ago:
As much as I am anti-censorship and hate all of this, there is no “Freedom of Speech” on social media platforms. They are private companies and are allowed to use any restrictions that do not fall into violations of the very few laws which restrict how companies can treat customers. In the USA, “Freedom of Speech” only guarantees that government agents and laws will not restrict it, and even that is not absolute.
Now the laws and policies about it need stripped along with all non-symmetric indecent exposure laws.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch emulator suyu continues on from yuzu - first release is up 1 month ago:
This is precisely what happened with Cockatrice. Happy to see it. Fuck them for their shit. Hasbro and WoTC couldn’t stop FOSS, Nintendo won’t either. There will be an iteration soon that steps just far enough away from Nintendo IP that they aren’t able to say shit anymore.
- Comment on Why does the film press talk so much about box office income? 2 months ago:
Fun exercise… Look at the opening weekend box office numbers and figure out what 90% of it is. That is what the distributor made from the movie for THAT WEEKEND. They will continue to make 90% for at least a week. After that it will drop some. Eventually the theater will actually get the lion’s share of the box office, something like 6-8 weeks after the movie comes out. Do your local theaters a favor, don’t go see movies opening weekend, call the box office each week to find out what movies will be leaving that week and go see it then. Or, if you absolutely feel the need to go see it opening weekend, budget for the largest popcorn and drink you can afford. They are the highest profit margin items on the menu. The tickets may cost 30-45 bucks for a date night, but the theater only sees $3-$4.5 of that at the top end, even less for more anticipated movies. That is why concessions are so expensive, it is literally the only way they can stay afloat and Disney has even tried demanding 50% of opening weekend concessions for some movies.
This is why so many cinemas are failing, both chains and locals. Spread the word, share this info, save our silver screens and send a message to the big media companies that they are being too greedy.
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 2 months ago:
I was contemplating the merits of botting with the current model with slight vectorization offsets so the data becomes prone to overfitting.
I would think it would alao work to post using valid, but non-standard syntax so it muddies the n-gram searches.
- Comment on Data contamination expert 👌 2 months ago:
OpenAI team after including the data: why is the model suddenly even more horny, abusive, and discriminatory?
- Comment on Is there a term for being right and then your opposition getting taught a lesson proving you were right? EPA calls off cyber regulations for water sector. 2 months ago:
So what I’m hearing is that any cyber “vindication” should be targeted at the highest income communities in the states. Gotcha.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 2 months ago:
Yeah, I initially was ok with it, but as I have watched these companies I have become less and less ok. I have been contemplating making dummy accounts full of erroneous data so all of the metrics are wrong as a giant middle finger. Sure, I’m a 72-year-old woman in Des Moines, or am I an 80-year-old man in DC? Maybe a 22-year-old in LA? Who knows.
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 2 months ago:
Am I the only one cringing at the perspective in the mirror more than literally anything else in the ad?
- Comment on Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages 3 months ago:
If you own it, don’t install a damn thing your employer demands. If they want security access on a device, they pay for it.
If you don’t own it, don’t use it for a damn thing that isn’t work-related and use it minimally for that. “Yes sir” emails and submitting reports. That’s it. Don’t do research, don’t surf the web, don’t accept a single personal call, email, or text. They don’t have any right to know anything that is not work related.
- Comment on Police departments are using AI to review bodycam footage, and police unions are not happy about it 3 months ago:
I had a shower fantasy the other day where I wrote an AI that hacked all of the data brokers and web trackers then doxxed every politician and political candidate’s web history in it’s totality the instant they were added to the ballot, worldwide. It was decentralized running many instances and used a similar structure for distributing the information.
- Comment on Poignant post on the state of things 3 months ago:
I am that educated couple. Wife has an associates and was just able to find a small job. I have associates, BS, and MA and can’t even get a fucking interview because I don’t have the absolutely insane list of qualifications on my resume that these companies are demanding for a half-decent paying job. I did everything I was supposed to and they still won’t fucking pay me.
- Comment on The Cult of AI. How one writer's trip to an annual tech conference left him with a sinking feeling about the future 3 months ago:
Name 5 that did not have sweeping adverse consequences, with accompanying sources. I will even accept Wikipedia pages if they have attributions. Make sure they are major ones that really shaped the course of human existence moving forward from their introduction.