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  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • It's a bit of a split among libertarians. Some very notable figures like Ayn Rand were strong believers in IP. In fact, Ayn Rand's dogmas very much align with what is falsely represented as left-wing thought in the context of AI.

    It's really irritating for me how much conservative capitalist ideals are passed off as left-wing. Like, attitudes on corporations channel Adam Smith. I think of myself as pragmatic and find that Smith or even Hayek had some good points (not Rand, though). But it's absolutely grating how uneducated that all is. Worst of all, it makes me realize that for all the anti-capitalist rhetoric, the favored policies are all about making everything worse.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • I really don't get how opinions on intellectual property and its "theft" turn 180 whenever AI is mentioned.

  • Chat Control: EU lawmakers finally agree on the voluntary scanning of your private chats

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  • No. At least, the last version I saw wanted text messages to be scanned for "grooming".

  • Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR

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  • People want goods and services, as well as jobs. Politicians need to make that happen, and so they listen to the people who know how to make that happen. Sometimes that goes wrong because eventually employers don't have quite the same goals as their employees. There is no good alternative, though.

    One player that clearly had a lot of input is the (news) media. EG the press publishers want to license their old news articles for AI training. They can do that thanks to EU copyright law. That's free money. But news articles talk about living people, which means they contain personal data.

    Despite competition from social media, the trad media, including press publishers, is still extremely influential. Politicians need their favor to get votes.

    I don't see how Big Tech is getting much here. Of course, NGOs need the media's favor just as much as politicians. Pointing the finger at some nebulous forces from outside is certainly the safest choice, politically speaking.

  • Trotz Digitalisierung: „Viele Schüler können nicht mehr als klicken und wischen“

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  • Das ist ein echtes Problem. (Nicht nur Alte-Leute-Gemecker, wie es in der Überschrift klingt.)

  • Trotz Digitalisierung: „Viele Schüler können nicht mehr als klicken und wischen“

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  • mein Vater, obwohl “einfacher Arbeiter” hatte immer schon Spaß an Technik und war zu Atari Zeiten auch ein begnadeter Programmierer

    Wow. Das muss ein Charakter gewesen sein.

    Übrigens Respekt für den Bildungsaufstieg. Ich hatte Easy-Mode. Mich beeindruckt sowas immer.

  • Of all modern Sci-Fi Dystopia depicted in movies, which do you think our world will most resemble or already does resemble?

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  • Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM

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  • Maybe I’m talking more about enforcement than actual law,

    Probably. Different countries in Europe have very different traditions there. I think the former socialist countries are still more relaxed. But the EU-line is rather dominated by countries like Germany.

    Come to think of it. Switzerland officially takes a very lenient approach. It's legal to download media files for personal use. But as you can see here, that leaves research and business hanging.

  • Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM

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  • I don't know any European country that has anything like the copyright clause in the US Constitution, or anything close to Fair Use. I don't see the argument.

    There's a good chance that European AI companies like Mistral are breaking the law. We will have to see how it eventually goes in court. Recently, there was a decision in a Munich court against OpenAI. By that standard, even Apertus might be in trouble. But I doubt that decision will stand.

  • Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration

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  • Plutonium-238’s half-life is 87.7 years, Americium-241 is 432.6 years. Which… is almost 5 times longer, so… not sure why that’s cringe?

    What's cringe is the word "staggering". Natural radioactive isotopes have half-lives on the order of billions of years. All elements heavier than iron are created in supernovae. Billions of years have passed since the novae that created that heavy elements now on earth. Anything with shorter half-lives is no longer around. (More correctly, one should talk decay chains.)

    What's staggering is that these isotopes are available at all. They are artificially created in nuclear reactors. Mass production of Pl-238 began only during WW2 for bombs. That's almost a half-life ago. The shorter half-life makes the availability of Pl-238 much more impressive.

    I believe they’re referring to the fact that it’s not an element of major topic. This is the first time I’ve ever heard of it.

    There are over 100 named elements. I don't think I could name half of them. Americium is relatively prominent because of it's use in smoke detectors. And while I'm at it: Americium is the element. Americium-241 is a specific isotope; a specific variant, chemically identical to other variants but with slightly different physical properties.

    There are a number of isotopes suitable for RTGs. It's a matter of trade-offs. There's half-life, which is basically how fast the properties of the material change. There's also energy density and how bad the radiation is for the device. And always, there's cost. Fun fact, in Chernobyl they did try robots, but the electronics could not withstand the radiation. People don't withstand it either, but there's a lot of them.

