Too little, too late. The billion dollar lawsuit was already handed down. The Top 0.001% authors got the last major payday they will ever get. The message to AI corpos is pretty clear: Buy the physical media, consume into AI, burn it down just to spite them!

Is it evil? Yeah, sure. But, people who understand how power works understand that this was going to be the inevitable result after that lawsuit.

Or they could have pirated them. This is what copyright does to people and corporations.

The fucked up thing about AI right now is that AI companies get to act like we’re in a post-copyright world, pirating from literally everyone, while the rest of us are still stuck in copyright hell.

That’s the double-standard that they always upheld. Two large companies play by the rules. A small artist always plays by the rules when faced with a large company’s copyright. But, one large company stealing against a small artist? The company steals anything they want, as long as they can get away with it.

Marathon vs. Antireal is a prime example. They steal her artwork and style, put it in the game, and get away with it. The only reason they settled and paid her was because:

1. They got caught
2. The evidence was obvious
3. The bad PR was affecting their sales

If any of those weren’t true, they would have gotten away with it, stolen it outright, and not paid her at all.

No AI involved in any of that. No need when corporations already held the power for centuries.

I don’t think it’s realistic that the rich will dismantle IP in the name of AI progress

I think they’ll accidentally do so, by creating so much from AI and a judge declares that it can’t be copyrighted because X% is AI generated, and existing precedent already required human input for copyrighted material.

I replaced it with a Patricia Taxxon video, so fuck Grey. He seemed to not get the point of his own damn video.

Well, that’s a damn shame. I guess I’ll have to find a different source for the history of copyright.

Actual artists have been fucked over by copyright since its invention. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Mark Twain, Sonny Bono, and Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

All content is remixed and remastered, so I don’t really see a point to copyrights at all. Anything that relies on copyright are a part of incredibly incredibly oversaturated industries, so people should just make what they are passionate about, and not worry about whether some dude decides to rip it off to create some other thing. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, after all. Jazz musicians certainly don’t give a shit, and people have been stealing the Amen Break for decades.

People are too damn concerned over trying to be rich and famous from whatever idea they foolishly think is unique. Every melody has essentially already been created, and if it hasn’t, then AI and LLMs will take care of the rest. Create art because you like to create art.

If the rich end up dismantling their own IP shield that has existed to enrich themselves for centuries in the name of AI progress, I’m going to call that a win.

The problem is not AI. It’s the work-to-live death spiral. Install UBI and abolish copyright.

I don’t get the high praise of Bluetooth. It’s one of the worst fucking protocols from a security standpoint.

Oh, it requires a simple PIN to connect? And often the PIN is just 0000? And most devices just connect unauthenticated anyway?

And even if you legit connect to a device you own, it often has terrible issues reconnecting to that device. It’s even worse than HDMI handshaking.

But, but, but, SpaceX stock!

Like a caveman asking for an email address…

H264 is already old news. We be using H265 and AV1 now.

It could be TurboQuant or something like it. The biggest detraction to local LLM models is being able to close the gulf between obscenely-expensive 512GB NPUs, to house the 230GB uncompressed models (+ context), and more common 24GB GPUs. Quantized 15-18GB models are already working pretty well, but context size is still a bit of a problem.

Of course, the whole industry need to ramp up memory production and wrestle duopolies from the few that can make the raw silicon. It was pretty fucking pathetic that parts of the PC industry decided to leave these silicon processing weaknesses in various places. Large corps could have easily jumped into the industry and made bank in the long-term, but that would require not funneling into short-term quarterly profit bullshit.

You know what else fixes the birth rate? Making life less shitty and giving people enough money to be able to raise children.

In the meantime, negative birth rate is just self-correction of asshole dictatorships. Can’t make money line go up if birth line go down.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and it’s impossible to have rational conversations with them about it.

Then those companies will die, as they should. There are also companies who will fail to adapt, either because they are so anti-AI that they actively refuse to do so, or because they are luddites that weren’t well-tuned to technological changes in the first place. Those companies will also die, as they should.

