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Recommendation Algorithms & Advertising - Where do you draw the line?

I think recommendation algorithms and advertising are separate things, however think with defaults and when it comes to what specific data is collected, where do you draw the line? Absolutely no recommendations at all based on an algorithm? Would you say using your 'like' history to recommend you more videos is okay? What about...

bitfucker ,

But the recommendation can make better inference if they have more data wouldn't they? What should have happened is opt-in for a better recommendation.

bitfucker ,

I think you hit the nail on the head there. Arch users are the one that has successfully installed Arch and as a result, got more in-depth knowledge about their own installation.

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Well, it is pretty recent and also the wiki for installing is still pretty comprehensive

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I never saw the logo in such a high definitions before.

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Digital piracy is not stealing since nothing has been lost. In fact, something was duplicated. So the term stealing is not appropriate and should not be used to describe it. Copying / duplicating copyrighted material without permission is more appropriate. Also, distributing copyrighted material without permission can be used. But not stealing, no. Even stealing potential profit is a no or we were going to have to start punishing potential crime.

bitfucker ,

Yes, and as I said before, if we were going to argue about lost profit then take 3D printing for example. Companies like GW don't like it when someone uses 3D printed model. The physical plastic model itself is never stolen. In fact, someone can buy it and 3D scan it themselves and then share it. Some governments are considering banning it because it can be used to manufacture guns. Why did I compare the two? Because nothing was stolen, and in fact, something was made instead. Printing money yourself is also made illegal and you never stole someone else's money.

bitfucker ,

Hence why I said it is not stealing

Edit just for clarity. I said stealing potential profit explicitly. So you cannot sue for that, but rather sue for patent infringement.

bitfucker ,

Yeah, and that word also carries the heavy burden of that statement. I don't want to be pedantic but the US law states theft is the taking of another person's personal property with the intent of depriving that person the use of their property. And for patent infringement it is defined as the unlawful use, selling, or copying of a patented invention.

The laws for infringement and theft are different precisely because they come from different reasons. For theft to occur, someone must be deprived of something that they already have.

Infringement on the other hand, can be done without needing to take anything at all from the owner.

bitfucker ,

Wage theft is the failing to pay wages or provide employee benefits owed to an employee by contract or law.". The wage is already yours to begin with. You are entitled to wage/payment for a work contract that you fulfill. The other party failing to fulfill their ends of the contract makes it theft.

bitfucker ,

You do bring up an interesting point. However, the wage in question is value tied to the work that you've done. It is inherently a payment for a service not goods. You cannot really "steal/duplicate/pirate" a service. How would it work anyway?

And, the copyright owner didn't own any "wages"/profit just because you have copyrighted material. This is problematic because goods can be copied hence the need for copyright and patent law. You could get secondhand copyrighted goods and you don't owe the copyright owner anything.

bitfucker ,

Royalties are not wages. It is why we have a different word for it. Would you call a gain in investment a wage? Even if people's livelihood depends on it, it doesn't make it a wage. From Cornell Law School: "Wages are payment, usually financial, that an employee receives in exchange for their labor from an employer. Wages include salaries, bonuses, tips, etc."

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The game was particularly notable for a musical score that simulated multiple instruments by swapping between them faster than the human ear could differentiate.

Why... I understand the reasoning for visual feedback, but audio?

bitfucker ,

I mean, if I understand it correctly, audio signals are additive so you don't need to do fancy instrument changing. Simply add the sample of different instruments to the audio buffer and those can be played. If someone knows better about acoustic theory then please correct me.

bitfucker ,

I'll reiterate here that I think it would be funny to see steam actually lowering their cut to 20-10% or something and the mass migrations of developers from other competing stores to steam, and finally making the other store even more insignificant. That's what they want isn't it? And even more funny when after the changes are applied there is no difference in price because after all, publishers get more money for free, why should they lower their profit? If anything, when the policy is reversed/back to when it was, we will only see an increase in game price lol.

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Do you have any outside help when pulling it off? Maybe SO, or family?

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I mean, recognition is literally the task that is always used for intro to machine learning. From facial recognition and other biometric, handwriting, object recognition. It isn't a surprise that "AI" is able to outperform humans in this task since sometimes AI can pick up features that are too subtle for us to notice. The problem is LLM being hailed as the truth machine or AGI. LLM to NLP is what CNN and GAN is to image processing tasks.

bitfucker ,

I can imagine it being used to test various older cards or other esoteric hardware

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Does it support BoVeX?

If you don't get it. YouTube link warning

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There is a comic that I can't remember the title of right now. But the plot is basically the whole country of Japan gets Isekai'd, land and all

bitfucker ,

Yes, that's it! Now that you mentioned it I've started to re read it. It was as wack as I remember lol. And it was an ogre btw!

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I am now curious if this was scaled with the population number.

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TARS and AVA not being switched is a crime

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I think he means doing it voluntarily. Like, you can shoot out milk at someone by your own will

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I wanna know why but I'm too afraid of the answer

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...and the nipple never comes out like how a human nipple can get erect? Forgive my lack of biology, I am an engineering major.

bitfucker ,

Thanks for the knowledge! Glad it isn't some nature metal shit happening there lol. However, I do remember that whale milk is squirted out too (and my god I remember reading that the consistency is... unique). Is the whale nipple inverted too?

