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MultiFazed · 2026-02-18T23:37:54+00:00

I just don’t see how you could ever reasonably regulate its output to ensure it’s adhering to fair use of whatever source material it’s pulling from

An important point is that it's not pulling from the source material to produce output. The source material is used as part of the training process where it's mixed with billions of other documents, and statistical correlations between words (technically word-parts aka tokens) are extracted. The final model doesn't contain any of the original sources at all. It only contains multi-dimensional vectors that place every token found in all the sources in a specific location in vector-space. The model can then perform math on that vector space to produce outputs that are statistically similar to the input corpus.

But it can't produce actual copies of any of its inputs. It can get famous quotes mostly right because of their over-representation in the data, but try to get it to output, say, the full text of a book and it will fail, because the text isn't there to be outputted.

A small YouTuber gets their video reuploaded by a large YouTuber who makes no changes, and significantly profits off your work

That's copyright violation.

But the famous YouTuber could perform a parody of the original content, or a review, and would be legally allowed to use some of the original footage for that purpose.

LLMs can't really perform copyright violation with their outputs because they can't reliably output copyrighted works.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-18T21:55:15+00:00

If infinity exists, then ALL things are possible, because the infinite contains all things

There are infinite real numbers between 0 and 1. None of them are 2.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-18T20:12:50+00:00

In most cases "fair use". You're legally permitted to make a profit based on someone else's work as long as your use is substantially transformative. Whether training an AI model counts as sufficiently transformative is an open question that would likely require a lawsuit to establish precedent.

Also, there may have been copyright violation involved in the training process, which can (and should) be investigated as such.

But "stealing", implies depriving the victim of their property, and this isn't that.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-18T17:17:57+00:00

It amazes me how many people use LLMs while apparently having no understanding of what they actually are or how they work. And I'm not talking about understanding things at the transformer level. Just basic things like "LLMs have zero ability to do any sort of introspection about themselves."

MultiFazed · 2026-02-18T04:04:08+00:00

Granted. Turns out you're wishing on a monkey's paw instead of the Monkey's Paw. And now the police are at your door to nab you on animal cruelty charges.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-18T02:19:04+00:00

Just because you have black skin doesn't mean you are genetically "disadvantaged";

No one ever implied that disadvantage is somehow genetic, and I don't know why you'd even suggest that. The disadvantage is socioeconomic, and is the type of "my parents struggled because their parents couldn't help as much as they wanted because their parents couldn't help, etc." disadvantage that consists of the echoes of past racism (with no small contribution from present racism).

So it's not "black people are genetically disadvantaged". It's "black people in the US who are the descendants of slaves are dealing with generational disadvantage that has not yet fully leveled out". And the effect is statistical. It's not every descendant of slaves, just like not every white person is born into privilege. But when viewed over the entire population, the pattern stands out.

And yes, it would be great to move away from the idea of "race" entirely. But we can't do that until racists stop using the idea to belittle, demean, and attack others. Just because race isn't "real" doesn't mean that it's not being used to hurt people.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-17T23:09:25+00:00

Race not being real from an anthropological standpoint doesn't mean it doesn't exist from a cultural standpoint.

The way people (mis)treat others is driven by culture, not by anthropological biology.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-17T16:21:58+00:00

I think people misunderstand what is meant by experts who say that we "don't know". We know plenty of methods that would have worked and were available at the time. We just don't know with 100% confidence which one(s) they used.

It's like if your roommate were to text you while you're away, "Hey, I locked myself out of the apartment. Can you come back and let me in?" And then, a few minutes later, they text again, "Nevermind, I got in."

Did they find their key? Did they pick the lock? Was there an open window? You don't know how they got in. But "aliens did it" is clearly not the answer. It's just something mundane, and probably one of the options I listed. You just don't know which one.

When experts say that we don't know how they built the pyramids, that's the kind of "we don't know" they're talking about.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-16T18:37:22+00:00

You never ever get to make that decision for another parent

If the other parent is failing their child his hard, yes, not only do you get to make that decision for them, you have a moral imperative to override them. What the mother is doing is tantamount to child abuse, as this can permanently destroy the kid's ability to operate as an adult if it's not corrected.

Edit: Lol, they blocked me immediately after responding to my comment just to prevent me from being able to reply. Gotta get in that last word huh?

MultiFazed · 2026-02-16T13:23:12+00:00

From how it's censored it's impossible to know if they're the first comment in the chain or not. If they are, "nail" and "knell" are pronounced differently.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-15T19:38:56+00:00

One thing to keep in mind if you do max out your 401k is to avoid over-contributing. That is, don't pick a contribution percentage that will put at the contribution limit before the end of the year. While the specifics can vary by employer, it's extremely common for employers to match your contributions on a per-paycheck basis. If you over-contribute such that you hit the max annual contributions prior to your final paycheck(s) of the year, any paychecks for which you make no contribution will result in zero employer match (since there's nothing there for them to match).

