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liminalbeauty

AI companies are bulk buying rare books, scanning and then shredding them so nobody else has access.

Confirmed.

Enclosure of the cultural commons.

goedel-rhymes-with-turtle

This is the result of poorly thought out anti-AI policy by the way.

"training AI on a book without paying for it is stealing" -> "fine, we'll buy the book"

"if you pay for one copy you can only keep one copy" -> "okay, so we'll shred the physical copy and keep the digital one"

"now nobody can read it!" -> "you couldn't read our copy anyway, because we're not interested in selling it, and you've set up a legal framework where you can't read books without paying for them"

Point 3 has been a problem as long as books and markets have existed. Point 2 is the most common legal solution for digital lending libraries. The only thing that's new is point 1, and that's a direct response to lawsuits that people on this website have long cheered.

Like, I could explain why the original post is ragebait and this isn't anywhere as bad as it sounds but I don't think you'd listen. So like, whatever, be anti-AI, I'm not really pro-AI. But next time you suggest legal policies, be optimistic! Assume it will make a difference! And then use your critical thinking skills (which haven't atrophied bc ur so smart and don't use AI) to think like, anywhere further than one step ahead of the policy.

dacuala

what did you say? complexity theory? i just call it normal theory... i guess im just a really nuanced individual...

My newest one-sided beef is with an Italian professor who either doesn't realize how much he's overselling a paper or does know and is just straight up lying about the results to benefit his startup. And I have to be polite to him because he's roped my friend into being an advisor. And also because I'd like to sell my consulting services to help him fix his shit and not commit academic fraud (if he's not lying on purpose). And he will still not capitalize sentences or use punctuation besides ellipses.

#like‚ I do that too... but not in professional correspondence...#<- literally he types like that and I'm like Sir‚ your paper is in danger of being retracted.

playwrongs

there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar

lady-of-vitreous-sight

it's nice how everything in the world can be described by well ordered and complete systems of rules that fully explain all possible perspectives and interpretations and can answer every question and account for [your phone rings, i hold eye contact with you, my grip on your hand tightens] don't pick that up. that's from godel. block that number.

probuccalfat

nobody else doing it like me. particularly because the way i’m doing it is needlessly difficult

oneheadtoanother

yamada-ryo

Thinking about klein bottle guy (Cliff Stoll) again

ultraviolet-techno-ecology

The future of hacking is destabilizing information gathering algorithms through an endless torrent of falsified information. We cannot stop them from gathering the information in the first place, so the next best thing is to infect the databases with useless garbage. Fake identities. Fake stories. Fake interests. Fake lives. Fake conversations. Fake gatherings. Fake GPS locations. Fake voices. Twist neural nets against themselves. Generate thousands of fake faces to flood the databanks of facial recognition programs. Give them so much data it becomes impossible to tell truth from fiction, and the neural networks will become unreliable and with them advanced identifying algorithms.