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Nah, your browser is a corporate one with only corporate use cases that only accepts certs with extremely short lifetimes. I self-signed the cert so it's good till 2050. You can always turn off JS and access the HTTP version of the site.

As for my qualifications, I've trained a very small (~0.8B) LLM myself on 3GB of IRC logs. So I kind of know what I'm doing and have a basic understanding of the theory involved and the pragmatic issues.

Is that meant to be a humorous claim to authority?

"My opinion is more important than the opinions of the greatest musicians of all time, because I once built an LLM myself on 3GB of IRC logs" - superkuh, 2025

It's like thinking the greatest musicians of all time have reliable expert opinions on audio electronics. Sure, it's technically music related but the skill set doesn't really transfer to, say, ADC design.

I'm not saying I'm great. If we go back to my original comment which started this thread, I'm saying this group has few relevant qualifications besides celebrity and profit lust. Which means even I know more than them about generative and LLM AI training, and the regulatory implications, despite just being a "hobbyist" in the domain.

You win on hubris, I'll give you that

How could you possibly know that you know more than them about anything without knowing them? It's all assumptions

It's actually like thinking that the most influential musicians in history are somehow not qualified to step up and discuss the licensing and legal implications of LLMs, having spent half a century battling similar corporate forces, and warning the industry how history likes to repeat itself.

Get over yourself bud

Stock iOS Safari, and I do not accept your beginner-hobbyist credentials and superficial comments on genuine political issues concerning copyright law and fair labour compensation, not copy-pasted Python tutorials.

That's fine. I understand. Only corporations matter. And this is a corporation with celebrity names associated! Surely that means the people involved know what they're talking about more than a random person with direct experience. After all, that person isn't trying to make money. Their opinion can't possibly matter if they're not trying to make money.

> Stock iOS Safari

to be fair that's not a bastion of quality either.

What do you mean by quality, exactly?

My up to date list of recognised certificate authorities in one of the two major smartphone OSs does not validate his certificate. This is not a matter of 'quality' of Safari, or iOS.

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