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AI’s future in California hangs in the balance.

Again, it’s fundamentally the same thing. You’re just using different tools to perform the same action.

I remember back in the day when software patents were the big boogeyman of the Internet that everyone hated, and the phrase “…with a computer” was treated with great derision. People were taking out huge numbers of patents that were basically the same as things people had been doing since time immemorial but by adding the magical “…with a computer” suffix on it they were treating it like some completely new innovation.

Suddenly we’re on the other side of that?

Anyway, even if you do throw that distinction in you still end up outlawing huge swathes of things that we’ve depended on for years. Search engines as the most obvious example.

That’s the same thing. Whatever you want to call it, “copyright” or some other word, the end result is that you’re wanting to give people the right to control other people’s ability to analyze the things that they see on public display. And control what general concepts other people put into future works.

I really don’t see how going in that direction is going to lead to a better situation than we have now. Frankly it looks more like a path to a nightmarish corporate-controlled dystopia to me.

The breach happened a year ago, Claude 3.5 Sonnet wasn’t available then.

Setting aside the hypocrisy, there’s simply no “service” to DDoS here. There’s hardly even a tool. According to the article:

Hönig told Ars that breaking Glaze was “simple.” His team found that “low-effort and ‘off-the-shelf’ techniques”—such as image upscaling, “using a different finetuning script” when training AI on new data, or “adding Gaussian noise to the images before training”—“are sufficient to create robust mimicry methods that significantly degrade existing protections.”

So automatically running a couple of basic Photoshop tools on the image will do it.

I had to check the date on this article because I’m not sure why it’s suddenly news, these techniques for neutralizing Glaze have been mentioned since Glaze itself was first introduced. Maybe Hönig just formalized it?

That would “help” by basically introducing the concept of copyright to styles and ideas, which I think would likely have more devastating consequences to art than any AI could possibly inflict.

Whether it’s wanted or not is irrelevant. First past the post voting systems inherently move towards a two party system. If you don’t want a two-party system then you don’t want first-past-the-post voting.

I mainly use LLMs as a programming assistant, as a brainstorming buddy and creative assistant while working on adventures for the tabletop roleplaying campaigns I run, and as a search result summarizer/interpreter over at Bing for the sorts of generic queries I used to use Google for.

Centrism is what gets large numbers of votes.

Obviously I hope that they’ll do well and make good decisions, but in a choice between a left-wing party that makes a principled stand but fails to secure power and a more centrist one that has more good ideas than bad on balance and does secure power to implement them I think the latter is preferable.

A leg up on running for president.

Or alternately you vote for Trump, either directly or by wasting votes on third-party candidates because the Democrats were insufficiently compelling.

Yes, I know it’s idiotic. But a lot of the American electorate are idiots, or more charitably are not familiar with the game theory behind all this stuff. The Democrats do need to learn how to get the support of those people.

Now taking bets on how long it will be before Cloudflare announces that they’re selling AI training datasets based off of the content they’re managing…

Especially since whoever’s VP in Biden’s next term would have a big leg up on running for president in 2028.

I suspect it’s probably too late for the Democrats to switch horses now, but I hope that this finally pile-drives some smidgen of a lesson into them that they need to actually try to win elections rather than just assume that since they’re not crazy or evil like the Republican candidates people will naturally prefer them. They need to pick candidates that the people like and put in the effort to run those candidates well.

There’s still five months until the election, there’s plenty that Biden can do between now and then to show people that he’s a good choice. And then maybe this time once it’s all over the Democratic Party can do a major rethink of what exactly they’re doing with all this. Like they should have the last time they ran a candidate against Trump that they thought simply “deserved” to win.

Cloaks are actually quite historical, they’re very easy to make and useful in a variety of conditions.

When you delve into the details of what those bullet points actually entailed, they were all far far worse in medieval times.

Would be nice if SCOTUS had defined what “official acts” actually were.

His wrist would break, but it might be worth it.

I suppose Biden could have him officially assassinated. That’s legal now.

If one needs to modify corporate behaviour I did mention regulations as one way to do it.