we all gotta start somewhere

I might be able to give you another perspective.

This technology is the first time that humankind has ever been able to create an interactive snapshot of human culture. Everything thats been written, scanned, drawn has made their mark on those models, and it gives you glimpses in what else there might be in the human cultural space. It's not intelligence, but it's distilled human culture.

I am very critical about the fact that this technology is mainly in the hands of corporations that want to use it as a cost cutting tool. I am also not a fan that GenAI is pushed into everything just to get sweet investor money. I am far less alarmed about the productivity increases themselves, or about copyrights which are normally only wielded as a weapon by the rich.

The power consumption argument doesn't even apply here - the generation of those images does not cost more energy than playing a computer game for 2 minutes, is often done on consumer grade hardware (like the one running here now while i type this), and the training of the models is not necessarily very power hungry if done smart (deepseek used a fraction of the power that GPT4o needed). Also, with the massive expansion of solar power generation (we're at the point where the price starts becoming negative at peak solar output) the power itself starts becoming a non-factor.

Copyrights themselves are a clusterfuck, which is an statement that many artists would agree with. I personally wish for the following (copied from the vote-thread regarding the rule we're discussing):

I would make a case for creation of datasets by a international institution like the UNESCO. The used data would be representative for world culture, and creation of the datasets would have to be sponsored by whoever wants to create models out of it, so that licencing fees can be paid to creators. If you wanted to make your mark on global culture, you would have an incentive to offer training data to UNESCO.

I hope i could give you a bit hope in humanity back - there are still idealistic people out there.

Hey @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] would you be able to investigate this user and potentially permaban them for transphobia, trolling and impersonation of another instance's moderator?

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Alright I'll make an exception here. These dudes freaks.

You can absolutely block communities when you are banned from them, this is one of the most sad and pathetic excuses to be unbanned I've ever heard, request denied.

What, you don't love people bitching that they can't walk into special interest communities and break their rules?

I bet you don't like dummies in the comments trying to get the instances to defederate either, and that's ableism or something.

Yeah those people are some of the most sad and pathetic trolls imaginable.