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It does seem to be becoming the norm for AI companies to licence premium content in America, judging by the deals they're making.

This is a very surprising claim to me (and I imagine many small website owners who keep getting scraped by Anthropic and OpenAI).

Do you have a source?

But surely at least one of the websites Anthropic scraped to make Claude had a ToS forbidding automatic access?

Why is Anthropic's ToS any more binding than that of a rabidly-anti-ai literature blog with 50 readers?

AI companies do not get to play the "Making an LLM using our data is unethical because the resulting LLM will replace us and hurt our profits" card.

I like this comment because its argument only makes sense if you assume that the entire world's output of books and art did not require a huge amount of resources and expertise to make, nor did it add any value.

It's the most CS-major take ever!

Laughing at the idea of distillation being bad is exactly as cliche/flamebaity as complaining that your model got distilled.

No more, no less.

But if I followed that advice here, I would say "Obviously I don't need a library to multiply numbers" and miss the decades of research and optimization.

This is a problem I have a lot in modern programming ecosystems: How do I tell the difference between a library written by a team of experts who have spent decades optimizing everything to do with the task and a library written by one guy that's an unnecessary straightforward wrapper over the obvious implementation?

You've just invented the mobile games industry.

Push factors and pull factors do much more work together than either do on its own.

I dunno. If you need to record your thoughts often enough that you're wearing a smart-ring to do it, then it seems like you're going to burn through the 12 hours of recording time pretty quick.

Wait, so it can record for 12-15 hours, then it dies and there's no way to recharge it?

That's like, horror game flashlight levels of longevity.

It's always really funny to me when commenters don't read the article and then phrase the article's point like they invented it.

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If the future labor market is so unpredictable that we literally know nothing about it, then we really shouldn't be giving out student loans.

I'm genuinely curious why you think that.

Like, how specifically has our society gotten better since High School became universal and college became the norm?

I actually read a really interesting article from a relatively small blog explaining that they're receiving a massive amount of scraper traffic from residential proxies.

The article was called "The one we're commenting on"

By providing a way for corporate AI scrapers to operate with impunity and force the last few independently-run websites to move to the cloud?

Residential Proxies are the most emblematic technology of our era- a group of people looked at something that used to be considered a crime (botnets) and realized that if they just did it openly, no one would ever punish them.

Many research labs in scientific fields other than CS need a lot of compute power and have an insufficient budget.

In the PS3 era, the PS3 had the highest compute power (FLOPS) to cost ratio of any commercially-available computer, due to a combination of its parallel architecture and the fact that Sony's business model was to sell the console at a loss and make up the money by taking shares of game revenue (and by charging $6 a month to allow the console to connect to the Internet)

But it turned out that it was possible to jailbreak the PS3 to run software other than certified PS3 games (this was officially allowed at first, but Sony quickly pulled the plug). And as a result, the best bang for your buck for "highly parallel we just need FLOPS" supercomputer workloads was to build a rack of PlayStation 3s.

But that only worked as long as the hack worked.

The "Anyone can use this to do anything they want in total anonymity and privacy" to "oh no bad people are using this to do bad stuff" pipeline is eternal.

LinkedIn brain honestly really disturbs me. I didn't believe in souls until I needed a word to describe what people with LinkedIn brain lacked.

Fortunately, then LLMs came along and now if I see a worryingly-soulless LinkedIn-brained post, I can lie to myself and say it was made by a discount LLM.

You can also just copy the files you want to move in the archive view and paste them where you want them.

Or you can click and drag the files from the archive to where you want to move them.

Funnily enough, it's really only Linux users and people who used computers in the early 00s that don't think to move files in archives the same way they would move files that aren't in archives.

They keep popular but unprofitable products that would otherwise be turned down alive.

There are Victorian-horror-esque costs to that, but it's still better that those projects be alive but enshittified than completely dead (If you disagree, you can just cancel your subscription, after all)

You're thinking too narrowly. Buying a cow is a short term investment because cows don't live very long.

And yet dairy farms can last for centuries.

Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information

But this project is still moving energy- it's just moving natural gas instead of electricity!

This is some "We're in the bad timeline" shit

As I said downthread, that is exactly the opposite of why I got into this field, and I fully admit that I'm upset that people with your attitude were the ones vindicated by technological progress.

(And I admit I'm salty that the "I don't give a shit about why the calculator doesn't work in France, I'm just here because they pay me to fix it" people were the ones vindicated by technological progress)

This is legitimately the reason I'm looking to leave programming.

I got into programming because the problems of programming were interesting to me. But if the problems go from "figure out why this calculator is off by one in France" to "Get this LLM to stop spamming cutsey emojis", then maybe it's time for a career change.

There were two migrations:

1. Minecraft account to Mojang account

2. Mojang account to Microsoft account

Both had a 3-year deadline. If you failed to do either before their deadline, then your "lifetime" Minecraft account is completely dead with no possibility of recovery.