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I do wonder if that’s ever actually a legitimate concern for prison staffers, if they get an inmate that is exceptionally agile like this. Like, if a parkour champ gets locked up, do the guards take any additional precautions? Do they grease up all the walls and fences to make them extra hard to climb?

These, and other equally important questions, are what keep me up at night.

These days, it’s “mid”.

Yep, mostly just used to help crowdsource weather reporting like this.

Though I have seen another interesting use-case for the barometer, which is for IP-rated (water-resistant) phones, you can use the barometer to check that your device still has a water-tight seal with an app that measures the pressure as you squeeze the sides of the phone together.

Probably move on to YouTube Shorts or Instagram reels.

Likely YouTube. While neither are great, between Google and Meta, Google’s got the better reputation. YouTube also has a larger audience, because it includes a ton of users who wouldn’t fall under traditional social media usage. Reels might be used as a periphery platform to drive more people to their main channel on YouTube.

Any TikTok creator who moves to Instagram full-time is either shooting themselves in the foot, or got a good contract from Meta.

I used to buy these little pocket-sized Sudoku books that I’d keep with me, usually play a puzzle or two while commuting to work or something.

That’s really cool! I wonder if there’s a way to find the previous owners of the house, that’d make for a really fun story if you were able to track down the original owner somehow.

I missed an opportunity to nab a free ticket to a George Carlin show because I couldn’t get the day off work. That ended up being his last tour before he died.

I think most people these days don’t use browser bookmarks as a “check this out later” tool, and instead as more of a “I frequently need to access this page” function. For me, I only bookmark a page if it’s something I frequently access; things like my email, Lemmy, some work apps, etc. In my use-case, bookmarks are a more “permanent” installation to my browser.

Also, “read later” apps generally strip the web page formatting and advertisements, and usually have an offline function of some sort; both of which you typically can’t do with bookmarks. These are especially useful for those who like to read on their commute.

I was pressed for time when filing this year, so I didn’t want to experiment with the IRS’ new program and just went with FreeTaxUSA since I knew it would be fast and have my data from last year saved. For those who tried the new program this year, how was it?

Conservatives need to come up with a better tactic than banning things that are already illegal.

The sign guy returned their deposit. The shirt guy wasn’t so kind.

And instead mentions Bluesky, which I wouldn’t even really classify as part of the Fediverse. Sure, it’s federated, but it’s pretty much just federated with its own self, and isn’t accessible from any part of the Fediverse at large.

I don’t think that’s the basis of their argument.

The RIAA alleges that the generators used the record labels’ songs to illegally train the models since they didn’t have the rights holders’ permission to use the recordings. But whether the companies needed that permission is unclear. AI companies have argued that the use of training data is a case of fair use, meaning they are allowed to use the recordings with impunity.

Emphasis mine. Their concern is that the music was used for commercial purposes, not how the music came into their possession. Web scraping is already legal, that’s never been a piracy issue.

Piracy isn’t the issue, I’m not sure if we’re referencing different things here.

How the developers came to possess the training material isn’t being called into question - it’s whether or not they’re allowed to train an AI with it, and whether doing so constitutes copyright infringement. And currently, the way in which generative AI works does not cross those legal boundaries, as written.

The argument the RIAA wants to make is that using copyrighted material for the purposes of training software extends beyond the protections of fair use. I believe their argument is that - even if acquired otherwise legally - acquiring music for the explicit purpose of making new music would be considered a commercial use of the material. Basically like the difference between buying an album to listen to with your headphones or buying an album to play for a packed concert hall, suggesting that the commercial intent behind acquiring the music is what makes it illegal.

I feel that this logic follows a common misconception of generative AI. Its output isn’t made from the training data. It will take inspiration from it, but it doesn’t just mix-and-match samples from the training materials. GenAI uses metadata that it builds based on that training data, but the data, itself, isn’t directly referenced during generation.

The way AI generates content isn’t like when Vanilla Ice sampled Under Pressure; it would be more like if Vanilla Ice had talent and could actually write music, and had accidentally written the same bass line without ever hearing Queen. While unlikely, it’s still possible, and I’m sure we’ve all experienced a similar situation; ie. you open a comment thread to post a joke based on the headline and see the top comment is already the exact same joke you were going to make… You didn’t copy the other user, and they didn’t copy you, but you both likely share a similar experience that trigger the same associations.

For the same reasons that two different writers can accidentally tell the same story, or two different comedians can write the same joke, two different musicians can write the same melodies if they have shared inspirations. In all of those instances, both parties can create entirely original materials own their own accord, even if they aren’t meaningfully unique from each other. The way generative AI works isn’t significantly different, which is why this is such a legally-murky situation. If generative AI were more rudimentary and was actually sampling the training data, it would be an open-and-shut copyright infringement case. But, because the materials the AI produces are original creations of its own, we get into this situation where we have to argue over where to draw the line between “inspiration” and “replication”.

“The basic point is that [the AI companies’] model requires a vast corpus of sound recordings in order to output synthetic music files that are convincing imitations of human music,” the suits alleged. “Because of their sheer popularity and exposure, the Copyrighted Recordings had to be included within Suno’s training data for Suno’s model to be successful at creating the desired human-sounding outputs.”

Nope, there’s plenty of other ways for an AI to have created similar notes. Say you have Song A written by Steve. Steve grew up listening to a lot of John, who wrote songs B through Z. Steve spent his childhood listening to and being influenced by John, so when Steve eventually grows up to write Song A, it’s incredibly possible for it to contain elements from songs B through Z. So if an AI trains off of Steve it’s going to consequently pick up whatever habits Steve learned from John.

Just like how you picked up some habits from your parents, which they picked up from their parents… etc. You could develop a habit that started with an ancestor you’ve never met; who are you copying?

By design. The cruelty is the point.

There’s no “what if”, Satanic Panic never went away. If anything, it’s being boosted by social media.

Oh no, just missed him, now he’s over 👈 thataway!

The difference is whether or not there’s one objective answer to a question, or if a question could have any number of answers.

For instance, look at “How do you replace the starter on a 2006 Ford Taurus?”, which is rather closed-ended, as the only acceptable answer is “With the wrath of a perturbed god, as you’ve already replaced the starter three times in just as many years.”

Whereas, “What advice would you give someone starting their first job as a car mechanic?” is open-ended and could have a million answers, ranging from “Get comfortable replacing Ford starters, because those sombitches burn out once a year” all the way to “Buy a good set of wrenches, and also a ouija board so you can tell the ghost of Henry Ford to go fuck himself”.