(Note how depending how one (mis)reads what you wrote, this is human nature, and there no escaping it, and you would likely be miserable if you tried.)
You’re right — many have tried to resist, even with blood, and still the gears turned.
Systems are excellent at digesting rebellion and turning it into myth.
But still, I think there’s something in refusing to forget.
Not to win — but to remember that not everything was agreed to in silence.
Maybe noticing isn’t power.
But maybe it’s the thing that keeps us from surrendering to the machinery entirely.
> On the other hand, blocking training on published information doesn’t make sense: If you don’t want your stuff to be read, don’t publish it!
> This tradeoff has basically nothing to do with recent advances in AI though.
I am surprised someone on HN would think this, especially considering the recent examples of DDoS via LLM crawlers compared to how websites are glad to be crawled by search engines.
For the first part : why do you think that robots.txt even exists ? Or why, say, YouTube constantly tries (and fails) to prevent you to use the 'wrong' kind of software to download their videos ?
Yes, yet another example why the word 'AI' should be tabooed : use 'machine', 'software', "software using neural networks" (or another specific term) instead.
Why even look at the LLM? A human deployed it and defers to its advice for decision-making; the problem is in the decision-making process, which is in full control of the human. It should be obvious how to regulate that: be critical of what the human behind the LLM does.
I'm giving the benefit of the doubt here that the machine can in theory work well, and is also well used by the human (and the flaw was very unlikely to be found by their inspection) : so in this idealized setting only the machine's manufacturer screwed up (potentially also that human's boss which decided to buy that machine).
Good point : like when a killing is done by a machine that wasn't directly operated, the perpetrator might be found guilty, but for manslaughter rather than murder ?
Let's not forget that the cutting edge of modern science included alchemy at that time : one of the purposes for which the first thermostat was invented was to control alchemical fires.
Or how the "perpetual motion machine" (by the same guy, Cornelis Drebbel) led to barometers and the discovery of atmospheric pressure. (Also connected to astrology because astrologers were the ones making predictions, including of weather.)
There's also another effect though : that money goes to the government. What is it going to do with it ?
Not expecting a positive effect from that from this administration, but in theory there could be one. Like that investment bank. Or just lowered taxes.
Not just Unity, it's well past time the EU started enforcing the bans on US infocoms dating to a decade ago (Patriot Act => Snowden scandal => Schrems 2), since with it not being possible to presume any more that the USA is an ally, there's no reason to look away when they violate the fundamental rights of EU residents.
https://samzdat.com/2017/06/01/the-meridian-of-her-greatness...
(Note how depending how one (mis)reads what you wrote, this is human nature, and there no escaping it, and you would likely be miserable if you tried.)
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