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Exactly this!

They’re pretending it’s AI, or cryptocurrency, but neither has any use case that anybody wants or needs aside from money laundering and homework cheating

Well sure.

But when the lowest-hanging fruit is all harvested, reaching for the next available thing requires investment and so quarterly profits start dropping. Once the investments have been paid for, profits will never come back to where they were previously so it’s always diminishing returns

Now you’re catching on!

Because anything that isn’t easiest isn’t profitable

Having a rabbit on my lap at a baseball game would make me MORE anxious, not less…

The entire crypto industry is just a circle of dogs, all sniffing the butt of the dog ahead as they walk in an endless circle.

Linux Mint or vanilla Ubuntu. They’re nice, we’ll developed and stable with lots of software available. Never need to use a command line unless you want to

The file system takes some getting used to, but it’s similar to Mac. The only folders you need to worry about most of the time are /Home and /Media. Home is where all your stuff is. Media is where you find all your drives and partitions

2006 made me suspicious of the Democrats forever. Pelosi and the party ran on defunding the Iraq War, then promptly dropped it upon taking office.

I DID primary for Obama because he was promising a public healthcare option. We all know how that turned out: he ultimately championed a Republican scheme to entrench private insurers. Democrats failed to support their party’s signature policy proposal when it mattered.

While Obama expanded the Bush wars…

That’s when I gave up all hope in the party making any progress or acting in good faith. They haven’t given me any reason to rethink that stance.

Sorry your efforts and enthusiasm were wasted and abused by the DNC…

I recall the Coffee Party having a moment, a nationwide movement planned meetups all coordinated. In Asheville, I attended. the meetup was crashed by Obama’s Organizing for America, and I later learned that they crashed meetups everywhere.

I remember the smooth-talking guy and how he hijacked the meeting as we were making real progress. Fuck Obama and fuck the DNC

Democrats don’t even promise anything anymore. Not since 2008

Obligatory: I’m anti-AI, mostly anti-technology

That said, I can’t say that I mind LLMs using copyrighted materials that it accesses legally/appropriately (lots of copyrighted content may be freely available to some extent, like news articles or song lyrics)

I’m open to arguments correcting me. I’d prefer to have another reason to be against this technology, not arguing on the side of frauds like Sam Altman. Here’s my take:

All content created by humans follows consumption of other content. If I read lots of Vonnegut, I should be able to churn out prose that roughly (or precisely) includes his idiosyncrasies as a writer. We read more than one author; we read dozens or hundreds over our lifetimes. Likewise musicians, film directors, etc etc.

If an LLM consumes the same copyrighted content and learns how to copy its various characteristics, how is it meaningfully different from me doing it and becoming a successful writer?

You can buy 1.75L of beer in East Asia, and 2L of some brands.

There’s also baiju and soju sold in 2L (and maybe bigger) bottles

Most Lemmy instances have some admin oversight with regard to registration. Moreover, there are always more instances, including secret instances.

I keep wondering the same thing

Seems like the president is for sale so plenty of these rich guys will just get in line and pay for what they want

Learn manual. It’s not that hard but later in life you’ll have few opportunities to learn it if you need it

This is fascinating and I have a bunch of questions, basically all centered around the fact that possession of the such content is outlawed. I don’t exoect OP to know, but maybe someone else does:

Isn’t it illegal to have a library of such content? Is there a legal carveout for that, like Coca Cola importing cocaine?

How is the library compiled, maintained, and added to?

Is the library specific to Discord or is it a shared library maintained by some centralized “authority” or developer? If it’s specific to Discord then can we assume there are many different libraries of illegally produced and possessed content compiled and maintained by various social media companies? Who’s got that job? Do they get therapy in their benefits package?

How does eating popcorn == CSAM?

Your city has a cool vibe.

The Sopranos theme music

It’s kinda funny but I needed it explained