bitofhope

joined 1 year ago
[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Gonna change my name to Goldman Sachs and style myself as my own founder.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

not going to be successful in this new world without using it

The hubris is almost impressive in itself. There's not a single technology in human history that has managed to kill every art form not using it. Digital art didn't do it, photography, pencil, movable type printing, nib pens, oil paints, scraffito, probably not even the invention of currency did it. He thinks autoplag of all things will?

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

I'm glad to hear someone's invested enough to fork it. I like D (hehe) and it would be a shame for it to just languish in Bright daylight.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago

…and other examples of why there are no alternatives to US hegemony!

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Adding an m before the b

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Jim Morrison on Ed Sullivan show

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 12 points 1 month ago

Walter Bright soon reading his second ever newspaper: "Wow, this is a lot like Washington Post!"

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your success as a greenhorn Silicon Valley intellectual will rest on your ability to shoehorn Girard’s name and the “mimetic theory” with which he’s associated into as many blog posts, podcast interviews, and tweets as possible.

Instructions unclear, accidentally started reading Gerard instead.

Why would I even want to learn anything from the French? As the article points out, they can't even outcompete China, a place well known for its free speech and low taxation. French language doesn't even have a word for entrepreneur.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I wonder if the OpenAI habit of naming their models after the previous ones' embarrassing failures is meant as an SEO trick. Google "chatgpt strawberry" and the top result is about o1. It may mention the origin of the codename, but ultimately you're still streered to marketing material.

Either way, I'm looking forward to their upcoming AI models Malpractice, Forgery, KiddieSmut, ClassAction, SecuritiesFraud and Lemonparty.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 6 points 1 month ago

They have successfully convinced me they are HIPPA compliant, yet simultaneously they've convinced me they are not HIPAA compliant.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 4 points 1 month ago

Complaining that people are just ripping off better known NFTs is pretty funny when the chain is named Ape of all things.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 23 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The stretching is just so blatant. People who train neural networks do not write a bunch of tokens and weights. They take a corpus of training data and run a training program to generate the weights. That's why it is the training program and the corpus that should be considered the source form of the program. If either of these can't be made available in a way that allows redistribution of verbatim and modified versions, it can't be open source. Even if I have a powerful server farm and a list of data sources for Llama 3, I can't replicate the model myself without committing copyright infringement (neither could Facebook for that matter, and that's not an entirely separate issue).

There are large collections of freely licensed and public domain media that could theoretically be used to train a model, but that model surely wouldn't be as big as the proprietary ones. In some sense truly open source AI does exist and has for a long time, but that's not the exciting thing OSI is lusting after, is it?

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