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srackeyon Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?

Further out than we imagined? There are several cities with operating robotaxies right now. You can buy a Tesla that can drive itself (with supervision) right now.

We’re certainly behind where we expected to be, but the future is indeed here!

srackeyon Do we live in a society without a counterculture?

This eternal fight is the culture.

srackeyon Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation

This is just because it’s still a little dumb. If I hired a human artist to produce something in another other artists style and it copied their signature, what is that considered to be? Artist stupidity imo. Or at least a failure of communication.

Models will get better and stop doing that.

srackeyon Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation

It is too late. Sorry artists but it’s over. These models can be trained cheaply(compared to a model like GPT-3), run on consumer GPUs, and are open source. Even if somehow Stable Diffusion got forced to take it down, it’s already out! Will be available with BitTorrent forever. Stable Diffusion could be stopped by US copyright law, but there will be 100 Chinese and Russian startups, who will develop even better models and not give a fuck.

This is a genie that can’t be put back in the bottle. Adapt or die!

srackeyon Stable Diffusion Frivolous Litigation

Copyrighted training data is used in the training of a model, but doesn’t exist within the model weights in any real sense. Doesn’t seem different to if I hired an artist to make me a painting of a Disney character (I’m sure there exists copyrighted material in their training dataset).

srackeyon Stanford requires booster shots for all students

Or they could not? Among college-aged folks, Corona has mild symptoms - maybe approaching a bad flu.

When I was at school, we had flu outbreaks. People got sick, their roommates got sick…and no one was tested or quarantined or had to wear masks. Life continued.

What if we just stopped? We could treat Corona outbreaks at schools like cold or flu outbreaks. Would anyone even notice Omicron ripping through the student body if we weren’t obsessively looking? I doubt it.

srackeyon As the Pandemic Recedes, Millions of Workers Are Saying 'I Quit'

And also anecdotally, every professional office worker under ~30 I know has been absolutely miserable during this remote work experience, and is yearning to get back to the office - most for a full 5 days a week.