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So far we have identified like 10 ways you and your audience are currently benefitting from AI, but you haven't mentioned any concrete way AI is harming you.

Also, what do you mean by "forces any sort of editing on my videos through AI". Do you mean like, changing the actual content of your videos?

Google Books already does exactly this. It has a library of the full text of millions of books. Users can search for a passage of text and google will display the paragraph where the passage is found.

https://books.google.com

example:

https://i.ibb.co/DCxJpHN/IMG-3143.jpg

What about the youtube speech to text AI that creates automatic CC transcripts for the hearing impaired? What about the AI that translates transcripts and comments into other languages? (translation certainly makes use of creativity since not every word maps 1:1)

Both the former and latter are information for writers. Neither create massive competition for writers (not that there is any law against creating competition), just FUD and better tools for writers.

Here's a list of classics from Improbable Research

https://improbable.com/publications/classics/

IMO the tradeoff is freedoms vs. protections. People can agree to exchange certain freedoms for protections, and codify this exchange into law.

For example many countries have mandated seatbelt laws. In this case the freedom to not wear a seatbelt is exchanged for health and safety. Someone could claim this is done out of fear, and that's not completely untrue. And as you allude, fear can be totally rational and backed by data, thus fear vs. freedom is not an unreasonable exchange.

> How could it be any other way (genuine question)?

The alternative is how things currently work. Meta is not being held criminally liable here, and people are allowed to use the platform anonymously so long as they do not engage in criminal behavior.

I believe $100k to Meta is like $3 to me. If there is additional punishment beyond "a maximum fine of $100k", the article does not mention it.

Nothing of the sort. I think anonymity is a privilege that is granted and can be enjoyed while engaging with society or online however anon chooses, up to the point where anon's actions breaks the law.

edit: In the case described here I am especially unsympathetic for anon as they chose to defame someone's real life identity. In this incident there was no proactive monitoring by gov/law/inc. as you so fear. Instead the wronged had to hire private council and prove the defemation in court a priori. Even after proving the impact to their character the judge's ruling is only tentative, giving anon an opportunity to present facts supporting their claims (and if you read the judge's statement closely, had anon presented evidence, there would have been no basis for the defamation suit and no need for unmasking). And even if there is no facts and anon legit defamed the person, anon may still evade justice given the paltry noncompliance fine Meta would have to pay. So let me ask you, would you like to live in a world where someone could baselessly and maliciously accuse you of rape or other defaming acts without consequence?

What is "true anonymity"? The law is fairly clear that you cannot engage in illegal activity whether acting anonymously or otherwise.

The word "Forced" here is a bit misleading given Meta faces a penalty of just 1k euros per day, up to 100k, if it decides not to comply with the court's decision.

like what? vote or something

Perhaps the softening is related to the open sourcing of LLaMa? I softened a bit on Microsoft after it started embracing the open source approach in the 2010s... even if the motivate was being late to the party.

Previous contracts delivered without issue...

5. On July 14, 2020, after discussing and agreeing on a contract with Chris Achter, I prepared a contract for the sale of 185 metric tons of durum wheat from Achter Ltd. to SWT for $312 per ton. I signed the contract and then took a photo of it using my cell phone and sent it to Chris. I messaged: “Please confirm terms of contract.” Chris texted me back: “Looks good”. Achter Ltd. delivered on this contract without issue. (Exhibit “B”)

6. On September 11, 2020, after discussing and agreeing on a contract with Chris, I prepared a contract for the sale of 131 metric tons of wheat from Achter Ltd. to SWT for a price of $284 per ton. I signed the contract and then took a photo of it using my cell phone and sent it to Chris. I messaged: “Please confirm terms of durum contract”. Chris texted me back: “Ok”. Achter Ltd. delivered on this contract without issue (Exhibit “C”).

