kibiz0r

kibiz0r , 5 months ago to Technology in AI Companies And Advocates Are Becoming More Cult-Like

Better be careful what you say

I know it’s not the point, but that always strikes me as so dumb. Wouldn’t a superintelligent being know that you were simply hiding your true feelings?

kibiz0r , 5 months ago to Technology in Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin

Oh hey, it’s the guy Dan Olsen was talking about in that Folding Ideas video!

kibiz0r , 5 months ago to 196 in pictorule

Reminder to mod your 3DS and get on https://pretendo.network/

kibiz0r , 5 months ago to Memes in Blockchain: the wave of the future

Clearly we see the word "copyright" very differently, so I'm wondering if it's maybe a useless term for us here. I'll get more specific about what I see as being valuable, and maybe we'll see that we agree on some of it.

I like that the law, by default, obliges people to attribute works accurately. It helps me find the stuff I like, or to fact-check sources.

I like that the law, by default, obliges copies to remain faithful to the original. This is the other half of attribution. Attribution isn't worth much if it's not exactly what the original creator meant. That was a big problem in the period immediately following the printing press, and we already see it cropping up again with reactions/stitches/duets, and it'll probably escalate with AI.

I like that I can eagerly share all of the shitty code that I write, slap a non-commercial share-alike clause on there, and know that it's illegal (not that it doesn't happen anyway) for a megacorp to shunt it off into a for-profit, closed-source venture. If I couldn't do that, I might just not share it at all.

I like that I can -- or at least, I used to be able to -- find the person who made a thing I like, because the search results didn't used to be an endless flood of copies/reposts of it.

I don't like that the primary employment model for artists and inventors is to have them instantly assign all rights to their creations over to some holding company that doesn't have a creative bone in its corporate body.

I don't like that they often can't even produce derivative work on their own dime in order to engage with the fanbase that they themselves built.

I don't like the trend of "reaction videos" where a media group with clout and deep pockets can scoop the work of a no-name creator, say "lol" a few times or just leave a livecam of an empty chair, and rake in mad dollars while the person who did the hard work gets a mere trickle of support from the 0.0001% of viewers who bother finding the original.

I don't like that a holding company can just sit on an IP and do nothing with it. I also don't like that they can sell it to another company that will disrespect the creation as they milk it for every last dollar.

I don't like that fans are often shot down or prosecuted when they try to make remixes or tributes to the stuff they love.

I don't like that people who can't afford to pay -- or are just geographically in the "wrong" location -- are cut off from accessing knowledge and participating in culture.

--

I don't like tech bros treating culture like a raw material to be mined and refined, with no respect for the fertility of the soil in which it grew.

The stuff that I like... I don't just like it because of what it is, but also because of who made it, and where they were in their life when they made it.

The fact that their viewpoint, at that moment, is inseparable from the artifact that's a mere shadow of that moment... is part of what makes life worth living, to me.

What is "Fate of the Animals" without the wild story of Franz Marc's fever dream, his subsequent death, the inscription on the back, the warehouse fire, and his friend's restoration? Just pixels? The pixels are just the reference point. They're the SHA256 of that story. Disconnecting the story, seeing just the hash... It does some kind of damage to humanity as an enterprise.

kibiz0r , 5 months ago to Memes in Blockchain: the wave of the future

You don’t hate copyright.

You hate that entertainment megacorps have set up a massive toll booth between creators and audiences, thwarting their ability to connect and collaborate, and crippling the average person’s ability to meaningfully participate in culture unless it happens to be profitable for those in charge.

And soon you will hate that AI megacorps have set up a massive toll booth between creators and audiences, thwarting their ability to connect and collaborate, and crippling the average person’s ability to meaningfully participate in culture unless it happens to be profitable for those in charge.

What they did to us by forcing us to obey copyright, they will now do by disregarding copyright.

You can be pro-piracy because it distributes power, and be anti-AI because it consolidates it, without legitimizing copyright as a fundamental principle of ethics.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in German railway seeks IT admin to manage MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 systems

Reminds me of the lessons from Chad Fowler’s talk on “Legacy”. https://youtu.be/P4xSmYr7PEg

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in US launches inquiry into AI deals by Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Amazon

“Our study will shed light on whether investments and partnerships pursued by dominant companies risk distorting innovation and undermining fair competition,”

I don’t think you need a study to see that they do. It’s part of their sales pitch. Forbes, Business Insider, and all of those insufferable biz hype mills won’t shut up about it.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in They warned you: Someone allegedly used a politician's cloned voice to interfere with an election | It will most assuredly not be the last time this happens

You don’t even need to ID who is sending it, just that the content itself can provide some grounding in an authentic source.

Like if a picture can say that it derives from an original photo captured by a camera signed with Canon’s credentials, and was changed in Photoshop in these specific ways and signed by Adobe…

There is a group working on exactly this. It’s called C2PA.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in Netflix is turning into cable TV

Looks like that would work. Sucks to have to use an extra bit of machinery to restore a feature that they intentionally broke though. It’s like they view their customers as the enemy.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in Netflix is turning into cable TV

For me, it’s the DRM that’s killing streaming. If I can’t put it on Discord so my wife and I can watch it while hanging out online, I’ll just pick something else or find another way to watch it.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Comic Strips in Loc Ness

“Did I found you”

Guys, is English is gonna survived? I see this double past tense stuff as often as I see apostrophes when someone just meant to pluralize something. And I see that lot’s.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Memes in Rules for thee but not for me

Also said he won the election against Obama.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

Roger Stone already alleged that an audio clip was AI-generated.

The clip said:

It’s time to do it. Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message. Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with. I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore.

kibiz0r , 6 months ago to Technology in To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

AI safety is not a slippery slope argument. It's a serious area of academic research. Check out some Robert Miles videos or something.

As the interview says, the head-in-the-sand-style rebuttal is akin to early climate change denial.

kibiz0r , 9 months ago to linuxmemes in One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, one OS to bring them all and in the light bind them.

Can yall idiots just fact-check for a goddamn second? https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/10/16/no-windows-12-is-a-free-upgrade-and-wont-require-a-subscription/

Edit: Just type "windows 12 subscription" into your search bar. It's fewer words than any of these comments!