hendrik

Bring a book or newspaper/magazine. Those people are the minority but it’s still fairly common to see people read on the train or at the bus stop.

I’m playing “Stray” right now. I think it’s awesome. (It is from 2022 btw)

Why not a linked list? Or a hash-table?

More. Because they’re more involved with the actual business, doing evil. But the amount depends on what they’re doing.

I think it’s difficult to impossible to prove what went into an AI model. At least by looking at the final product. You’d need to look at their harddisks and find a verbatim copy of your text as training meterial as far as I know.

By the way, isn’t the whole point of Pinterest, to pin other people’s copyrighted images from other places of the web and make them accessible from within the platform? To me that whole business model sounds similar to what AI companies do. Take other people’s content and make an own product out of it.

Well, last time I checked the news, content moderation was still a thing in Europe. They’re mandated to do it. And Meta doesn’t like to lose millions and millions of users… So they abide. We have a different situation with AI. Some companies have restricted their AI models due to them fearing the EU come up with an unfavorable legislation. And Europe sucks at coming up with AI regulations. So Meta and a few others have started disallowing use of their open-weight models in Europe. I as a German don’t get a license to run llama3.2.

You can do a lot of things with regulation. You can force theaters to be built so some specification so they won’t catch on fire, build amusement parks with safety in mind. Not put toxic stuff in food. All these regulations work fine. I don’t see why it should be an entirely different story with this kind if technology.

But with that said, we all suck at getting ahold of the big tech companies. They can get away with way more than they should be able to. Everywhere in the world. And ultimately I don’t think the situation in the US is entirely hopeless. I just don’t see any focus on this. And I see some other major issues that need to be dealt with first.

I mean you’re correct. Most of the Google, Meta and Amazons are from the USA. We import a lot of the culture, good and bad, with them. Or it’s the other way round, idk. Regardless, we get both culture and some of the big companies. Still, I think we’re not in the same situation (yet).

Yeah, the internet itself isn’t the issue here. It’s kind of exactly your vision. Owned by countless different entites across the world, who all work together, interconnect and make it what it is. We already have that.

The issue are the big platforms who sit on top of it all. But we don’t need to invent anything or change any technology for that. Anyone is free not to type “Facebook” into their address bar or install the app. It’s not a technological problem

There is one way to do it, and that’s regulation. We need the legislator to step in and settle what’s allowed and what’s disallowed with copyrighted content. And what companies can do with people’s personal/private data.

I don’t see a way around this. As a regular person, you can’t do much. You can hide and not interact with those companies and their platforms. But it doesn’t really solve the problem. I’d say it’s a political decision. Vote accordingly and write emails to your representative, and push them to do the right thing. Spread the word, collect signatures and make this a public debate. At least that’s something that happens where I’m from. It’s probably a lost cause if you’re from the USA, due to companies ripping off people being a big tradition. 😔

Too much focus on discussing the news and politics. And rarely is it an inspiring and new perspective. (Sometimes it is, though.)

Not enough people around to discuss some more niche topics and hobbies.