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gurenkagurenda t1_j9allgk wrote

Reply to comment by bairbs in OpenAI Is Faulted by Media for Using Articles to Train ChatGPT by Tough_Gadfly

How do you define a model? What statistics are you and are you not allowed to scrape and publish? Comments like yours speak to a misunderstanding of what training is with respect to a work, which is simply nudging some numbers according to the statistical relationships within the text. That’s an incredibly broad category of operations.

For example, if I scrape a large number of pages, and analyze the number of incoming and outgoing links, and how those links relate to other links, in order to build a model that lets me match a phrase to a particular webpage and assess its relevance, is that fair use?

If not, you just outlawed search engines. If so, what principle are you using to distinguish that from model training?

Edit: Gotta love when someone downvotes you in less time than it would take to actually read the comment. Genuine discourse right there.

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Glittering-Ad-7846 t1_j9aishq wrote

Reply to Meta announces paid blue verification tick on Facebook and Instagram: Details by northmania

It's a matter of time before this subscription model spreads like wildfire into everything. Think your Whatsapp is going to stay free? It'll start with a badge and verification for at $12/month, then guess what, it'll soon be a $2-5 a month for anyone to use the platform, possibly "less ad" version. And because the free version will be so unbearable and bloated, people will buy another subscription to their monthly bundle. Why? Because a couple bucks a month is less than a coffee! Right? Ironically this strategy will also mark the death of the subscription model. My guess is that groups of people will start their own little silo'd social media channels, a la Discord.

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piratecheese13 t1_j9ai2ji wrote

Reply to A first-generation iPhone from 2007 sold for $63,356 at auction — more than 100 times its original price by dakiki

I often think about what products on the market today will end up being highly valuable collectors items.

I had an Optimus prime transformer from the early 2000s that goes for hundreds on Craigslist now. A build your own lightsaber kit also with hundreds. Full Gen 1 Bionicle collection. Lego island, one promotional Brickster keychain.

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HogsInSpace t1_j9ahljy wrote

Reply to Is AI coming for your job? Tech experts weigh in: "They don't replace human labor" by Everest518

Life works and that is a good thing. All plants and animals live by working through their lives. Work is not optional. Earth, as far as we know, is the only planet where life works. We all have a job to do, to earn a living. The economy is the business of earning a living. All life transacts with other life to earn a living. We humans use money to facilitate, negotiate and establish the trade value of commodities which are things that are desirable and relatively scarce. If you have no money we employ ourselves to others to earn it. To earn money is to serve people. This fundamental component to monetary systems helped our communities reduce the risk of periods of cyclical scarcity and to seek an abundance of desirable goods. There is not a financial mechanism that allow the abundance to be realized and fairly distributed. The fact that our numbers have grown to 8billion people is the undeniable fact that we as a species has overcome our scarcity problems, yet not the distribution problems. With AI, automation and sustainable quality built goods there is no reason for all of us to employ ourselves to each other. But the inherited instinct to do so is strong with us. The future requires our monetary economic system to adapt and adopt some new monetary mechanism that can allow more people to live comfortable frugal lives, working for themselves rather than needing to be employed to others. But how to without causing a collapse of the monetary economic logic as we know it?

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