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- Comment on U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users 6 months ago:
Especially given that this particular comment is 90% quotes from some other author.
- Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” 6 months ago:
We've got LLMs now that can do that. Sorry, you've been replaced. Please gather your things into this box and cheer up.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 6 months ago:
I think there's a significant difference between "neutral" and "diverse".
For example, Reddit is big enough that if you find yourself holding an unpopular opinion in some particular subreddit and you're getting battered with downvotes, you can probably find some other similar subreddit that's more friendly to whatever view you've got that's drawing ire. People speak derisively of "bubbles" and "echo chambers", but really, why should I stick around and try to engage with people who just don't want you around? Communities naturally tend to segregate themselves along ideological lines like this.
Here on the Fediverse the population's too small to support quite so many diverse communities yet, unfortunately. So if you've got an unpopular minority view you can end up stuck with either routinely finding yourself serving as a punching bag or just not posting. That's no fun.
- Comment on YouTube now requires creators to disclose when AI-generated content is used in videos 7 months ago:
Yeah, but this doesn't put any restrictions on stuff, it just adds a label to it.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 7 months ago:
Indeed. There are lots of proposals for perfectly portable decentralized user identities, subscriptions that transcend specific instances, and whatnot, but until those things actually arrive that's not the Fediverse we're dealing with. It's a hassle having to switch instances.
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
you know that a company putting a thing in their terms of service doesn't make it legally binding, right?
And you know that doesn't necessarily imply the reverse? Granting a site a license to use the stuff you post there is a pretty basic and reasonable thing to agree to in exchange for them letting you post stuff there in the first place.
hence why they all suddenly felt the need to update their terms of services
As others have been pointing out to you in this thread, that also is not a sign that the previous ToS didn't cover this. They're just being clearer about what they can do.
Go ahead and refrain from using their services if you don't agree to the terms under which they're offering those services. Nobody's forcing you.
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 8 months ago:
Rare-earth element is a specific technical term. Lithium is absolutely not among them.
One of the main sources lithium is extracted from is brines. That is, it's already in the water and we take it out.
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 8 months ago:
If we don't have individual transportation how are we ever going to catch up to those goalposts?
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
You mean before or after all the sites updated their ToS it so that they were legally in the clear to sell user posts to AI training companies?
The ToSes would generally have a blanket permission in them to license the data to third-party companies and whatnot. I went back through historical Reddit ToS versions a little while back and that was in there from the start.
Also in there was a clause allowing them to update their ToS, so even if the blanket permission wasn't there then it is now and you agreed to that too.
Learning from things is a very obviously a completely different process to feeding data into a server farm.
It is not very obviously different, as evidenced by the fact that it's still being argued. There are some legal cases before the courts that will clarify this in various jurisdictions but I'm not expecting them to rule against analysis of public data.
- Comment on Activists set to protest Tesla Germany factory’s expansion days after sabotage attack 8 months ago:
I find that often "movements" end up focused more on just continuing their movement rather than the underlying purpose of why they started moving in the first place.
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 8 months ago:
in the case of ai generated media, companies just decided that they just had the rights to use existing published media, so they harvested it without consent or compensation
Have you read the ToS of your favourite social media site lately?
In any event, it might well be that companies (and you yourself) have the rights to use existing published media to train AIs. Copyright doesn't cover the analysis of public data. I suspect that people wouldn't like it if copyright got extended to let IP owners prohibit you from learning from their stuff.
- Comment on AI Prompt Engineering Is Dead 8 months ago:
"Prompt engineering" is simply the skill of knowing how to correctly ask for the thing that you want. Given that this is something that is in rare supply even when interacting with other humans, I don't see this going away until we're well past AGI and into ASI.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 8 months ago:
Exactly. Article looked fine to me, if it was AI-written then it did a good job.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 8 months ago:
It's not exactly training, but Google just recently previewed a LLM with a million-token context that can do effectively the same thing. One of the tests they did was to put a dictionary for a very obscure language (only 200 speakers worldwide) into the context, knowing that nothing about that language was in its original training data, and the LLM was able to translate it fluently.
OpenAI has already said they’re not making that publicly available for now
This just means that OpenAI is voluntarily ceding the field to more ambitious companies.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 8 months ago:
How dare they provide a useful tool like this, those bastards.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 8 months ago:
Why do you think so, and why does it matter?
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 8 months ago:
Large language models are notoriously poor at math, you should probably use a different tool for that sort of thing.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
I actually was on the job market just a few months back for the first time in 15 years. Those sorts of comedy postings are not common. It's true that often the position doesn't require as much experience as the "dream candidate" they're asking for in the job posting, but A) they're aware of that, and B) they take that into account when screening resumes. Lying on your resume is not required, it's only going to waste everyone's time if you do.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
And I'm pretty doubtful that OP would be capable of producing usable work. He says it himself, he's being deceptive about his abilities.
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
They can't do the work without the data, though.
Or rather, they can't do the work without the risk of Reddit raising a legal fuss that would cost them more than $60 million. The data itself can already be downloaded for free from various places.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
Step one in succeeding in a job is passing the interviews and getting that job.
OP was just wasting everyone's time, both his own and the interviewers.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
OP said "Of course I don’t make it past 1 or 2 interviews in such cases." So it seems pretty straightforward that he wasn't qualified, as in he wasn't going to succeed in those roles.
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
The value comes from the work that can be done with it. If you can train an AI off it then it's worth something.
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
Right. But my point is that they can profit from it. The issue lots of folks seem to be having is "how dare Reddit make money using something I did!", and that issue is even worse for the Fediverse since lots of companies can be doing it.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
It's worrisome, but it's not exactly the same.
We'll see whether they get abusive, and whether the Federal antitrust laws will come in and nearly dismantle the company like they did to Microsoft.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
I want it, and I want it in a browser that isn't controlled by Google.
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
Instead you're posting to the Fediverse, which is even more open for use by third parties.
- Comment on Threat Actors Exploring Large Language Models for Cyberattacks, Microsoft and OpenAI Report 8 months ago:
You think Microsoft is the only organization capable of producing these tools? They weren't even the first.
- Comment on Reddit sells training data to unnamed AI company ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
I don't see anything in the article related to elections.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
Why are you applying for jobs that you're not qualified for? Even if you BS your way through the interviews you'll have to actually do the work.