Yeah, that’s another one of the deliberately deceptive talking points being spread.

First of all, average people did this. The dataset Books3 was created by a jobless individual named Shawn Presser using one of Aaron’s scripts. Later he shared it with Meta. What makes the difference for Shawn is that the legal department of Meta stands between him and the copyright industry. As far as I can tell, Shawn is way more average than Aaron in that he doesn’t rub shoulders with the likes of Sam Altman.

It’s interesting how this talking point works. Someone shills for the copyright industry against the interests of the average person. And the justification is that the copyright industry persecuted Aaron Swartz. That doesn’t make sense, does it?

I don’t see how this fair use case is different from those in the past. There’s a tech company defending. Organizations like the EFF or the Internet Archive issue supporting statements.

I don’t see the hypocrisy. The content industry is suing tech companies now just like they have in the past, and just like they sue individuals now and in the past.

If I had to guess at the cause of the difference, I’d say that there is a lot of money being spent on social media PR. But perhaps it also is a result of the right-ward shift of society. I wonder how much that has to do with propaganda by the content industry.

For just a few minutes, while reading this, it felt like the good old times.

I was thinking of that guy when I added the “rarely”.

Still, how crazy was he? He fell in “love” with an actress after seeing her in a movie. Then he took a cue from that movie and tried to assassinate the US president Ronald Reagan to impress her. Crazy. Delusional. But how crazy is that really in comparison to, say, what the current US president believes and does?

Bullshit. Mentally ill people rarely commit assassinations or mass shootings. That sort of thing requires planning and foresight; a degree of functioning in society that mentally ill people are rarely able to perform by definition.

The perpetrators might be “crazy” in a colloquial sense, but so is the typical right-wing celebrity.

A dbzer0 user agitating against Fair Use? You a narc or something?

nes game programmers

Were these guys even Real Programmers?

Here’s a great talk by a guy who worked on a 1982 game for the Atari 2600, a game console first released in 1977. It’s a fascinating insight into the early evolution of computing. They didn’t work around limitations. They used a machine to do whatever it could.

If anyone has ever wondered by what standard C is a high-level language, this is for you. Or if you want to know how we ever could have developed something to connect the abstract logic of some algorithm with some glowing pixels on a screen.

Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

There’s an ancient myth that a god created the first pair of tongs. Tongs need to be forged in a smithy. Obviously, you need tongs for that.

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I guess most people don’t get how terrifyingly dystopian this is.

In the EU, there is a serious push to make this mandatory.

out-of-context quote about

That didn’t exactly look like animation. Looks like they trained an AI to control a humanoid figure in a virtual environment. It learned completely new and inhuman means of locomotion. Not very impressive from the technical angle, but the pitch about using it as a model for Zombie movement was clever.

You can use that for CG animation, of course. But those bi- and quadrupedal robots are also trained that way.

I feel the filmmakers manufactured some drama there. Knowing the real context of the quote makes it much more sensible.

It depends on where they did it, but probably yes. They had the right to do it in Japan, for example.

How dare you accuse me of being of the same caliber as Qanon. You don’t know me.

I know that you recklessly spread disinformation and react to proposed facts with hostility rather than curiosity. I don’t know more about the qanon people either.

Yes, but that’s not the only reason. It’s also done to track users; specifically to detect ban evasion and such things. Detecting DDoS attacks or scrapers might also be a purpose. Your instance only gives the first as a purpose, though. EU sites are legally required, per GDPR, to disclose such things.

I don’t know how I should reply to this level of aggressive ignorance and willful disinformation in a way that does not appear arrogant.

Yes, which is why I think a company like Reddit plausibly holds less information than an Australian Lemmy instance.

If identifying-information-storage was so vital, logless VPNs wouldn’t exist.

I see no technical reason why a VPN would need to store outgoing connections. I would be surprised if they didn’t store incoming connections, but I don’t actually know.

Anyway, just don’t make stuff up. You’re not making the world a better place. You ever heard of these Qanon guys? They made up a lot of shit and they didn’t make the world a better place.

As far as I know, all these posts could come from an LLM via a botnet. The article does not support your claim. I don’t know what you are trying to argue here.

I have given you factual information. I obliged your request for a source. You are welcome.

I doubt that happens. What certainly happens is that they remove and ban more than a judge would order. That’s necessary to avoid liability.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32022R2065

The paper contains errors about AI technology and should not be taken at face value. Notably, its understanding of distillation is wrong.

Unfortunately, it also lacks an analysis of EU law, which makes the paper rather useless. The EU almost always goes for monopoly rents in these matters, which does not stimulate anything. The EU has no content industry able to compete with the US’s, no major tech industry, and it is clearly not developing AI companies either.

EU law requires them to moderate that sort of thing. Bit ironic to complain about that on an EU instance.

Destroying documentation while a court case is pending tends to be highly illegal.

Any Lemmy instance stores identifying information for technical reasons. I couldn’t say if reddit stores more information for longer. Quite plausibly, your instance has more on you. Reddit is internationally exposed to various regulations and must make a professional effort to comply.