AfricanExpansionist @ AfricanExpansionist @lemmy.ml

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Hi totally off topic but I saw your username. are you a fan of Nobody Likes Onions? Are you following the Nick Rekieta drama with Steel Toe?

Wha?

Any time I criticized Biden admin for giving arms to Israel, I was told "he's trying to end it" or "just vote Harris"

I criticized Harris for not making herself meaningfully different from Biden on the genocide issue. People here told me to shut up and stop complaining about it. People here even said I was in a minority for caring so much about Gaza and that it didn't matter that much

I was, in this very community

I was told by liberals that I should stop worrying about Gazan children for more than a year while Biden and Democrats happily gave Israel the money and guns to kill them

Now they tell me Trump is bad for his support of Israel

Obligatory: I'm anti-AI, mostly anti-technology

That said, I can't say that I mind LLMs using copyrighted materials that it accesses legally/appropriately (lots of copyrighted content may be freely available to some extent, like news articles or song lyrics)

I'm open to arguments correcting me. I'd prefer to have another reason to be against this technology, not arguing on the side of frauds like Sam Altman. Here's my take:

All content created by humans follows consumption of other content. If I read lots of Vonnegut, I should be able to churn out prose that roughly (or precisely) includes his idiosyncrasies as a writer. We read more than one author; we read dozens or hundreds over our lifetimes. Likewise musicians, film directors, etc etc.

If an LLM consumes the same copyrighted content and learns how to copy its various characteristics, how is it meaningfully different from me doing it and becoming a successful writer?

You can buy 1.75L of beer in East Asia, and 2L of some brands.

There's also baiju and soju sold in 2L (and maybe bigger) bottles

I wish the NSA would kill Elon

I can't tell if this comment is sincere but I want to emphasize that there is no "border crisis"

Have you ever heard of the IRA?

Wait until you see what's going on with their Bed Bath and Beyond court case

Fuck Israel. Fuck AIPAC. Fuck Biden. Fuck Trump. Fuck Schumer.

I support Palestine. I support Hamas. Arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport student protestors at Columbia makes me more supportive of Palestine and Hamas.

Sure but that doesn't explain the mechanism

Most Lemmy instances have some admin oversight with regard to registration. Moreover, there are always more instances, including secret instances.

Get fucked

Great, another guy I won't vote for

Yeah fuck Reddit. It was a great platform once. Now it's dogshit. The leadership is visionless and obsessed with monetization, finally deciding to kill the golden goose

If they "allow" that then the constitution is really just pointless

Because it's trash?

Somehow it's both under-moderated AND over-moderated

I keep wondering the same thing

Seems like the president is for sale so plenty of these rich guys will just get in line and pay for what they want

Ah yeah, well... At least in America, the marketing gap is pretty wide I think! (mostly based around LLMs)

Our "AI" courseware was pretty basic outside of the facial recognition (which I found impressive, if not TOO useful). It would keep track of student responses and tailor some questions based on previous performance, but that's pretty basic (I think it would have been better if our content developers knew how to work with the software)

About the marketing, we were actually a multimedia educational materials maker. Textbooks, courseware, video series , etc etc

The founder/CEO liked to pretend we were a tech company, but our bread and butter was VIPKids-style English lessons and textbook series with long shelf life. (I often felt like he was cosplaying as Jack Ma, Steve Jobs, or Jeff Bezos, if you know what I mean)