Posts by catprog

Boffins probe commercial AI models, find an entire Harry Potter book

Re: All bets are off and money talks

What do you mean they got off scot free?

$3,000 fine per book that they pirated.

Re: Fair use

If you read a book and then write a book is that still fair use of the original book?

Why would it be diffrent between human and AI?

Re: Hang on a minute…

>But we do have a ruling in the US that says that illegal copies are possibly a legal problem but you can train on a whole book if you throw away the paper afterward

Their are actually 3 issues here that the court decided.

1.Did Anthropic pirate books. Yes

2.Can someone scan books into a digital copy if they throw away the paper copies afterwards. Yes, format shifting while keeping the same number of copies is ok.

3. Is it ok to train AI on copyrighted materials. Yes

So not quite training an whole book if you throw away the paper. If you had a camera to read the book on demand it would probably also be fine according to this court.

Cloudflare CEO threatens to make the Winter Olympics a political football after Italy slugs it with a fine

Re: the ugly american face of SaaS

So by the same token if China thinks a domain is bad it has to be blocked for everyone?

IT team forced to camp in the office for days after Y2K bug found in boss's side project

Re: 2038 is the next fun date

2030 will be fun.

So many systems were written expecting 29 to be 2029 and 30 to be 1930.

And I don't think many people are aware of it.

Re: Ah, the great Y2K scare

Sounds like the issue going around where people can't use credit cards with an expiry date in 2030

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

Even the "software angle" is user error. Failng to do calcualtions.

Re: Better mockup needed...

>Something that the ATSB's so-called report completely failed to address.

Watching the video 1:42 explains what caused this incident.

Then at 1:48 it finds another issue that could of brought the plane down and recommends changing.procedures so it does not get into that issue.

Datacenters planned for Scotland could end up draining a loch of power

Re: Energy generation mix

Why should "discounts" apply?

If you have a village with a 1MW peak deamand and a 1MW constanct data center demand that both require the same length of transmission line from the 2MW power station generating at 50cents/KWh and $2 million / year in maintance and capital costs.

The village gets charged (50cents + 22 cents (50% utlization)) / kwh for it's usage

The datacenter gets charged (50cents + 11 cents (100% utlization)) / kwh for it's usage

Soup king Campbell’s parts ways with IT VP after ‘3D-printed chicken’ remarks

Re: "its poulet is proper repast, made of actual chicken"

Or 100% pig products? (i.e not the normal parts of the pig)

AI does a better job of ripping off the style of famous authors than MFA students do

Isn't the 1.5 billion settlment because they pirated the media and they were cleared on the training part?

End well, this won't: UK commissioner suggests govt stops kids from using VPNs

Re: They just don't have a clue.

Don't you already have to be 18 to get a card?

Re: 80085

I know of Dr Cox from scrubs but it might be him repeating.

Re: Idiots

Pornhub's UK traffic going down does not even tell you about overall Pornhub traffic

SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts

Re: Who would have thought it!

Tesla & solar city mostly with subsidies only in the 10s of million for SpaceX

How much is spent on road with private contractors a year?

Re: Who would have thought it!

But this is the falcon program not the starship program

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

Re: One of many ironies

Doesn't that need optical fibre to transfer the photons?

Why is Big Tech hellbent on making AI opt-out?

Re: Ownership?

If someone reads the article and writes their own do you get to sue that person?

I think the same standard in that situation should apply to AI.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Re: Impact on self-hosting and private services?

Do you only give out access to people you know?

i.e do you already have effective age verification by default?

How datacenters use water – and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible

6.6 billion cubic meters sound large but (on phone so it is hard to calculate) it is the equivalent of a billion people having a 2 minute shower a day for a year

Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

Re: You are an LLM

Have you watched a legally purchased vhs. That is also what they want to be prevented.

Re: Throwing the baby out with the bathwater

If an author reads a book and remembers parts of it is is theft if they then write a new book?

Re: Delete them

If you read an article on the Internet that is freely available does that make your brain is now trained on that article and everything you write has to pay a royalty for?

If not why is it diffrent for a LLM?

DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default

Re: If it's that good and useful...

Would you also allow publishers to opt in to having their content learned from by humans?

IPv6 may already be irrelevant – but so is moving off IPv4, argues APNIC's chief scientist

Re: long numbers are long

Which is more memorable?

2001:0000:130F:0000:0000:09C0:876A:130B

or

425:4048:8167:8741:9183:4450:1428:9120:1925:899 ?

