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Unless it’s one of those monkey’s-paw wishes, in which case everyone immediately dies.

Or we need to try to accommodate the needs that people actually have rather than telling them they should change what they need. That’s somewhat more likely to actually work.

And if you need examples of people being piledriven, you can browse my history a bit. :) Since I’m not doing anything with AI that would suffer “professionally” from backlash (such as might happen to an artist who becomes the target of anti-AI witch-hunters) I’ve not been shy about talking about the good things AI can do and how I use it. Or at calling out biased or inaccurate arguments against various AI applications. As a result I get a lot of downvotes.

Fundamentally, I think it’s just that people are afraid. They’re seeing a big risk from this new technology of losing their jobs, their lifestyles, and control over their lives. And that’s a real concern that should be treated seriously, IMO. But fear is not a good cultivator of rational thought or honest discourse. It’s not helping people work towards solving those real concerns.

What better way to get facial recognition data for all Muslims than with something like the Hajj.

Surely they could just relocate the Kaaba to a more hospitable location. It’s not a large structure, should be easy to dig up and move.

Might have to update a few direction markers for Salah, though. That could be a bit of work.

There’s a very significant open-source AI industry, too. Krita’s got a great Stable Diffusion plugin that lets you generate and inpaint right in the editor, using entirely local models.

Also, a lot of people who are using AI have become quiet about it of late exactly because of reactions like this article’s. Okay, you’ll “piledrive” me if I mention AI? So I won’t mention AI. I’ll just carry on using it to make whatever I’m making without telling you.

There’s some great stuff out there, but of course people aren’t going to hear about it broadly if every time it gets mentioned it gets “piledriven.”

It echoes the chamber’s preferred echo.

Widely accepted, but not legally enforced.

Oh now suddenly you care about leaks?

A material witness can be prevented from leaving the country.

Note also that I said housed, not imprisoned.

Never said that you could. Watching a movie and learning from it are not copying it.

There is a middle ground between these two extremes. I don’t see why they can’t be housed on shore. Give them a temporary visa or somesuch.

If it’s public posts then what’s the privacy concern? This is stuff that people are deliberately and explicitly making available for all to see.

Also, the last paragraph of the article says that Meta is pausing this initiative after a request from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission. It seems a bit clickbaity to me to be hiding that down at the very end of the article.

Is McDonalds a hamburger company or a french fry company?

There’s an ActivityPub plugin, though I haven’t tried it - just Googled it up now. Looks very new and rough.

The “glue on pizza” thing wasn’t a result of the AI’s training, the AI was working fine. It was the search result that gave it a goofy answer to summarize.

The problem here is that it seems people don’t really understand what goes into training an LLM or how the training data is used.

(Fighter, whispering urgently from the bushes:) “Pointy end forward!”

Netanyahu doing scummy things to cling to power no matter what is indeed a widely expected move.

The Internet Archive was distributing unlimited copies of ebooks whose rights were held by major publishers.

The major publishers sued them for distributing copies of ebooks whose rights were held by them.

Yeah, totally unrelated.