And what is the actual work requirement to copy-paste you post to your twitter?

Zero, there’s plenty of software out that there allows you to write once and post everywhere. This isn’t about declining engagement either since they are still reaching literally MILLIONS of people every year.

This decision was reached because of Xitters owner, no other reason makes sense.

“An estimated 18,000 to 40,000 consumer routers, mostly those made by MikroTik and TP-Link…”

To the surprise of absolutely no one.

This is a fast path to open source irrelevancy, since the US copyright office has deemed LLM outputs to be uncopyrightable.

This is a misunderstanding of US Copyright. Here’s a link to the compendium so you can verify for yourself.

Section 313 says “Although uncopyrightable material, by definition, is not eligible for copyright protection, the Office may register a work that contains uncopyrightable material, provided that the work as a whole contains other material that qualifies as an original work of authorship…”

This means that LLM created code that’s embedded in a larger work may be registered.

Section 313.2 says “Similarly, the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author.”

Meaning that LLM created code CAN be registered as long as an author has some creative input or intervention in the process. I’d posit that herding an LLM system to create the code definitely qualifies as “creative input or intervention”. If someone feels it isn’t then all they need to do is change something, literally anything, and suddenly it becomes a derivative work of an uncopyrighted source and the derivative can then be registered (to a human) and be subject to copyright.

In short, it’s fine. Take a breath.

Hey that was a good idea. I swung by your house and got a few hugs from your mom. Thanks!

I remember having a copy on 3 1/2" floppy disk back in the mid-80s. It was a pretty nice resource.

and you think the Internet has only been politicized for 8?

I didn’t say the internet wasn’t politicized. I said that having to “check the political climate” before making a post, i.e. self censoring, is new(ish). You gonna tell me that you never posted online that having lesbian parents is okay before it became accepted to do so? I’ll bet you did and I’ll bet you did it more than once.

This idea that posts running counter to the current cultural / political climate shouldn’t be made is pure horseshit. Usenet was stuffed to the gills with counter culture of all kinds, it was expected and accepted. Yes there were epic flame wars but that’s because people didn’t self censor an unpopular opinion because of the “current political climate”. I was there.

Online discourse is a pale shadow of what it once was and I put the blame squarely on the rise of this idea that people should self-censor in order to avoid giving offense. Fuck that and fuck people who believe that’s how it should be.

Edit: One Usenet if a user really REALLY couldn’t stomach what another user was spouting then they put 'em in the kill file. That’s what “plonk” meant.

but it’s also an issue of the government telling people what they can and can’t do…

There’s a strong segment of Lemmy, perhaps even a majority, who have absolutely no problem with a government telling people what they can and can’t do. The only thing these people disagree on is the details.

In this political climate???

I was online a decade before “Eternal September” started and having to check the “political climate” before making a post wasn’t a thing until sometime in the last 8 years or so.

This kind gatekeeping has had horrible consequences for the culture of the internet.

…AI has no such thing.

People who say this sound just like the people who are still arguing against Solar Panels and Wind Turbines. Neither group wants to accept progress or change and both groups are slowly being crushed by reality.

They’re standing shoulder to shoulder with the group of luddites who killed an SMR project by using arguments that were debunked 50 years ago in the hopes that everything will go back to using coal.

Yep, a lot of the .com bubble was nonsense and so is the current AI bubble.

You could be right, only time will tell.

In order for it to be this ubiquitous it has to run locally or on commodity hardware IMO.

I agree, which is why I shared that I recently saw a prototype ASIC-esque PCI card. The local hardware is coming, the models just need to settle down some before anyone will commit to building that hardware.

In the '90s and '00s you needed a zillion dollars of custom Silicon Graphics workstations and months of processing to do the FX for movies like “The Terminator”. In 2020 you could replicate it in a few hours with commodity hardware.

The LLMs and AI will be the same, it just needs more than 5 years to get there.

Perplexity AI

It has a place, but not as a pale shadow of the dot com bubble.

