Our former FBI director is currently facing federal charges for posting a picture of "8647", apparently regarding a president that has already been impeached twice. The allegations are that 86 is a call for violence and not impeach and remove from office for example.

Mental gymnastics and fascist knee jerk solutions are kind of this administration's whole thing. Talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. Maybe do a bit more research.

The moon has a left wing bias to these folks, because if it's not a very narrow and unintelligent subset of American culture, then it's woke or left wing bias or something like that.

Why the fuck shouldn't you be able to sell a book for more than five years. Authors do that AND continue to write.

If you're looking at it as if they will be forced to make money somewhere else and you'll have more creative works because lazy writers will now be forced to write more and more to make enough money from writing? That most definitely will not work out. When do authors stop writing, for fuck sake man, you didn't think that through all the way did you.

Holy fuck people complain about sequelitis NOW, eeeeezzzuz... In no possible fucking way does your plan increase creative output. That's all you'd get is increasingly more derivative slop, more and faster.

Yah I mean eventually I was going to ask a remote server about every little problem on my computer so it might as well just take a full copy without my knowledge, fuck it yolo, hahahaha. Why would just the chat transcript on my screen that is obviously sent to the server be the boundary, copy everything else too, same diff.

My point is we have lots of utilities that use remote servers to do work, and it's generally understood that the inputs sent to the server are now on someone else's computer. An AI model is no different than how "itranslate.exe --spanish lemonade stand.txt" might work. There's no excuse for copying everything else to some server along with the actual request, that's malware plain and simple. There may be a fine line between that and say you working on *.txt without thinking it through all the way, but that is a very solid fucking line.

JFC, it's even worse, it's like running itranslate.exe in interactive mode and then having it send all your files out because you asked how to say hello in Spanish. Imagine hearing dickheads on /. say well... the translation services are online so ... the fuck you say?!?!

I would say we can chew bubblegum and walk at the same time, but that is definitely not even a technical problem in need of a technical solution.

Dude... how do you compare reading a published book without paying for it to copying the contents of your computer to a server without your knowledge? The problem isn't if a model was trained on your tax records it's that it copied them all without any indication and they're all available to some random grok engineers if they weren't already thanks fucking DOGE.

One IS a copyright question whether you like it or not, the other is straight up malware. Due to the nature of how these things work we know anything in the chat session is on their server already just like anything you paste into a Google prompt is. The checkbox to help them train their model is a pinky promise and we all know it but we know what we're sharing and what we're not. Just because it's in a git repo doesn't mean it's public or ever will be.

The same author who's published books were read and used without his permission (the horror) just had his unpublished works and private notes copied and uploaded to grok because he was smart enough to track things in a git repo and used the tool for a creative brainstorming session. Whatever, same thing right, lol.

No, not all models hallucinate in the way you mean to the same degree or frequency. Like the other person said, a more useful way of looking at it is that's all they ever really do. They converge on the truth by reaching a logical consistency with the facts. They don't know what the facts are but they can generate some from their training, like how we say something from memory without thinking about it. They can look up potential facts by reading things, same as you can. Or you can tell it. With external lookups, your input, and its own output as it's next input, it iterates and generates more output that is hopefully logically consistent because that's how it's been weighted to use our language. The same way we use our language to think, you don't need it but you get a lot of utility out of it that way, that's what powers the intelligence of a LLM, distilled human language logic.

So it's not something that ever gets solved, not in an LLM, not in us. We never really know anything, we just say shit that makes sense, and if it doesn't we say it again until it does. We have a more complete model, of the non-language world around us and that gives us an advantage, but that's all any mind is and can ever be, an incomplete model of reality.

It's not a technical word, that's easy.

There's a technical reason to say sanctioned, untrusted, denied, prohibited, blocked, etc. there is no technical reason to call anything a blacklist. It's pretty simple, you can't explain what it is without using a technically better word, so call it that.

Master is kind of like that, but it can be used technically correct. It often isn't and master/slave definitely never is. If you have to ask what it really means, biggest, first? Then maybe it's a dumb name.

What do you think blacklist or master and slave technically mean?

He got a blow job, got impeached, and was still a great president. Bill Clinton is both a better human being and a better president than Trump will ever be. That's a low bar and he easily steps over it, no argument.

There is just no excuse for being as shitty a human being, in absolute terms, as Trump is. None. Lots of people would make bad presidents because it's a tough job, but for electing a known shitty human being, Trump voters have no one to blame but themselves and should feel ashamed. No, Bill Clinton is not an excuse.

Grabbing and giving back is a really funny way of looking at copying something. Pay for a copy or don't.

Try explaining to a five year old that the balloon animal you gave them is not free if they can make modifications and not share them back with you.

Which past... before it became a convenient stick to bash the scary AI with, nobody gave a crap about copyrighted works or intellectual property rights in general around here for damned sure, not ever.

All of a sudden everyone is a digital Karen crying "you need to pay for that" while perched on top their horde of pirated movies, music and audio books. Hey we should only have to pay for stuff if we really like it and the seller provides terms we like, and not if we weren't going to buy it anyway. Right .... isn't that how it goes? Please don't make me roll my eyes harder, this hurts.

... dominating the market ... is part of your definition of free?

Where in the article does it make that claim?

If you're talking about the implication in the headline, I took it as a brag about having a very large pipeline to mint new billionaires, possibly the largest. As in it doesn't matter. They're not wrong.

From the other end, being the destination for a bunch of rich people moving in doesn't really mean shit. My experience from the New England area is that being the place a bunch of rich people from out of state move to just fucks with property taxes and home prices. I mean they're moving there to get away from where they made their money keep more of what they have to themselves, that's sort of the point. I just don't think that's a controversial viewpoint from a place where rich people like to retire to, no matter what side of the aisle you're on.

The other party will promptly run on undoing it again. Is there a joke in there I'm missing, because it's really pretty sad.

Affordable Care Act required everyone working that can afford it to pay for health insurance, which is one way to lower insurance premiums - everyone pays in instead of waiting till something is wrong or they're older. Republicans gutted that part, but left in the parts that required dependent coverage for young adult children and maternity and prenatal care, preexisting conditions etc. That's good and all, but you still need healthy people paying in, insurance doesn't work if you wait until you need it to buy it. Republicans still want to keep the insurance middleman, but .. they don't really have any sort of plan past that, so they just fucked with ACA where they could, and stopped talking about it after .. how long has it been? I'm not sure what the plan is now, save money you poors, you're on your own? Bragging about the best healthcare in the world, well, shouldn't that be more expensive almost by definition then, so I guess the lower classes being unable to afford it was part of the plan all along? That's a sick joke man.