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sab , (edited ) to technology in Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI

Nah.

By default an AI will draw from its entire memory, and so will have lots of different influences. But by tuning your prompt (or restricting your input dataset) you can make it so specific, it’s basically creating near perfect clones. And contrary to a human, it can then produce similar works hundreds of times per minute.

But even that is beside the point. Those works were sold under the presumption that people will read them. Not to ingest them into a LLM or text-to-image model. And now, companies like openai and others profit from the models they trained without permission from the original author. That’s just wrong.

Edit: As several people mentioned, I exaggerated when I said near perfect clones, I’ll admit that. But just because it doesn’t violate copyright (IANAL), doesn’t mean it’s ethical to take a work and make derivatives of it on an unlimited scale.

sab , to technology in Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI

Humans with imperfect memories being influenced by a work <> AI language models being trained on a work.

sab , to fediverse in Sibling communities: A middle way

The problem with that is that you lose out on part of the comments.

sab , to fediverse in Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice?

That would still create a fragmented comment situation. Ideally, the server should be aware of “sister communities”, so it could merge the comment threads, or at least tell the client to do so. But that has all kinds of moderation implications, as noted elsewhere.

In the end you’re either doing federation on community level (which would require another level of federation administration - you can’t just merge like-named communities from Any instance), or you’d have to convince 1 community to go read only and refer to the “defacto” community.

The first one has a lot of technical hurdles (servers and clients would have to adapt, and then community admins would be responsible for deciding who to federate their communities with). The second depends on mods giving up their community, which is unlikely and undesirable in case of defederation. Or option 3: keep the status quo, of course.

sab , to technology in Amazon is seeing some employees quit instead of moving to a new state as part of relocation mandate

Depending on the jobs, also Google, Microsoft, etc…

sab , to technology in Elon: do as I says, but I don't have too....

Why would these people blocking each other have any influence on whether you stay on or leave twitter?

Is this /c/technology or /c/circlejerk?

sab , to linux in Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?

First off all, the components are selected for the Linux compatibility, so it’s guaranteed to work. But they also provide some tools to make sure you use the preferred drivers, a control center tool for customising fan speeds, etc. All of which are open source. They even provide the windows drivers for all configs for when you want to dusk boot (and those are even fairly up to date).

sab , to technology in How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead

I don’t think an AI or indeed most writers could mimic anything like the frantic ad-libbing he was known and loved for.

I’m not convinced. If you trained a model on all of his performances and scripts, I think it could generate something that could fool most people. Not everything it generates would be terrific, but even if only 1% is good, you just cut out all the rest.

And that’s at the current state of tech.

sab , to linux in Why do people still recommend Thinkpads for Linux when there are Linux-oriented manufacturers now?

Bought my last few laptops from Tuxedo. Their 13" infinibook can be quite noisy, but I’m having a blast with the Polaris I bought last year.

sab , to technology in ‘You’re Telling Me in 2023, You Still Have a ’Droid?’ Why Teens Hate Android Phones / A recent survey of teens found that 87% have iPhones, and don’t plan to switch

But the article just keeps asking if I’m a robot

At some point you’ll just have to come to terms with it.

sab , to technology in A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

Yeah, that about sums it up.

sab , to technology in In His Latest Threat to Public Safety, Elon Musk Says Twitter Will Remove Option to Block Users

Overexaggerating headlines online? I thought that trend was as old as news sites itself.

sab , to technology in A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.

These are the same promises the emergence of the blockchain gave us. We’re now nearly a decade later, and the most useful application has been get-rich-quick schemes. Yet, all these listed applications are still not in use, and/or better than their non-blockchain counterparts.

Hell, if you know why electronic voting is not, and will never be a good idea, you definitely wouldn’t want them as an NFT.

sab , to technology in X is working on ID verification, what’s next?

Absolutely. Like I said, I needed it for work, but there’s nothing Facebook could give me that would be worth their spying.

sab , to technology in X is working on ID verification, what’s next?

Very.

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