Capricorn_Geriatric

@Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No it doesn’t because all mastodon data is public and does not require ToS agreement to be collected.

  ToS are legalese bullshit. They mean next to nothing since most stuff if it comes to court, gets annuled.

  ToS kind of does protect you, but holding tge service hostage or not (as in you can’t watch one little youtube video without selling your soul to Google) doesn’t make a big difference - rrasonable expectations are that users own their content (as is the case in youtube’s case - youtube doesn’t ponce on your videos afaik), although they do own rights to distributing it (obviously), and using sane technological measures to prevent what they don’t want. In youtube’s case that’s watching e.g. privated videos, and in another case it can be AI scrapers.

  Robots.txt is, just like a ToS, a contract. It just isn’t legalese as it isn’t meant to scare people, but be useful to programmers making the site and those using the scraper. They’re programmers, not marketers or lawyers, of course they won’t deal with legalese if they csn avoid it.

  Again, law is not leagese.

  A robots.txt file is a contract by use,like when you park in a charge zone - entering the zone, you accept the obigation to pay.

  When you scrape a site you first check for robots.txt in all the reasonable places it should be, look for its terms, and follow them… If you don’t want to riskgetting sued.

  Similarily, entering a store, you are expected to pay for what you take. There is no entry machine like on a metro where you, instead if swiping a card, read the store’s T&C’s, but know that it’s common sense security will come after you, if not the police. Yet you clicked no “I agree”? How come you don’t just take what you want?

  And robots.txt is a mature technology and easily a “standard”. Any competent lawyer will point that out to the jury and judge, who will most likely rule appropristely. The Internet is not the Wild West anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe it’s trained on some SF. Any agents like ScubaGPT are always self-preserving in such stories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've achieved comedy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Press the Start button. The React Native app doesn’t… React.

  The ship’s main computer and all its systems crash - every single fancy monitor shows the same BSoD.

  Since the doors are all electronic, due to safety concerns on Earth that have gotten overlooked while making the craft, all the doors release and open.

  You see the smiley faces and QR codes dissapearing as the monitors get yanked out into the void.

  You soon follow.

  The end.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inappropriate Ads on Child-Directed Websites: Weight Loss Pills and Depression Tests for Kids.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The child having no money is not a problem.

  Children are easily influenced and gullible.

  A child will pester their parents to buy what they want, potentially for weeks.

  Bombarding children with some product, even if for “grown-ups” can make them like it in the future when they’re grown up themselves. It is a very long-term strategy, but it does work since people tend to associate brands from their childhood with quality.

  But I agree. Ads directed at kids always seemed distasteful to me, vut it was usually mixed in with “normal” TV or even YouTube ads. But now, when you can’t open a video on YouTube and have it play minimized because it’s “for kids”, you’d expect Google’d also make the ads at least less distasteful than on TV or “grownup” YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going back in time to see how the fishes and loaves trick was done⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, it got the concept very right. Do you think (most) Christians care about things such as historical accuracy or logic?

  They believe unironically in a benevelent-omnipotent-omnipresent Sky-Daddy. Their Bible has way more passages about stuff like hating the poor or not being a dick than the opposite. They’re in the cult that’s as old as time, since the modern calendar is based on Jesus’ (alleged) birthyear.

  Facts don’t care about their feelings. But more importantly, neither do their feelings care about the facts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot all the Bing Chats in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Short answer: the bank won’t give your shiny new tree-planting business a loan as easily as it will to a “liquid tank tree replacement” one.

  Long answer:

  • Trees take time to grow
  • Trees need to be planted
  • Trees make shade
  • Animals like birds and insects like bees and mosquitos like to live next to them
  • Trees don’t need electricity
  • Trees take in heat radiated from the pavement
  • Trees don’t look cool

  While algae are more efficient at turning CO2 into oxygen in theory, in practice algae don’t have a good climate in such a tank (no oxygen without ventilation, i.e. constant electricity and they get cooked through the glass).

  All in all, more of a gimmick than anything.