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antonim

@ antonim @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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  • Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything

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  • But people still complain about CGI in film, likely for the same reason it was criticised in the past that you mention - it looks like ass, if done cheaply (today) or with early underdeveloped tech (back in the past). Similarly so, the vast majority of AI-generated images look lazy, generic (duh) and basically give me the "ick".

    Yeah, maybe they'll get better in the future. But does that mean that we can't complain about their ugliness (or whatever other issue we have with them) now?

  • 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'

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  • It’s not Meta vs us, but opensource vs Google and Openai.

    I never said it's Meta vs us. It's Meta vs (in this particular case) the book publishing industry. You can't reduce the whole situation to open source vs closed source, there's other "axes" at play here as well.

    They are being sued for copyright infringement when it’s clearly highly transformative

    They downloaded the entire Libgen and more. Going by the traditional explanations of piracy, that's like stealing several hundred bookstores worth of books all at once, and then claiming it's alright because your own writing is not plagiarised from any of the books you've stolen. (Piracy is not the same as actual stealing of course, but countless people have been being legally bullied and ruined with that logic.) Meta also got its data from Internet Archive; unless they only obtained their materials that are public domain or under a similar license, they've obtained a lot of material that IA has been sentenced for allowing unlimited access to back in 2020 (if you've followed the Hachette v. Internet Archive case). The brainfucking conclusion of your and Facebook's case is that using illegal services is perfectly legal as long as you sufficiently transform the results of the illegal activity.

    The rules are fine as is

    Actually they're not. Copyright law is insanely restrictive, and I don't think you've dealt much with media if you think it's fine (but I don't wish to delve into this further as it's beyond the scope of discussion).

    Meta isn’t the one trying to change them

    Of course they're not trying to change them, that's the point, they will get away with breaking them while being perfectly fine with other actors not being able to do so.

  • 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'

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  • 'Meta Torrented over 81 TB of Data Through Anna's Archive, Despite Few Seeders'

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  • If the existence of open source LLMs hinges on the benevolence of one of the few most cancerous tech companies in the world, maybe they're not really worth it?

    This isn't about "heroes" and "villains". Facebook has been and has stayed the "villain", they've done something colossally illegal that any mere mortal would be sued to death for (by an another "villainous" instance, the media system that has made piracy a necessity in the first place), and they're hoping to get away with it simply on technicalities and by having more money for better lawyers. Rules are rules, if you don't like them maybe Facebook should try to change them (and not just for themselves, but for the rest of us too)?

  • Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors

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  • That sounds like it would require way more effort to maintain than the existing Wikipedia model.

  • Heritage Foundation plans to doxx and target Wikipedia editors

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  • How would that function?

  • Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com

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  • Yeah tbh, it's just two shady companies trying to out-cheat each other.

  • Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com

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  • Lemmy hug of... life?

  • Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first

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  • I clicked on this thread only to figure out what that title is supposed to mean.

  • What was the last original movie you saw and how did you watch it?

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  • Have you actually looked at that list? It's incredibly inconsistent and chaotic. "Story structure" is not some objective universally measurable thing in the first place, and nobody in their right mind would claim that originality can be realised only in story structure.

    Overall this is a weird and pointless topic that you picked to argue about.

  • What was the last original movie you saw and how did you watch it?

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  • So they take the risk of watching a movie that is somehow familiar to them ahead of watching it, and that might also be bad.

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  • I use W10 and I've gotten two full-screen ads for W11 in the last two weeks.

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  • John Cage - 4'33'' megamix

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  • Chiquita and Nestlé come to mind. Within tech industry, I'd say Amazon and probably Microsoft are worse as well, and there's probably a ton of potentially even worse companies lurking in the shadows outside the top of the economic food chain.

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  • I'm worrying that whatever gets sold (Chrome or Android) might end up in the hands of someone even more scummy than Google.

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  • I believed it completely at first too, perhaps we even saw the same headline...

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  • I've already seen this exact same claim these days, so now I decided to try and find out what's happening exactly.

    https://www.dw.com/en/indiadropsevolution/a-65804720

    Apparently, it happened last year, not just now, as you said, and I'm sure I've already seem someone else (maybe on Lemmy, maybe on reddit) also describe it as a very recent event.

    However I can't find absolutely anything else regarding the topic. So I tried googling in Hindi instead, with the help of some machine translation.

    https://www.aajtak.in/education/news/story/pythagoras-theorem-has-vedic-has-roots-karnataka-panel-proposes-to-sanskrit-as-a-third-language-1496805-2022-07-10

    This is the only piece of news I've managed to find, again not very recent, and not nearly as dramatic as the DW article makes it out to be. Some official has described the Pythagorean theorem as 'fake news' because that same theorem had already been developed in India before Pythagoras, i.e. the point is that the name is a misnomer. They say nothing about removing the theorem.

    The reduction of teaching of the periodic table and evolution that DW mentions is also explained in the PDF that the article links as mere reorganisation of the topics due to the circumstances (difficulties in teaching during corona). They don't suggest actual removal of the topics. (The PDF is an official explanation from the Indian "National Council of Educational Research and Training".)

    I'm getting the impression DW is just fearmongering. Ideally there should be some article with exact and complete quotes in Hindi. I know that media freedom in India is not great (esp. considering the situation with Wikipedia), and it's probably not easy to get to the bottom of it, but this story looks very suspicious.

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  • Isnt the dog the first thing people think of when seeing “doge”?

    It used to be so, but in recent several years Doge has lived and pretty much been defined in public consciousness by the cryptocurrency, which Musk has openly endorsed/memed.

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  • Yeah, totally makes sense, "they" attacked IA one month in advance before the elections, knowing that IA would spend around a month rewriting and improving their site code until the Save Page option would be enabled again (unless IA themselves are a part of the plot???), so that news articles could be "edited on the fly" (with what result?) until the election day, while other similar web archiving services such as archive.is would keep working just fine.

  • Censorship is getting out of hand

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  • clbottomt when the chtopt shows up [imagine this as that popular GIF meme]