Zephyr

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What's up with the downvotes? I swear people on Lemmy can be so friendly and so intensely grumpy at the same time. Anyways, happy for you and you exercising your freedom. I'll give it a look out of curiosity.

I would think China would be more of a concern for the US in this as they are the only real contender. Maybe he was concerned someone not loyal may come across some unredacted files and pull a Snowden?

I just have tap water in mine, because I'ma tap that.

The discourse about AI across Lemmy is so interesting. People heavily deny the capability of current AI systems, the nearly exponential growth in it's capability since 2017, that we are in a race to AGI / ASI and the winner (assuming we solve the control / alignment problem) will essentially have a perpetual leverage over everyone else. Most I think are just seeing AI videos and images and think it is a stupid and useless toy poisoning their FYP.

Like I've had people literally call me a cultist or insane or brainwashed when I'm trying to give some caution that shit is getting serious and then you get articles like this.

Anyone seen the 1976 film Network. It's so accurate, and this is before the internet and AI.

Game theory, every player is playing to their own interest and as the old saying goes, it's the nail that hangs out that gets hammered. It's not until there's a critical mass that the general population starts feeling safe enough to join in. Most people are just trying their best in the system and waiting for someone with enough inertia to come around, with enough will and force to feel safe joining in to changing things. This is also why the main tactic of the system is to divide and conquer, to never allow a critical mass to form.

We can't wait for others, we must be the change we want to see in the world. The others will follow when the time is right. In this process first you will be ignored, then you will be laughed at, then they will actively fight you, and if you can maintain then you win. It's a lot of sacrifice to be the one, to be that snowflake that causes an avalanche.

The world has been ending since it began. Even the first pope was sure the rapture was in his lifetime. As a player in the human experience you definitely have more than a few options on your hands. You can play the nihilistic absurdist, the hero, the villain, and any other character in-between.

When do I get off? Hopefully at the same time as you.

Every rule in every military across the world is because someone did it, and there are some really dumb rules written down. Stuff like don't store lead acid batteries upside down.

I'm not sure the situation is so simple. To steal art one has to breach copyright. If a model is trained on data that does not breach copyright then nothing was stolen. So long as the dataset was lawful then to me it is just another tool humans can use to make creative and interesting, thought provoking works with.

We can get into more creative models like ones trained on physics that are then used to create intricate and organic structures. Would that also be theft?

Your final statement is problematic, particularly towards really anything else. We should be clear about unlawful uses or what I would consider inhuman uses aka uses that remove humanity from humanity and uses that are indeed creative or even beneficial for humanity.

We shouldn't just start lumping things together and assuming it's all bad like children or people lacking the mental capacity to understand reality actually isn't so simple. You're intelligent and you can get past prejudice and bigotry of a modality.

I appreciate that. This was the early days so to speak when people were just beginning to play around, before the current flood of content which was never touched by any person aka the beginning of the dead internet. Personally if it's a person making something with intent then it's just another tool but if it's fully automated aka someone just told an agent to go make content and that's it then I'm also not a fan.

Every time there's been a new tool it's been degraded, like for a long time photography wasn't considered for art, and then digital art or CGI wasn't considered art and so on.

There's still some possibilities here for making actual art. Like if a person replicated AI generated art well enough it triggered people because they thought it was AI but was fully human generated then that could be an intriguing art piece. Either that or probing the neural nets, finding their behavior or where they break or have odd behavior would also be interesting. Like in the early days just toggling one pixel in an image to a specific value would be enough to destroy image recognition which is intriguing.