Of all the big LLM companies, the most ethical one in terms of ripping off copyrighted works is GrokAI, which is only trained on Mein Kampf and Lolita.
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So, I'm told about 37 fash showed up at Glasgow Green today.
I didn't bother counting them myself.
The counter-demo is at least 500 so far, at a guess, with more coming in.
Never break the law for a good reason. If you break the law for gain or just because you felt like it, you might get off lightly. You'll at least only have the usual burden of raising reasonable doubt that what you did was what you're charged with.
If you say you had a good reason to break the law, that's an attack on the legitimacy of the law itself. They'll fuckin *get* you for that.
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@paninid@mastodon.world @aselrod.bsky.social
When I see something like that, I don't think "there's a contrarian thought leader" I think "there's a guy who should really be shutting up and lawyering up before the DOJ are forced to release files with only victim names redacted".
Ah, AI autumn is upon us again. It's been a while.
Now we look forward to AI winter, and AI Christmas, when if we're very good Sam Altman will be visited by 3 ghosts who don't attempt the impossible task of saving his soul, and just kick the shit out of him.
Boosted by @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
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@laprice@beige.party
Yep, if you ever take a position that maybe some people, just a few, might not have rights, you have opened negotiations with the devil. He has a grin on his otherwise empty face, and photos of your loved ones laid out on the table.
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@gknauss@mastodon.social
Somewhere around the 100M mark it stops even being wealth as such. There's no way for a person to experience that amount of value. It's just ownership tokens, tradeable for power. If you tried to cash it in for food, housing, clean water, all the things the workers whose labour created it would rather have spent it on if paid fairly, it'd evaporate into a stock crash.
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@woe2you@beige.party @baldur@toot.cafe
Yeah, basically the same deal. Tech bros can't help using metaphors for evil and untrustworthy entities, like they didn't get the point of the stories they came from but just think those things sound cool and powerful.
There is close to 100% chance if they were pushing portable AI assistant devices as the next big thing, one of them would be called MonkeyPaw. Probably the one from Meta.
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@maxleibman@beige.party
The gamble is that it's something they *won't be responsible for.*
So they say to businesses "you can grow x10 without paying more workers".
To investors "it's going to make number go up forever, and make more profit than everything else combined. And we have shares to sell, what an opportunity!"
They say to governments "it can get rid of some inconvenient people, but nobody pulled the trigger"
But they say to the courts "it's just a bit of fun, nothing serious".
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz
And there are equally old warnings, which is ironic, since there aren't any djinn or demons or fairies to make dangerous slippery-worded pacts with, so we built some ourselves. This is fine.
I assume the malicious deceptive beings in our ancestral environment that these cautionary tales were really warning about were ... us.
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@AkaSci@fosstodon.org
"We're going to enhance urban life in your city"
"Cool, more trees and bike infrastructure?"
"No we're going to make it never ever be evening or night. Just endless daylight. You can get rid of all that wasted time sleeping or enjoying the sunset glow on the stone as evening falls."
"That sounds like hell."
"Also we're going to charge your government for doing it."
"So, me? My taxes?"
"Don't worry, you'll save money on streetlights, except if it's cloudy or Kesslery weather."
#WordWeavers 21 Jul
Do past reviews influence your current writing?
Book website reviews are not feedback. Those are for people with plenty of time and opinions to say what they don't like about a book so other people can think "but that sounds good actually" or the other way round.
Thoughtful reviews by people who know what they're doing, and maybe even what you're doing, are still for the reader.
They're not for the writer. Don't read them as if they're feedback. No good can come of it.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @jplebreton@mastodon.social
The genie is out of the bottle, and it'd be a pity to waste those three wishes, despite the genie's track record of wish accuracy.
We just have to wish very carefully, including a list of things we are not wishing the genie to do, and hope the list isn't so long the genie forgets the first thing.
When I get my next phone, I'm going to buy 2 cases for it. Because if you can still get a replacement case for your phone when the first one wears out, you're buying phones too often.
Ideally too, this will be after the start of the next AI winter, so my next phone won't be full of features I don't want that keep breaking things because the server owners are bankrupt or in prison.
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@lina@neuromatch.social
I like to imagine the drop in that graph was triggered by Softbank leaking an image that accidentally illustrated Marxist theory and why AI is stupid in one memable package. It'll be wild if it ends up in our folk history of how the AI bubble popped.
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@carnage4life@mas.to
It's journalistic negligence for writers of such articles to continue to act as if "Sam Altman says" should carry any more weight than "ChatGPT says".
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@unattributed@gotosocial.social @evacide@hachyderm.io
Yeah, but bear in mind I'm also not going to bother doing it very well.
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@hzulla@infosec.exchange
Pass legislation to cap their usage *hard* at the level they say it will need on the planning request.
Watch the planning requests get withdrawn, for totally unrelated reasons of course.
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@w00p@infosec.exchange @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange
The past of course. Everyone comes from the past.
#ScribesAndMakers Jul 29
From soft to hard, where do your tastes fall on the Science Fiction scale?
There's three axes: how much the science is the point of the story idea, how much the science is articulated, and how plausible the science is. So it's kind of a cube rather than a scale.
If the science isn't the point, don't go on about it. If the science is the point, get it right (apart from the what-if impossible bit). Either is fine.
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@jerrej@mastodon.social @alicetragedy@mastodon.social
"The economy collapses" is hyperbole. What would happen is the externalities of it being miserably or even dangerously hot would be taken back into the economic equation and start affecting "shareholder value" and "economic growth".
