There is definitely an overreaction to AI use, when specifically games can make very good use of it. Smaller teams can create better games, and using smaller AI models to run on a GPU during playing could enable some amazing new features for dialogue or dynamic storytelling.

If there is any place where an AI hallucinating and riffing isn’t a problem it’s gaming.

Classic yawning pose. Arching pose?

Chernobyl is good show but one thing it got very wrong is the idea that the molten down reactor could somehow explode again for some gigantic fireball larger than the Tsar Bomba.

It increases fear of nuclear power unreasonably. Also much much less people died or suffered from nuclear power including Chernobyl compared to fossil fuels. Even solar power causes more deaths from roofing accidents. We now know at least some of the nuclear hysteria is / was funded by fossil fuel interests.

Yeah I believe it’s the libertarian and hyper-individualist mindset. The founder of Proton is a bit screwy too. I think tech and IT generally attracts people who like simple rule based systems, and who will focus on such thinking instead of messy complex sociological ideas. They are smart but they are stupid in the sense that they lack the intellectual infrastructure to accept that they are not just individuals but the latest iteration of a very messy species.

The other reason is that to get to the top in capitalism, you need a certain mindset of exploiting others. It’s very hard to get rich if you’re even wasting time thinking of how it affects others. So the shits rise to the top.

You wrote “they stole all their data”. Since they mostly use publicly available data like books, articles, papers, internet forums, social media (all public info) it must mean they “stole” that public data.

Which means you believe that data should be intellectual property and belong to someone like meta or reddit (who else?). This is exactly what the oligarchs want.

I said no such thing. Private is private. I’m saying there is no such thing as public information, information that you put on the public internet, meaning for the public to see, then being somehow not “free”.

You can argue about copyright a little, I’m against it, but this has nothing to do with private messages or private information or data protection.

You’re just arguing a strawman and trying to make the discussion about something else and an ad hominem calling me a troll.

Public information vs private information

Well yeah, they suck. I’m a fan of anna’s archive.

But this doesn’t change the fact that AI models will continue to improve, and the tactical question is if we give them munition to monopolize it using “intellectual property” rights. I want open source/weights models to use locally without paying some license to meta or reddit or some publisher cartel.

That is incorrect though, it follows the fallacy that it’s just like a big database where all that (much larger) data is being copied and compressed into. It’s called machine learning and denying the reality of how it works is just not useful.

Imagine you study as an engineer in whatever field, but now laws have been passed that you only licensed the knowledge from university and publishers. If you work you have to demonstrate who you learned it from and then pay royalty fees. Obviously that would be insane for humans, but I do forsee that they will try to do this for machine learning. Because of the argument you made.

So any open source / weight model you find and could run locally (like e.g. deepseek) will now be illegal because you can’t prove where “dey tuerg dur dartae” from.

Thus all potential future gains from AI will be monopolized, while the costs socialized.

Every book ever published, every article anybody ever wrote, every comment anyone ever posted on a public internet is “consent” to read and learn from it.

I’m pro piracy as you can tell. The idea that something can be out there publicly on the internet but it’s “not consent” to read is the intellectual property one. Look at how they try to gatekeep publicly owned scientific papers. Big AI is clearly hypocritical doing this, but corporations are just soulless, amoral programs executed by sentient humans.

But the RESULT of all that (e.g. deepseek) should belong to all people. And THAT is why these IP arguments by fuckAI are dangerous, because it is only a threat to open models. The answer is open source (or weight) AI models and with advances in computing to run them locally.

they stole all there data

Obviously fuck the capitalists and AI scammers. But reading and learning from a library, then writing and selling your own book based on that is NOT stealing. It’s the wrong argument.

The answer obviously is to keep the actual source material and libraries and book archives open and just run open source AI models at home. You can run smaller versions on a solar powered PC no problem.

The issue with trying to make “AI is just stolen” happen is that it will make open source AI models illegal. AI companies would love that because they can afford to license and pay or work around or obscure or whatever. The “intellectual property” argument is always a disgusting capitalist one. Knowledge is either free or nothing is.

I was being sarcastic and thinking about the anti-intellectualism that is prevailing today especially about the destruction of our planets climate and mass extinction. Neoliberals have been fighting against science for quite some time now. Instead of scientific experts that have a track record we now have pundits and opinion. Not an improvement.

Generally academics (have to) devote themselves to researching scientific knowledge and truths. So in general they “default less” and “question more” and fundamentally desire to serve a higher purpose. Exceptional crimes or pragmatic submission to ruling classes notwithstanding.

I wonder if renowned professors and academics are on average more ethical or the same as then.

You hear things like OP and think “Yeah there is a good reason why we stopped treating professors as authorities to consult on anything”. Just how many people must have known and just silently accepted this atrocity.

No clue how exactly, but maybe you could also give them “toys” or things that are fun for them. Or shiny things that jingle or something lol. Or maybe build them a raised stand where they can land and look with a roof against rain. Or maybe even a birdbath?