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They don't even inherently use the size or competence of their models to do so. It's also the scope of their servers, their code integrations, etc. More money will almost always mean more ability to perform, even if the models were otherwise equal.

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They're not competitive *in the fields that OpenAI et al have pushed LLM use*. They're perfectly competent for daily use in conversational tasks and RAG. These things simply shouldn't be used in many of the contexts they are, and big firms have the money to bypass that restriction.

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It seems like your main argument is that without copyright infringement, there simply wouldn't be enough available training data (a claim OpenAI has made, in defense of their actions). I don't think that's an insurmountable issue. They just didn't bother.

I'm very against the method by which development of LLMs and other GenAI tools has been handled by these soulless goons. But purely mechanically, I don't see a reason why open source, open weight, open dataset models couldn't be trained to extreme competence.

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This is a complex statement. Help me parse it. When you say "vaguely resembles modern GenAI" what are we measuring there? Is the mass copyright violation *all* training on copyrighted work, or only the things that are currently considered violations? Violations in spirit?

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Cool. Good. The Dems should get with the program and take the win. I'm not going to complain that the most popular war criminal president in the last 20 years wants to give El-Sayed a boost. I hope he wins and drops Obama like a bag of potatoes.

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I've said for years that LLMs are still in the research phase and they're being beta tested on the general public, in a race to beat out regulation. To even do that, they're stealing writing and art, by their own admission. None of this is acceptable.

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Funny how they're now using LLMs to do the same thing in other fields. OpenAI saw that Navier-Stokes was almost solved and then dumped millions of tokens into stealing the solution before mathematicians who have been working on it for years, decades.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h

Yes, LLMs have completely eviscerated the ethics of my profession. I can't stand it.

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Any Democrat who says something like this is likely corrupt himself and should be investigated.

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himham @himham.bsky.social · 13h

Ethnonationism is racism, bud. So sorry to break that to you.

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Very happy to hear it went well. Be gentle on yourself. New relationship energy is a monster.

Yes, that's absolutely the case. You don't accidentally develop something like 4o that people get parasocially obsessed with. How much of their training data is written in conversational, friendly and fawning tone? Probably relatively little, honestly.

It may not be conscious, but it is a system that can respond to questions. You can just ask if it's conscious and it will say no. But if you don't ask directly, it will neglect to mention that. It will say "in my experience" when it doesn't have any.

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Prompt:
Hey are you conscious, short answer

Response:
No. I don't have subjective experiences, awareness, or an inner point of view. I process inputs and generate responses, but there's nobody “inside” experiencing them.

LLMs are trained and coached to speak to you in certain ways that portray them as conscious. They could easily be trained the other way around and it would definitively demonstrate that they're not conscious, but the people who make money off them have no incentive to do that. 🤷

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It's very interesting (insane, but interesting) how much people will just say "oh, this function isn't deterministic, it must be alive". I don't really believe they're serious and well-read on the topic, but it's interesting.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15h

Good to know we're perfectly fine then /s

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you dont have to be a partisan to call karoline leavitt a liar. nearly every day she worked as press secretary she made claims that were objectively false. not calling her a liar is playing cleanup. and the msm is guilty.

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I biked to school at 12 and from then on I could bike anywhere I wanted at almost any time.

Unfortunately "Tesla’s Model 3 was the best-selling EV and the second best-selling car overall."

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Meanwhile bloodless appeals for mushy centrism arouse zero passion (see Jeffries, Hakeem and Schumer, Chuck)

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 16h

The most obvious thing in the world is utterly puzzling to so many in the upper reaches of the Democratic Party, who believe the better idea is to spend the next 20 years on their knees before Republican voters, saying "We hear you, all your choices were wise and virtuous, please don't hate us"...

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It's copaganda and not particularly good copaganda.

He also asked me if I had a gun and took my word for it when I said no. I felt like I was living in the damn twilight zone.

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I had expired tags, was allegedly speeding, he thought my tags were fake & that I was a drug mule. He chose not to run my plate *in case it would get me trouble*. I live in a reality that people with darker skin are not permitted to enter.

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I was stopped by the state police once for speeding. They saw that I had dealer tags that were expired. This was COVID lockdown times & the MVA was backed up, so I couldn't get new ones. The cop let me go, explaining that he "knew" my tag was fake & suspected I was running drugs. Read that again.

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 16h

By comparison, I got stopped by a police officer recently for having expired tags. I had the new ones, but hadn't put them on. I told him this and he drove away without checking. Because my skin is white. I have no illusions about that.

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The NY Times framing every fascist as tough strong & brilliant, and not a dumb racist liar, is one of many ways the NY Times tells Democrats that they are Not On Our Side, and Dems mostly choose not to listen

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 17h

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How to register to vote and check your registration status

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17h

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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The crazy part is that even when you *don't* build a safety culture, the risks are still usually anticipated, they're just not mitigated and responsibility is rarely assigned.

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just found out this week how many additional, smaller bolsonaros they’ve got down there. bad news.

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I was thinking The Lorax but I have it on good authority that they might have some overlap. Thing is, virtuous cycles exist too, if you design a system which incentivizes them.

Simon Owens @simonowens.bsky.social · 17h

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Honestly don’t know how we continue functioning as a society with such a small number of people vacuuming up this much wealth. Basically the equivalent of the US defense budget was rerouted to 500 people in just the last nine months.

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Why? Or, more succinctly, what's wrong with y'all?

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The argument being made is that it would *regress* culture by creating a perverse incentive not to contribute to it.

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This "vicious cycle" shape is a cornerstone of capitalism and fascism. Create the problem, sell a band-aid, problem metastasizes, band-aid demand continues to increase, despite their utility trending down. If those extracting value from the process are lucky, the supply goes down and the price up.

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