Great read. Another stab at making sense of majority beliefs/psychology.
"Why do so many people still support lockdowns? In a poll I referenced yesterday, only 27% of Brits think that lockdowns were a mistake. 54% disagreed with the statement “In retrospect, lockdowns were a mistake”."
@ScoWer22 It is about people don't like to admit that they were wrong. It is much easier to change people's mind from "nothing" to "X" than from "X" to "not X". It is deep-rooted in most people.
@Polychrome If she can cook, tell jokes and is good in bed....yeah, sure! ;-)
So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.
Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦♀️
IA ≠ AI, know the difference!
@Paygan Which bank will crash this weekend? Bring your own popcorn!
@theorytoe
PTSD -- Premature Total Systemd Death?
Macron while asking for sacrifices from the French people realizes he is wearing a € 80,000 watch and like a magician makes it disappear under the table. Unworthy.
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In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.
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This is a PSA to IMMEDIATELY DELETE EVERY PHOTO OF YOU FROM THE INTERNET, especially if you are FEMALE
There is a free and open self-hostable AI called Stable Diffusion that anyone can run on their computers, provided that they have a recent-ish GPU (It works great on my 1070) that is able to edit any image to do anything you want.
I have successfully removed the clothes of photos of women, which can be applied to any photo you give it, as well as edited the photo to have lewd significance.
If you do not want to be the target of pornographic deepfakes, then please PURGE ANY PHOTOS OF YOU FROM THE PUBLIC INTERNET.
If you need examples, I can provide them via DMs, I will not share how to do this but it is pretty simple to find out if you’re a techy person.
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Grumpy Old Man who doesn't have any fucks to give! - I learned I am "based"
Identify as Naturally Immune - pronouns They/Lied