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• On the post: Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office There’s No Place For Copyright Law In AI Training

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2023 @ 01:59pm

  None. The simplest and very bad analogy for how LLM's actually stores things it has been trained on is that it stores the relationship between words and the likelihood they appear together for a given context.

• On the post: Wherein The Copia Institute Tells The Copyright Office There’s No Place For Copyright Law In AI Training

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2023 @ 01:46pm

  I’ve heard people say things like they were able to get the entire first page of a book (small enough to be way less than 10% but enough to potentially be infringing) out of an AI. Maybe they were lying, or maybe the AI looked up a current version of a page to do that instead of its training data.

  "were able", ie they spent time crafting a prompt to get the result they wanted. Given enough prompting, even a human can produce the first page of any random book they've read. If someone asks me I can quote the first page of my favorite book verbatim, does that mean my brain infringes the author's copyright? There's examples of people who can recite a book verbatim after reading it once.

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2023 @ 04:17pm

  It's almost like a summoning spell, disparage someone idiotic and, poof, more idiots appear.

• On the post: ExTwitter Admits Elon Has Cut 56% Of The Value Of The Company; Fidelity Says It’s Actually Worth Even Less

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2023 @ 06:21pm

  It's some kind of mythological monster that scares the shit out of those who use that word, because they project all the worlds ills on it. Also, see woke that has as similar definition.

• On the post: ExTwitter Admits Elon Has Cut 56% Of The Value Of The Company; Fidelity Says It’s Actually Worth Even Less

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 03 Nov, 2023 @ 07:35am

  Next on their agenda: People criticizing the police because innocent bystanders got their lives wrecked is now defending violent criminals. Oh, wait a minute...

• On the post: Microsoft Suddenly Decides To Prevent Third Party Accessories From Working On Xbox

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 04:08pm

  And what about 3rd party peripherals that disabled people use? Wouldn't this count as disability discrimination?

• On the post: Judge Dismisses Most Of The First Of The Many ‘How Dare AI Train On My Material’ Lawsuits

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 03:56pm

  No, there has to be substantial similarities but nothing is guaranteed when it comes to copyright and litigation which is why many authors try to minimize being influenced by other works, like avoiding fanfiction or actually forbidding it as an example. Just look at how many books are directly influenced by J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings were you have all the same elements rehashed in some form or another. That work basically spawned the fantasy-genre on its own were you have elves, halflings, orcs, goblins, dragons, an unwilling hero and a baddie that can only be defeated by using a magic item in some fashion. Sure, there were other works that Tolkien drew inspiration from but I think he was the first author to combine them all in to a "coherent" genre.

• On the post: Judge Dismisses Most Of The First Of The Many ‘How Dare AI Train On My Material’ Lawsuits

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 03:45pm

  Not really, there has to be substantial similarities but nothing is certain when it comes to copyright and litigation. Just as example, how many books has many of the same elements, characters and basic story as J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings? Ie stories about elves, halflings, dwarves, goblinsand a big baddie that has to be defeated using a magical item in some fashion? Most works in that genre is strongly or directly influenced by Tolkien's work.

• On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 11:57am

  Is it? My total banking cost for a whole year is about $30 which is the cost for my debit/credit card. All my banking is done electronically which costs me exactly $0, no extra costs or surcharges at all. Can anyone else here who lives in the US say the same? 25% of Americans pay $24/month for their checking account, the national average is $14/month. Then there's the "out-of-network" ATM-fees which has a cost of a couple of dollars plus a percentage (~3%) on the amount withdrawn. And then there's the fucking inactivity fee, were the bank charges you for not touching your account for a prolonged period of time all the while they use your money in the account to earn more money - this is to force you into a behavior which will net them other fees. Is the US catching up with more savvy countries when it comes to e-banking? Sure, but it's extremely slowgoing and they are lagging at least 10-15 years behind from a customer viewpoint - all because they make more money by being behind. One of the reasons they are actually changing is the competition from different tech companies which are steadily increasing.

• On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 01 Nov, 2023 @ 11:32am

  A QR-code isn't an electronic invoice though. I get all my electronic invoices directly in my banking app were I sign them for payment or not, it's something I've had for 20 years now and there has been next to 5 years now since I last got an actual paper invoice in the mail.

• On the post: Would You Trust All Of Your Financial Services & Money To Elon Musk?

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 31 Oct, 2023 @ 11:19am

  It exists, just not in the USA. The banking industry in the USA is intentionally technologically backwards because there's money to gain from it through different fees and surcharges.

• On the post: Don’t Want To Be Part Of A Geofence Warrant Line-Up? You Have Options.

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 04:48pm

  Signal strength correlates inversely to battery drain, ie a weak signal uses more battery. That doesn't happen if there is no signal at all because it's the cell-tower that tells the phone that its signal is weak and it needs to boost the signal. What happens though is that the phone tries to find a carrier from a cell tower by scanning the frequency band which uses up some energy, but much less than if it was in contact with a cell tower. Regardless, flight-mode is 2-3 clicks away...

• On the post: Don’t Want To Be Part Of A Geofence Warrant Line-Up? You Have Options.

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 30 Oct, 2023 @ 03:37pm

  Easier just to use a shielded sleeve, you can buy them for next to nothing on the net.

• On the post: States All Gang Up To Sue Meta Based On Highly Questionable Theories Of ‘Harm’ To Children

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 25 Oct, 2023 @ 12:49pm

  When a redaction isn't for national security the likelihood that it's for political expediency approaches 100%.

• On the post: Would Elon Pull ExTwitter Out Of The EU To Avoid The DSA Overreach?

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 21 Oct, 2023 @ 01:33pm

  No, the law doesn't work like that and they can't tell the EU to fuck off for the simple reason the companies still do a lot of business in the EU. All this is regulated by different international regulations and treaties which makes sure companies can't operate in other countries in a lawless manner and with no oversight. The only time they can tell the EU to fuck off is when they also stop doing business there.

• On the post: Fifth Circuit: The Government Doesn’t Need To Pay You For The Home It Destroyed To Effect An Arrest

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2023 @ 03:38pm

  This reminds me of Roald Dahl's "Three Little Pigs" from Revolting Rhymes. One takeaway from the story is that you make damn sure who you call to get help.

• On the post: Professor Wrongly Blames Apple For CSAM

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 18 Oct, 2023 @ 01:35pm

  To really solve the problem, ban computers too. Although, that won't really stop the pedophiles violating children in their homes so I also propose that all houses must be made of glass.

• On the post: Media Sites That Have Left Twitter Aren’t Missing The Traffic

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2023 @ 05:17am

  I can understand your confusion, it stems from the fact that you have conflated two things, and it can be answered by a simple question: Do you buy all the magazines/newspapers that have a headline that sparks your interest?

• On the post: Sure, There’s Disinfo On ExTwitter, But The EU Should Not Be Demanding Censorship

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 02:43pm

  when it clearly hasn’t in the countries that have hate speech laws

  You point to the laws while ignoring how the legal system works in those countries in conjunction with other laws, the countries culture and how their separation of powers work. Judging by your arguments I can only conclude you don't understand the difference and nuances in culture between Europe and the US.

• On the post: Facial Recognition Tech Again Fingers The Wrong Person For The Job

  

  Rocky ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2023 @ 02:35pm

  That's exactly how it works

  Randal Reid was identified as the most likely suspect by the facial recognition software and AFAIK fingered is a synonym for identified.

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