If you want a clue to what the political implications of MA’s brand of techno-optimism are, one of the “patron saints” he lists is this fellow, author of The Fascist Manifesto: Filippo Marinetti.
I honestly think that throws the term “techno-optimist” right out the Overton window. If your ideas differ, it would be appropriate to coin another term to describe yourselves.
In using an analogy to Google snippets, the author inadvertently undermines his own argument.
The snippets are packages of meaning, created by a 3rd party, clearly covered by the statute.
The tokens used by large text models (here, I’m using computational linguist David Schlangen’s term for them, recognizing that language is more than just text) are much smaller units of meaning than the excerpts used in snippets.
The work done by the website in labeling (that’s original content), creating training datasets (admittedly, editorial content), providing human feedback (if using reinforcement learning with human feedback for training), and finally generating the content token-by-token using copyright-protected models they’ve generated through that act of creation seems to demonstrate that it’s their own content, not curated 3rd party content.
It’s the size of the units of meaning that are mixed and matched using my expertise that matters.
To use an analogy: if i make you a martini, and it’s horrible, you’ll blame the rotgut gin I used.
I can take your water, his yeast, her malt and ferment a tasty beverage or an undrinkable mess, but it will be my beer you either enjoy or not, not yours, his, and hers.
Size matters, especially in units of meaning with respect to this statute.
If his intention wasn’t to joke about genocide, wouldn’t he have said something like, “Me and the boys about to violate a nonaggression pact” or “Me and the boys about to make France into vichyssoise” or “Me and the boys about to lose a war.
Honestly, Hogan’s Heroes made 168 half-hour episodes of comedy involving “foreign military hats of the WW2 period” without making a single genocide joke.
If you’re thinking about genocide, I guess that’s the first joke that comes to your mind.
But refusing to educate the boy so he learns how his joke was both not funny and makes people feel unsafe seems like an abdication of responsibility.
The legislation specifically authorizes filming by occupants of a vehicle during a car stop "as long the occupants are not interfering with lawful police actions."
If a cop orders you to exit the vehicle and you're within 8 feet, does that mean you have to stop filming?
The lawsuit actually states that non of the parents consented to their childrens' use. An example paragraph.
Christina Arlington has not entered into a User Agreement or other contractual relationship with TikTok herein in connection with Lalani Walton’s use of Defendants’ social media product.
That seems to mean that there's some liability for TikTok there?
It’s very easy to say that parents should have been more involved, especially given the ages of the victims here.
Given that TikTok was the subject of a settlement having to do with obtaining parental consent, I’m surprised that wasn’t raised here. Is there another COPPA aspect to this case?
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“Patron saint” of techno-optimism Filippo Marinetti
If you want a clue to what the political implications of MA’s brand of techno-optimism are, one of the “patron saints” he lists is this fellow, author of The Fascist Manifesto: Filippo Marinetti. I honestly think that throws the term “techno-optimist” right out the Overton window. If your ideas differ, it would be appropriate to coin another term to describe yourselves.
It’s the tokens that matter
In using an analogy to Google snippets, the author inadvertently undermines his own argument. The snippets are packages of meaning, created by a 3rd party, clearly covered by the statute. The tokens used by large text models (here, I’m using computational linguist David Schlangen’s term for them, recognizing that language is more than just text) are much smaller units of meaning than the excerpts used in snippets. The work done by the website in labeling (that’s original content), creating training datasets (admittedly, editorial content), providing human feedback (if using reinforcement learning with human feedback for training), and finally generating the content token-by-token using copyright-protected models they’ve generated through that act of creation seems to demonstrate that it’s their own content, not curated 3rd party content. It’s the size of the units of meaning that are mixed and matched using my expertise that matters. To use an analogy: if i make you a martini, and it’s horrible, you’ll blame the rotgut gin I used. I can take your water, his yeast, her malt and ferment a tasty beverage or an undrinkable mess, but it will be my beer you either enjoy or not, not yours, his, and hers. Size matters, especially in units of meaning with respect to this statute.
If his intention wasn’t to joke about genocide, wouldn’t he have said something like, “Me and the boys about to violate a nonaggression pact” or “Me and the boys about to make France into vichyssoise” or “Me and the boys about to lose a war. Honestly, Hogan’s Heroes made 168 half-hour episodes of comedy involving “foreign military hats of the WW2 period” without making a single genocide joke. If you’re thinking about genocide, I guess that’s the first joke that comes to your mind. But refusing to educate the boy so he learns how his joke was both not funny and makes people feel unsafe seems like an abdication of responsibility.
what about car stops?
The legislation specifically authorizes filming by occupants of a vehicle during a car stop "as long the occupants are not interfering with lawful police actions." If a cop orders you to exit the vehicle and you're within 8 feet, does that mean you have to stop filming?
Parental Consent issue
The lawsuit actually states that non of the parents consented to their childrens' use. An example paragraph.
That seems to mean that there's some liability for TikTok there?TikTok has the benefit of an engineering and moderation team in the thousands, as well as state-of-the-art machine learning and moderation technology.