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countablenewt Sam Clemente @allthingstech.social

šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ | Autistic | Developer behind Routines, Just. Weather., and FediReader | Writer for AllThingsTech blog | Occasionally a YouTuber | USBC Shill | OLED enjoyer | Bird denier | Pluto defender | Oxford comma rights activist | Gluten havenā€™t-er | Intolerant of lactose | Fahrenheit \> Celsius (climate only) | Metric preferred (except climate)

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What's a recent personal accomplishment of yours that you are proud of and why are you proud of it?
  • @BackOnMyBS It's been a lot of trial and error mostly, but that's my general framework, it varies by person, someone who understands autism more is usually a little easier to work with, for example

  • What's a recent personal accomplishment of yours that you are proud of and why are you proud of it?
  • @BackOnMyBS It's not entirely straightforward, but I find that stating "I'm confused because you said 'x' which I interpreted as 'y' and this thing you're saying now I interpret as being 'z' doesn't seem consistent, what am I not understanding" (doesn't have to be those exact words)

    Or if it's something I said I apologize for the confusion, state my intentions behind what I said, and try to say it in a different way based off how they interpreted the last thing I said

  • What's a recent personal accomplishment of yours that you are proud of and why are you proud of it?
  • @BackOnMyBS I finally figured out how to properly communicate when I'm confused about someone's behavior or their perception of my behavior, I've been able to get more context in conversation as well as avoid certain arguments due to miscommunication/misinterpretation

  • HAII!~ I need new noise canceling headphones, but I dunno what to get
  • @thestereobus @Cock_Inspecting_Asexual AirPods Pro 2 really work for me personally

    If you wanted to stick with the AirPods route the Maxes will do a better job of noise isolation due to size, but theyā€™re bulky and super expensive

    Though there are rumors going around that Apple will be updating the AirPods Max today at their release event so definitely keep a lookout for those if youā€™re interested

  • When will we ever get the option for a custom search engine? (Safari)
  • @TwilightKiddy I can see how you can get there, but the MITM would need to know the hashing algo, you canā€™t *really* just un-hash something, at least not reliably

    But your original statement was that the hashing was the privacy violation, and thatā€™s the part I took issue with, hashing is a generally accepted security measure, it is not inherently a privacy violation

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @zbyte64 where am I wrong? The process is effectively the same: you get a set of training data (a textbook) and a set of validation data (a test) and voila, Iā€™m trained

    To learn how to draw an image of a thing, you look at the thing a lot (training data) and try sketching it out (validation data) until itā€™s right

    How the data is acquired is irrelevant, I can pirate the textbook or trespass to find a particular flower, that doesnā€™t mean Iā€™m learning differently than someone who paid for it

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @zbyte64 data quality, again, was out of the scope of what I was talking about originally

    Which, again, was that legal precedent would suggest that the *how* is largely irrelevant in copyright cases, theyā€™re mostly focused on *why* and the *scale of the operation*

    Iā€™m not getting sued for copyright infringement by the NYT because I used inspect element to delete content to read behind their paywall, OpenAI is

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @zbyte64 1) In no way is quality a part of that equation and 2) In what other contexts is quality ever a part of the equation? I mean I can go look at some Monets and paint some shitty water lillies, is that somehow problematic?

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @zbyte64 from what I understand, youā€™re referring to the process at scaleā€”the amount of information the AI can take in is inhumanā€”which Iā€™m not disagreeing with

    None of which is relevant to my original point: the scale of their operations, which has already been used countless times in copyright law

    The scale at which they operate and their intention to profit is the basis for their infringement, how theyā€™re doing it would be largely irrelevant in a copyright case, is my point

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @zbyte64 weā€™re saying the same thing

    Itā€™s a matter scale, not process

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @zbyte64 with everything you see you are scraping data from your environment whether you want to or not

    How does a child learn what pain is? How does a teenager learn what heartbreak is? Itā€™s certainly not because they made the decision to find that out themselves

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @Subverb that is, quite impressively, the opposite of what I said

    Is a person infringing on copyright by producing content? No. Itā€™s about intent and scale. Humans donā€™t just sit on this knowledge, they do something with it

    There is nothing illegal about WHAT itā€™s doing, there is everything illegal about HOW and WHY

    I very clearly stated that OpenAIā€™s intent and their scale at which they operate are blatant copyright infringement and that it has been backed up with decades of precedents

  • OpenAI Pleads That It Canā€™t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
  • @Pika @flop_leash_973 This is largely my thoughts on the whole thing, the process of actually training the AI is no different from a human learning

    The thing about that, is that there's likely enough precedent in copyright law to actually handle that, with most copyright law it's all about intent and scale and I think that's likely where this will all go

    Here the intent is to replace and the scale is astronomical, whereas an individual's intent is to add and the scale is minimal

  • [Answered] Any open source host solution for private users?
  • @Navigator @vzq That should probably be the first question then

  • It's literally a trap
  • @Shardikprime @freamon damn and my masto instance only has a 500 char limit, but you go and make use of every character youā€™ve got

  • Why does Apple insist on supporting bullying with the blue/green bubbles?
  • @DirigibleProtein @Nunar kids are assholes, some adults act like children, itā€™s inevitable

    Itā€™s not because the bubbles are green, itā€™s not because SMS is bad, itā€™s because people suck

  • Apple blocks PC emulator from being available in iOS App Store and third-party app stores
  • @simplejack @AProfessional no you have to stick to the ā€œthis one company doesnā€™t sell as much as all of the other companies combinedā€ view of it

    because