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bergen··on The purge of German science in 1933
Not arguing with your point but “killed to death” sounds like an awesome metal band name
bergen··on Washington's Lottery forced to pull site after creating AI porn of lotto user
>all depending on the type of news/propaganda utilized

No it's depending on the intention of the person wearing those same breasts. This is very clearly non-consentual presentation of an individual in a sexy pose. There's an argument to be had about female nudity, but this is separate from getting visually stripped by a computer without your consent.

bergen··on Playground bullies do prosper – and go on to earn more in middle age
Would be interesting if everything is statistically solid if this applies to other populations. I imagine the United Kingdom to be somehow cut-throat from a career perspective, maybe I am wrong.
bergen··on Why Is the Sea So Hot?
You clearly have not watched or understood the sources
bergen··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
>No, the mindset there is that workers wants money, just like everywhere else. Not sure why you think otherwise.

Because I know people that work there, and money surely isn't the first reason you are teaching a bunch of brats while having parts of the public look down on you if you can easily get double the amount somewhere outside of the field. Same for political work, crowdsourcing, .. People take gratification in doing something that matters to society. Yes, they want to survive, but they are quite often not doing it for the money, the money is a nice bonus and enables to do it full-time, but that is not always the reason you do it.

Also you are goalpost moving, you said first they are only doing it only for themselves not for "the company", and people often do it for the institution that employs them. Not because they are paid, but because they believe they are doing something that matters.

bergen··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Hospitals, Daycare, Schools, Social Work, Police, Fire Departments, Puclic Infrastructure, ... would fall apart in minutes if this would be mindset there.
bergen··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Targeteted Spam, Reviewbombing, Political Campaigns
bergen··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Just because something is not dangerous to the user doesn’t mean it can’t be dangerous for others when someone is wielding it maliciously
bergen··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
So everyone in OpenAI or google decides for themselves what they want to work on and is detached from hierarchies?
bergen··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Do you truely believe google, OpenAI or Ford are the product of a single person?
bergen··on Doom Running on a Toothbrush
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-prog...
bergen··on Doom Running on a Toothbrush
I'm sorry, that is cool and all, but since 2020 when somebody made doom run on a pregnancy test I am waiting for something as impressive. Even running it on a toothbrush seem "meh" to me in comparison, although certainly a feat.
bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
>I just fail to see how quantity factors into anything here.

Because you can overload any online discussion / sphere with that. There were so many that X effectively banned searching for her at all because if you did, you where overwhelmed by very extreme fake porn. Everybody can do it with very low entry barrier, it looks very believable, and it can be generated in high quantities.

We shouldn't have clamped down on photoshop, but realisticly two things would be nice in your theoretical case, usage restrictions and public information building. There was no clear cut point where photoshop was so mighty you couldn't trust any picture online. There were skills to be learned and people could identify the trickery, and it was on a very small scale and gradual. And the photo trickery was around for ages, even Stalin did it.

But creating photorealistic fakes in an automated fashion is completely new.

bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
>I don't think this is any more libertarian than kings and aristocrats of days past were. So very libertarian.

>If anything it seems a lot more democratic since he wants it to be available to everyone No, he want's a solution that minimizes contact to other people and let you live in your bubble. This minimizes exposure to others from the same city and is a commercial system, not a publicly created one. Democratization would be a cheap public transport where you don't get mugged, proven to work in every european and most asian cities.

> I admit I don't know anything about this one The cybertruck. Again a vehicle to isolate you from everyday life being supposed bulletproof and all.

> lots of republicans including Trump do the same thing, and they're not libertarian They are all "little government, individual choice" - of course they feed their masters, but the kochs and co want exactly this.

Appreciate the exchange too, thanks for factbased formulation of opinions.

bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
One of his many lies. https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-says-he-lives-in-a-50...
bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
No, but AI requires zero learning curve and can be automated. I can't spit out 10 images of Tay per second in photoshop. If I want and the API delivers I can easily do that with AI. (Given, would one becoding this it requires a learning curve, but in principal with the right interface and they exist i can churn out hundreds of images without me actively putting work in)
bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
He wanted to replace public transport with a system where you don't have to ride the public transport with the plebs, he want's to colonize mars with the best minds (equal most money for him), he built a tank for urban areas. He promotes free speech even if it incites hate, he likes ayn rand, he implies government programs calling for united solutions is either communism, orwell or basically hitler. He actively promotes the opinion of those that pay above others on X.
bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
Put in any historical or political context SV is in no way left. They're hardcore libertarian. Just look at their poster boys, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and a plethora of others are very oriented towards totalitarianism from the right. Just because they blow their brains out on lsd and ketamine and go on 2 week spiritual retreats doesn't make them leftists. They're billionares that only care about wealth and power, living in segregated communities from the common folk of the area - nothing lefty about that.
bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
You are using someone elses propietary technology, you have to deal with their limitations. If you don't like there are endless alternatives.

"Wrongly denied" in this case depends on your point of view, clearly DALL-E didn't want this combination of words created, but you have no right for creation of these prompts.

I'm the last one defending large monolithic corps, but if you go to one and want to be free to do whatever you want you are already starting from a very warped expectation.

bergen··on Stable Diffusion 3
See the recent Taylor Swift scandal. Safety from never ending amounts of deepfake porn and gore for example.
bergen··on On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
Depends, some models are not freely available and in that case you pay very much for access to the model
bergen··on On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
Did you read the books with the intent to incorporate their ideas into your head and profit of this?
bergen··on Tesla Model Y: My 6 months impressions
Which continent/region of the world are you driving the autopilot on? Also remote roads or city?
bergen··on Tesla FSD Timeline
But is it though?
bergen··on Tesla FSD Timeline
Funniest thing is he said at one point that it is 12 months away, including automatic charging? Does such a thing work anywhere or is even attempted? I haven't seen a car that does not need a physical plug and someone getting out to do it.
bergen··on Show HN: I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real
ANY indication the video was fake? I see none. The example at hand is nice and all, but if you say someone is faking you better have receipts.
bergen··on US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant
What does this have to do with east coast elites? There needs to be certain oversight, including chain of command and not every tiny police department should be able to acess ALL phone data without any logging, oversight, intermediary, and at best not without warrant. Why do you twist into a culture war narrative..
bergen··on Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty
Did you every track their tokens? The price of movement of the short and long coins was very dubious. Binance at points allowed up to transfer and 1 BTC without registration, therefore enabling a lot of shady characters to trade on their platform. A lot of scammers and fraudsters were using binance as their preferred platform.
bergen··on Earth likely briefly passed critical warming threshold on Friday and Saturday
A tax on CO2 producers that is redistributed as basic income, helping the smallest guy the most, would be a gradual force to shift to cleaner energy, since the seismic shift that is required cleary is not favored by anyone.
bergen··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
"Why don't they just buy stock"? Marie Antoinette or something
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