7. On October 21, 2020, after discussing and agreeing on a contract with Chris, I prepared a contract for the sale of 395 metric tons of durum wheat from Achter Ltd. to SWT for a price of $308 per ton. I signed the contract and then took a photo of it using my cell phone and sent it to Chris. I messaged: “Please confirm terms of durum contract”. Chris texted me back: “Yup”. Achter Ltd. delivered on this contract without issue. (Exhibit “D”). ‎ ‎‎‏‏‎ ‎

The flax contract...

10. I then called Chris about the potential flax contract. I said “I assume you talked to Bob about this” and Chris confirmed that he had spoken to Bob and wanted to enter into a flax contract for 87 metric tons of flax at $669 per ton. I told Chris I'd send the contract by text message and ask him to confirm he contract via text when it came through, which Chris agreed to do.

11. I then wrote up the contract for a purchase of 87 metric tons of flax for $669 per ton. I signed the contract, took a photo of it and texted it to Chris. I messaged: “Please confirm flax contract”. Chris tested back a thumbs up emoji. I understood this to be that Chris was agreeing to the contract. A copy of the contract and the text message is attached as Exhibit “E”.

In the video, Derek says the sun provides "a more useful form of energy than earth gives back because it is more concentrated". I would argue this is not technically true. What makes the energy from the sun useful is that it emits blackbody radiation, and this has photons that are more energetic than heat (IR) radiated back into space. Light with wavelengths between 400-700 nm are used by plants for photosynthesis. Heat radiated back into the atmosphere is mostly in the IR spectrum. This is both quantitatively and qualitatively important due to the quantized properties of electrons orbiting nuclii (IR wavelengths cannot readily to elevate electrons into a greater energy state).

see: https://youtu.be/_vK5KPycEvA

Isn't this a civil case? Would extradition even apply?

Yes.

Funny you say that, I was just trying to get this to work! Do you get good results? For some reason I can't get sd2.1 to include the "lazy dog".

This is a side note / random observation, but it seems like "An astronaut riding a horse" has become the Lorem ipsum / Lenna / Utah teapot of AI text-to-image generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

Funny to see this on the front page of HN. I literally just went down this rabbit hole an hour ago from twitter. I found this article to be among the most interesting related commentary...

https://web.archive.org/web/20150214014338/http://chronicle....

How did you get access to GPT4? Were you guys already using the 3.5 model and get upgraded at some point?

Something less interesting is testing what the polar plot looks like if you plot the angle in degrees instead of radians. Or, like in this plot, where I defined 10 degrees as exactly one complete turn around the circle:

https://i.ibb.co/59k5dRT/polarplot.png

Slightly more interesting is what the primes look like when one complete turn is defined as 1, 2, 3... 30 units:

https://i.ibb.co/F0GvrSY/polarplot2.png

Inspiration, apparently? According to wikipedia, Watson and Crick both credited Schrödinger's book (what is life) as a source of inspiration for their initial research.

Instead you should ask what don't you do for a living?

Anything is better than talking about my job at MIT studying the black hole physics of advanced NLP models tasked with designing CRISPR experiments for enhancing woolly mammoth meat.

I also collect rare trinkets and enjoy seeing the sights of different places.

Imagine if they actually think that!

It's such a wild claim. It would be impressive if 99% of reviews were authentic. But they are saying 99% of their most popular products do not have a single unauthentic review.

Tactics like bait & switch, abuse of variations, and rebranding are so rampant on Amazon I wonder why Bountiful piqued the FCC's interest.

Every Amazon search is riddled with products gaming the platform. I just ran a quick search for "oscilloscope" and found 29 listings for the same 2 products...

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/3RJY10Y7MQVK0?ref_=wl_...

Why is this newsworthy?

9. With millions of people copying, pasting, and running code written by LLMs (often students who have no idea what the code actually does), it will be impossible to keep an intelligence that surpasses our own 'inside the box'.

Why have the trails at all then? This sounds like some gatekeeping bullshit, where you think people who take a few pix along the trail are not enjoying nature correctly. They don't "respect nature".

Does it do well with large elevation changes over long distances, or is the lidar mapping all relative to the current location of the phone?