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booder1··on A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
They will not be punished, e.g. uber and Airbnb were never really punished despite blatantly ignoring the law.

I would claim incapable but it doesn't really matter, outcome is the same.

GDPR won't protect you nor will data privacy laws. Most of the world simply doesn't care enough. I wish it were different.

booder1··on A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Legal has in no way been able to keep up with AI. Just look at copyright. Internet data is public and the government is incapable of changing this.
booder1··on AMD's AI Future Is Rack Scale 'Helios'
I have had trained on both large AMD and Nvidia clusters and your right AMD support is good. I never had to talk to Nvidia support. That was better.

They should care about the availability of their hardware so large customers don't have to find and fix their bugs. Let consumers do that...

booder1··on How we made our OCR code more accurate
Surya weights for the models are licensed cc-by-nc-sa-4.0. They have an exception for small companies. If you're company is not small you either need to pay them or use them illegally.

Their training code and data is closed source. They are barely open weight and only inference is open source.

booder1··on How we made our OCR code more accurate
Surya weights for the models are licensed cc-by-nc-sa-4.0 so not free for commercial usage. Also, as far as I know, the training data is 100% unavailable. Given they use well trained, but standard models, it isn't really open source and barely, maybe, open weight. I kinda hate how their repo says gpl cause that is only true for the inference code. The training code is closed source.
booder1··on How we made our OCR code more accurate
5.5.0 released November last year. Still a very active project as far as I can tell and runs on CPU. Even compared to best open source GPU option it is still pretty good. VLMs work very differently and don't work as well for everything. Why is it out of date?
booder1··on Don't sell space in your homelab (2023)
You can easily pull that with a single server if you put some GPUs in there. See vast.ai
booder1··on That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Cause OpenAI is not installed by default as part of your operating system?