BlueMonday1984

...eh, fuck it, here's my sidenote on Brian's piece:

Google and OpenAI's campaign gives me the suspicion that the ongoing copyright lawsuits may be what finally pops this bubble. Large Language Models are built though large-scale copyright infringement, and built to facilitate large-scale copyright infringement - if the actions of OpenAI and pals are ruled not to be fair use, it would be open season on LLMs.

In other news, BlueSky's put out a proposal on letting users declare how their data gets used, and BlueSky post announcing this got some pretty hefty backlash - not for the proposal itself, but for the mere suggestion that their posts were scraped by AI. Given this is the same site which tore HuggingFace a new one and went nuclear on ROOST, I'm not shocked.

Additionally, Molly White's put out her thoughts on AI's impact on the commons, and recommended building legal frameworks to enforce fair compensation from AI systems which make use of the commons.

Personally, I feel that building any kind of legal framework is not going to happen - AI corps' raison d'etre is to strip-mine the commons and exploit them in as unfair a manner as possible, and are entirely willing to tear apart any and all protection (whether technological or legal) to make that happen.

As a matter of fact, Brian Merchant's put out a piece about OpenAI and Google's assault on copyright as I was writing this.

New piece from WIRED: Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models

I'll let Baldur do the talking here:

Literally what I and many others have been warning about. Using LLMs in your work is effectively giving US authorities central control over the bigotry and biases of your writing

No firefox with ublock origin? Seems like that would be the obvious choice here (or maybe not due to Mozilla’s recent antics)

Librewolf with uBlock Origin's probably the go-to right now.

some of their userland decisions partially inspired my rant about privacy communities; the other big inspiration was privacyguides.

I need to see this rant. If you can link it here, I'd be glad.

translation is IMO one of the use cases where LLMs actually have some use

How the fuck can a hallucinating bullshit machine have use in translation

In other news, techbros are reportedly pushing their children into the arts.

This is pure gut instinct, but I suspect those kids are gonna be relentlessly bullied at school.

Hot take(?) of the day(?) (xcancel):

UPDATE: I ran across a third (xcancel). Kill me.

A piece like this would dovetail nicely with Baldur's deep-dive into AI's link to esoteric fascism. Hope to see it get finished.

Took me a second to get the "fourteen words" nod. Blake, you clever bastard.

I was tempted to write this up for Pivot but fuck giving that blog any sort of publicity.

On the one hand, I can see you not wanting to give the fucker attention, on the other hand, AI's indelible link to fascism is something which needs to be hammered home and shit like this gives you a golden opportunity to do it.