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Comment local (Score 1) 7

There doesn't seem to be anything in the article about locally run models, probably because law makers there realize such things cannot be regulated. However, I'm sure more idiotic countries (maybe the UK?) would try to regulate local use too; restricting stable diffusion models or try to force open source tools to submit all prompts to a government API before rendering. You might say that sounds dumb or crazy, but the UK is imprisoning people for years over facebook posts.

As ram and storage prices continue to rise, it might get easier. Having a power local computer could become out of reach for everyone.

Comment ..and nothing will happen (Score 1) 23

The legal case wish authors/publishers vs Meta already set the horrible precedent here. These companies could have "covered their bases" by also writing a simple script to buy a physical copy (or even e-book from Amazon/Google) of every book they used for training. That way they would have legal owner ship of one copy, to read, while relying on the pirate sites for the mass input of that data they had legally obtained a copy of.

That would have opened some legal questions, BUT that judge (who I'm sure wasn't bought off my Meta in anyway) made the absolutely insane decision to dismiss the publisher/Meta lawsuit. That's screwed up. The court could have found Meta would be required to pay for each book; a piddly sum of a few million for them, but it'd at least be something. Instead the judge said publishers weren't even willing to mass license e-books, so they couldn't sue now.

That's insane. You have a right NOT to sell your IP. That doesn't give someone else the right to just copy all of it anyway because you refused to license it. Hopefully nVidia was stupid enough to not to try to purchase rights legally first. I want to see the publishers get something against one of these horrible LLM (random word machine) companies.

Comment Woah (Score 3, Insightful) 49

I didn't realize so many of their nuclear reactors had been shut down! That's a massive loss of power. Nuclear reactors are incredibly powerful, and the safety issues are really born out of ignorance. NRC regulations in the US would have prevented a lot of what happened at Fukushima. Most plants have multiple backups, gravity fed cooling and emergency pumps that can operate even if fully submerged in a flood. Even Three Mile Island couldn't happen today, as reactors are tripped (shutdown) immediately even if there's small amounts of variance in a turbine.

Even Browns Ferry (one of the most dangerous reactors in the US honestly) finally got its 3rd unit fully operational a few years ago after being shutdown for decades (there's a great Smarter Every Day video about that).

Comment Re:Fascism (Score 0) 72

Dude there is no republican or democrat! They're all actors! It's a show. There is ZERO difference between Obama and Orange Man. Obama tried to take America to war with Syria and carpet bombed Libya after winning a noble peace prize for being black! The Black president literally started an international slave trade! Dien showered naked with his niece Ashley according to her drug rehab diary. Trump flew on Epstein's private jet just like Clinton in his blue dress.

No the problem is people think there's a difference. There are no parties. If you watch the CSPAN full feeds while the video cameras aren't trained on senators, they revert to being bored and preparing for their stage show. Sanders is the socialist that's literally made millions via capitalism and book sales.

The left-right divide is fake designed to make people turn against the American values that would keep all of use safe and with rights. I've written more about it here:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

The world nations are really controlled by a combination of intelligence (CIA, Mossad, MI6) and open cabals (World Economic Forum, IMF, Bilderberg ... private rich clubs out in the open) and they control the narrative on all levels of communication (Everything from CNN to Facebook to "independent" people like Shapiro or big left shills like Steven Colbert).

Fighting against that is difficult, sure. But I proposed some solutions that involve what people can do personally. You just go back to fighting in the same broken political system designed to increase in/out-group fighting in a way that will destroy everyone's rights. You gotta do what you can .. and a lot of times that means stretching out locally and checking out of the fake globalist world.

Comment Re:Fascism (Score 0) 72

The real issues include the technocratic class that promote the likes of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk in pushing greater surveillance states, semi-secrete organizations for the elites like Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove and the Club of Rome where they push unified world government and control agendas behind closed doors, the push for unified digital ID programs (both government and combining multiple private identity streams that could be used to make a "social credit score" in western nations similar to China), intelligence agencies like the CIA, MI6 and Mossad that push story narratives disguised as "news," the push for getting rid of currencies (similar to what happened decades ago with the Euro and what W. Bush tried to start but denied with the Amero).

The solutions are difficult: convince people to use more cash, buy/sell off systems like Craiglist, people need to not just stop using, but delete things like Facebook, Instagram, X and all the other things that just push propaganda and make us mad, go outside and touch grass and focus on friend and family communities and shoot down that person that tried to make everything about Trump/Biden, buying large meat supplies from local farms and freezing them for use, maintaining a vegetable garden (just in case, plus it makes you feel good), etc. etc.

Comment Re:It's so frustrating (Score 0) 72

I'm against the wars and regime change. I want more nuclear power but I don't think he's going to be able to make that happen. I don't like the pedophile protections, but I am glad they got 70+ jabs off the schedule and went back down to 11. I also like the FDA is finally saying bread and sugar is bad (it's fucking terrible for you) even if people are now drinking seed oil to prove their retarded. ... so it's a mixed bag, as always.

Comment Re:Fascism (Score 1, Informative) 72

No, when the US buys 10% of Intel, that's not "fascism," that's "socialism." Is Tennessee Valley Authority fascism? It's was the largest power provider in the South East for decades and is still a part of the Federal Government.

Look I don't like the Orange Pedo, but I didn't like the old Blue Pedo who took naked showers with his niece either. I don't like how Obama won a noble peace prize for being black, then carper bombed Libya leading to the creation of one of the largest slave trades in Northern Africa ever (ironic ain't it?). You sound less foolish if you focus on the government and not the puppet, and the real issue, not the ones that make people go "reeeeeeee!"

Comment Re:Managers vs trenches (Score 0) 44

No my manager used LLMs to write all our stories and the descriptions on PRs and it's all horribly unreadable. He's a true believer; does the "spec driver development" and all that crap. People who fully buy into it don't bother reading the generated code, nor do they care about the quality.

Comment Re:data centers' ravenous appetite for the industr (Score 0, Informative) 35

Which is sad because they're massively efficient when operational and are a far better investment than all the other fake-not-really-renewable sources that keep getting billions of subsidies. Even adding a 3rd of 4th reactor to existing plants would be a massive boost at a fraction of the cost of a new facilities. But the sad thing is, in America, we don't even have the steel factories to produce the massive pressure vessels needed for nuclear reactors. We truly are a declining empire.

Comment Re:The dumbing down of America continues (Score 0) 56

The "owners class" are the massive increase of staff running universities, including state funded universities, like for-profit programs ... but they make their profit off of the American tax payer who does not go to school. Educated people are just as easy to control as uneducated people. They're both there in the middle of the bell curve.

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