Trump imagines himself a real estate magnate who builds luxury vacation properties, this might genuinely be one of his own ideas this time. It's terrible enough that I'd believe it.
AI would be able to do a good first pass on it. Except that an AI that was able to reliably recognize child porn would be a useful tool for creating child porn, so maybe don't advertise that you've got one on the job.
I expect that a lot of this isn't "bowing down to Trump", it's just people going "oh good, I can stop wasting money on initiatives I didn't really believe in without facing backlash over it."
generative ai though? absolutely not, we need to burn it down.
If it's really not useful then there's no need to burn it down. It's expensive to run so anyone using it must just be burning money themselves.
That's not true, though. I know it's not true because I'm making extensive use of AI myself, and it is indeed useful. I even run local models for some of the tasks I use AI with. I can assure you it's not going away because I have all the tools I need to keep on using it indefinitely, even if for some reason the companies producing this stuff all shut down or stopped right this moment.
It may not be useful to you, and that's fine - use it or don't, it's up to you. But it's not going away because other people do want to use it for various things.
Abolition is simply not going to happen, though. It's not a realistic goal. AI has proven to be useful and enough technology has been released as open source that it's going to continue to be developed even if the big obvious targets like OpenAI stop.
Okay, so you don't collaborate with them, and they carry on developing AI their own way without your input. Probably not going to lead to the outcome you hope for.
This is a problem I see for a lot of the stridently anti-AI commenters I've encountered both here and on Reddit; all they want is for AI to not exist, and refuse to engage in any way beyond that. But AI does exist, it's not going to "go away", and so by approaching it that way they give up any opportunity to influence it.
Sure would have been nice if Obama or Biden had actually closed Guantanamo Bay when they had the chance.
I liked to find silver linings where I can, and what I'm hoping is that when the shambles of the American government finally get back into Democratic hands (or whatever opposition party replaces them, at this point) there will finally be a realization that actual for real change is needed. Democratic politicians have been just treading water for decades now.
A local model is just a giant matrix of numbers, so as long as you're running it locally you can be sure it's not secretly recording or communicating information with any outside source. Just make sure you trust the software that's running it (there's plenty of open source alternatives for that that have nothing to do with China).
And since it's an open weight model, any remaining reluctance to talk about whatever subject can be abliterated or fine-tuned away if it's really a problem.
You are a bad poster. You didn't convince me with your argument.
The purpose of a candidate isn't to convince every single person to vote for them. It's to convince enough of them to vote for them (and in the right places) to achieve victory in the election.
I don't know how it looks on your instance, but on mine I've got twice as many upvotes on the comment you're responding to than I do downvotes. If I was a candidate in an election that would be a pretty good result!
However, I'm not a candidate in an election. I'm a participant in a discussion forum. The mere fact that you're engaging with my arguments and discussing them in a rational manner makes this a successful comment, and me a successful commenter.
As a side note, nobody draw a circle in the woods and chant that name three times under moonlight. I'll probably be asleep, so suddenly teleporting into the woods in the middle of the night will be very annoying and make me cross.
Even now I routinely get hammered with downvotes when I say "Harris wasn't a good candidate."
I mean, elections are how you judge whether a candidate is a good candidate. We have an objective measure of how good a candidate she was. It wasn't very.
I'm not sure what better candidate the Democrats could have fielded by the time Biden withdrew, but that just shows that Biden waited way too late to drop out.
The Democrats are masters at pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.
Even if some form of manipulation or shenanigans pushed Trump over the edge, it couldn't have done that if it hadn't been close to begin with. It shouldn't have been close.
The fact that Anna's Archive is accepting additional datasets as "payment" makes me comfortable that they're not in this for the money but rather for ideological reasons.
Guess we've finally reached the moment where letting the giant intellectual property cartels monopolize human culture is going to cause serious economic side effects for other big corporations rather than simply screwing over the general public.
There are more things going on in the world than the United States. Countries can focus on more than one issue at a time.
Besides, if the US goes the "tariff everyone! Yay isolationism!" Route then the rest of the world doesn't need to do anything. The US will have defeated itself for them.
Trump imagines himself a real estate magnate who builds luxury vacation properties, this might genuinely be one of his own ideas this time. It's terrible enough that I'd believe it.