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goertzen··on Getty Images CEO: Respecting fair use rules won't prevent AI from curing cancer
Are you a real person ? Obviously there is more to it than that. Just because you’ve seen Mickey Mouse and can draw you should get to sell anything you can make with his likeness ? Or record any song you’ve heard ?

Obviously there is some gray area in the training conversation but let’s not pretend that these content owner arguments are baseless just to push progress at all costs ahead.

His point stands.

goertzen··on Paramount Erases Mtv.com Archives, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30+ Years
Obviously dumb, but also can’t say I even knew this existed until now.

Was it good ?

goertzen··on ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
I don’t know enough of biology or genetics or evolution, but surely the millions of years of training that is hardcoded into our genes and expressed in our biology had much larger “training” runs.
goertzen··on OpenAI pulls Johansson soundalike Sky’s voice from ChatGPT
The math here is pretty simple.

OpenAI clearly wants the “her” association. It’s already the favourite voice and projects many of the existing and imagined capabilities really well.

So they tried to pay for it, but it was either too expensive or blocked by SJ.

Her/teams comments read like a negotiation.

But I suspect they’ve overplayed their hand. At best they may get a settlement and OpenAI will modify the voice to make it sound less like SJ.

goertzen··on A forged Apple employee badge
Whoever bought this should include this blog post. The forgery/story is more valuable than original/real badge.
goertzen··on The Google employees who created transformers
It’s reply’s like this that make HN a good place.
goertzen··on Things are about to get worse for generative AI
No they are not.

This is a negotiation tactic by the NYT to drive up the licensing price. Period.

The Napster/Music Industry analogy has no resemblance to this situation.

The only meaningful question that might be answered as a result of this is, what permission and access rights do crawlers have to content that is publicly and legally available.

goertzen··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
This wasn’t obvious, but it seems likely when you put it that way.

Unlike other iconic company/founder origin stories OpenAI really felt like they hit a special team dynamic that was on the verge of some equally special.

In light of this OpenAI still feels like they will be a relevant player, but I’ll be expecting more from Sam and Greg.

goertzen··on Sam Altman tweet after being fired
It happens everywhere and with everyone. I wouldn’t read into it that much. Personally I find the lack of capitalism more sincere and I see everyone at every level on the totem do it.
goertzen··on Pixar was never a masterpiece factory
How did this make it to the first page on HN?
goertzen··on Superintelligence: An idea that eats smart people (2016)
This answered a question I had “I wonder what that guy who wrote that thing on ‘the superintelligence/fast take off idea eating smart people’ thinks of all this new ai stuff” thanks HN!

I still can’t understand the “supersmart ai is so smart we can’t unplug it/patch it/restart it” before it transfers itself into every pacemaker.

Until these things are literally in bodies with some autonomy that allows them to control what happens to their brains, we will shut them off when they cause trouble.

goertzen··on An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms (2019)
Great work! Write more!
goertzen··on Pixpaint
Beautiful. Simple. fun.
goertzen··on 100K Context Windows
Does context window size matter beyond a certain point?
goertzen··on Ask HN: How did ChatGPT4 blew your mind lately?
It’s extremely under utilized.

Everyone could be producing way more than they currently are.

Everyone could be generating 1 app every 3 hours.

Everyone could be writing entire novels.

Everyone could be writing meaningful Wikipedia articles.

DIY guides should be 100x larger .

goertzen··on PaLM API and MakerSuite
The irony that OpenAI used a google form to launch their waitlist.
goertzen··on Study finds mushrooms magnify memory by boosting nerve growth
The following will out perform every fancy nootropic:

Drink as much water as you can. Breathe clean air. Walk. Get as much sleep as you can. Lift something heavy regularly.

goertzen··on How to get new ideas
It might not be good at generating original posts, but it’s really good at generating HN comments.

Try it! Generate typical HN comments to this PG post [ … ]. - Include both positive and negative comments. - add replies that focus on annoying details that draw attention to the commenter - include fan boy defence of original post - point out obvious exceptions

goertzen··on OpenAI is in talks for tender offer that would value it at $29B
This time is different for two reasons:

1) It actually works 2) people are paying for it

And that is with the handicapped version (sandboxed and no wallet attached).

Once you can give these systems web access and a wallet we’ll see the full size of the wave.

goertzen··on Ask HN: Self-hosted/open-source ChatGPT alternative? Like Stable Diffusion
Letting them connect to the internet seems dangerous. Not because of some hypothetical AI Safety, but the very real human abuse.

Someone recently put this well: Don’t think of gpt chat as one really smart friend, instead think of it as an army of dumb pawns.

goertzen··on Ask HN: How much longer will we have free access to ChatGPT?
These models are awesome but releasing them in the wild (I.e. not sandboxed) seems really irresponsible.

I hope these modes are prohibitively expensive to train so we can figure out a way to release them responsibly when they can be open.

goertzen··on Carmack Unscripted
Seems like they could of made this a lot better with a basic lighting setup … but nothing was as a bad as the comments suggest.
goertzen··on Show HN: I built an all-in-one virtual production platform for indies
The signup flow seems to have a bug. If I refresh the page it works, but until then it hangs on the spinner.
goertzen··on Show HN: I built an all-in-one virtual production platform for indies
Great work! Are you selling it at some point ?

Any way for people to extend it ?

goertzen··on Ask HN: What CMS are you using in 2022?
CraftCMS
goertzen··on What would be your choice for setting up a new SaaS project for 2022?
1. Get a customer based on a mock-up/landing page.

2. Use whatever stack you know to build what they will pay for.

3. Rinse and repeat and add features as customers pay for them.

goertzen··on Ask HN: What do you think about the no-code movement?
Not a paradigm shift.
goertzen··on Unlimited Vacation Days Is a Scam
Naive at best. Manipulative at worst. Scam isn’t accurate
goertzen··on Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show
Our bodies can’t handle large doses of refined/high density compounds (sugar, alcohol, opioids, etc) or social interactions (being judged by 1000s/millions).
goertzen··on The coupon code is a slap in the face (2013)
Thanks for linking to the original thread. The top comment was a great reminder that the internet is filled with different types of people.
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