@ajroach42@sam doesn't that book actually support more my side of the argument?
As I understand the criticism around consent/plagiarism is that the training corpus for the pretraining comes from big piles of relatively indiscriminately scraped data including copyrighted works.
@ajroach42@sam I also refused two offers from openai with life-changing amount of money, I feel you. Discussion about what consent means in building training corpuses is out of my depth, I am coming from a pretty punk rock "information wants to be free" approach, use libgen daily (and also spend 4 figures on books every month), and see the situation a bit similar to say, my lithium batteries, except that here I can't even quantify the physical harm.
I'm visiting #kentucky for the first time. Until now, the only thing I knew about Kentucky was Hunter Thompson's essay about the Kentucky Derby, and Mitch McConnell.
They have a local ginger ale called Ale-8 which is wonderful.
@scottgal omg, it sure does! I didn't see anything similar in the local "pests of Kentucky" site. I sure hope it isn't the first sighting of a new invasive species.
The existential risk is that the incredible repository of nearly all human knowledge that is the internet will be flooded with so much LLM-generated dreck that locating reliable information will become effectively impossible (alongside scientific journals, which are also suffering incredibly under the weight of ML spam).
The existential risk is that nobody will be able to trust a photo or video of anything because the vast majority of media will be fabricated.
All I want Mozilla to do is discontinue all their current projects and reconstitute all the projects they previously discontinued. Is that so unreasonable
Speaking of #ICSCybersecurity… I think I’ve gotten a lot of followers on social justice and general IT lately. As a little re-intro, what I do for a living is respond to and investigate hacking of critical industrial infrastructure like power, water, manufacturing, and transportation. Stuff that doesn’t look like computers but often is today. I’ve been doing it for over a decade and a half, If that’s ever something you want to know more about, AMA and I’ll do my best to answer your questions.
- I can afford to pop $200 out of pocket and get reimbursed later. Not everyone can. - I can afford 15 minutes wasted on the phone. Not everyone can. - I can get back to the pharmacy easily for the billing retry. Not everyone can. - I’m sufficiently fluent, pushy, and culturally privileged to navigate this whole stupid situation. Not everyone is.
Each of those “not everyone”s is somebody who doesn’t get vaccinated — at who knows what cost to themselves and to us all.
@bishop Thank you for the follow. As I'm driving cross country with my 19 tr old son, we're having a discussion about the early church. We think that there are some books missing from the KJV vs our Catholic Vulgate, but can't recall which they are.
Driving across #nebraska for the first time in three years, I noticed the absence of #birds. Along the last 20 miles of highway 80, near Sidney, I have only seen seven birds and three of them were turkey vultures circling in the distance. Is that normal?
Is motorcycle riding dangerous? Absolutely! So are skiing, ice hockey, hang-gliding, climbing, horseback riding, and many other activities that people choose to engage in just because they want to. COVID is *many orders of magnitude* more dangerous than any of those activities. And when you choose to be careless about COVID, you're not just choosing for yourself, you're affecting everyone you come into contact with, and the people who can't safely participate in society because of your choice.
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