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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
This is both old news and kindaā¦ not that surprising when you think about it, but I searched and didnāt see any commentary on this here.
The Bookseller: Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff
Penguin Random House (PRH) has amended its copyright wording across all imprints globally, confirming it will appear āin imprint pages across our marketsā. The new wording states: āNo part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systemsā, and will be included in all new titles and any backlist titles that are reprinted.
Now that the content mafia has realized GenAI isnāt gonna let them get rid of all the expensive and troublesome human talent. itās time to give Big AI a wedgie.
Itās weird how rarely I see people point this, but in theory this kind of boilerplate should be technically meaningless. If copyright protections include the privilege to use the work for training a machine learning algorithm, you need explicit permission anyway. OTOH if itās fair use or otherwise not something copyright law is concerned with, the copyright holderās objection doesnāt matter.
For the record, I think AI models are derivative works and thus theyāre not only infringing on typical āall rights reservedā works, but also things such as Free software whose license terms require attribution if used in derivative work, and especially share-alike copyleft licensed work.
Now that the content mafia has realized GenAI isnāt gonna let them get rid of all the expensive and troublesome human talent. itās time to give Big AI a wedgie.
Considering the massive(ly inflated) valuations running around Big AI and the massive amounts of stolen work that powers the likes of CrAIyon, ChatGPT, DALL-E and others, I suspect the content mafia is likely gonna try and squeeze every last red cent they can out of the AI industry.
Update on the state of AI drug discovery companies: AI Does Not Make It Easy by Derek Lowe
lmao incredible
Then thereās BenevolentAI. I first wrote about them in 2018, as the company stated that it had ācreated a bioscience machine brain, purpose-built to discover new medicines and cures for disease.ā Howās the machine brain doing these days? Well, the companyās lead program failed in the clinic last year, and in April announced major layoffs.
just who buys this shit? this reads like refined crypto nonsense
People who donāt get much tech/overdose on hype and heard of alphafold. Imagine how much worse things could be now after the Nobel.
i mean how many these people are out there that also have money of this kind, other than softbank i mean
Given the past several decades of trickle-up economics, I think we havenāt seen anything close to the bottom of the well of basically-idle capital seeking unrealistic returns.
Iād go so far as to say that the current crop of bubbles possibly represents the greatest downards wealth transfer (albeit from billionaires to millionaires rather than, yāknow, working people) since the second world war, but I havenāt done anything near the amount of research necessary for that to be more than exciting rhetoric.
too fucking many
Forget Gladwell
All nonfiction writers can end up writing incorrect or controversial things, but why does every Gladwell book push half-formed and inaccurate theories? For years, my loose feeling about Gladwell was that he writes like someone who doesnāt care about being correct, which is not a way I would describe any other author Iāve encountered. There is something uniquely odd about his work.
Obligatory IBCK ep on gladwell
has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? letās hope so
They added sleeps to training jobs? Sounds like they deserve a raise for improving energy efficiency insteadā¦
Considering Glaze and Nightshade have been around for a while, and I talked about sabotaging scrapers back in July, arguably, it already has.
Hell, I ran across a much smaller scale case of this a couple days ago:
Not sure how effective it is, but if Elonās stealing your data for his autoplag no matter what, you might as well try to force-feed it as much poison as you can.
Itās almost completely ineffective, sorry. Itās certainly not as effective as exfiltrating weights via neighborly means.
On Glaze and Nightshade, my prior rant hasnāt yet been invalidated and thereās no upcoming mathematics which tilt the scales in favor of anti-training techniques. In general, scrapers for training sets are now augmented with alignment models, which test inputs to see how well the tags line up; your example might be rejected as insufficiently normal-cat-like.
I think that āforce-feedingā is probably not the right metaphor. At scale, more effort goes into cleaning and tagging than into scraping; most of that āforcedā input is destined to be discarded or retagged.
yeah this is the thing Iāve been thinking a lot about
fucking reCaptcha is literally mass-weaponising users for data filtration, and there is no good counter besides just not using reCaptcha (which is something one canāt easily pull off without things like regulatory action, massive reputational problems that make people gtfo, etc)
I have similar worries about cloudflare being such a massive chokepoint and using that position to enable āai bot filterā services. feels extremely monopolistic, but ianal and Iām not entirely sure what the case grounds/structure on that would be (if any)
the only other viable strategy at the moment is fully breaking contact with any potential bad traffic systems, and thatās extremely fucking dire because thatās yet another nail in the coffin of the increasingly less open internet
The whole Cloudflare bot detection is so weird and eerie. Iāve had issues where I canāt get past it presumably just because Iām using some in-application browser just to get a login cookie, but other times it just lets fucking curl through no questions asked.
I saw people say they would add 10% opaque layers of the musk with Epsteinās accomplice (whos name i forgot for a second and too lazy to look her up) photo. Would be nice if there was a tool to do so automatically. (Not that i post on twitter anymore).
tbh that sounds like a pretty easy script to write! Too bad I am not near a computer rn
I got nerd sniped into trying to resize
felons_musk_and_maxwell.webpto the same size as some base image before compositing it on top with a 10% dissolve in the samemagickinvocation but I need to sleep so Iām giving up for now.Wouldnāt really need a script, though. Just open up photoshop or GIMP and add a layer after everything is finished.
But that doesnāt scale properly, you want ideally some sort of browser extension that just automatically does it for you before the data gets send to twitter.
I thought they were gonna do that themselves by feeding on their own outputs littered all over the www. Maybe they can use some help.
thatās also happening, but yeah itās going to have to be a team effort
It would be funny if someone was literally beating up servers with a wooden shoe.
āpercussive maintenanceā
momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre
