mindbleach

Yeah, the ideal is both a society where guns are only a risky hobby, and a democracy where things happen because more people want them.

These are achievable goals - but we're definitely not there, at present.

Punch the shake!

Well aside, the poor readability of title case is really underlined by maintaining the lowercase T in 'X the Y.'

Bullying is a triangular dynamic where the obvious response to abuse is treated as justification for the initial abuse. It's dishonest performance for an audience - as if you didn't just tell me I sound like AI, so how dare I act like that's plainly what you wrote and meant. You're attacking my character, but I said you're wrong in a tiresome way, so reverse victim and offender.

I've never used an LLM to write anything. Y'all genuinely do not know what it looks like, but you are cocksure you see it when you don't like something, and you insist you don't like something when you think you see it.

Nope, first sale doctrine. Buying commercial tapes for a rental store is explicitly legal no matter what it says on the box.

Shrinkwrap and EULAs are the same damn thing and should never have been entertained as enforceable.

There is no license required because it's fair use. Copyright is not an obstacle. Again: not verbatim, not competing, not detrimental. Doing math about video is protected for the same reason parody is protected.

When you're appealing to conservative decisions that were just Calvinball to promote bigotry, reconsider your politics.

Ad-hoc appeals, not principled application of how things actually work. Visiting a video hosting site anonymously, and being sent a video, is not "piracy." Even training on Disney DVDs is transformative and so falls under fair use. No significant portion of a vast original corpus is recreated verbatim - in this case, ideally none of the corpus appears. The goal is to produce nothing like these videos.

Or if this is for classifiers instead of generators, nothing appears, because Meta's not publishing anything. They're looking at porn to make a program that goes 'yep, that's porn,' to remove any hosted porn.

So it's not a competing work, it doesn't substantially reproduce the original work, it's not even the same medium, and if anything it's protecting the commercial value of the original work.

Why isn't Vivaldi browser open-source?

Nah.

Mozilla sets the bar very low, and competitors still can't clear it.

Obligatory link to Well There's Your Problem episode about all this nonsense.

I don't care if kids see porn. They'll live.

Stop fucking with adults and blaming that goal.

Well, yes, Ben. And next month there will be weather. Stating the obvious isn't worthwhile unless you can be a bit more specific.

After that happens - users will still have local models. The mountain of whitepapers will allow future research at smaller scale than 'as much money as possible.' Grifters moving on will reveal the tasks the chatbot-that-codes is useful for. Maybe artists will stop performatively rejecting any uses of the CGI-for-dummies denoiser. Maybe.