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  • I'm aware. But if you read my explanation a little more carefully, you'll see that the argument being made is that this de facto constitutes a form of lossy compression.

    The easy comparison is that a JPEG does not store an "original" image, but it contains information that can be used to almost perfectly recreate that image, with the help of a little math.

    If the same argument can be said to hold true of LLMs - and yes, that is very much a load-bearing "if" - then they would constitute a form of lossy compression.

  • Consider this; if a guy says he's straight, that means he's into women, right?

    Which means he's attracted to every single woman who has ever existed, regardless of appearance, body type, hair, age, skin colour, weight....

    Obviously not. That would be insane. So these categories aren't absolute or all encompassing.

    What about a guy who says he likes blondes. Does that mean he's never allowed to be attracted to a redhead? If his blonde girlfriend dyes her hair, does she suddenly become absolutely repulsive? If a girl he otherwise has no attraction dyes her hair blonde is he automatically going to find her sexy as hell?

    So if someone says they're straight, that's really about as meaningful as saying you like blondes. It, broadly, expresses a preference. Nothing more.

    The only difference is that societally, we're taught to treat one of these things as absolutely fundamental to our identity and the other as largely inconsequential. But in truth they both carry about as much weight.

    The reality is, you're attracted to who you're attracted to. That's all there is to it. The idea of trying to define your sexuality, in any absolute way, is completely pointless. You are you. There has never been anyone else exactly like you in the history of the universe and there will never be anyone exactly like you ever again. Your preferences are as unique as you are. So whether you prefer the term gay, straight, bi, pan, queer or anything else just doesn't matter. It's only a way of communicating a general concept, nothing more.

    Now, I want to be absolutely clear about something here; I am not suggesting that these words are not important. They are, because the ideas that they communicate can change someone's life. But they're only important as a tool for communication; they don't define, and they should never constrain.

    So if you think of yourself as straight and then one day you meet a pre-op trans woman and think she's the hottest person you've ever met in your life, it's up to you to define for yourself what that means. It's absolutely no one else's business.

  • If x or any other company downloaded CSAM everyone in the company should be arrested.

    I assume you cannot possibly mean that as written, right?

    I'm absolutely for arresting anyone who was involved with this, or had knowledge that it was happening. But we're obviously not talking about going after Jane the intern here, right?

  • Sure. Never argued against that. I was discussing the assertion that the model itself would be illegal as a result. Different thing.

  • In all seriousness, there are some very interesting legal questions that will be raised if this case makes it that far.

    The problem is that there's no existing law that would effect this on its own. To my knowledge, no country in the world has a law on the books specifically dealing with AI models trained on CSAM. So the question, under existing laws, would turn on whether the data stored within the model itself would constitute CSAM.

    The problem, in no small part, is that we have serious gaps in our public consensus knowledge about how LLMs actually work.

    There's a case that, AFAIK, is still being argued in Germany pushing the theory that LLMs actually do, in effect, store a copy of all their training data, just in a compressed form. This certainly seems to hold some water given both the tests they relied on, and the situation with this Jane Doe where the model produced images so alike to real images of her that they tripped hash detections.

    The German case argues that this is analogous to the difference between an MP3 and a WAV, or a JPEG and a PNG. That sharing a lossy copy of a work is no less infringing just because it's imperfect.

    If the underlying claim - that LLMs function as a form of lossy compression - can be substantiated then there would be a real argument that the model itself would constitute CSAM. Since there would be no realistic method that I'm aware of for removing the offending material from the model - and presumably SpaceX would have to somehow prove that they've done so - that would make the entire model contraband. They'd have to retrain on a clean dataset.

    Of course I said "if the case makes it that far" at the top because I don't think it will. SpaceX will do anything and everything to avoid handing over meaningful discovery in this case, including, I suspect, outright destruction of evidence. If there is anything that actually proves that they used CSAM in the training data then they are so far beyond fucked that there's simply no downside to further illegality in pursuit of concealing their crimes. They have the world's wealthiest asshole in a position to throw literal billions at making this go away. I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if people turn up dead off the back of this if that's what it takes.

  • I'm curious about what the client would be in this context. Does it require a desktop environment, or just an X server? Are you using an existing web browser, or are you rendering web content directly in the app?

  • You're thinking of Venezuela.

  • Doesn't matter to Nvidia. It's just about having a plan B if all those future orders start to collapse.

  • Which also means that this won't actually affect customer prices in the slightest. Those companies will just pocket the 25% discount on their input costs.

  • No surprise that it's Argentina, whose president is friends with Trump.

  • Awesome, thank you

  • I don't see this going anywhere. The companies bought the books, what they do with them after that is their business. Reprehensible, yes, but a massive stretch to consider this illegal.

    There's also a lot of ground between "Buying one copy of a book to scan" and "Destroying all copies of a book." If they're buying these in bulk it's because there's bulk to buy. Anything rare enough to be available in single digit numbers is selling at auction for six figures.

    Look, I get it, this sucks, but there aren't exactly a lot of legal remedies here. This is more of a "Capitalism fucking sucks and we need to dismantle it" kind of deal.

  • This is dementia.

    What happens is that pathways in your brain start to break down, so when you're trying to form a connection, the connection just isn't there. But what your brain does is it tries to be "helpful" by routing around the damaged pathway without even telling you that it's doing this.

