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yegortk··on Questions for believers in AI consciousness
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/tkachenko24a.html
yegortk··on US bans differential privacy in Census data
Data shall set you free... or not
yegortk··on I'm scared about biological computing
ICML paper about that: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/tkachenko24a.html
yegortk··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-42054-9
yegortk··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://yegortkachenko.com/
yegortk··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
“Elites are bad. And here is a spherical cow to prove it.”
yegortk··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Would licensed lawyers' monopoly on the right to give legal advice in the US survive a First Amendment challenge if it ever reached the Supreme Court?
yegortk··on What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
People market themselves when they put on makeup. Should makeup be banned too?
yegortk··on TikTok goes dark in the US
A sad day for the country that holds free speech in high regard
yegortk··on AI-assisted art – A mixed decision from the copyright office
I think this is most significantly a policy issue. Under the existing US law, minor human input could be enough to make AI copyrightable through the "modicum of creativity" argument. However, if this allows for massive amounts of content to be generated (semi-)automatically in much shorter amount of time and with much less effort than what was possible before, it seems strict and generous copyright protections granted to creators of such works by society through the current law are no longer really warranted. In the end, copyright exists to provide motivating reward for creative effort - if such reward is no longer really necessary to enable close-to-infinite creative image generation, the law really may need to be altered to prevent copyright trolls and other nastiness of that nature.