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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, regarding text online, most is there fir the visitors to read fir free. So, if we end up treating these AI training like human reading text one could argue they don't have to pay.

  Reddit doesn't pay their users, anyway.

  But personally, philosophically, I don’t see how Microsoft taking NYT articles and turning them into a paid product is any different than Microsoft taking an open source projects that doesn’t allow commercial use and sneaking it into a project.

  Agreed. That said, NYT actually intentionally allows Google and Bing servers to parse their news articles in order to put their articles top in the search results. In that regard they might like certain form of processing by LLMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas, AI critics jumped on the conclusion this one time. Read this:

  Further, OpenAI writes that limiting training data to public domain books and drawings "created more than a century ago" would not provide AI systems that "meet the needs of today's citizens."

  It's a plain fact. It does not say we have to train AI without paying.

  To give you a context, virtually everything on the web is copyrighted, from reddit comments to blog articles to open source software. Even open data usually come with copyright notice. Open research articles also.

  If misled politicians write a law banning the use of copyrighted materials, that'll kill all AI developments in the democratic countries. What will happen is that AI development will be led by dictatorships, and that's absolutely a disaster even for the critics. Think about it. Do we really want Xi, Putin, Netanyahu and Bin Salman to control all the next-gen AIs powering business and techs while the West has to fight them with Siri and Alexa?

  So, it is true that, at the end of the day, we'd have to ask how much should rule-abiding AI companies pay for copyrighted materials.

  However, you can't equate these particular statements in this article to a declaration of fuck-copyright. Tbh Ars Technica disappointed me this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The data is in: Return to Office policies don't improve employee performance or company value, but controlling bosses don't care⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think these managers who love open office don't understand we need individual rooms.

  Also, before talking about returning, there are bigger factors that contribute to productivity. Having a secretary is probably far more important than working in an office.

  And to completely de-motivate to return, I work for my life, not the other way round.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon employees may not get promoted if they violate return-to-office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But do you really want to work in Amazon for long enough to get promotion? Assuming that even happens?

  I don't remember a time my employer promoted me. I always changed my job to promote myself. It's only worse at Amazon, you'd imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to remove news headlines and text in shared articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can't find the URL, but someone made an extension to blur Musk in text and image. I saw it mentioned a few times while on kbin.social.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X plans to remove news headlines and text in shared articles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There's a browser extension for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rare spotless baby giraffe born at Tennessee zoo needs a name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, is this baby spot or spotless?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 90 percent of classic games are ‘critically endangered,’ say archivists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was amused to see Lemmings is now on mobile. Never imagined I'd be able to play it again after like 30 years maybe? I knew there was a browser port, but yeah.