If you don't make something Capital's problem, Capital will happily let it continue to be your problem until you die.
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@Eetschrijver@mastodon.social @Nonilex@masto.ai
The other $80+M will have to come out of his estate most likely.
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk
Workers being off sick with heatstroke would hit small businesses even harder than that.
Sure, every overhead is proportionally more onerous for a smaller business, but that's more a feature of unregulated capitalism than regulation.
Besides, once everyone has to meet the same safety requirements it gets normalised, and we stop penalising the small businesses that were already doing the right thing but competing against bandits who will only do it when forced.
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@m0xEE @hn100@social.lansky.name
The fun thing is, the AI industry has created so much debt it needs to double the revenue of the *entire* software industry to not crash. The market for that doesn't exist. The money for that doesn't exist.
Paying 50% of the knowledge workers 10% less isn't going to cut it.
Heard on the bus a few days ago:
"He's got five sons, wan ae them's twins"
This is from a native speaker of Modern Scottish English, so I can't put an asterisk beside it.
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@unattributed@gotosocial.social @evacide@hachyderm.io
My rate for training myself out of a job is my usual rate plus the value of the job I'm training myself out of. So the negotiation starts at 2x my pay, and then we talk about working conditions.
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@foolishowl@social.coop
The willingness to pick up any call and the lack of a way to tell who is calling created opportunities to exploit that willingness and lack of knowledge.
Now I don't answer a call if the number isn't in my contacts and I'm not expecting a call from a new source.
It's not so much that I'm less willing nowadays to talk to a stranger on the phone (I could not BE much less willing) but now I know when it's a stranger. Why would I, then, pick up the phone? To what end?
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@dromografos@social.dromografos.report
Next they are going to cure cancer by making it a felony to have cancer.
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@ehproque@neopaquita.es
People say a mild case of XML isn't so bad, but they don't think about the effects of Long XML on a project.
At some point we need to stop agreeing that someone can own 1000,000 times as much as their equal share of the world and do what they like to everyone else's share by exerting ownership as power.
We could just not believe that any more, it's not a law of physics. What's going to happen if we stop? Disastrous climate change, concentration camps, resource wars? Ooo, scary.
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz @marshray@infosec.exchange
Maybe every time we met another group of humans or other hominins who thought differently about the world, negotiations with them were complicated.
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@tress777@phpc.social
Classic case of correlation as evidence updating the probability of the hypothesis, but that's more of a mouthful.
There's a pretty plausible mechanism for the effect (we know vaccines can reduce viral infection, and we know HPV infection can cause cancer) and the observed effect is in the expected direction.
I'd have to see *contrary* evidence to take seriously the idea that there's no reason to think it's working.
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@gwynnion@mastodon.social
If being seen and caught at a protest has disproportionately serious consequences, that creates a disproportionate incentive to do what will not be seen and to not get caught.
If getting caught doing nonviolent direct action means the same sentence as a crime of violence, it certainly makes you think about what is necessary to avoid getting caught.
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
That seems like a bold prospectus to lay out for potential investors before the IPO, but I don't know, I'm not an expert.
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@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com @amydiehl@mstdn.social
Yeah it was never a "secret reason". People were calling this accurately from day 1.
Millions of depoliticised people with no interest in how things work but full of vague grievances are a statistical phenomenon with its own inertia, almost a physical disaster like a tsunami or a pyroclastic flow. Once they get going they are definitely going to wreck everything, and talking a tiny fraction of them back from the edge isn't going to do anything.
This is why boring good governance matters. The lesser of two evils always falls to the louder of two evils. Try being actually good.
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@jonny@neuromatch.social
Zuck desperate to find an AI to help him understand social context or the things that matter in people's lives, like "local".
I think they removed too much normal humanity when he had his conscience extracted, and he's just *bewildered* about questions like why people don't want to spend big money on a tool to do 3D zoom meetings as a shitty cartoon guy without legs.
Other billionaires are merely unhinged. Zuck is *unmoored*
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@paninid@mastodon.world @micchiato@kolektiva.social
We could do with a little more of that energy in UK foreign policy with regard to their obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide and their provision of arms to a certain country.
Nice chill Friday, a great day to do #ThreeGoodThings
- Employer recognised our union branch
- I got all my writing off Google drive and into an alternative storage/online editing solution hosted outside the US.
- I was feeling like I was down a hole with very slippery sides earlier this week, but now I feel like I have a bit of agency and a plan.
Ready for a fun weekend.
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@cR0w@infosec.exchange
What is an authentication layer but a miserable pile of secrets.
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world
No.
It would cross your field of vision in MUCH less time than the neurons in your visual cortex would need to even do the first stage of "seeing" it.
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@felis_catus_domesticus@toot.community @Jyoti@mas.to
They probably do, but that's a baby gorilla, right?
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@ketan@climatejustice.social
Looks like the bubble is at the stage where applications to build impossible infrastructure are filed so investors who don't look closely can be told about "20GW planned for 2030" or whatever, in time for the IPO. All the numbers must go up, even or perhaps especially the wild made up numbers about what's just around the corner.
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@drwho@masto.hackers.town
Also, you are paying for the tokens used to generate its empty apologies when it does something wrong, and the empty apologies are part of the transcript so you're paying to process them again for the rest of the session.
It's like they're just spitting in your face really.
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@noodlemaz@mstdn.games @felis_catus_domesticus@toot.community @Jyoti@mas.to
Yeah likely that's from the film of Gorillas in the Mist.