Steal content and then ask god for forgiveness. Works like a charm :)
OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules
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#672Yeah, shorten the terms of copyright on original works by about 90%, and call it a win for everyone except for rights holders.
Rights holders are the economically marginal tail wagging the dog due to the disproportionate political power of content industries. All of Hollywood's annual revenues represented 2 weeks of telcos' SMS revenue back when you paid per message.
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#673If a person can read copyrighted material and produce derivative works, why not an AI?
> ... a person can read copyrighted material
Yes, after paying for it.
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As it is, this is a bullshit document, which I'm sure their lobbyists know; OSTP is authorized to "serve as a source of scientific and technological analysis and judgment for the President with respect to major policies, plans, and programs of the Federal Government," and has no statutory authority to regulate anything , let alone preempt state law. In the absence of any explicit Congressional legislation to serve to…
You mean there's nothing the White House can do under the rule of law. There's plenty the White House can do under the color of law.
I heard something today and I wonder if someone can nitpick it.
If what the admin is doing is illegal, then a court stops it, and they appeal and win, then it wasn't illegal. If they appeal all the way up and lose, then they can't do it.
So what exactly is the problem?
Mind you, I am asking for nits, this isn't my idea. I don't think "the administration will ignore the supreme court" is a good nit.
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Yes, if you’ll infringe like they, you’ll be in jail forever
Ignoring the non-sequitur on jail, I guess you're affirming that it's not stealing?
Most people will call it stealing, lawyers will find a way to call it differently.
So, you’re affirming that you can steal almost the whole creative output of humanity and not sit in jail your whole life?)
They not just stole or infringed, they profit from it, replace and compete with the very from whom they stole (or whom they infringed as you prefer calling it).
The model is like their private library they don’t allow you to enter or see, instead they have a strict librarian who spits hallucinated quotes at you.
The problem is in that. They are not Robbin Hoods who steal to share with the poor. They steal from the poor to make the rich richer. To enrich themselves, grab human freedoms and give those freedoms and more to AI agents.
You cannot steal the whole output of humanity and put in your brain. AI agents and companies already have massively more rights and freedoms than you and it’s gonna get much worse.
There is a narrow way through dystopias because intelligence is inherently static and non-agentic (think static 4d spacetime of a universe), we can open the Library and empower people by making models explorable like 3D games
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Can you explain why this is associated with fascism specifically, and not any other form of government which has high levels of oligarchical corruption (like North Korea, Soviet Russia, etc). I am not saying you’re wrong, but please educate me why is this form of corruption/cronyism is unique to fascism?
It might be basic, but I found the Wikipedia article to be a good place to start: > An important aspect of fascist economies was economic dirigism,[35] meaning an economy where the government often subsidizes favorable companies and exerts strong directive influence over investment, as opposed to having a merely regulatory role. In general, fascist economies were based on private property and private initiative, but…
Socialism and communism are state ownership. Fascism tends toward private ownership and state control. This is actually easier and better for the state. It gets all the benefit and none of the responsibility and can throw business leaders under the bus.
All real world countries have some of this, but in fascism it’s really overt and dialed up and for the private sector participation is not optional. If you don’t toe the line you are ruined or worse. If you do play along you can get very very rich, but only if you remember who is in charge.
“Public private partnership” style ventures are kind of fascism lite, and they always worried me for that reason. It’s not an open bid but a more explicit relationship. If you look back at Musk’s career in particular there are ominous signs of where this was going.
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#678Before Deepseek, Meta open-sourced a good LLM. At the time, the narrative pushed by OpenAI and Anthropic was centered on 'safety.' Now, with the emergence of Deepseek, OpenAI and Anthropic have pivoted to a national security narrative. It is becoming tiresome to watch these rent seekers attacking open source to justify their valuations.
Now that Deepseek is in the mix, it's suddenly about national security. Convenient.
I really don't have a spare terabyte to save all the "weights available" so I hope someone is. I already have 340GB of language model weights.
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It’s a poor definition. The same “subsidization and directive influence” applies to all of Krugman’s Nobel-wining domestic champion, emerging market development leaders, in virtually all ‘successful’ economies. It also applies in the context of badly run, failed and failing economies. Safe to say this factor is only somewhat correlated. Broad assertions are going to be factually wrong.
All snakes have scales, so there is a 100% correlation between being a snake and having scales. That does not imply that fish are snakes. Nor does the presence of scaled fish invalidate the observation that having scales is a defining attribute of snakes (it's just not a sufficient attribute to define snakes).
For correlation to be 1, it's not enough that all snakes have scales. You also need all scaly animals to be snakes.
Here's a toy example. Imagine three equally sized groups of animals: scaly snakes, scaly fish, and scaleless fish. (So all snakes have scales, but not all scaly animals are snakes.) That's three data points (1,1) (0,1) (0,0) with probability 1/3 each. The correlation between snake and scaly comes out as 1/2.
You can also see it geometrically. The only way correlation can be 1 is if all points lie on a straight line. But in this case it's a triangle.
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Also textbook Fascism. Trump should have a Most Favored Corporate status, each corporation in a vertical can compete for favor and the one that does gets to be "teacher's pet" when it comes to exemptions, contracts, trade deals, priority in resource right access, etc.
What do you think Melon Tusk is doing, apart from letting out his inner (and outer) (and literal) child on the world stage?
Elon Musk is a text book definition of an oligarch, combining tremendous wealth, control over major technological industries and political power.