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  • Do you want AI to exclusively be in the hands of big companies and the government?

    Do you want the future of technology locked behind pay walls and censored so that you can’t use it to do anything they don’t want you to do?

    If you think AI regulation comes in the form of making sure big companies can’t do bad things to you, you haven’t been paying attention.





  • Politicians have armies of statistics and pollsters to study people’s opinions and feedback.

    They carefully choose a demographic groups they choose to appeal to, and they pick issues that will allow them to capture enough people who will begrudgingly support them as possible.

    They don’t need the 1500th phone call saying the exact same thing as the last 1400 to understand who they’re representing and what their opinions are.

    There are times contacting your representative in this way is important. When your road is fucked up or your local company is doing something they shouldn’t and nobody in the media or on the internet is talking about it.

    Or sending a letter, answering a poll, so that their data people can sit and count them to figure out what they need to do in the next election cycle.



  • It doesn’t really matter whether the original data is present in the model

    Yeah it does. One of the arguments people make is that AI models are just a form of compression, and as a result distributing the model is akin to distributing all the component parts. This fact invalidates that argument.

    This isn’t a slam dunk argument that there’s nothing wrong with what an AI does even if we grant it is transformative. It may also simply be proving that the copyright law we have fails to protect artists in the new era of AI.

    If we change the law to make it illegal it’s illegal.



  • It is illegal to use copyrighted material period outside of fair use, and this is most certainly not.

    Yeah it is. Even assuming fair use applied, fair use is largely a question of how much a work is transformed and (a billion images) -> AI model is just about the most transformative use case out there.

    And this assumes this matters when they’re literally not copying the original work (barring over fitting). It’s a public internet download. The “copy” is made by Facebook or whoever you uploaded the image to.

    The model doesn’t contain the original artwork or parts of it. Stable diffusion literally has one byte per image of training data.





  • bioemerl@kbin.socialtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlVery clever...
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    Vim absolutely chews through anything you throw at it. Lots of times we need data formated or lots of SQL queries and I’m the go to guy because I understand vim macros.

    Especially if you have any form of RSI.

    I wonder if it would be possible to make a user accessable way to expose similar power to the common user.


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    Those features aren’t enabled nor integrated. They’re added to Vim at its extensibility points.

    And that has to be just about one of the pettiest to distinctions known to man.

    It’s still built to write code. Yes text is code, but vim is not a text editor in general,. It’s made for programmers, nobody else is crazy enough to learn such obtuse syntax or want to have a developer with a scripting language built into it.

    The features are in the editor. They are integrated with the editor. Yes, it’s through plugins, but they’re still part of the editor instead of part of some different program.

    The word integrated literally just means you don’t go into some other program to run your build.

    It’s an integrated environment for development.

    It’s an IDE!

    It has debuggers.

    It has syntax highlighting

    It has compiling.

    Even if you have to install them as plugins, it’s designed to be doing all of those things.


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    Vim isn’t designed to facilitate the use of vimscript, vimscript is just an extensibility feature of Vim.

    Vim is designed to edit code, by the people who were doing it back in the 70s and all of its features are there to enable better, faster, and more efficient editing.

    It has scripts for the sake of those scripts enabling integrated developer features. Because they’re part of vim they’re in the environment and the program is used predominantly for development.