Cringey as fuck.

This dude markets his distro the same way that Trump tweets: slopped out while sitting on the toilet.

Oh NOW you care about stealing intellectual property!

Fuck off. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander, AI assholes.

Interesting idea.

Yes…

The document notes how Nvidia reached out to Anna’s Archive, stating that it’s “exploring including Anna’s Archive in pre-training data for [Nvidia’s] LLMs.

“Internal documents show competitive pressures drove Nvidia to piracy,” states the complaint, also revealing that before proceeding with the access, Anna’s Archive informed the company that its content was “illegally acquired and maintained.”

Despite this, Nvidia proceeded with the piracy, which resulted in the company receiving “millions of pirated copyrighted books,” or “roughly 500 terabytes of data.”

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/nvidia-annas-archive-ai-training/

These AA frauds are directly providing AI companies with scraped data, no?

Because these “assets” are at best hemorrhaging billions of dollars per year, and are also the result of total cultural strip mining. Why would I, as a taxpayer, want to take over a massive, and massively unprofitable business?

I think it’s naive to believe that the government will seize these companies without without a huge amount of taxpayer cash winding up in the hands of big tech companies and their owners.

Let failing businesses fail. Leave the taxpayers out of it

How can they “open source” other people’s work?

The data that they’ve trained on wasn’t theirs to begin with.

Absolutely fucking not.

Nationalizing AI companies represents nothing more than a big tech bailout, leaving the American taxpayers holding the bag for the grandiose excesses, industrialized IP theft, and borderline fraudulence of some of the richest and most powerful corporations in modern society.

Hell no. No bailout for big AI.

They stole everything they have from the people, and if they are too stupid to figure out how to turn unprecedented plagiarism on a global scale into a viable business plan, then they deserve nothing more than to fail outright.

Right from the first Mario Kart I was a Koopa Troopa fan. Acceptable alternatives being Yoshi and Dry Bones.

They’re planning on it. They want nothing more than to go public and leave retail investors and retirement plans holding the bag.

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Call me cynical, but I think this is an attempt to do the bare minimum in an effort to preempt laws being put in place.

That’s the problem. They aren’t like addicts, they are addicts.

I stroke a had

While I think there’s some merit to the idea of talking about the fediverse on corporate legacy social media platforms, I think the best and most effective thing we can do is put in extra effort to engage with the fediverse itself, making posts and comments, building up new communities, and so on.

Reddit is no doubt getting worse and more closed off all the time. They treat their users like shit, or at least, like a resource to be harvested for profit.

But at the same time, Reddit users will sit around complaining about the platform until the cows come up, but when it comes time to do anything about it (like, for example, go check out the fediverse…) they don’t ever take any action. And this problem isn’t unique to Reddit either, people just love to complain about X on X, complain about Facebook on Facebook, complain about Tiktok on Tiktok, etc. It’s hard to tell how much of that is just performative internet shit vs genuine addiction to their particular algorithm of choice, but in my view it’s a real problem…

In other words, the question is “where we should be spending our energy?”

Should we be spending it on Reddit, trying to convince a bunch of people (who frankly range from ambivalent to straight-up addicted) that Reddit sucks? Or should we spend it here on the fediverse building the communities from the ground up?

I don’t know if I’m alone in this, but I really don’t like the basic ergonomics of taking photos with my phone. To me there’s no comparison to the weight and layout of a dedicated camera.

Ok top of that, I like to fiddle with settings and focus manually, and I don’t want my images to be automatically filtered through AI or scraped by Google.

I can certainly agree that a big part of photography is being in the right place at the right time and using whatever camera you have to take the photo. And I know that the phone cameras these days are pretty good and more than enough for the casual user, but I like a dedicated camera, even a cheap and old one, if only for the experience of taking photos that way.

Borrowed money, creative accounting, stolen data.

Can it shut the fuck up and move the fuck away from me?

Hmmm, sounds like it’s almost time to go on Amazon and sell some “I bought SPCX before I knew Elon was crazy” bumper stickers.

Yeah. I feel like SteamOS users are basically just getting Pierre-Loup Griffais’ last successful Arch update. Bazzite feels more fleshed out to me, but to each their own.