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alphan0n··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
Pro-Palestinian usage of the slur coined by David Duke on Twitter is a clue there.
alphan0n··on AI is stifling new tech adoption?
That hasn’t been my experience at all. Could you share some examples?

> As of February 14, 2025, the latest version of Chakra UI for React is 3.8.0, released on February 9, 2025. This release introduced new hooks such as useElementRect, useForceUpdate, useLiveRef, usePrevious, and useSafeLayoutEffect, as well as a new FocusTrap component. Additionally, the Breadcrumb component received fixes for RTL support, and the Group component was updated to handle invalid children appropriately.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67aff366-db20-8011-8549-861b1fc31c...

alphan0n··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Seeding can be trivially faked to trackers.

https://github.com/slundi/RatioUp

https://github.com/anthonyraymond/joal

http://ratiomaster.net/

The smallest amount of seeding possible would be metadata, presumably not subject to copyright.

alphan0n··on Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
The only way for links to appear in a Google search would be to host a public resource, that is linked from another public resource.

If you have specified in your robots.txt that you do not want the page(s) or directories ingested then only the url is indexed (if it is linked from another page). It does prevent the public display of the content of a page and creation description/summary.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7489871?hl=en

alphan0n··on Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
Would melting frozen water be considered wet water? Seems to satisfy the requirements.
alphan0n··on The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed
The API might be a good place to start.

I’m on mobile at the moment so I haven’t been able to dig too deep, but here’s [0] a query that returns the metadata for everything modified since Jan 1st (add more rows at the end if it’s cut off). I don’t think it shows deletes directly, but it can be compared to the current catalog. API documentation here [1]

[0] https://catalog.data.gov/api/3/action/package_search?q=metad...

[1] https://data.gov/developers/apis/

*fixed first url

alphan0n··on DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
I wouldn’t expect any truthful AI to answer definitively on matters that amount to opinions of genocide at this point.
alphan0n··on Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network
Yes, the FindYou project [0] has shown this to be possible.

[0] https://github.com/positive-security/find-you

alphan0n··on Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies
Soo.. gold stars?
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
> b) Works Made for Hire.

>In the case of a work made for hire, the employer or other person for whom the work was prepared is considered the author for purposes of this title, and, unless the parties have expressly agreed otherwise in a written instrument signed by them, owns all of the rights comprised in the copyright.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap2.html#201

You are responsible for infringing works you publish, whether they are produced by commission or employee.

Due diligence refers to the reasonable care, investigation, or steps that a person or entity is expected to take before entering into a contract, transaction, or situation that carries potential risks or liabilities.

Vicarious copyright infringement is based on respondeat superior, a common law principle that holds employers legally responsible for the acts of an employee, if such acts are within the scope and nature of the employment.

alphan0n··on A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial
I almost got taken in by a fake parking ticket scam, perfect ticket/envelope, the url printed on the ticket led to a 404 on the legitimate city website, the QR code led to a very convincing website/url, especially on mobile.

The only reason I caught it was that I had gotten a legitimate ticket a month prior for parking too close to the fire hydrant and had marked the curb with chalk at the correct distance. So I tried to dispute the fine and discover that the ticket didn’t actually exist. And the city had no interest in the fake ticket whatsoever. They were just like “yeah, it happens all the time”.

alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
Quote the full passage of copyright law that backs any of your claims up.
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
My point isn’t adversarial, we most likely (in my most humble opinion) “learn” the same way as anything learns. That is to say, we are not unique in terms of understanding, “understandings”.

Are the ballistics we learn by physical interaction any different from the factual learning of ballistics that, for example, a squirrel learns, from their physical interactions?

alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
You are saying that, any output is possibly infringing, dependandant on the input. This is actually, factually, verifiably, false, in terms of current copyright law.

No human, in the current epoch of education where copyright has been applicable, has learned, benefited, or exclusively created anything behreft of copyright. Please provide a proof otherwise if you truly believe so.

alphan0n··on Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
Startup > trapt (archaic) us
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
This is a common misconception.

You mean the author. The creator of a commissioned work is the author under copyright law, the owner or copyright “holder” is the commissioner of the work or employer of the employee that created the work as a part of their job.

The author may contractually retain copyright ownership per written agreement prior to creation, but this is not the default condition for commissioned, “specially ordered”, works, or works created by an employee in the process of their employment.

