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Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by lxgr »

lupire wrote: post #97
sbierwagen wrote: post #32

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Yes, proper nouns are capitalized. And of course it's much worse for a company's published works to not respect branding-- a trademark only exists if it is actively defended. Official marketing material by a company has been used as legal evidence that their trademark has been genericized: >In one example, the Otis Elevator Company's trademark of the word "escalator" was cancelled following a petition from Toledo-bas…

Using a trademark as a noun is automatically genericizing. Capitalization of a noun is irrelevant to trademark. Even Apple corporation says that in their trademark guidance page, despite constantly breaking their own rule, when they call through iPhone phones "iPhone". But Apple, like founder Steve Jobs, believes the rules don't apply to them. https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/trademark/...

Is that true? If so, what else should Apple call the iPhone in their marketing materials?

I always thought the actual problem of genericization would be calling any smartphone an iPhone.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by SOTGO »

elliotto wrote: post #123
grues-dinner wrote: post #19

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Interesting that it didn't seem to include "unalive". Which as a phenomenon is so very telling that no one actually cares what people are really saying. Everyone, including the platforms knows what that means. It's all performative.

Unalive and other self censors were adopted by young people because the tiktok algorithm would reprioritize videos that included specific words. Then it made its way into the culture. It has nothing to do with being performative

I think what they meant is that the platforms are being performative by attempting to crack down on those specific words. If saying "killed" is not allowed but "unalived" is permitted and the users all agree that they mean the same thing, then the ban on the word "killed" doesn't accomplish anything.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by lxgr »

spauldo wrote: post #70
grues-dinner wrote: post #23

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In what way would (A|a)pple's own AI writing "imac" endanger the trademark? Is capitalisation even part of a word-based trademark? I'm more surprised they don't have a rule to do that rather grating s/the iPhone/iPhone/ transform (or maybe it's in a different file?).

I love seeing posts about Emacs from IOS users - it's always autocorrected to "eMacs."

Maybe at some point, but as far as I can tell not anymore (while corrections like "iphone -> iPhone" are still there).

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by bigyabai »

WillAdams wrote: post #13
andy99 wrote: post #12

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> Apple brands have the correct capitalisation. Priorities hey! To me that's really embarrassing and insecure. But I'm sure for branding people it's very important.

Legal requirement to maintain a trademark.

If Apple Intelligence is going to be held legally accountable, Apple has larger issues than trademark obligations.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by [deleted] »

lxgr wrote: post #156
WillAdams wrote: post #13

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Legal requirement to maintain a trademark.

In their own marketing language, sure, but to force this on their users' speech? Consider that these models, among other things, power features such as "proofread" or "rewrite professionally".

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Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by osn9363739 »

thehappypm wrote: post #160
Waterluvian wrote: post #135

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Hey I was pro-skub waaaay before all the anti-skub people switched sides.

Skub is a real slur tho so that one doesn’t work

Isn't that a reference to a 10 or 20 year old web comic?

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by marcus_holmes »

qingcharles wrote: post #38
fouronnes3 wrote: post #31

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This question is sort of the same as asking why the universal translator wasn't able to translate the metaphor language of the Star Trek episode Darmok. Surely if the metaphor has become the first order meaning then there's no litteral meaning anymore.

I guess, so far, the people inventing the words have left the meaning clear with things like "un-alive" which is readable even to someone coming across it for the first time. Your point stands when we start replacing the banned words with things like "suicide" for "donkeyrhubarb" and then the walls really will fall.

I've heard "pr0n" used in actual real-world conversation, only slightly ironically.

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by kulahan »

apricot wrote: post #108
qingcharles wrote: post #25

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It's totally performative. There's no way to stay ahead of the new language that people create. At what point do the new words become the actual words? Are there many instances of people using unalive IRL?

> Are there many instances of people using unalive IRL As a parent of a teenager, I see them use "unalive" non-ironically as a synonym for "suicide" in all contexts, including IRL.

Well that’s sad. They can’t even face the word?

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by jofzar »

bawana wrote: post #30

Alexandra Ocasio Cortez triggers a violation? https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

AOC is very vocal about AI and is leading a bill related to AI. It's probably a "let's not fuck around and find out" situation

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5312421-ocasio-cortez-...

Re: I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models

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Post by kevinventullo »

kulahan wrote: post #168
apricot wrote: post #108

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> Are there many instances of people using unalive IRL As a parent of a teenager, I see them use "unalive" non-ironically as a synonym for "suicide" in all contexts, including IRL.

Well that’s sad. They can’t even face the word ?

It’s not about whether they can face it. The younger generations are more in tune with mental health and topics like suicide than any previous generation. The etymology of the euphemism was about avoiding online censorship, while its “IRL” usage was merely absorbed through familiarity from the online usage.
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