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They have a finite # of employees, a finite budget, and a finite amount of time. Hobbyists do not. ROI is not a factor.
As yes, the hobbyist built nuclear weapons program..... Legalize recreational plutonium.
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Building a tool that tries (and probably fails) to remove the watermark (due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win) is tacitly accepting the barcode. The hacker ethos should be, first and foremost, to run open source models locally without relying on a corporation.
> [fighting against the system] is tacitly accepting the barcode. I don't really see it. I think it's important to win on both fronts.
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To be fair the state works pretty hard to crush "hobbyist" nuclear weapons programs so you don't really know how far it could get.
By the time you're building (or buying) the necessary highly esoteric and expensive ultracentrifuge setup I think you would be well outside the realm of "hobbyist" unless someone insists on the most unreasonably pedantic definition for the term. Unless we're only considering final assembly. Just gotta get that weapons grade fissile material supplier lined up. That might or might not qualify as rich hobbyist territory…
There's an underappreciated comment in the other thread about SynthID and OpenAI [0] that captures what (IMO) the hacker ethos on this should be. We care about privacy, we should not accept tools that barcode our every digital move. (note that the counter of "well, they don't do that yet " is not particularly convincing) [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200060
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>due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win Much like how the entirety of Hollywood, book publishers, academic publishers, and game developers have won against piracy despite being some of the largest corps on earth and dedicating untold billions to the issue over the past 30 years?
They won the long game. Everything is rented and DRM now. Very little of what most people buy digitally is truly owned.
There's quite a bit of difference in the before and after. I hope they can find a way that better preserves details.
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So letting people know you’ve used AI is not a good thing? Best used in covert is what you’re saying?
Some people are just biased to the point that telling them something is AI when it's actually not will cause them to convince themselves such: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/real-monet-ai-c...