msabalau

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by msabalau 5d ago
It's well reported matter public record that hundreds of thousands people protested, daily. And it's trivial to find polling that showed that about two thirds of Hong Kongers supported the protests, while only a third took your po
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by msabalau 8d ago
The person you are replying to seems to have a depth of experience with editing over many years. It seems pretty clear that AI capabilities are jagged. There are good reasons to believe based on research and the subjective evaluation of exp
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by msabalau 14d ago
But if you pre-ordered, you got a tape drive, which was, like, a $75 value!
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by msabalau 14d ago
I happened to be the oldest teen in a new subdivision, so I earned a bunch of babysitting money from parents who no longer had to drive 20 minutes to pick up and drop off a sitter for date night. So I was able to pre-order the C64 before it
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by msabalau 15d ago
The purpose of copyright under the US Constitution, a text relevant to the courts the EFF is addressing here, is to "promote the progress of science and useful arts by giving creators temporary exclusive rights to their works" It
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by msabalau 17d ago
Why stop there? The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act criminalizes unauthorized access and damaging protected computers. Police and the FBI investigate such case every day. The swarm of agents is also said to have search for ways to cover their
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by msabalau 20d ago
Yeah, that'd be a great feature.
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by msabalau 20d ago
Yes, most people using AI for creative projects spend a lot of time and attention mastering their tools, and figure out how to adapt them into their creative processes. AI can dramatically lower the cost of indie productions, while also a a
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by msabalau 20d ago
Google has always been committed to multimodal. And, Veo and omni simply were better than Sora And, Youtube is huge both as a place where video contents goes and where can be trained from. Microdramas are starting to become a real category
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by msabalau 20d ago
And it doesn't have to be either/or. They could make larger, more expensive models, just at a slower cadence. Sure downside would be not learning from people using your model for coding, if we're on the cusp of huge leaps in
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by msabalau 28d ago
You type that as if easy promiscuous woman of ill repute were undesirable...
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by msabalau 1mo ago
I happened to read an ARC of her forthcoming book. Lapore is well aware and discusses in detail the history of technocratic dreams dating back centuries. The book also deep and wide-ranging analysis of tech oligarchs ability to misread sc
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by msabalau 1mo ago
The American public has shown willingness over decades and decades to commit to long term wars of choice. Not infinitely patient, but patient. Of course, other Presidents have been willing to put in some sort of effort to make to make a ca
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by msabalau 2mo ago
Not everyone is you. Other people probably have a range of tasks that can accomplished with different models. Certainly if I'm confident that I'm going to get what I need from a faster model, that's what I want to use, rather
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by msabalau 2mo ago
What does "leading from the front" get them? There is absolutely no loyalty when it comes to coding. Nothing could be more common than people threating to jump ship whenever another frontier or open source model comes. Google is c
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by msabalau 2mo ago
Agree on the fees. At the same discovery process in trade secret litigation is invasive and time-consuming and likely be a heavy tax on the focus of senior leadership. This also is a complication to their IPO. The financial impact isn'
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by msabalau 2mo ago
Yes, they paid for actually using pirated books for their training. They were like the kid, except that it was worth suing them. At the same time, more broadly, judge in the Anthropic case found that training LLMs was "exceedingly tran
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by msabalau 2mo ago
Hitherto he's pretty much proved the opposite. I guess we'll see how Meta did this time.
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by msabalau 2mo ago
Google's ad revenue has done really well so far in the LLM era, and wasup 12% year over year in 2025, and forecasted to do the same next year. And that changes, then that's all the more reason for them to be investing in AI.
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by msabalau 2mo ago
China has ALREADY transitioned from an "aging society" (7% of the population over 65) to an "aged society" (14% over 65). There are roughly five working-age adults to support every retiree today. This is going to crater.
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by msabalau 2mo ago
There is also a (very niche) TTRPG about the Night Witches by Jason Morningstar.
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by msabalau 3mo ago
This is fundamentally a failure of political leadership. You don't try to achieve a goal when you don't have the military means to achieve at a cost you are willing to bear. There are endless numbers of military objectives that th
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by msabalau 3mo ago
Nice, it gives me another year to think about what I want to do with my old gaming laptop
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by msabalau 3mo ago
There's probably at 10-15% percent chance of a war between the US and China over the next 10 years. Maybe better than even chance of a militarized crisis that might have led to war, but somehow de-escalates. Regardless of how sad late
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by msabalau 3mo ago
The essay lays out a wide range of reasons why normal people reasonably fear that their OWN lives are going to get worse, but your assumption is that what they really care about is the lives of artists, despite the fact that you admit that
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by msabalau 3mo ago
Somehow we'll all have to endure a world where you don't post your amateur photos online because you are "troubled" that you might not be able to shake down a personal stylist for incidental use on their blog.
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by msabalau 3mo ago
Even if it could, it probably ought not makes this precise episode, because the technological, philosophical and social context is remarkably different. A similar episode, actually informed by what we know or can forsee about AI and LLMs, a
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by msabalau 4mo ago
What does this random sentiment have to do with the article, which is about him using a particular tool for storyboarding, which is a process of communicating a vision to a range of human contributors?
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by msabalau 4mo ago
Given that, according to the article, he's just using it for storyboarding, in attempt to better communicate a vision to a range of human contributors, it's really unclear how this decision will "age badly." either this
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by msabalau 4mo ago
I mean, between SynthID and C2PA don't you already have labels and watermarks that covering a lot of major players like Google, Adobe, ElevenLabs, NIVIDEA? No real concern about false negatives there. As for false positive, the most s

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