@RunawayFixer@lemmy.world
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- on ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
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on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30 trillion in potential revenue, WSJ reports in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
A bout of hyperinflation is all that’s needed to make this prediction come true.
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on If your art trained the AI, MIT says you may never be able to prove it in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
My takeaway from that is that every ai model should have a disclosure as to what it was trained on. If it can create art with significant resemblance to work that was not included in the disclosure, that would be proof of a failure to disclose, which should come with repercussions.
Imo plagiarism machines should face the same repercussions as humans that do plagiarism. Obfuscation by a black box shouldn’t protect the plagiarist from liability.
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on Honey Lost 7 Million Users After a YouTuber Exposed Its Alleged Affiliate Theft - Gadget Review in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Honey lost 40% of their users and has 4.6 stars on the Chrome webstore, which tells us a lot about the trustworthyness of the star ratings in the various Google stores.
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on U.S. preparing to force Netherlands to ban ASML from selling to China in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
“NU.nl noted that, under the Match Act, American companies would still be allowed to sell their most advanced chip etching machines to Chinese customers. China has discovered that, using these etching techniques and DUV machines, they could produce chips that typically require an EUV machine.”
Rules for thee, but not for me. Nobody likes a bully, decoupling from the USA becomes ever more inevitable.
The best succinct description of llm that I’ve read was “plagiarism machine”, because that’s basically what they are: automated plagiarism. At best they create a collage of other works, at worst they copy one work verbatim, but they never create something original because they can’t.
Copying something is a lot easier and thus cheaper than creating an original work from scratch, so genuine creators cannot hope to compete on cost. Which leads to less people being able to afford to earn a living from creating works, which leads to less original works being created.
Short term that’s great for the neoliberal company executives: fire the expensive artists, create cheap slop with the plagiarism machine, and thus maximize profits now. That the plagiarism machine becomes stagnant because not enough new original works are being created is a future problem, by which time the current executives will have already jumped ship.
But while it’s great for the neoliberal business model, for the rest of society it will suck. So now that we have confirmation that the AI executives know how bad their products are, and that they were just publicly lying about it in the style of tobacco executives, will anything be done about this “astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”? Personally I doubt it, there’s too much regulatory capture.