Re: No true scotsman says IPv6 is supposed to replace IPv4

>So your going back to your phone that works so well. A phone can be a hotspot, has bluetooth, NFC, usb, and wifi connections, all of which can provide active network stacks. Now possibly look at dual sims is some areas, and satellite access is being added. The IPv6 stack doesn't define how it's supposed to coordinate and broker getting two cell carriers, a constellation of satellites in LEO, and your office wifi linked to two upstream fiber WAN links of it's own, none of which you control.

What is your solution for this with just IPV4?

Re: Hence, IPv6

Routing should be geogrpahical.

If you can tell tell from the start of the prefix where it should go it makes the routing tables much easier.

But does it really make it more memorable if all the IPS in a country start with the same code ie if the country code for England is FE80 then the ips will be:

FE80:CD00:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C

FE80:CD01:0000:0CDE:1257:0000:211E:729C

Re: Opinions do differ

What purpose do you see IPV7 doing that cannot be done by IPV6 ?

3 * 10^28 addresses for each person when the population of Earth gets to 10 billion

Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up

Re: Patent trolls

Could add licencing out their IP in addition to manafcturing the product.

250 million-plus unused IPv4 addresses should be left alone, argues network boffin

Re: Elephant

Does that include p2p applications like video chat?

Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin

Re: Broken record time...

To be fair, it was the ISP's actions that forced https.

They were manipulating http requests to insert their own advertising into sites.

Big Music reprises classic hit 'ISPs need to stop their customers torrenting or we'll sue'

Re: Only an idiot would torrent without VPN

The ISP does not.

You connect to a seeder controlled by the copyright holder. This gives them the IP which is passed to the ISP.

encryption cannot stop this.

The studio have sued because people learned from their songs.

See land down under and kookaburra sits under gum tree.

How low can you go: Tesla's US market share dips below 50% for the first time

Telling we don't get a lot of actual numbers from the article

Going from 300,000 to 330,463 EV overall is an increase. If tesla has gone from 150,000 to 160,000 they have an increase in sales while less marketshare.

The only one of these 4 numbers in the article though is 330,463.

Bing and Copilot fall from the clouds around the world

Re: So, Bing is down...

Why does it need to be a human? Can a bird be the witness?

US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI

Re: Is it obvious

Then the ai get trained on the patents and mostly reproduces the patent in question

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

Re: A brilliant testament to analysis

I know nothing about the whole scheme so this is a layman's interpretation.

Whu do you need to encrypt the communication?

The cpu encrypts with a key on cpu and that is what is sent to the tpm.

Standards-obsessed boss ignored one, and suffered all night for his sin

Re: EMC Symmetrix

Was the building flood prone?

Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs

Re: And after all the comments

So shouldn't the same rules apply to EVs as Diesel?

If both need heaters in the winter then both are equally as suitable?

How many of the other 80% can afford an ICE car?

Except the goverment ended up having to pay it all back

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-29/victorian-government-to-repay-electric-vehicles-tax/103163994

Apaprently most fuel cars can get 33% effeciency to the wheels.

So 20% loss would mean 80% effecicncy in comparision.

Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content

I am not saying they should get free data.

My argument is if they legally aquire the data (I.e no copyright laws have been broken and they have a copy of the data) then it does not matter if the training is human or computer they are allowed to train using it.

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So far I have not seen a law that makes a distinction between human or computer. If everyone knows that it is diffrent htey would be able to show something that makes it diffrent.

Some of the attemps at claiming this diffrence I have seen include.

1) It is just diffrent

2) Humans look at a other things as well not just copyrighted materials.

Re: I plan to train AI for generating videos

Yes. For Netflix the cost is $7/month and you can keep as much in your brain as you can remember.

You can still delete it from the training set for future training runs.

Did you have a licence to incorporate eveything you read when you wrote your comment?

GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered

Re: “We firmly believe"

No. The parts that were dismissesed work like this.

It is a crime to rob the bank.

It is a separate crime to take money out of account 476 at the bank.

The prosecution was saying they commited both crimes by taking money out of account 477.

The defense says we cannot be guilty of the second crime as the account in question is 477 not 476.

They still have to answer for the first accusation.

So, are we going to talk about how GitHub is an absolute boon for malware, or nah?

Re: "Microsoft says it's doing its best to crack down on crims"

Are they sending from outlook.com or claiming to be outlook.com but it is actually a ip they not Microsoft control?

Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly

Re: confused

On my Samsung phone their is the galaxy store in addition to the Google store

Re: Do we leave Microsoft in charge of Chrome development?

Does that mean drive and Gmail will each have to offer 15GB each instead of shared space?