  • Switzerland government release full FOSS LLM under Apache 2.0, argue for AI as Public Utility

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  • Switzerland government release full FOSS LLM under Apache 2.0, argue for AI as Public Utility

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  • For fastest inference, you want to fit the entire model in VRAM. Plus, you need a few GB extra for context.

    Context means the text (+images, etc) it works on. That's the chat log, in the case of a chatbot, plus any texts you might want summarized/translated/ask questions about.

    Models can be quantized, which is a kind of lossy compression. They get smaller but also dumber. As with JPGs, the quality loss is insignificant at first and absolutely worth it.

    Inference can be split between GPU and CPU, substituting VRAM with normal RAM. Makes it slower, but you'll probably will still feel that it's smooth.

    Basically, it's all trade-offs between quality, context size, and speed.

  • Apertus: Switzerland government release a fully open, transparent, multilingual language LLM

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  • Badly. This was released almost 3 months ago and completely failed to make a splash, just like the other European models you have never heard of.

    There's a lot of denial about this, but you just can't make such models competitive in Europe. The copyright industry is too strong. This combines with a general culture of data ownership and control. Case in point, the copyright industry is especially strong in Denmark, and they are also champions of chat control.

  • Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration

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  • Americium: How a small element could power the next century of space exploration

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  • Yes. And also:

    Its half-life is a staggering 432 years, five times longer than plutonium-238.

    Cringe...

    AI slop?

  • "This is a political deception" − New Chat Control convinces lawmakers, but not privacy experts yet

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  • My suspicion is always the copyright industry. That's where you got a gazillion dollar financial interest in controlling the flow of information. Indeed, the lobby organization "Thorn" is a Hollywood creation.

    It's noteable how the language around copyright infringement has changed. The industry used to call it "theft". Now they use the language of sexual assault and talk about "consent". It's very sexist, too. Poor, helpless women become victims of so-called "digital violence". Kinda fits with that recent prosecution of a Redditor.

  • German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics

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  • GEMA's social media game is certainly top. Nice to see the money being put to good use.

    If all seats are filled,

    Sure. Everyone's Taylor Swift. Let's just assume that.

    The actual truth is that if you do not play GEMA music, you have to provide evidence of that to GEMA. Young musicians who foolishly reason that they don't have anything to do with GEMA will be dragged through court.

  • Reddit mod jailed for sharing movie sex scenes in rare “moral rights” verdict

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  • Fair Use exists only in the US. I believe it is part of the reason why the US became so culturally dominant. It certainly is why the internet is US dominated. European copyright laws are stifling.

  • German court: ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics

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  • GEMA was created by the Nazis to take over pop culture. There's a certain logic there.

    Of course, under the Nazis you could be sent to camp if you belonged to the wrong subculture. So there is a difference. The rebels of the time listened to jazz, to swing. "Negro music" was the social media of that age, corrupting the youth.

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    AI just steals other people's labor

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    A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Academic publishers face class action over ‘peer review’ pay, other restrictions

    www.reuters.com /legal/litigation/academic-publishers-face-class-action-over-peer-review-pay-other-restrictions-2024-09-13/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    The critical window of shadow libraries

    annas-archive.org /blog/critical-window.html
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Internet Archive Submits Comments on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

    blog.archive.org /2023/11/02/internet-archive-submits-comments-on-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence/
  • DACH - Deutschsprachige Community für Deutschland, Österreich, Schweiz @feddit.org
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    CUII-Liste: Diese Websites sperren Provider freiwillig

    netzpolitik.org /2024/cuii-liste-diese-websites-sperren-provider-freiwillig/
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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    Ackshually

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR

    ai.meta.com /blog/meta-fair-research-new-releases/
  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    Publishers Target Common Crawl In Fight Over AI Training Data

    www.wired.com /story/the-fight-against-ai-comes-to-a-foundational-data-set/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important

    www.techdirt.com /2024/06/07/top-eu-court-says-theres-no-right-to-online-anonymity-because-copyright-is-more-important/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Mozilla Builders Accelerator 2024 Advancing innovation in open source AI

    future.mozilla.org /builders/
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    Mozilla Builders Accelerator 2024 Advancing innovation in open source AI

    future.mozilla.org /builders/