Schwartz was saving and distributing copies against the terms of the agreement by which he was able to access journals. What happened to him was heinous but it was pretty dissimilar to how models train on data. And the tormented material was Anthropic, which resulted in the largest copyright settlement in history. Because it was piracy. They briefly tried an argument that their intended use made it fair use, but…that’s never how literally any of that worked.

Not that I disagree with your call for international pressure, but what is happening in the West Bank is genocide. Gaza gets a lot of attention for obvious reasons, but the genocide Israel is perpetrating is not against just Gazans–it’s against all Palestinians and with clear ambition against all Levantine Arabs.

I don’t think this is really all that surprising if you understand how diffusers actually work. They don’t just draw contours and shit. They apply sequential transformations across a matrix of pixels in an iterative fashion, the transformation varies each iteration based on prompt embeddings and the surrounding pixels of each respective transformation, typically starting from a seed of arbitrary static. A lot of images share overwhelmingly identical techniques, with a tiny sliver being responsible for the truly creative deltas. Diffusers effectively learn techniques so it tracks that dropping singular training data here and there doesn’t change much.

Yes, but they don’t make news or to the top of lemmy for very long ever. Paizo is an example of a relatively established company that welcomed unionization. I’m sure there are others.

That isn’t really what that article says. It says that in edge cases, remote workers (mostly in the Philippines) give additional contextual inputs to the autopilot. There are some outstanding issues with waymos, especially around getting stuck idling or infinite loops at construction sites, but really just being remotely operated is not one of them.

Thia is to settle their infringement from when they literally torrented giant chunks of their training corpus. It has nothing to do with any sort of infringement theory based on encoding learning from material but just old fashioned liability for flagrant piracy.

I agree with much of the intent of what you’ve said, but your revisionist and exceptionally inaccurate history is really going to bias people to ignore you.

The holocaust did not occur in a vacuum and was the culmination of centuries of antisemitic violence across all of Europe, from Western Europe but certainly throughout the Russian empire. In fact, Zionism arose as a capitalist ethnonationalist aligned response to the incredible waves of pogroms that were sweeping through the flailing Russian empire. It’s very hard to distinguish this era of European history along tight geographical lines–that is to say, any Eastern European descended Jew, in Israel or elsewhere, almost certainly has a direct family connection with the overall context of the holocaust.

With that said, you are certainly right that an enormous proportion of Israeli Jews, approximately half, are from the middle east. Hell, there are multiple sub-dialects of Arabic associated with these many groups (Judeo-Arabic).

Ultimately, Zionism never justified itself primarily based upon the holocaust because it predates the holocaust by damned near a half century. Obviously, the holocaust and history of pogroms feed significantly into the Zionist narrative, but you have to understand thag Zionism is unquestionably an artifact of the ascendant moment of ethnonationalism that was taking place as the old colonial empires and monarchist systems of power began to fall.

It was also spearheaded by wealthy capitalists. Most of the time time, if the question right now is why is something so fucked up, the answer is “because capitalists.”

Zionism predates the holocaust by half a century and its presence and attacks on Palestine and Palestinians by nearly as long. In fact, Zionists often collaborated with pogromists and explicitly antisemitic nationalists in Europe to funnel more Jews to Palestine.

I think there’s plenty blame to be laid at the feet of data center owners and local permitting morons, for sure. That said, at the end of the day, National Grid NA has posted year on year record profits and continues to argue that price hikes are necessary due to short term fuel cost spikes. Meanwhile, regulators and legislators insist that we need to “negotiate” pricing when most of the infrastructure and labor for generation and transmission is subsidized by the state, is a critical infrastructure, and the operators are still fully capable of netting immense profit despite everything. It just doesn’t make sense. They are not going to go away because their profits are fewer billions this year than last year’s billions, and if they did, it would be more than fine for the state to step in and take over in providing critical infrastructure for the operation of society, even if it is a cost center, because it’s one of the key fucking reasons humans collect into cooperative society in the first place.

Then what’s the point of this article? Machine learning has been a critical aspect of drug discovery for a decade+ now. Anthropic is built on a cornerstone of transformer models. Presumably, they are wanting to implement a transformer based approach to drug discovery otherwise this is absolutely nothing new and that’s a TERRIBLE idea.

Why are residential and critical infrastructure electric rates uncapped? Prices should not be allowed to be hiked. The material ability to produce the electricity is there no matter what and demand is functionally inelastic–this price hiking doesn’t cover any increase in cost of production, it just goes directly to utility company profit lines. We need to stop fucking negotiating with power companies.

The Palestinian solidarity movements in the west are full of Jewish folks. Fuck off.

How about we abolish the idea of ethnostates at all and a policy of reparation amd reform is put into place as an actually democratic state is created. And Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, and Netanyahu are schekht. They aren’t kosher regardless of ritual, but maybe it’ll purify them at least a little bit.

Effectively China is the only major market where AI generated outputs are granted copyright. And even then, it’s a hard maybe. This makes zero sense to me as a business move.

I could honestly use a setup playing the role of personal assistant so I don’t over schedule and stretch myself too thin on stuff. A few of my friends have created very effective setups for just that, but I have lacked the bandwidth to figure out how to replicate for quite a while now…because of aforementioned need for a scheduling helper. :(

Capitalism and free markets are not the same thing, nor is either particularly necessary to the other.

Yes, linking Jewish identity to Zionism with “safe assumptions” is totally not actual antisemitism. Ok, cool. Hope you get the day and life you deserve.

You are advocating for the exact same crimes being inflicted on the Palestinian people. Collective indiscriminate “punishment” is abhorrent no matter what.

Just noticed your reply and want to correct this. Anyhropic settled, the 1.5bil was not a judgment against them. Specifically, this covered the literal pirating of the training corpus. It had absolutely nothing to do with the way training on the data handled the training data–they literally torrented an enormous portion of their training corpus.

Anthropoc DID try to argue that because they used the pirated material for training a model, it was fair use. The judge correctly decided that doesn’t make any fucking sense. Again, this is not about the models encoding data, it is literally just about the fact that these silly fucks torrented vast portions of their training corpus like college students building a porn library on college broadband.

Anthropic pirating books for their training corpus resulted in the biggest copyright settlement in history–well over a billion. That is still being quibbled over i believe, but they settled because they were likely to pay out more if the case went forward. So I’m not really sure where you’re coming from that infringement via torrenting does not result in monstrously large liability.