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Comment Re:Sounds backwards (Score 1) 16

Exactly this. Thank you.

Until trusted device makers watermark everything, there will be no trust. And finally, maybe, a good application for a distributed crypto ledger.

Devices can publish public keys to the ledger, and users of trusted devices can share signed image hashes to the ledger to prove a photo is not-altered. Use a distributed ledger since this isn't something we'd trust any one entity to own.

Comment Depreciation Schedules (Score 1) 187

I would love to see the expense amortization schedules on these. Movies have a individual-film-forecast-computation amortization method I don't actually understand, but my guess is someone noticed if they drop it early, under certain conditions, the formula works out to give them a ( fictionally ) huge expense. Probably bigger than the cost to produce, and as such, they can make a profit simply by using it as a deduction. Deductions should never work that way, but this is tax accounting, so...

Comment Re: It doesn't seem to learn from users.... yet. (Score 1) 22

It will even tell it doesnâ(TM)t, if you ask. It uses the trained model plus the history of your current conversation. It canâ(TM)t even refer to your own other conversations. But thatâ(TM)s not the risk here. Everything you chat with it is permanently stored on their servers. So you have now entrusted OpenAI to protect your data from leaks to other users, and nosy OpenAI employees who decide to go mining for inside information.

Comment Re: Race to the bottom (Score 1) 19

For individuals true, but tech corp subsidiaries will be a while different matter. I suppose that would work for an individual too. Have your foreign earnings paid to a foreign corp you control, but never repatriate the funds to the USA, itâ(TM)s how the big boys do it. The problem is there is overhead cost for that, so it only makes sense for people making MEGAbucks.

Comment Pure Marketing (Score 1) 22

1. Intel has made ARM chips before ( and probably never really stopped ).
2. ARM chips have been synthesized to many, many fab processes.
3. There's nothing special Intel needs to do to support ARM, other than support the standard ASIC EDA flows stuff, which they already do.

Other than issue a press release, what could they actually do that they already haven't done?

Comment Is this some college marketing research project? (Score 2) 68

You have two highly recognizable brands, one actually known for creating content people want.

Step one, remove a lot of content people want.
Step two, add content people don't want.
Step three, rename to something with no brand recognition.

Step four, write PhD study about how to destroy a product?

Comment Re: Reliable Green Grid? (Score 1) 215

I find it interesting that TX had a regulatory agency issue fixit citation for the lack of weatherproofing in their grid, but they lacked any enforcement authority, and utilities took a very nonchalant attitude to the findings.

What I find interesting is that TX didnâ(TM)t want their regulatory agency to have that kind of power, yet they still had inspectors and and standards to evaluate against. If they were just going to be ignored, why did they bother to even had standards and inspections?

Comment Re:Legal not Technical Problem (Score 1) 24

Asking for your image to not be used for training seems like a perfectly reasonable request. The website you want to post it to may say, sorry bud, by posting it here you are giving permission to use it for training. But certainly there will be some that won't allow it.

Same as I'm free to make a painting and sell it with conditions that the buyer never allows it to be referenced by anyone learning to paint. Maybe I won't find a buyer who agrees to those terms, but the terms can be made.

Humans learning to mimic styles is of course an issue in the form of knock offs, but unless actual fraud is performed there's little or no recourse in the law. The cheap and easy scaling of AI style mimicry is causing us to revisit what society thinks are the acceptable norms here, and that's probably good actually. It's still too new, but eventually we'll probably update laws to codify the expectations.

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