The “dot com bubble” led to where we are today. Yes there was a massive speculative bubble but 20ish years later look at the number of Trillion dollar companies that came out of it, how ubiquitous the technology is, and how impactful its been on global society.

The potential for those outcomes is why Venture Capital is willing to light hundreds of billions of dollars on fire.

Congratulations, you’ve just covered how the Computer / Tech Industry has worked since mainframes were invented. It’s a constant cycle of $NewThing that almost works, desperate effort by a lot of companies to make it work right / better, market cornering, BoomTime for a lucky few companies, then someone figures out how to do it cheaper or re-focus the market on something slightly different, then BustTime.

NOBODY WANTS THIS SHIT!!!

That’s a popular take, especially around here, but AI does have some pretty nice use cases; just not as many as the TechBros would have you believe.

Here’s some examples I’ve personally seen in the last 14 days:

1. It’s good at transcribing meetings, including picking out who is talking, backing into an agenda, and highlighting action items.
2. It’s darn good at writing even moderately complex scripts in any of the common languages. (Powershell, Python, R, etc)
3. In the right hands (fingers?) it’s getting increasingly good at finding and exploiting security flaws.
4. It’s amazing at slicing and dicing data if the person using it knows what they’re doing.

Does all of the “Agentic” Woo Woo shit work? No, it absolutely doesn’t but it is clearly getting better as time goes on.

IMO this whole AI thing has some very strong parallels to the early '80s computer industry. Right now it often requires specialist knowledge for good results which makes it clunky to use, it is somewhat slow, there’s very little interoperability, and it requires enormous amounts of power. Hell even this “over buying hardware” schtick fits right in, this happened with SRAM and then several times with DRAM as the industry matured.

However the industry is also making progress at almost insane speed; not only is the output getting demonstrably better but the negatives are being addressed. In the past 30 days I’ve seen prototype ASIC-esque hardware that works in a standard desktop PC and processes nearly 10,000 tokens a second with local processing.

The only reason you’re not seeing that kind of kit in the market yet is because the models are still changing too much and no one wants to commit hundreds of millions to making cards that would be outdated before they could be shipped. We’re probably only 18-24 months away though.

I’ve also seen 10x improvements in memory usage (TurboQuant) and literally dozens of little tweaks and tricks to reduce footprint and speed processing. Just like what was going on in the PC industry in the '80s and '90s.

So sure, Fuck AI (mostly) as it exists today but it won’t be long before it’s as ubiquitous as tablets and smartphones.

All she had to do was release them.

It took a literal Act of Congress to get maybe half the files and they were so heavily redacted as to be near useless.

In my opinion she’s either been ordered not to release them or she herself is in them; there’s no other explanations for ignoring the massive amount of pressure she’s been under.

No one gives a shit who the Trump Administration chooses as a scapegoat; we’re all interested in just two things:

1. A full release of all the files as commanded by Congress.
2. When the prosecutions of Epstein’s clients will start.

That’s it and that’s all. The rest of this is just noise intended to keep people distracted.

I think my main focus would be to end the two-party system by switching Congress to proportional representation.

If I understand your comment correctly what you are describing is how Congress was originally setup! It was broken by the Re-Apportionment Act of 1912. No need to re-write the Constitution it’s “just” a Federal Law.

a drastic reduction of presidential power is an obvious step

The President only has as much power as they do because Congress has been steadily handing it over since the 1940s.

perhaps have both a president and a prime minister like many European countries do

We weren’t far away from the spirit of that but we broke it in 1804 with the passage of the 12th Amendment.

The Supreme Court needs reform…

It’s really not SCOTUS that needs reformed it’s actually our Constitution. It was simply never meant for the environment in which it now exists, it’s unfit for purpose. The easiest way to explain is that the US Constitution wasn’t meant to control an all powerful central authority, it was meant to prevent one. SCOTUS twisted that shortly after the Civil War and now here we are trying to manage ourselves by looking at a mirror reflection of our guiding document.

Stupid.

Interesting that you should bring Nixon up. I swear that Modern Republicans are going down a checklist trying to undo every accomplishment of Nixon and Nixon-Era Republicans.