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Doing by personel is another way of stating we got more men than you got bullets

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But it did reproduce then no? Its just like how some organisms are surviving as a parasite. They need another thing to survive mostly as food. But in this case, as a reproduction method.

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I agree, the point is that we need to define "alive" itself clearly which as you stated, is currently beyond our understanding.

If being inert constitutes as not living then yes, virus is not alive. Their "evolution" is not because of their doing/needs but rather due to their construction. In that case I think virus is more akin to a poison. The substance itself can be not dangerous, but due to a metabolism process inside a specific organism/cell, it becomes a dangerous substance. The side effect in this case is just so happens to make another copy of the virus. But this process is prone to mutation as their building block is quite prone to do so, and we get the "evolution".

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No

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I am still baffled by the rat dick illustration that got past the review

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Why... why is it more secure? Does it mean AI training is actively abusing copyright law? And this is more secure because they can hide it better?

bitfucker ,

For facebook and big corporations, you usually agree to the ToS/EULA before you actively using their services. The clause there usually protects their ass by stating you give them the license to basically do whatever the fuck they want. Sometimes even giving up the copyright entirely, like some CLA when contributing to open source projects.

But lemmy, as far as I remember, don't have such term. So it is an interesting question since if the instance doesn't impose a legal requirement for you to give the instance a license to do anything besides storing and serving it verbatim (like many other user-content sites. deviantart comes to mind since the user can license their image iirc). And yes, words or a string of words can be copyrighted and licensed because we do have protection for books and other text material.

bitfucker ,

I wouldn't dare call it mislabelling since there is no precedent yet. Just the other day a judge ruled AI generated CSAM is still CSAM. If it can be proven beyond a doubt that an AI output comes from copyrighted works without proper license, will that AI violate the copyright? Also, will AI count as derivatives work from the training material or will it be treated like software compiler? I think a lot of our current legal framework is not up to speed to answer those questions. So I would not call it useless nor misleading.

Also, lemmy doesn't have EULA as far as I am aware of so the license of the content hosted on the instance is by default unlicensed. The user just notifies that to whoever wants to use their comment for whatever purpose, must abide by those licenses.

bitfucker ,

Calling a license by anything other than its name and stated purpose is something I’d dare to call mislabeling.

Fair point. The explanation itself has to be detached from the license to make it clear. So for example, if I state that my comment here is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, it only states the license, WHY I licensed it as such is the explanation and not the label for the license. So yeah, without context (the why), it is mislabeling.

While you are correct that lemmy itself does not add a license and many instances do not add a license, it’s not as simple as “the user notifies [you] must abides by [their] licenses.” Jurisdiction matters. The Fediverse host content is pulled from matters. Other myriad factors matter.

But that is true for all content on the internet no? The difference is this time we are talking about a user-generated content without explicit license, now has an explicit license.

As you correctly pointed out, there is no precedence for any of this so as I pointed out unless you’re willing to go to court and can prove damages it is actually useless.

I wouldn't call it useless tho. After all, we will only push the legal framework because people are doing something wack.

bitfucker ,

It would be funny if that happens since the EU is having problems with Russia too. Will Russia help the EU (by proving that America is not as powerful as they'd like to think) or take advantage of the situation I wonder.

bitfucker ,

I am sorry but this is too funny. "If I have a dollar for every time I accidentally drive into a tornado I'd have $2. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it happened twice"

bitfucker ,

Great, now I can blame my past shitty soldering job to the tips!

In all seriousness, thanks for the tips!

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Praise the emperor

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Parametric?

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When it prevents you from doing day to day tasks, or even tormenting enough to make you depressed most of the time, then it clearly starts being a disorder. Otherwise, it's just normal human behaviour.

bitfucker ,

I think I should emphasize the "clearly" part but yeah, the symptoms can appear from before it being a disorder. If you have any suspicion that you may need help, it's never hurt to check with professional. After all, having a false positive is better in this case than speculation.

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Wait, why? What does knowing a perfect state of system has to do with the law of thermodynamics?

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I do wonder what it will decode for neuro-divergent people.

bitfucker ,

Being wrong about being a pedant or on opinion? Also, the reply doesn't specify any correction, just stating that I don't know what being pedantic and unskilled is. And I do admit I am being pedantic from my understanding of pedantic, hence the current discussion. I do love to argue for the sake of arguing. I can learn a lot from arguing. So if people would like to debate me, feel free to do so. Please state what about my statement that is wrong?

bitfucker ,

Well, forgive my english then as it is not my native tongue if I really misinterpret something. And as I said, I think more skill implies skill has a level, not in difficulty mind you but in terms of proficiency. And yes, skill does have proficiency but you cannot compare those proficient in surgery to those that are proficient in flipping burgers. Someone can be more proficient at surgery than another, but to say a surgeon is more skilled with a burger flipper is just as wack in my opinion. Let's put it this way then, maybe the disparity is too big between surgeon and burger flipper. How about a software engineer and a surgeon? Which one is more skilled? See? It doesn't make sense as a concept. Even if learning it takes less effort and hurdles, you cannot compare different sets of skills.

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Yes, a person can have skill in both surgery and cooking. I do not dispute that. Even surgery is too broad as it contains a more specific skill set. But you cannot say that a surgeon is more skilled than a burger flipper. Then how about a surgeon and software engineer? Which one is more skilled? I hope you get my point this time

bitfucker ,

Ahh, I see what you mean. Thanks for explaining it

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