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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Update on the state of AI drug discovery companies: AI Does Not Make It Easy by Derek Lowe

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

The Bookseller: Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff

Penguin Random House (PRH) has amended its copyright wording across all imprints globally, confirming it will appear “in imprint pages across our markets”. The new wording states: “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems”, and will be included in all new titles and any backlist titles that are reprinted.

Now that the content mafia has realized GenAI isn't gonna let them get rid of all the expensive and troublesome human talent. it's time to give Big AI a wedgie.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Now that the content mafia has realized GenAI isn’t gonna let them get rid of all the expensive and troublesome human talent. it’s time to give Big AI a wedgie.

Considering the massive(ly inflated) valuations running around Big AI and the massive amounts of stolen work that powers the likes of CrAIyon, ChatGPT, DALL-E and others, I suspect the content mafia is likely gonna try and squeeze every last red cent they can out of the AI industry.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Forget Gladwell

All nonfiction writers can end up writing incorrect or controversial things, but why does every Gladwell book push half-formed and inaccurate theories? For years, my loose feeling about Gladwell was that he writes like someone who doesn’t care about being correct, which is not a way I would describe any other author I've encountered. There is something uniquely odd about his work.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Obligatory IBCK ep on gladwell

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (7 children)

has the era of active sabotage of the autoplag inputs begun? let's hope so

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

They added sleeps to training jobs? Sounds like they deserve a raise for improving energy efficiency instead…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought they were gonna do that themselves by feeding on their own outputs littered all over the www. Maybe they can use some help.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

that's also happening, but yeah it's going to have to be a team effort

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Considering Glaze and Nightshade have been around for a while, and I talked about sabotaging scrapers back in July, arguably, it already has.

Hell, I ran across a much smaller scale case of this a couple days ago:

Not sure how effective it is, but if Elon's stealing your data for his autoplag no matter what, you might as well try to force-feed it as much poison as you can.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's almost completely ineffective, sorry. It's certainly not as effective as exfiltrating weights via neighborly means.

On Glaze and Nightshade, my prior rant hasn't yet been invalidated and there's no upcoming mathematics which tilt the scales in favor of anti-training techniques. In general, scrapers for training sets are now augmented with alignment models, which test inputs to see how well the tags line up; your example might be rejected as insufficiently normal-cat-like.

I think that "force-feeding" is probably not the right metaphor. At scale, more effort goes into cleaning and tagging than into scraping; most of that "forced" input is destined to be discarded or retagged.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw people say they would add 10% opaque layers of the musk with Epstein's accomplice (whos name i forgot for a second and too lazy to look her up) photo. Would be nice if there was a tool to do so automatically. (Not that i post on twitter anymore).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

tbh that sounds like a pretty easy script to write! Too bad I am not near a computer rn

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't really need a script, though. Just open up photoshop or GIMP and add a layer after everything is finished.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It would be funny if someone was literally beating up servers with a wooden shoe.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

momty python style giant sabot descends on Microsoft data centre

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