The only way an employer/commissioner would be responsible (vicarious liability) for copyright infringement of a commissioned work or work produced by an employee would be if you instructed them to do so or published the work without performing the duty of due diligence to ensure originality.

alphan0n··on Hunyuan3D 2.0 – High-Resolution 3D Assets Generation
Old men looking at a child with training wheels and sneering that they’ll never ever be able to ride a bike.
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
If that’s the case, then sure, as I said in the first sentence of my comment, verbatim copies of copyrighted works would most likely constitute infringement.
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
Copyright law is pretty clear on commissioned work, you are the holder, if your employee violated copyright and you failed to do your due diligence before publication, then you are responsible. If your employee violated copyright and fraudulently presented the work as original to you then you would seek compensation from them.
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
If the output of a mathematical model trained on an aggregate of knowledge that contains copyrighted material is derivative and infringing, then ipso facto, all works since the inception of copyright are derivative and infringing.

You learned English, math, social studies, science, business, engineering, humanities, from a McGraw Hill textbook? Sorry, all creative works you’ve produced are derivative of your educational materials copyrighted by the authors and publisher.

alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
Can you do that though? Just ask ChatGPT to give you the first chapter of a book and it gives it to you?
alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
Right, but the onus of responsibility being on the end user publishing the song or creative work in violation of copyright, not the text editor, word processor, musical notation software, etc, correct?

A text prediction tool isn’t a person, the data it is trained on is irrelevant to the copyright infringement perpetrated by the end user. They should perform due diligence to prevent liability.

alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
Right, strictly speaking, the vast majority of copyright infringement falls under liability tort.

There are cases where infringement by negligence that could be argued, but as long as there is clear effort to prevent copying in the output of the tool, then there is no tort.

If the models are creating copies inadvertently and separately from the efforts of the end users deliberate efforts then yes, the creators of the tool would likely be the responsible party for infringement.

If I ask an LLM for a story about vampires and the model spits out The Twilight Saga, that would be problematic. Nor should the model reproduce the story word for word on demand by the end user. But it seems like neither of these examples are likely outcomes with current models.

alphan0n··on FrontierMath was funded by OpenAI
Simply put, if the model isn’t producing an actual copy, they aren’t violating copyright (in the US) under any current definition.

As much as people bandy the term around, copyright has never applied to input, and the output of a tool is the responsibility of the end user.

If I use a copy machine to reproduce your copyrighted work, I am responsible for that infringement not Xerox.

If I coax your copyrighted work out of my phones keyboard suggestion engine letter by letter, and publish it, it’s still me infringing on your copyright, not Apple.

If I make a copy of your clip art in Illustratator, is Adobe responsible? Etc.

Even if (as I’ve seen argued ad nauseaum) a model was trained on copyrighted works on a piracy website, the copyright holder’s tort would be with the source of the infringing distribution, not the people who read the material.

Not to mention, I can walk into any public library and learn something from any book there, would I then owe the authors of the books I learned from a fee to apply that knowledge?

alphan0n··on Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
Apologies, I’m not affiliated with Amazon in any way.

I meant the Amazon ip addresses that are causing you trouble so I can preemptively block them.

alphan0n··on Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
Can you share the list of offending ip’s, here or your website so we can use them in block lists?

Also, there is an email to contact:

amazonbot@amazon.com

alphan0n··on Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable
Have you verified that they are actually Amazon crawlers as outlined here:

https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

alphan0n··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
This was just posed as a hypothetical, not something that actually happened. It would also require that the person asking about salary information already have access to said data.

Full quote: > "Particularly around bigger companies that have complex permissions around their SharePoint or their Office 365 or things like that, where the Copilots are basically aggressively summarizing information that maybe people technically have access to but shouldn't have access to," he explained.

Berkowitz said salary information, for example, might be picked up by a Copilot service.

"Now, maybe if you set up a totally clean Microsoft environment from day one, that would be alleviated," he told us. "But nobody has that. People have implemented these systems over time, particularly really big companies. And you get these conflicting authorizations or conflicting access to data."

alphan0n··on 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
Cheering on deportation.. I wonder what modern parallels we can draw from that.
alphan0n··on 1 in 5 online job postings are either fake or never filled, study finds
> I read that somewhere that during WWII when people were sent to the gas chambers, crowds would be cheering on.

Citation needed. The execution of Jews by gas chamber during the holocaust was not a public event.

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