[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago

Reddit banned the Efilism subreddit.

Fucking cowards. Can we ban conservative Christianity next?

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the people I know doing it are either just making it for themselves, or sharing with others at-cost. Though there are definitely some in the homebrew community experimenting with drugs that aren't typically used for HRT, like pioglitazone.

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The good news is that apparently it's a lot easier to copy an existing AI than to develop an equivalent model from scratch. So you can copy ChatGPT or other AIs by just asking it a very large series of prompts, getting replies, and using those to train your own version of ChatGPT. And apparently, this takes far fewer resources than training ChatGPT from scratch.

If training an AI based on actual human-created copyrighted works isn't copyright infringement, then training an AI based on the output of another certainly isn't.

So even if AI companies manage to set this precedent, open-source AI creators can just copy OpenAI's homework and make their product worthless.

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Implausible, no. But I'm also inherently skeptical of any unverified event that someone has the ability and strong financial incentive to invent from whole cloth. I don't care how perfect you think his politics are. Never trust anyone who tells you everything you want to hear.

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

I'm getting more Ebenezer Scrooge vibes. Are there no prisons? Are there no work-houses?

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Do you even need an app for that? Why give a company access to such private info? Just use a pen and paper.

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

One thing to keep in mind is that often when you see vacant storefronts, what is actually happening is that the owner of the building is redeveloping it. Businesses have multi-year leases. If you want to redevelop a commercial building, you have to either pay a fortune to buy everyone out of their leases or slowly wait a few years for the building to empty out.

You might ask why they don't offer month-to-month leases in the meantime, but there's little demand for that. If a bank is lending you money to start a restaurant, they want to see a long-term lease agreement. They're not going to lend you hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase and install a restaurant's worth of equipment in a place with a month-to-month lease. There are very few businesses that would be interested in such short-term leases. And the few that are willing aren't worth the effort for the pennies that you could get out of them. The only real rental customers for buildings that are slowly being emptied are seasonal retailers like Halloween stores.

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Mostly building explosive devices by hand, of course. I assume you're doing the same?

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Pina colada, not to be confused with a pollo colada, which substitutes the pineapple for raw chicken.

[-] WoodScientist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I suppose there's also a timeline where they sent 1980s Trump up as a publicity stunt.

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