I thought this commented would have gone down better. It’s a banger.

In UK you can’t buy high caffeine drinks unless you’re over 16, so you neef ID if you don’t look over 20 or such.

Headline should have been: porn sites have no spunk. Screw the government and just plug the whole country. Though we’ll no longer have easy access various VPNs will still allow us to reach around the block with IP protection (just like consuming BBC service without a license).

“hallucination refers to the generation of plausible-sounding but factually incorrect or nonsensical information”

Is an output an hallucination when the training data involved in that output included factually incorrect data? Suppose my input is “is the would flat” and then an LLM, allegedly, accurately generates a flat-eather’s writings saying it is.

Artificial neural networks are simple versions of the neurons arranged in a brain. It’s a useful solution when you know what the output should be but you don’t know what algorithm would produce it from a desired input. To claim “AI” is learning the same way as complex human brains seems a bit farfetched. If you want to say human brains are ultimately just an algorithm then fine, but look at the outputs between the two.

AI art may not look like duplication but it often looks like derived-work which could trigger copyright infringement (to my non-artist eyes). AI code on the other hand looks much closer to duplication to me and it doesn’t seem right they can use other’s code to produce code while ignoring the license because the algorithm had “learned like a human”. Many software licenses are there to protect users, rather than monopolize, and get totally ignored for profit.

“Innovative” these days seems to means new ways to fuck-over users, rather than the past where it meant products got better and/or cheaper.

KOS is “kill on sight”, a video game term.

If you’re using the minimum amount, in a transformative way that doesn’t compete with the original copyrighted source, then it’s still fair use even if it’s commercial. (This is not saying that’s what LLM are doing)

That’s right. I even corrected that typo before I posted, or so I had thought.

Just noticed KOSA starts with KOS. Was that international intentional, like DOGE?

We agree, I said “if they can’t”.

I assume most licenses out there are irrevocable? They’re certainly a feature of copyleft licenses.

If someone posts copyrighted material they were not allowed to share then 3rd party servers still need to deal with DMCA takedown requests and false reports, regardless of TOS. An explicit license might help but by how much? It may also push some users away.

There’s so many reasons trying to force companies to implement age verification is a bad idea, and “to protect the children” is a nonsense excuse. That said, it’s kinda scary if a government can’t regulate business behaviour when interacting with their citizens (who are inside the country).

If you went somewhere else their competition is winning (directly as another video site and indirectly as anything else you would do with your time).

I didn’t mean to suggest that. I consider calling copyright infringement “piracy” to be propaganda started by the music industry to push their monetary interests. A derogatory term that conflates it with immoral stealing (and murder). This overstates any harms caused.

Culture is just that which a group says/does. If you value the well-being of humans then you can evaluate if an action is good or not. “Respect” of culture need not come into the solution of how best it is to act.

Remember when stealing on sea was piracy? Always has been.

Copyright infringement is different.

Wikipedia content is usually copyleft isn’t it? BigAI doing the BigEvil, redistribution without attribution or reaffirming the rights given back from Copyright by copyleft.

A “clash of cultures” would not be inaccurate as “culture” includes everything a group says/does. It’s an insufficient term as it often conveys mundane differences but “stigma, discrimination, and violence” is a substantially more moral difference (if Wikipedia is accurate about gender identity and expression in Kenya).

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If we had a universal basic income (UBI) then working would instead be a choice to improve their standard of living, rather than just to live.

I could agree about liberating work except I assume the AI is trained on artists’ works without compensation and permission. Artists created works already and it’s taken advantage of to create the AI, presumably for the profit of the proprietary software owner.