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Womble

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  • How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?

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  • Obviously its important, but pretending its not political doesnt make any sense. If a community doesnt want to discuss politics (and as far as I've seen the OP didnt say which community this was in) then its a reasonable post to remove.

  • DeepSeek's V3 AI model gets a major upgrade - here's what's new

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  • It does not, unless you run weights that someone else has modified to remove the baked in censorship. If you run the unmodified weights released by deepseek it will refuse to answer most things that the CCP dont like being discussed.

  • How is content like this banned on .ml for being "political"?

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  • Of course its political, what else would it be? You are talking about peoples rights (a political concept) being breached by an administration (poltical) using an arm of the government (political) as a paramilitary force (political).

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    Corporate sponsored social media.

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  • Perhaps, I think its more likely that active moderation is the cause of that rather than word lists that let p!ss, pi$s and pιss through when trying to block piss.

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    Corporate sponsored social media.

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  • The Scunthorpe problem is hard, and any simple blacklist method is bound to give both false positives and false negatives.

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  • Not the parent, but LLMs dont solve anything, they allow more work with less effort expended in some spaces. Just as horse drawn plough didnt solve any problem that couldnt be solved by people tilling the earth by hand.

    As an example my partner is an academic, the first step on working on a project is often doing a literature search of existing publications. This can be a long process and even more so if you are moving outside of your typical field into something adjacent (you have to learn what excatly you are looking for). I tried setting up a local hosted LLM powered research tool that you can ask it a question and it goes away, searches arxiv for relevant papers, refines its search query based on the abstracts it got back and iterates. At the end you get summaries of what it thinks is the current SotA for the asked question along with a list of links to papers that it thinks are relevant.

    Its not perfect as you'd expect but it turns a minute typing out a well thought question into hours worth of head start into getting into the research surrounding your question (and does it all without sending any data to OpenAI et al). That getting you over the initial hump of not knowing exactly where to start is where I see a lot of the value of LLMs.

  • Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted

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  • Yeah, fair enough, I was refering to posts and comments not other metadata because that isnt publicly available just as a get request (as far as I'm aware)

  • Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted

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  • Everything on the Fediverse is almost certainly scraped, and will be repeatedly. You cant "protect" content that is freely available on a public website.

  • Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

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  • Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

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  • If viruses have free will when they are machines made out of rna which just inject code into other cells to make copies of themselves then the concept is meaningless (and also applies to computer programs far simpler than llms).

  • Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

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  • So where does it end? Slugs, mites, krill, bacteria, viruses? How do you draw a line that says free will this side of the line, just mechanics and random chance this side of the line?

    I just dont find it a particularly useful concept.

  • Trump thinks he humiliated Zelensky. He really humiliated the United States

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  • No, they dont

    When the United States moved to recognize the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and de-recognize the Republic of China (ROC) in 1979, the United States stated that the government of the People’s Republic of China was “the sole legal Government of China.” Sole, meaning the PRC was and is the only China, with no consideration of the ROC as a separate sovereign entity.

    The United States did not, however, give in to Chinese demands that it recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan (which is the name preferred by the United States since it opted to de-recognize the ROC). Instead, Washington acknowledged the Chinese position that Taiwan was part of China. For geopolitical reasons, both the United States and the PRC were willing to go forward with diplomatic recognition despite their differences on this matter. When China attempted to change the Chinese text from the original acknowledge to recognize, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher told a Senate hearing questioner, “[W]e regard the English text as being the binding text. We regard the word ‘acknowledge’ as being the word that is determinative for the U.S.” In the August 17, 1982, U.S.-China Communique, the United States went one step further, stating that it had no intention of pursuing a policy of “two Chinas” or “one China, one Taiwan.”

    To this day, the U.S. “one China” position stands: the United States recognizes the PRC as the sole legal government of China but only acknowledges the Chinese position that Taiwan is part of China. Thus, the United States maintains formal relations with the PRC and has unofficial relations with Taiwan. The “one China” policy has subsequently been reaffirmed by every new incoming U.S. administration. The existence of this understanding has enabled the preservation of stability in the Taiwan Strait, allowing both Taiwan and mainland China to pursue their extraordinary political and socioeconomic transitions in relative peace.

    As is confirmed in your first link, the USA acknowledges that the Chinese position is that Taiwan is a part of China, and recognise that the PRC is the government of China, they deliberately do not say if they consider Taiwan a part of China or not.

  • Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media

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  • There's a vast gulf between automated moderation systems deleting posts and calling the cops on someone.

  • Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media

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  • Look, Reddit bad, AI bad. Engaging with anything more that the most surface level reactions is hard so why bother?

    At a recent conference in Qatar, he said AI could even "unlock" a system where people use "sliders" to "choose their level of tolerance" about certain topics on social media.

    That combined with a level of human review for people who feel they have been unfairly auto-moderated seems entirely reasonable to me.

  • Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

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  • Ok, but then you run into why does billions of vairables create free will in a human but not a computer? Does it create free will in a pig? A slug? A bacterium?

  • Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns

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  • Ok, but thats becuase Germany is producing and using less energy, by about 15%. So it is hardly surprising that the water used in the energy sector is down by a similar amount. X happened and afterwards Y happened does not mean X is the cause of Y.

  • Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns

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  • I think it has more to do with the 15% downturn in German industrial output over the same timespan due to the reliance on Russian gas now having to be replaced with LNG.

  • Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

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  • eh, the entireity of training GPT4 and the whole world using it for a year turns out to be about 1% of the gasoline burnt just by the USA every single day. Its barely a rounding error when it comes to energy usage.

  • If it is worth keeping, save it in Markdown

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  • The articles point was that markdown (or other similar utf-8 text based documents) is the best guarantee you have for the files being usable into the indefinite future. As you get into the complicated formats of things like word processors the less likely that format will be meaningfully usable in 10,20,50 years time, good luck reading a obsolete word processor file from the 80s today.