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You're right. It's time to ban the evil numbers from being matrix multiplied. Contact your local representative about CPU control.

I'm not even in favor of banning/heavily-regulating AI developments, but I think this position here is a little reductive; you could boil anything down to the point of absurdity.

The point of nuclear weapons bans, for instance, isn't to control "evil atoms from touching", it's to prevent the higher-order effects that those atoms touching can cause.

Very funny, the problem is more about the input than whatever the CPU is doing, as in chatGPT would be no more than a footnote without copyrighted material in all it's datasets.

We all stand on the shoulders of giants:)

It's clear that the giant didn't consent in this particular case.

Not really?

They wouldn't have used copyrighted material if it wasn't a survival matter for them, but sure you go ahead and pretend that they just happen to use it and not really need it that much.

Anyone that doesn't at least acknowledge copyrighted materials will be a footnote. But you don't need it for AI's most profitable applications at all, eg. code generation or sentiment analysis.

ChatGPT just exploits copyright because they can. You might not like it, but the die was cast years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google,....

Exactly why is that? Surely llms have use beyond pure destruction (unlike a nuclear weapon).

Their energy and ground water needs are purely destructive. I make a pass on their suppossed benefits.

You probably need to look under the hood, it has nothing to do with what popular culture called AI until very recently. It’s just a word generator on steroids, don’t believe the hype about AIs taking over, it’s complete BS.

Fwiw, the difference it makes in software development speed is astounding.

I know first hand, quite incredible

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