kibiz0r

@kibiz0r@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arts & STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  On a Mac, you can do opt+hyphen or shift+opt+hyphen, for en dash or em dash respectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We have mistaken rationality for a philosophy rather than a methodology, and efficiency for a virtue without any particular end in mind.

  To have a unique, personal, subjective, divergent human experience is to sin against your prescribed algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pregnant with the reincarnation of Piet Mondrian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kevin likes to be used

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I technically am?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t Stop Me Now

  Maybe do though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's no wrong way to stroke it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, a mole is basically a donut. Sooo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Polluting the sky in order to pollute the internet 👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s a good addition.

  Overall, my point was not that scraping is a universal moral good, but that legislating tighter boundaries for scraping in an effort to curb AI abuses is a bad approach.

  We have better tools to combat this, and placing new limits on scraping will do collateral damage that we should not accept.

  And at the very least, the portfolio value of Disney’s IP holdings should not be the motivating force behind AI regulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say that scraping as a verb implies an element of intent. It’s about compiling information about a body of work, not simply making a copy, and therefore if you can accurately call it “scraping” then it’s always fair use. (Accuse me of “No True Scotsman” if you would like.)

  But since it involves making a copy (even if only a temporary one) of licensed material, there’s the potential that you’re doing one thing with that copy which is fair use, and another thing with the copy that isn’t fair use.

  Take archive.org for example:

  It doesn’t only contain information about the work, but also a copy (or copies, plural) of the work itself. You could argue (and many have) that archive.org only claims to be about preserving an accurate history of a piece of content, but functionally mostly serves as a way to distribute unlicensed copies of that content.

  I don’t personally think that’s a justified accusation, because I think they do everything in their power to be as fair as possible, and there’s a massive public benefit to having a service like this. But it does illustrate how you could easily have a scenario where the stated purpose is fair use but the actual implementation is not, and the infringing material was “scraped” in the first place.

  But in the case of gen AI, I think it’s pretty clear that the residual data from the source content is much closer to a linguistic analysis than to an internet archive. So it’s firmly in the fair use category, in my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I say this as a massive AI critic: Disney does not have a legitimate grievance here.

  AI training data is scraping. Scraping is — and must continue to be — fair use. As Cory Doctorow (fellow AI critic) says: Scraping against the wishes of the scraped is good, actually.

  I want generative AI firms to get taken down. But I want them to be taken down for the right reasons.

  Their products are toxic to communication and collaboration.

  They are the embodiment of a pathology that sees humanity — what they might call inefficiency, disagreement, incoherence, emotionality, bias, chaos, disobedience — as a problem, and technology as the answer.

  Dismantle them on the basis of what their poison does to public discourse, shared knowledge, connection to each other, mental well-being, fair competition, privacy, labor dignity, and personal identity.

  Not because they didn’t pay the fucking Mickey Mouse toll.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's it going?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They all look so fuckin done with it.

  Like 1 is going “can you believe this shit?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy PrIDE Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beware the Integrated Drive Electronics of March June

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made this instead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life is an orderly system of producing disorder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of security is about trade-offs. “What does it protect me from, and what do I give up to gain that protection?”

  If you need to remember a lot of passwords, then having some kind of system makes sense.

  But most people don’t need to remember a lot of passwords. Most people can reasonably offload that job to a password manager.

  So without knowing anything more, I’d guess it’s not good security for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots: Device detects injury, heals it and resets to detect future harm.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about robots that heal people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the , commas with , spaces on , both sides

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have been in a prison of bone for your entire life⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the definition of “you”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This meme goes way back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello! It's-A-Me, Shrek!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a legend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hello! It's-A-Me, Shrek!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A small black stroke on the text helps with legibility.

  Thank you for your service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like. A. Bawwwwwssss!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ideological*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tim “Cook of” Apple

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Copilot Delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So if library users stop communicating with each other and with the library authors, how are library authors gonna know what to do next? Unless you want them to talk to AIs instead of people, too.

  At some point, when we’ve disconnected every human from each other, will we wonder why? Or will we be content with the answer “efficiency”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people have it worse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.

  Like, okay, that’s good to keep in mind with respect to privilege and assumptions and such, but like…

  I can’t deliver a first-hand account of someone else’s life, and I can’t identify the possible solutions to their problems as well as I can for my own — let alone access their world as well as my own, to try to fix some of the problems.

  I think on some level the people who say “focus on those other people’s problems” know that those other problems are less accessible.

  It’s not that they want you to do better activism. It’s that they want you to do none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Witcher 4 devs adjusting to Unreal Engine after years of REDengine:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno denounces Microsoft for its ties to Israeli government⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian Eno is pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So what counts as dictating my life?

  The government prohibiting me from firing my gun in the air, or my neighbor’s falling bullets prohibiting me from leaving my porch?

  I’m always suspect of those who assume there is only “freedom to do” and not also “freedom from being done-to”.

  They tend to think they will never be on the receiving end of someone else’s “freedom”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In America, crisp is used to describe natural food that is very fresh or a nice, cold morning. But crispy is used to describe food that is cooked so long it's become crunchy.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crispy can also mean you’re contemplating the nature of Mario’s 8-bit existence