tangeli
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- Comment on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code 1 week ago:
I agree as far as responding to questions and issues that arise from the contribution but my understanding is that from a legal, copyright perspective, if AI generated the code then the contributor can’t own the copyright, nor assign it. So my preference would be: no AI generated code. Other use of AI tools (e.g. finding vulnerabilities) might be OK but there are still the environmental and ethical issues to be concerned with, so I remain ambivalent. It will be interesting to see the decision of the Debian community.
- Comment on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code 1 week ago:
Even if AI generated code can’t be detected reliably, it is good to have a clear policy to guide projects and contributors. At least those contributors acting in good faith and honestly will do the right thing, and projects will have a basis for rejecting contributions from people that are found to willfully or negligently violate the policy. Blocking all malicious actors will be an ongoing effort, whatever the policy.
- Comment on Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: 'Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers' 4 weeks ago:
Maybe shares should be ‘sold’ on subscription, like so many other things these days. You ‘buy’ them but you don’t ’own’ them - you just get the benefits of having them temporarily. That should reduce the incentive to ’own’ shares in companies that are not profitable.
- Comment on The Dead Economy Theory 3 months ago:
Yes, the sociopath, narcissist and billionaires have taken over. There is no more democracy. There is no more rule of law. They do what they want to accumulate more wealth and power and deprive, torture, terrorize and exterminate others as they please, because that’s what they like to do and there is no way to stop them. They have their cults of personality. They have their minions do the violent dirty work for them.
The only way to avoid it is an extremely broadly based rejection of the status quo and promotion of morality and respect for human rights and dignity. There is probably no way, at this point, to end the corruption peacefully. Possibly no way at all. The means of oppression and control are increasingly powerful.
- Comment on The Dead Economy Theory 3 months ago:
It would suffice to stop giving them billions of dollars worth of weapons and a pass on the rule of law.
- Comment on The Dead Economy Theory 3 months ago:
It is not true that nobody wants violence. There are far too many who want violence and who are given the means and liberty to inflict it on others, including kidnapping, torture, murder and even genocide. Not only historically, but currently and ongoing.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
They have a different understanding of ‘benefits’ than I do.
- Comment on Words Without Consequence 6 months ago:
It should be made clear in the law that when LLM output is published a person or other legal entity is responsible for that publication with a duty of care to ensure the output is not harmful. At least until LLMs are recognized as legal entity in their own right. And that publishing the output of an LLM without knowing what was published and deliberately deciding to proceed with that knowledge is, at least, failing a fundamental duty of care as publisher.
- Comment on Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake' 11 months ago:
Yes, but...
Making social media fake is the intention. It's not a failure.
The failure is that the fraud is noticed: the bots and LLMs are not yet good enough to be undetectable.
The fraud will be perfected when LLMs can be fake without feeling fake. At least until the fraudsters have achieved their objectives. After that, will they care how their victims feel? I guess not.