I’m a simple man. I see Cory, I upvote. Then I read the text.
Depending on where you are, Meta will ask the government to intervene on their behalf. They’ll be claiming your national legislation is unfairly targeting of the poor, poor American companies and make the orange moron tell your lawmakers to scrap it unless they don’t want to get tariffed. (It’s the only tool this tool of a man knows.) They’ve started to deploy this exact tactic against the EU’s DMA.
You’re forgetting that Meta has bought the U.S. government (like all the other oligarch-owned companies have), and the corrupt “officials” tell their agencies to stand down. Just look at where the antitrust cases against Google and Apple went…
Depending on if it’s noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Boy, it’s almost like those are meant to protect something and someone else… Hm… 🤔
Enough has been said about the dogshit company doing this. That’s a lost cause. At this point, you know what you’re signing up for if you’re getting in bed with Meta. In a sane world, the company should crash and burn - but yet it doesn’t. So what’s wrong with the people who still use Meta’s services? What’s wrong with the people still willing to work at this dumpster fire? They’re a part of the problem.
A true gem, both the man and the song.
Just go back to Reddit, kid.
LLMs are a type of AI. Call me back once you know what you’re talking about and willing to contribute more than polemics.
First off: you’ve come a long way. Great setup, keep it up!
As others have said, I’d reduce your reliance on Proton. I’d particularly ditch their password manager in favour of something like KeepassXC and combine it with Syncthing (which you’re already using) in order to keep your passwords out of the cloud, but synced between your devices. Always think in terms of blast radius: if an attacker gets access to your Proton account (either because you fuck up or they do), they will have access to anything that’s in there. Having your e-mail + pw manager there increases blast radius dramatically and allows not only for access to, but full takeover of your accounts in case of a breach.
There is exactly zero privacy upside to be gained by moving from Mint to Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE or Arch.
Qubes and Tails may give you an edge, but add quite dramatic convenience costs. Unless you have a very specific threat model, this is overkill.
That’s 10,176 Dogecoin. No, 100,254. No, 274,778.
where’s all the small mom and pop AI that’s doing good? where’s ANY AI that’s doing good?
Stable Diffusion has been a thing for a while now. There are tons of models people have trained and uploaded to HuggingFace so you can just download and experiment with them on reasonably equipped consumer hardware. So there’s plenty of “mom and pop AI” if you know where to look for it. Whether people know/use these or rely on oligarch tech is a different discussion.
I think we need to separate our judgement of the tech from our judgement of the datacentre owners. Spelled out, that means: Altman, Nadella, Pichai and all the others do deserve the ire of the public. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Grok do deserve the hate they’re getting. We should not, however, forget that “AI”, or machine learning, does exist outside the clutches of the Epstein class, and, if liberated, can do more than just enrich the rich.
“We’ve listened to customer feedback and started putting REAL tomatoes into our Shitburger again. People will come flocking back in DROVES!”
I get and share the criticism of double standards in the application of the law and the other ugly sides of corporate AI. The question I’m asking here is: if unshackled from its corporate contexts (i.e. proprietary models run for-profit in centralised data centres): is genAI still objectionable? Is the tech unethical as a wholez or is it only problematic because for now, it is mostly a tool of the oligarchs?
Alright, I get that. It’s pretty much what I wrote up there in the second half of my posting.
I’d still be curious as to your answer to my question there:
Which leads me to the question: would you find visual genAI more acceptable if it weren’t commercial?
Let’s not just exchange blunt claims, but reason a little.
Copyright critics have long made the somewhat compelling argument that copying isn’t stealing because the original digital item does not become scarcer in the process. So how can AI taking artists’ work be considered theft if it, too, just uses copies of the original work and maybe transforms them into a new work (which would, under U.S. law, fall under “fair use”)?
We might argue that, well, fair use does not apply because most AI companies try to monetise the models derived from other people’s work.
Which leads me to the question: would you find visual genAI more acceptable if it weren’t commercial?
Somebody is feeling thorough today! But this will fail for the poor folks who cannot afford an NVME SSD.
Let me guess: the milllions of electricians are tasked with building the AI data centres, while the plumbers build the plumbing needed to flush all those tons of generated slop down the drain?
sudo rm -rf /*
*ragequits*
FTFY