    So part way through trying to talk about bond markets, something he doesn't really have a deep pool of knowledge on to begin with, Trump's brain ran into a block. To fix the issue, it took the last word - intervention - and formed a pathway from there. This lead to "military", kind of like an LLM losing context but continuing its next word guessing.

    He probably finished out the sentence without even realizing that it has zero connection to the original question he was supposed to be answering.

  • Well observed. It's far from the only example. You can go back as far as the earliest written literature and find examples of male vulnerability. From Gilgamesh and Enkidu to Odysseus to so very many others. Jesus cries openly in front of his disciples. Judas kisses him as a greeting.

    The biggest shift happens in the 20th Century, as men grow increasingly afraid of being perceived as queer.

    With that being said, we should not fall into the trap of lionizing the past here either. Ancient Greece was spectacularly queer and spectacularly sexist. They also had their forms of strict gender roles, even between men who were openly fucking each other.

    Ultimately, strictly defined gender roles have always been a problem. Especially for women, who often get overlooked in these discussions when they're framed in this particular way. It's true that how those roles have been defined has changed over the decades and centuries, but it doesn't erase our underlying tendency to constrain ourselves with definitions.

  • Most importantly, love requires both partners to be emotionally vulnerable, right? So then under gender roles, men can't love women, only objectify them? Wouldn't this make society one giant trauma factory where men are traumatized into detached sociopathy and women are traumatized into servitude?

    Yep.

    So what the hell are conservatives doing in relationships?

    Exactly what you just said.

    Are they all loveless relationships, or did all of the men cheat their gender role to develop romantic feelings?

    A little column A, a little column B

    If men didn't cheat a little in the past decades where gender roles were the strongest, shouldn't we see a kind of generational trauma so severe that violent crime is rampant and secure attachment is very scarce?

    Looks around at the state of the world... Yeah, sounds about right.

    (Most of that violent crime is in the form of unreported domestic violence, and that lack of secure attachment is masked by relationships held together by obligation.)

    Glibness aside, you're 100% correct, and the reason you're struggling is because oh boy is it hard to be slapped in the face by this realization all in one go.

    Is love possible under rigorously enforced traditional gender roles? Yes, of a sort, but it will never be healthy. It will never be truly free and alive.

    But when we say "traditional gender roles", do note how I added the "rigorously enforced" there. Breaking out of the conservative mold does not require you to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

    I work in IT, I dress, look and act very masculine, I have a basement full of power tools, I know more than anyone should about guns, I play violent video games, I have a dog, I like to fire up the smoker on a Sunday and cook some ribs... There are plenty of ways that I fit the ideal of traditional male gender roles. And there are plenty of ways that I don't. I could talk about the small ones, but the most significant would be that I'm bisexual, and I'm married to a woman who is in the army. And not, like, a clerk or something, she's infantry. Could kick my ass ten times over, and I'm very comfortable with that.

    The thing about traditional ideas of gender is that once you understand that they're bullshit, you're no longer required to accept the bad with the good. You get to pick and choose what you want from the buffet. My wife is one of the toughest motherfuckers you will ever meet, and a lot of her interests skew more "manly". She likes military history, she's a gun nerd, she plays shooters and complicated strategy games. But she still likes to dress up pretty and put on makeup, and she still likes to curl up in my arms and be the little spoon. I can cry at sad movies, but I can also be the tall, strong man who will wrap her up in his arms when she's sad or stressed.

    It's not an either/or. It's a whatever you want. Be the person you are most comfortable being, whatever that may. Because the best part is, when you are your most genuine self, people will be drawn to that. There is nothing, nothing more attractive than someone who truly knows who they are and gives zero fucks what anyone else thinks. The more you shed the rules that were imposed upon you, and the rules you imposed upon yourself, the more you grow into a version of you that makes you happy, the more people will be drawn to that. Don't worry about trying to be someone else's ideal. Be your own ideal. The rest will happen naturally.

  • Favorite lyric is the sort of thing that changes constantly, but my favorite lyricist right now is undoubtedly Vessel from Sleep Token

    Man just casually busts out bars like

    "My, my, those eyes like fire, I'm a winged insect, you're a funeral pyre"

    And

    "Even if the earth breaks like burnt skin, And the heavens just won't open up for me"

    But I'm also going to give a shout out to The Midnight for some genuinely insane lines.

    "If the rent's too high we'll just buy cheaper wine" is one of the most uncomfortably present lyrics I have ever heard.

  • A snail goes into a pub, comes up to the bar and orders a beer.

    Bartender says "You taking the piss mate? We don't serve molluscs here."

    Snail, outraged, asks why not.

    The bartender refuses to elaborate, and just tells the snail to piss off.

    "Listen," says the snail, "I'm not leaving until I get my beer."

    At this point the bartender has had enough of this. He picks up the snail in one hand and hurls him out the door.

    Two years later, the bartender is there, getting ready for the evening rush, when the same snail appears in the doorway.

    Bartender looks at him and says "You again?"

    Snail looks back and says "Hey man, what the hell?"

  • Could you tell us what that app is?

    And yes, the fact that they blast out amber alerts at the same level as "imminent nuclear attack" is unbelievably stupid. There's no justification for it whatsoever.