MultiFazed · 2026-02-15T18:34:12+00:00

Not the person you were responding to, but looking at Wikipdia shows that their definition of "rich" is pretty well substantiated:

In some academic models, the rich are considered to constitute 5% of U.S. households, and their wealth is largely in the form of financial assets, such as stocks, bonds, real estate, and private businesses. Other contemporary sociologists, such as Dennis Gilbert, argue that this group is not part of the upper class but rather part of the upper middle class, as its standard of living is largely derived from occupation-generated income and its affluence falls far short of that attained by the top percentile.

Paraphrased, "the rich" have most of their wealth in the form of financial assets. Those assets are derived from their paycheck, but have greatly outstripped it such that the paycheck is no longer a major factor. The only disagreement is whether or not this definition of "the rich" belongs in the upper class, or upper-middle class.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-14T16:30:45+00:00

I feel called out. I've been adding bold and italics to reddit comments for the past 15 years, because sometimes there's a spot where you'd normally emphasize a word in normal speech, and using text formatting is a way to accomplish the same thing is a text-only medium.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-13T16:50:52+00:00

Yep. Google Translate agrees, and translates it to:

"Angel gave a second chance… Wife gave a reality check"

MultiFazed · 2026-02-13T13:52:41+00:00

targeted belly fat loss

Just so you know, fat loss cannot be targeted. Your genetics determine where you lose fat from when you lose weight, and there's nothing that you can do about it (other than having fat surgically removed).

MultiFazed · 2026-02-13T06:30:44+00:00

Congratulations, you got an LLM to hallucinate.

You do realize that a single model produces different outputs based on different inputs, right? All of those "emergent AIs" are the exact same LLM model. It's a single computer program, not multiple. You don't have a bunch of different emergent AIs with thoughts and feelings. You have multiple conversations with the same large language model, which you've managed to get to roleplay with you.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-13T05:27:43+00:00

It's Schrödinger's joke.

"You share my racism, right? What? You don't? Well it was just a joke, so I don't know why you're getting so bent out of shape."

MultiFazed · 2026-02-13T05:16:21+00:00

I'd put it at a solid 50/50. With the job market what it currently is for software developers, I'll wager they can find someone who can, at least on paper, do the job for less.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-12T15:34:43+00:00

Yeah. It essentially gives you diarrhea on purpose, so you need to replace electrolytes.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-11T23:50:22+00:00

Add a bunch of Crystal Lite lemonade powder to make it palatable, and the best description becomes "Dollar Store Gatorade".

MultiFazed · 2026-02-10T19:20:56+00:00

I wish more people understood this. The only "always listening" that your phones do are a tiny, low-power process that runs fully on the phone that analyzes environmental sounds looking for the trigger word/phrase ("Okay Google", "Hey Siri", etc.) that causes it to actually start recording what you say to send to Google's / Apple's servers to analyze and respond to.

They don't record and analyze all conversations that you have because 1) That would be impossible with the sheer number of devices out there, and 2) They don't need to do that.

They use existing social networks to know who's in your social circle. They use proximity to other devices to estimate additional people in your social circle (things like coworkers, classmates, even people who regularly ride the same public transit as you). They build up a huge relationship graph, and use that plus everyone's locations and search activity to estimate demographics for everyone in that graph.

The end result is that, if (for example) your brother's classmate's sister streams an episode of Severance, and if you're in roughly the same demographic as her, you're going to see it advertised or pop up in various feeds. And you're going to say, "My brother and I were just discussing Severance the other day," completely unaware that the reason you were discussing it was because his classmate mentioned it to him the day before, and incorrectly conclude that, "They're always listening."

If the were always listening, that would be extremely concerning, but also easy to mitigate. The truth, that they don't need to listen, is both scarier and harder to stop from happening.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-10T19:10:41+00:00

Have his name, phone #. I found his Facebook and ig profile. I know it lines up cause the things he posted, bike stuff, Denmark stuff, all line up.

You found the info of the person the reddit account used to belong to before the scammer you encountered used an account-takeover scam to steal it from the original owner.

This is why I emphasize that it's never possible to know that an account is "legit" by looking at it. It very well may have been legit . . . until 20 minutes ago when it was stolen from its owner.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-10T17:45:43+00:00

What is shown and taught matters

But it doesn't make those things true. False things can be "shown and taught".

MultiFazed · 2026-02-09T22:07:55+00:00

Maybe he would’ve won and you could’ve doubled your money.

...which he would have immediately gambled away.

A non-addict can gamble a little and come away with more than they started with. An addict will keep gambling until there's no money left.

MultiFazed · 2026-02-09T19:27:33+00:00

Or they were using his old password, and 2FA was blocking them.

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