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Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 198

> Was it instructed to "add diversity" (probably not done using english phrases), or was it instructed to use real world demographics rather than assumes western Europeans are the statistical norm?

Actually neither. The tests people made show that it is more direct and terms like "black" "asian" and other nationalities were randomly inserted into the prompts. In the end it does the same as Dall-E (https://twitter.com/rzhang88/status/1549472829304741888), but when multiple people are in a scene it seems to target multiple areas of the image with different prompts.

As it uses a LLM it is possible that the actual LLM prompt was "Insert one of the following words: ..." but in the end I think one can only find out parts of the generated image prompts and they definitely contain these terms.

Comment Ignore the viral license (Score 1) 15

1) Make sure never to agree to a contract regarding the model. Don't use the hugginface version that requires you to agree to conditions. You may be bound to them otherwise even when you don't need a license for the weights.
2) The weights itself can't be copyrighted, so you can use them without a license. Without a license you aren't bound to what they write in the license.

Source for the claim that there can't be copyright on weights:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Local...

TL;DR reason why there is no copyright: Copyright implies creative work of a human. Running gradient descent on a large dataset is fully automated and does not qualify as the work of a human.

Comment Wrong Headline (Score 1) 26

The headline is wrong is both directions.
Google won't stop third-party tracking, but third-party cookies. And third-party tracking won't be stopped by not having third-party cookies. Do yourself a favor and actually read the cookie banners. They contain a lot of things that have nothing to do with cookies. They literally ask you if they can track you across devices and uses browser fingerprints.

Comment Re:They're never going to be satisfied (Score 3, Interesting) 163

Trusted computing is about companies not trusting the user. The steps will be that websites can verify official browser builds. Then a website can demand a certain browser, e.g., official Chrome or official Firefox, but no Chromium, no Firefox builds by Linux distributions or yourself. Next the browsers offer APIs like "detect if adblock is installed" (Chrome much more likely than Firefox) and you cannot modify the browser to lie to websites.

Also trusted computing needs a whole chain of "We don't trust you" technology. Have a look at widevine at the highest trust level. You need secure boot, a recent CPU with an integrated TPM and at least Windows 10. No chance with Linux. Android only works if it is not rooted because when safetynet fails, apps like netflix will not show you videos.

Trusted Computing is the way to close down computer ecosystems and let vendors dictatate what you can do and prevent you from tampering with (parts of) the system. It takes away our freedom.

Comment Re:Bullshit. [But why is it BS?] (Score 1) 120

> would you possibly settle for a deep "Why?" button that deeply explained where the ad came from, exactly how your personal information was used to select the ad for you, and even explored the motivations of the advertiser?

Why should I even want to waste my time looking up why I saw an ad? It's not like I am browsing the web for the ads.

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