mindbleach

I'm kinda hoping Glitch wins the slapfight for I Don't Want To Be A Magical Girl, because they've consistently nailed that level of adult-ness. Cute presentation, light swearing, comedic violence, intense emotional undertones.

Admittedly the tone is not their usual fare.

It's not ideal, but we're pretty fucking far from ideal.

Yeah, let people elect a dictator! What could possibly go wrong?

Let the majority do whatever it wants to minorities, says liberal democracy understander.

That user is a ban-evading troll. Open your settings, go to the Blocks tab, type in "MacCunt," and get rid of all five of him.

Damn, we really are rehashing all the bullshit from the 20th century.

And perhaps most recently, when a person who publishes their work under a free license discovers that work has been used by tech mega-giants to train extractive, exploitative large language models? Wait, no, not like that.

... permissively-licensed media is about the only thing that's not extractive or exploitative to train on. It's the least questionable source of data. Its authors should be annoyed there's training on anything else.

Models could use the public domain if we fucking had one.

[Creative Commons says] AI training should be considered non-infringing by default from a copyright perspective.

Pretty much, yeah. It's transformative. You can't take one word from every book ever written and say publishers are owed ten zillion dollars. Similarly, you can't distill the whole internet into a gigabyte of numbers and call that mere piracy. If the model contains more than a snippet of any particular work - you've built it wrong. Copying even one article is more infringement than training on a whole archive.

Irresponsible AI companies are already imposing huge loads on Wikimedia infrastructure

Wait, how? Aren't there torrents of the whole corpus? Do these idiots re-download everything, every time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwLccJOMTX0

On several fronts: No. What?

I dunno, you seen things lately?

It's almost a punchline. 'Fuck sexism, harassment, repression, and those god damn smug-ass physicists!'

Oh sure, let's just retrain a zillion-parameter model on 99.999% of its original corpus. I'm sure that's easier than making up a game.

Does any one of these AI outputs look like a specific GitHub project? Because we already have the technology to just copy-paste a whole thing. It's called git. This is doing something different.