They’re taking our memes!

Oh, no need to remind me, I’m not even a former but a current redditor. I just find the idea of the little reddit alien being a pest funny. Maybe precisely because I’m still on the site…

Now his arms are short, wtf 😓

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Turns out it takes three slashes, one has to block the underscores from italicising the middle

It’s not going to make much of a difference for me either way, I don’t like people just because they’re sexy.

You dropped an arm there, btw, here you go: \

Make sure you reinforce it this time, type it like this: \\

So, it has to be admitted that there’s no strong, direct evidence for it. The main argument in that thread is that he’s supposed to have some scarring, but none of the other photos from the time period show them either, so the guy just concludes they all must’ve been edited.

And yes, the look is somewhat different from the other photos, mainly the eyes, more widely open than on the other pics. But people can hold different facial expressions…

You actually understood it better than I did, and I posted it, lol

Yeah, I’d like a source too. The pic has been floating around a lot, first time I hear it’s edited.

This version is on Wikipedia, no mention of it being modified (it looks different from the one in OP but as far as I see just due to sharpness and contrast):

Ngl I saved this meme a long time ago. I remembered I found it funny, but as I was posting it here I realised I forgot who’s the guy in the lower right. Some right wing shithead, but I just couldn’t remember the name.

So, thank you for reminding me of Sam Hyde 👍

True, but that would be resolved by checking the output, picking the one result that works reliably, and sticking with it.

So for clock software this should be good enough (ok, not really, since the clock should know the location of the user and adapt according to the timezone and daylight saving switches, etc., I doubt AI can nail that down as easily).

On the other hand, there’s been many stories of frustrated AI users who complained that changes to the models broke their workflow. I haven’t heard such stories in a while, however, perhaps they’re kept more stable these days?

Even frontier models are not yet strong AI

I believe that would require a whole new paradigm of how AI works, the sort of shift that won’t be achieved by mere refinement of the current models. So I’m not expecting surprises on that front right now. On the contrary, what has surprised me the last time I tried to use ChatGPT is that it produced ungrammatical sentences with incomplete words. That’s a sort of “chickenpox” issue that should’ve been fixed long ago by now…

A solid part of them work well, it has to be admitted. And some are entertainingly bad…

Tbh it does slightly surprise me, because I got the pic from Nyazsche’s bluesky, whose type of humour is very 196-coded

And you’re doing well!

Ah… I’m deleting this bullshit now.

Regarding the first point, AI companies usually claim their work is scientific/educational. #3 can be responded to by claiming they actually use none of the original work, i.e. they don’t reproduce any of it; they liken training AI to learning from the materials, and usimg knowledge from some book isn’t just ‘fair use’, it’s the expected use of the book.

It’s mostly bullshit and sophistry, of course, but I’m afraid they will win in most of these cases since they have more money to dump into top-tier lawyers.

A better argument than what - that they are openly violating the licenses under which the encyclopedia is distributed?

That’s a bit more convincing.

this is a highly unsettled question, and there are multiple cases in litigation today

I followed Kadrey v. Meta a little bit, and the conclusion was in favour of the training being fair use. What are the other ongoing cases?

Eh, as an editor I haven’t noticed I’m being attacked by AI companies. WMF would need some better argument if they’d want to sue successfully, especially aginst companies that are sitting on 100x more money than them.

BTW it’s already established that training AI models on copyrighted materials is legal without approval of the copyright holder, and IMO it’s unikely WP’s material would be an exception.

As opposed to not allowing them to do it and having every AI company scrape the site 24/7 anyway?

Ah, the heaviest artillery of art criticism: food comparisons.

Ohh, I like that idea!