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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I don’t think training on all public information is super ethical regardless, but to the extent that others may support it, I understand that SO may be seen as fair game. To my knowledge though, all the big AIs I’m aware of have been trained on GitHub regardless of any individual projects license.

    It’s not about proving individual code theft, it’s about recognizing the model itself is built from theft. Just because an AI image output might not resemble any preexisting piece of art doesn’t mean it isn’t based on theft. Can I ask what you used that was trained on just a projects documentation? Considering the amount of data usually needed for coherent output, I would be surprised if it did not need some additional data.



  • If you acknowledge the problem with theft from artists, do you not acknowledge there’s a problem with theft from coders? Code intended to be fully open source with licenses requiring derivatives to be open source is now being served up for closed source uses at the press of a button with no acknowledgement.

    For what it’s worth, I think AI would be much better in a post scarcity moneyless society, but so long as people need to be paid for their work I find it hard to use ethically. The time it might take individuals to do the things offloaded to AI might mean a company would need to hire an additional person if they were not using AI. If AI were not trained unethically then I’d view it as a productivity tool and so be it, but because it has stolen for its training data it’s hard for me to view it as a neutral tool.


  • Not everyone is eligible for subsidies. My understanding is that they are basically federal assistance for low income families. Single people making more than 62,600 (which is 4 times the poverty level) for example will not be eligible for any assistance and their premiums have potentially risen over 25% just this year. That’s a lot of money, even for someone not on the poverty line.

    I wonder if open enrollment extension will allow people to change plans. If someone could only afford a catastrophic plan without aid, will they be able to change to a better plan with aid? I have not seen articles mention open enrollment extension, but I’m glad to hear it’s being discussed. Obviously that doesn’t help the people who need healthcare today, but it at least is something.


  • I hate that articles don’t seem to mention that:

    1. Premium cost have already risen this year, in part due to companies expecting less people paying into insurance. That affects everyone regardless of subsidy eligibility and they will not be lowered if this magically passes.
    2. Open enrollment ends soon and many families have already chosen to go without because they can’t afford it. Reinstating these subsidies will not, to my knowledge, allow them to retroactively enroll.

    So healthcare is more expensive for everyone now and the people who were eligible for these subsidies may never see them because they don’t have healthcare anymore. This is disgraceful.




  • I don’t know the person you were picturing, but me and at least a handful of other people were not talking about autistic people who happen to be nerdy. In my opinion, regularly making people cry in a workplace setting is lacking social skills. Based on just the OP, I imagine that teacher is not sending this home because the son is exhibiting signs of autism, he’s probably being a prick, which I’d say most kids are by default, but it’s a parents job to help them mature out of that phase. I generally have not experienced any issues working with people on the spectrum, certainly none that would elicit tears, which I think is an ok proxy for some social skills. Obviously, we can have just been thinking of different people, but I have not had many issues on Lemmy and I didn’t want people to come away with the impression that Lemmy is 2/3rds hostile or has issues communicating. Most people are pretty nice. Someone even gave me a soup recipe!



  • Glad to hear that hasn’t been your experience. I’ve been in both now, but I’ve seen people I wouldn’t spit at if on fire get funding or positions because of the work they produce. A guy known for making grad students cry has a line out the door because people want to be associated with him. He’s got the funding and pull to make things happen because he’s good at what he does, despite being an impossible prick. I think part of it is that there are very few people of the caliber that people will excuse that behavior from. Not every smart person with a bad attitude gets a pass, but in my experience, there’s a threshold past which people will excuse a lot. I think there’s a similar thing with money. Not every millionaire can get what they want, but at a certain point of wealth they just can. I totally understand if that’s not a universal experience. I was just offering my perspective.