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- Comment on Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” 22 hours ago:
do AI tools understand such a license text and evaluate if they can or cannot use the material?
So, this is the fun part: AI tools don’t auto-ingest material to process it. The developers choose the materials to feed into the models.
And while the tech bros can understand your licenses, they don’t give a flying fuck, because they think they’ll be billionaires beyond consequences by the time anyone discovers that their work in particular has been ripped off.
- Comment on Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers 4 days ago:
So you better spend your time adapting.
They already ruined web search with SEO. Now it just won’t be worth searching for websites at all. We can either accept whatever nonsense the syntax generator spits out, untethered from fact, or we can stop looking altogether.
That’s what you mean by adapt, right? Accept not having access to real information ever again?
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 6 days ago:
If the shareholders can’t capture all of the value for themselves, it’s not going to catch on.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X can’t invent its own copyright law, judge says 6 days ago:
Choosing to miss the forest for the trees here, I see. Being pedantic only brings something to the table if someine doesn’t know the details you’re being a pedant over.
Everybody here knows that legislative bodies pass laws.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 week ago:
No? I said the opposite of that.
The question I was answering was “why aren’t there more employee owned companies?” And the answer is it’s a lot harder to get seed money for those, because the rent seeking parasites don’t want them to exist.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 week ago:
They don’t fulfill the fantasy of being a rent-seeking social parasite.
- Comment on Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board 1 week ago:
Yes, but a long ass time ago. What’s happening here is that he’s not getting his way over something, or he’s gone and done something that we haven’t heard about that will stain the company and he was removed, or he was told his farts still smelled, and he threw a tantrum.
This has all of the hallmarks of a billionaire baby bring told “no” over something for the first time in a while.
- Comment on Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
There are any number of Mastodon forks out there. Misskey and its forks are really good. Pleroma and Akkoma are good, and so is Friendica.
Mastodon has always been an exercise in attention and influence seeking for Gargon. The rest of us don’t need him or it. It’s just a trademark.
- Comment on Why do mobile games suck nowadays? 2 weeks ago:
Money
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 2 weeks ago:
All I wanted from the Switch was a console-only version. I know why it didn’t happen, but I picked mine up on launch day, I’ve played on it every week since, and I’ve used the screen like, a handful of times on one trip the first year I had it.
I haven’t disconnected it from the TV since then. I really didn’t need the handheld form factor.
- Comment on Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t both concerning and also totally in line with every move Gargon’s made along the way. Nope nope nope!
- Comment on GoToSocial is a new ActivityPub social network server for the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
There are no platforms on the Fediverse that do that. There are servers that are refusing and will refuse to communicate with other servers, and that’s their right. If you don’t like their policies, you can pick a different server.
Your power as a user is to select your administrators, by selecting whose server you want to log in to. You don’t get to decide whose content they mirror. If they don’t want to host content from Meta, or from Mastodon.social, or from anywhere else, they don’t have to, and you shouldn’t be able to force them to.
This isn’t a mainframe and client system. There’s no “fediverse” server out there that the different instances are gating. There’s just 10 thousand partial mirrors, each offering local access to that mirrored content.
If you want complete and total control over what content is being hosted where ever you’re logged in, host your own server. That’s your other option.
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 3 weeks ago:
Publicly traded companies are not compelled by law to maximize profits. That’s a long standing myth.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Karma is a net negative for actual community creation and meaningful discussion.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Discord has no uses that isn’t already covered by other options, though. Their biggest feature is publicity.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
Host the project in a country where IP laws don’t give Nintendo any teeth.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? 5 weeks ago:
They have a whiff of the possibility of AIG becoming a reality.
They also had a wiff of NFTs letting them sell and claim royalties on JPEGs. This isn’t about some grand vision if humanity’s future, it’s about becoming the next Silicon Valley billionaire, or dethroning the richest man in the world. If the next big tech get-rich-quick scheme comes along, the novelty of their very expensive autocomplete and JPEG mashup projects will be dead, and they’ll take their dollrs on to the next fad.
He’s looking at this as an echo of past Silicone Valley bubbles. It so much more than that.
Citation-fucking-needed.
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
No one owns ActivityPub
No, but they can become the biggest, most influential voice in how it contimues to develop.
The methods of regulatory capture work well beyond regulatory bodies.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 1 month ago:
Importantly, “vote with your wallet” is also straight up enabling discussion where those who have the most dollars have the most votes is taken for granted.
This is not how we want to run a society. We can already see the results of it, and they’re incredibly not good.
- Comment on You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse 1 month ago:
This is, on the whole, a good thing. One should be able to have access to their politicians via piblicly accessible means, and the fedi is exactly that.
It’s a giant shame that it’s still being moderated by a tech billionaire, though.
- Comment on Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality 1 month ago:
Searching
Literally the worst possible usage. They’re syntax generators, not search engines, and not knowledge fonts.
- Comment on But Claude said tumor! 1 month ago:
And they should no more replace doctors in the future than x-ray machines did in the past. We should never want them to.
- Comment on But Claude said tumor! 1 month ago:
Eh. Depends on which tech is being used and how. For a lot of things, relatively basic ML models purposefully trained do a pretty good job, and are, in fact, limited by the diagnoses in the training data. But more generalized “AI” tools seem rather… questionable.
Like, you can train a SVM on fMRIs to compare structures in the brain between patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder and those that are not diagnosed with it, and it will have an accuracy rate on new patients basically equal to the accuracy rate of the doctors who did the diagnosing in the training set. But you’ll have a much harder time creating a model that takes in fMRIs and reports back answers to the question of “which brain disease or abnormality do I have?”
This stuff works much closer to advertised when it’s narrowly defined and purpose built, but the people making and funding this work want catch-all doctor replacements, because of course they do, because there’s way more money in charging hospitals and patience 10% less than a doctor’s salary than there is in providing tools that make doctors’ efforts in diagnosing specific illnesses easier.
Or, at least there is if you can pull it off.
- Comment on Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? 1 month ago:
I didn’t say otherwise, and I didn’t ask you to defend anything. Sometimes, one just continues a discussion or talking point.
- Comment on Is Threads Hiding Mentions of Pixelfed? 1 month ago:
What kind of bug blocks mention of competitor?
They’ve demonstrated that they have a global blacklist of terms, and that some competing services are on it. It could have been an accident (though I’m not sure how), but it certainly wasn’t a bug. The blacklist is clearly working just fine.
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
Also, corporations aren’t “someones”.
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
This.
There’s no “fediverse” to join. It’s not an actual place with boundaries and codified rules, beyond those imposed by the communication protocol.
It’s a free association content sharing network, and free association includes the freedom to not associate.
- Comment on Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled 1 month ago:
The only thing that seems to have changed is that he stopped pretending in public. Fired his PR people or something. Interviews with people who have… experienced him first hand point to his behaviour being consistent and repugnant since he was in his early 20s.
There is no mixed bag. Just the desire in people who once believed in him to pretend that they didn’t enable a toxic narcissist.
- Comment on Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked 1 month ago:
all over the place
Speak for your own location.
Also, “crypto works as a functional currency, which can be demonstrated by how you need to sell it for cash in order actually buy anything with it” isn’t the argument you think it is.
- Comment on Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked 1 month ago:
And people continue to mock cryptocurrencies.
And rightfully so. They’ve demonstrated their lack of worth as an actual medium of trade, and have wasted an alarming amount of electricity, while pumping an unconscionable amount of carbon into the atmosphere for jack-fucking-shit.