What’s left are companies having measured conversations about how to make use of this new technology without ignoring the problem areas, figuring out ways to work around them, being careful of security implications, and acknowledging the importance of human review and architectural design.

This is how all bubbles and trendchasing works. Investors in the 2000s learned pretty quickly that dumping billions of dollars into every company that was even vaguely connected to the Internet is not a long-term business strategy. All topics have nuance, and everything must be consumed in moderation.

Unfortunately, we live in a dark timeline. All of the AI projects we have observed as a team are failing. Every single one – we have seen 0% success in a year and a half, not only amongst projects we have been asked to participate in, but even within projects that we have observed in passing while doing totally unrelated work. Even if you grant that AI tooling accelerates specific workloads, the method and scale of the current investments is senseless. Frequently the failure is not related to AI itself, but rather that companies are terminally bad at running software projects effectively, and as I have remarked previously, AI projects are subject to all the failure modes of normal projects plus you can get everything right and then still fail because of the method’s novelty.

“companies are terminally bad at running software projects effectively”… that sounds like a “you” problem, not a “me” problem. Git gud at running software projects, and don’t sign contracts with ones who are bad at it.

Very few companies are so good at shipping software that they can afford the extra risk profile.

Fine, then those companies die. Fuck em.

If they’re so terrible at shipping software that they can’t even adapt to change, then they weren’t a good company to begin with, or they were so close to the edge of failure that they never had a backup plan, which is also poor planning. Nobody mourns Knights Capital.

We have rejected all AI implementation work. It is absolutely a gigantic bubble and we have minimized our exposure to it – every single one of our current contracts would be totally unaffected by OpenAI collapsing, save for perhaps some second-order effects such a recession causing a client to become unable to pay us. And there’s nothing we can do to insulate ourselves from that anyway.

Then you will probably fail, as smarter competition that understands how to use AI will drink your milkshake. And if you don’t trust your vendors to implement these projects, which given the amount of boneheaded idiots under said “heavy AI psychosis”, might be a good stance, then do it in-house. Learn how it works, sidestep the contract costs, save money.

The entire rest of the article is “shitty companies do nonsensical business decisions around technology that they don’t understand”. Man, where have I heard that before? MongoDB, NoSQL, “web scale”, blockchain, NFTs, Bitcoin, Metaverse, 3D tech for movies, every single trend chased by Hollywood, and of course, the Internet. As always, it’s okay to explore new technology, as long as it’s designed around understanding how it works. LEARN SHIT before you DO SHIT! Is that really that fucking hard to understand?

This is for people that are just waiting for the bubble to burst and trying not to go nuts.

I’ve said this a thousand times and I will say this once more: The Internet bubble bursting did not cause the Internet to disappear. You cannot just stuff your head into the sand, cry yourself to sleep, and pretend that the big bad AI era will just disappear once this all blows over. This is not blockchain bullshit. This is real actual usable tech.

But, there’s too many dysfunctional idiots that don’t want to learn how it works and think they can just give some random LLM a massive task, push “Go!”, and it magically replace human workloads. If you give a caveman a computer, he will beat on the monitor with his club, dig out all of the electronics, and use it as a firepit. This is how 95% of companies are using LLMs. Except I don’t even think they figured out how to make a firepit out of it yet.

It does not seem to be better

It does.

except in terms of cost

Except cost. Except open source. Except the entire fucking global economic trillion dollar US AI model.

Those are very big exceptions.

(Also, I’m mostly stealing from Yσɠƚԋσʂ’s post.)

There is no privacy with a free AI agent.

Depends on where the AI is hosted. If you’re running a local LLM, all of that data is stored in-house on your PC.

What are you going to do? Sue them? Call 911? Ring up your lawyer?

“Operator, this company is doing some very illegal fuckery! Please arrest them right away!”

And the latest Kimi is better than Fable 5. Another plane has indeed hit the Anthropic towers.

Sir, this is a Wendy’s technology forum.

Dunno why you’re getting downvoted. Had a co-worker fully adopt a VR workplace set up, which saved on physical monitors. So the technology had promise, even in a professional setting.