As I always write, trying to restrict AI training on the ground of copyright will only backfire. The sad truth is that malicious parties (dictatorships) will get more training materials because they won’t abide by rules. The end result is, dictators would outperform democracies in terms of future generation AIs, if we treat AI training like human reading.

I’m thinking these days. The problem with democracy is that it can’t be forced even if it were the correct thing to do in the pragmatic sense. If you force it, it’s not democracy.

of captain’s wife!

I regret to find a savage kind of satisfaction in me seeing the Satanic Temple lure religious radicals into taking terrorist action. I really should not.

This why billionaires accumulating wealth is a problem. Their power will exceed that of democracy someday.

They can purchase their own military in the end, and even enslave people in the literal sense.

In all, 11 senators joined Sanders in the procedural vote, mostly Democrats from across the party’s spectrum, while 72 opposed.

The only hypothesis I have is that Israeli money is funneled to election funds. Like, if Dems anger zionists, Republicans will win the election. I don’t know if that’s true but I haven’t found any other explanation yet.

Rich assets grow exponentially. They will exceed government budgets if they haven’t yet. Then, they will have far bigger budget than governments.

Maybe the world will all become North Korea.

Right after Abbott said Texas would shoot migrants.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/greg-abbott-texas-shoot-migrants-border-biden-murder/

He said he doesn’t because Biden would charge them for murder. Charge them now.

The blame should go to the idiots who made the calls.

Why should we care when changing jobs is the better way to promote ourselves anyway?

Well, regarding text online, most is there fir the visitors to read fir free. So, if we end up treating these AI training like human reading text one could argue they don’t have to pay.

Reddit doesn’t pay their users, anyway.

But personally, philosophically, I don’t see how Microsoft taking NYT articles and turning them into a paid product is any different than Microsoft taking an open source projects that doesn’t allow commercial use and sneaking it into a project.

Agreed. That said, NYT actually intentionally allows Google and Bing servers to parse their news articles in order to put their articles top in the search results. In that regard they might like certain form of processing by LLMs.

Alas, AI critics jumped onto the conclusion this one time. Read this:

Further, OpenAI writes that limiting training data to public domain books and drawings “created more than a century ago” would not provide AI systems that “meet the needs of today’s citizens.”

It’s a plain fact. It does not say we have to train AI without paying.

To give you a context, virtually everything on the web is copyrighted, from reddit comments to blog articles to open source software. Even open data usually come with copyright notice. Open research articles also.

If misled politicians write a law banning the use of copyrighted materials, that’ll kill all AI developments in the democratic countries. What will happen is that AI development will be led by dictatorships, and that’s absolutely a disaster even for the critics. Think about it. Do we really want Xi, Putin, Netanyahu and Bin Salman to control all the next-gen AIs powering their cyber warfare while the West has to fight them with Siri and Alexa?

So, I agree that, at the end of the day, we’d have to ask how much rule-abiding AI companies should pay for copyrighted materials, and that’d be less than the copyright holders would want. (And I think it’s sad.)

However, you can’t equate these particular statements in this article to a declaration of fuck-copyright. Tbh Ars Technica disappointed me this time.

r/conservative not caring, yet gaslighting with BLM name calling these days. They have no shame.

Yeah, that’s how many of them were installed there in the first place.

You made me wonder if Trump would pull out of NATO and ask a few NATO members to move to Russia-US alliance instead.

I feel bad for those brainwashed to their core by the CCP (and they actually hate the party).

Anyway, I have no idea whether Japan can retaliate against nuclear attacks, due to our naive pacifist constitution.

reframe[s] the conflict between rich and poor as one between young and old

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I wonder who benefits from this bs. What’s even the goal?

I have a captcha idea…