kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 22 hours ago:
Beginner in IT:
“The problem is that there isn’t one”
Expert:
“The problem is that there isn’t one”
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 22 hours ago:
Yeah. It was already happening circa USB3. It’s not because of the connectors, but the broadening spectrum of requirements of client devices.
Maybe USB-C was a missed opportunity to address it, but it certainly didn’t “start the fire”.
- Comment on im frend :( 1 day ago:
Yes. To be clear, I’m not complaining. It’s what elevates this to high art.
- Comment on im frend :( 1 day ago:
Five messages, and each one of then has some kind of spelling error
- Comment on I am gorge 1 week ago:
Gorge of the Gungle
- Comment on Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews 1 week ago:
Antitrust is the right approach. (As opposed to copyright.) I hope Google gets decimated.
- Comment on If we developed dairy platypus. 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t have to post this
- Comment on I'm just better than you 2 weeks ago:
Dat dill doe
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
If you were born during the first industrial revolution, then you’d think the mind was a complicated machine. People seem to always anthropomorphize inventions of the era.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 weeks ago:
Citation Need (by Molly White) also frequently bashes AI.
I like her stuff because, no matter how you feel about crypto, AI, or other big tech, you can never fault her reporting. She steers clear of any subjective accusations or prognostication.
It’s all “ABC person claimed XYZ thing on such and such date, and then 24 hours later submitted a report to the FTC claiming the exact opposite. They later bought $5 million worth of Trumpcoin, and two weeks later the FTC announced they were dropping the lawsuit.”
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
I think one of the most toxic things on Lemmy is the prevalence of judging normies for using incredibly popular services and ascribing it to a character defect instead of life just being too complex for most people to be able to prioritize exploring more ethical technology choices.
- Comment on Everybody poops 2 weeks ago:
I was under the impression that, in the US, public bathrooms operate under some kind of gender-based “purge rules”, and that’s why it’s so essential to know who’s fair game
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
Teriya-KY
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
Well now I’m gonna do it out of spite.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 2 weeks ago:
How does it handle the half-penny? Does it round up or down, collect the remainder at the end, what?
- Comment on Arts & STEM 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Pregnant with the reincarnation of Piet Mondrian
- Comment on Dear Kevin 3 weeks ago:
Kevin likes to be used
- Comment on Oh no 4 weeks ago:
I guess I technically am?
- Comment on Boston Dynamics robots dance to 'Don't Stop Me Now' for 'America's Got Talent' audition 4 weeks ago:
Don’t Stop Me Now
Maybe do though.
- Comment on There's no wrong way to stroke it 4 weeks ago:
Well, a mole is basically a donut. Sooo…
- Comment on xAI Data Center Emits Plumes of Pollution, New Video Shows 4 weeks ago:
Polluting the sky in order to pollute the internet 👌
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
They all look so fuckin done with it.
Like 1 is going “can you believe this shit?”
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 5 weeks ago:
Beware the Integrated Drive Electronics of
MarchJune - Comment on I made this instead 1 month ago:
Life is an orderly system of producing disorder
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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.
