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misk

@ misk @piefed.social

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Opinions exclusively of my own and of voices in my head.

Autism, communism, arthitism, cannabism.

  • LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

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  • For removing malware from their app store? o_O

  • Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week in US

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  • Consumers are lazy and big tech exploits it by creating just enough friction to keep them in semi-walled gardens. Enabling installing of an app that’s labeled as „file might be harmful” by enabling installation of „unknown apps” won’t stop my grandma from installing malware but it stops many from even bothering with alternative app stores.

  • Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected

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  • Fixed, thanks.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • Belief that artists should be paid for their work is now conservative and not simply the opposite of neoliberalism XD

    Sorry, couldn’t help myself, I’ll stop now, just forgot to set ignore before.

  • Millions of Copyrighted Songs Were Fed to AI Music Generators – Now There's Proof

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  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • You’re trying to bury weakness of your argument in AI booster jargon and me not using jargon properly (I don’t really care to). Sorry, that’s about as far as I care to continue.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • Maybe I sometimes skip ahead too much. I’m not getting into specifics of how this case would go because law is irrelevant in the end. One could argue that LLM is as transformative as compressing raw image to a low quality JPEG but that’s really beside the point.

    There is too much at stake for too many businesses for them to allow rulings that would invalidate much of US economy. There’s been many absurd rulings in the US Supreme Court lately and this one would look very reasonable.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • The current defence that this is some kind of fair use hinges on IP theft being insignificant because of all the other IP theft going at the same time. Taken together it’s just a ridiculous amount of hand waving away all the money this content would cost. It’s a big tech model of „break stuff, ask permission later”. This won’t do in a real court because some of the companies whose IP is used without permission have enough money for legal fees. Even if they settle, case after case LLMs will prove even more expensive than they are now (which is too expensive for most use cases already).

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • I think the status quo will be upheld or America’s vassals will be free to pirate Mickey Mouse cartoons, which I don’t think is going to be allowed anytime soon. Can’t have your cake and eat it. AI bubble will burst but the mouse seems to be nearly immortal.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • Us thinking that current IP laws are broken doesn’t change what they currently are. Blacked has no obligation to allow their content to be processed by Meta into a for profit service. Those IP laws are not changing anytime soon, their mandatory recognition is a core component of US control over its vassals. I very much doubt „fair use” defence will stand, it’s just stalling for the bubble to get bigger in the meantime.

  • Anthropic backs off unpopular billing overhaul as price war with OpenAI looms

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  • Anthropic has also filed IPO paperwork and wants to go public soon. Losing customers over an unpopular billing change right before a listing would hurt its valuation.

    Investors don’t want line to go down, even if it’s a line of projected losses. Capitalism at it’s finest.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • You don’t buy things these days, you license them. All your games on Steam? Not yours. iTunes music? Could be taken at any moment. No reason porn would be special. These are the rules that apply to us and I don’t see a reason why Meta would be exempt from them.

    Why don’t you buy some porn from Blacked.com, rent it out for money and see what happens. It’s legal after all because of first sale doctrine lol.

  • OpenAI spending hit $34bn last year ahead of planned IPO

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  • This is with all the free compute they’re getting from Microsoft, who are MUCH deeper in the hole on their LLM business profitability.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • When you buy a video tape you also agree to a license that says you can’t use it in your video rental store. Most things licensed today will describe permissible use and prohibit other uses. No matter how much AI jargon is thrown at the issue, this is the current legal system.

    Blacked.com is allowed not sell cake to that gay couple. They’re also allowed not license their porn to Meta.

  • Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn

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  • Archive.org is a genuine public benefit organisation similar to a library and in some places recognised as such. Meta is making money out of this, they have to pay up same as everyone else.

  • Meta Says 20,000 Instagram Accounts Hacked via AI Tool Abuse

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  • It’s abuse because they thought they could outsource human decision making to a biased lotto machine and someone showed them that it doesn’t work, therefore all their projected profits related to not having to pay people are in shambles.

  • Dear Microsoft, Enough is Enough - Browser Choice Alliance urged Microsoft to stop Edge promotion tactics and make browser switching simpler across Windows.

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  • They introduced so much friction that people at my workplace mostly gave up changing default browser from Edge to something else over and over. Most cited reason is „Edge is pretty much the same as Chrome, why resist”. Chrome engine monoculture is coming to bite Google in the ass.

  • She won a religious exemption from using AI at work. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

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  • So glad I never bothered with apostasy lol.

  • YouTube hikes Premium subscription cost again while adding advanced video features

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  • In the US. Americans, please stop colonising small internet communities. You colonised everything else already.