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gimulnautti

@gimulnautti@mastodon.green

Pirate Politician, Software Developer, MA Musicology (he/him)

Interests:
Culture, Math, Sociology, Philosophy, Music, Demoscene, Games, #NAFO, Writing, Disc Golf, Skateboarding.

Not here for snarky comebacks. A slur is not an argument.

Other fediverse accounts:
@gimulnautti @metapixl.com
@gimulnautti @mastodontti.fi

Blog:
https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com
https://medium.com/@toni.k.aittoniemi

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

EUCommission , to random
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Can you hear the bells of progress? 🎵

We just launched Destination Earth, a digital replica of the Earth, powered by EU supercomputers and Al.

This cutting-edge technology will allow us to:

🌍 Monitor our planet in real time
🌡️ Adapt to climate change
🚨 Predict severe weather events
📉 Mitigate socio-economic risks
🎯 Design adaptation strategies for a more resilient future

Destination Earth is already operational.

Our goal is to create a complete digital twin of the Earth by 2030.

A picture of Lumi, the European supercomputer based in Finland. 
A crowd of people watching a presentation on the use of the Destination Earth project.
Commissioner Vestager looking at the Lumi supercomputer keyboard.

gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware @EUCommission I can’t even start to unearth the amounts of wtf that statement brought upon my mind. 🤷‍♂️

gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware @EUCommission Could we perhaps start with assumptions and statements about the subject matter?

  1. How are we assuming the reader’s attitudes towards AI?
  2. How are we assuming EU’s attitudes towards AI?
  3. What is the statement about EU and AI usage?
gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware @EUCommission I think ”educated guess” is a synonym for assumption.

Could you please state your assumptions?

gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware @EUCommission I see.

Now that I know something of your assumptions, I can gather that you classify all AI usage as falling under one category, and that all usage of AI would therefore generate the same response.

I, for one, am in my own political forums pushing for more investment into AI training from public materials by state actors inside EU.

A reliance on US commercial actors, who are stealing data, is a security risk and a trap.

gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware @EUCommission Some will. However, there is still a willingness to actually understand AI, and a willingness from the member states to help people understand the differences.

And might I add, EU countries are uniquely placed in their possibilities for investing in public education due to different approaches to especially public broadcast media than the US.

Nonilex , to random
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Hrs b4 meeting w/his about his , a leading candidate for went on a bizarre rant about .

Sharks, claimed, were attacking more than usual (not true) & posed a new risk bc boats were being required to use batteries (not true), which cause them to sink bc they’re too heavy (really, really not true—the world’s heaviest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, stays afloat bc of laws of despite weighing >550M lbs).

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/06/trump-shark-rant/678666/

gimulnautti ,
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@Nonilex But that is the crucial difference:

Trump’s support base lives in a world of make-believe, they are happy there, and they actively reject any attempts at reality to come there and go changing things.

The hard facts of psychology dictate that factual beliefs update automatically based on real-world events.

So the defence of upping the make-believe, to stay in la-la-land is understandable.

Trump must scream harder & harder to keep them safely tucked up in their make-believe.

GottaLaff , to random
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, launch drills to train troops in tactical nuclear weapons

Russia and its ally Belarus have launched a second stage of drills intended to train their troops in tactical nuclear weapons, part of the Kremlin’s efforts to discourage the West from ramping up support for
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/russia-belarus-launch-stage-drills-train-troops-tactical-111009855

gimulnautti ,
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@GottaLaff I propose this tactic of trying to use nuclear to deter anyone from helping your victim should be called nuclear bamboozelment.

gimulnautti , to bookstodon group
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How do we know beliefs are make-believe?

Because factual beliefs respond to evidence, imaginings do not.


@bookstodon
Neil van Leeuwen
Religion as make-believe: A theory of belief, imagination and group identity

https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Make-Believe-Theory-Imagination-Identity/dp/067429033X

parismarx , to random
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Germany’s AfD is so extreme it was kicked out of the far-right grouping in the European Parliament last month, but Elon Musk thinks their policies “don’t sound extremist.” That’s because he’s also a fascist.

gimulnautti ,
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@parismarx Hah. Stupid he is.

Always so overt about trying to be covert.

In Finland we have a saying: ”This one is visible enough to be seen by a blind man with a walking stick.”

randahl , (edited ) to random
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The EU parliament elections have turned Denmark upside down.

All my life, Danish politics has been dominated by two parties: The Social Democrats which is centrist and Venstre which is financially more liberal but also centrist.

Now, The Social Democrats loses 6 percent of the vote and only barely keeps 3 seats, and Venstre is halved from 4 down to 2 seats.

Most impressingly, the climate focused, socialist party SF becomes the biggest party and gains a third seat.

This development…

1/2

gimulnautti ,
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@randahl Also in Finland there were huge gains for the progressive left. Some have said far left, but that’s just wrong. Real, actual left, not playing left like many centrists.

rbreich , to random
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Trump's most obvious lies (like pretending he never led chants of "lock her up) are perhaps the most disturbing.

Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself.

gimulnautti ,
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@rbreich That’s what happens when you let liars into power: They use the power to create more & deeper lies to gather more power.

Once the critical mass is reached, you’ll blink and the world has changed. Now they control the narrative.

emptywheel , to random
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"Swept Up!" The Russian Payments that Led to Trump's Felony Conviction

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/02/swept-up-the-russian-payments-that-led-to-trumps-felony-conviction/

gimulnautti ,
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@emptywheel No surprise we find Russian money behind Trump.

But I guess everybody knew that, right?
Right?

parismarx , to random
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When Sam Altman was ousted as CEO, Kara Swisher pushed a story that framed him as the victim of a board captured by AI doomers.

But as more detail has emerged about Altman’s lies and “toxic” conduct, it’s become clear she was a conduit for his narrative.

https://disconnect.blog/kara-swishers-story-about-sam-altman-is-falling-apart/

gimulnautti ,
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@parismarx I’m starting to get russian vibes from all this. Not anything related to involvement, but the STYLE of lying straight on the level of narrative is. Deep lies covered by truthful surfaces, and the ”house-clean” opposition puppet. Classic.

lowqualityfacts , (edited ) to random
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MAGA people: You just opened Pandora's Box. This means all presidents can be convicted of crimes. Republicans or Democrats. Bet you didn't consider that, did you?

Reasonable people: Yes idiots, that's the fucking point.

gimulnautti ,
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@lowqualityfacts It’s called ”The Rule Of Law” and it was a revolutionary change that the lords would be subject to the same laws as the peasants.. In previous centuries! 🙂

The Rule Of Law often is what makes the difference between true democracies and strongman states playing democracy.

And i’m not even going to go into Wilhoit’s Law of conservatism, because there are clearly still people who foolishly think something beyond play democracy could exist without the Rule Of Law.

parismarx , to random
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They missed the most important part: And neither of them should be believed because AGI is just another tech fantasy.

gimulnautti ,
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@parismarx There probably will be some kind of general intelligence of machines, but it will not be in any way related to human life, and might not be helpful to us.

gimulnautti , to random
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IMO there is something inherently psychopathic in algorithm-driven social media.

That you have to adjust all your communicative output to ”trick” a number generator capable of faking human emotive response to become noticed, is..

ayoub , to random
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The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.

These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.

Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.

gimulnautti ,
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@Npars01 @ayoub Weapons manufacturers at least. Testing new weapons systems on Palestinians has long been a source of Israeli wealth.

"Combat-proven weapons" are a major Israeli export.

Today, we have integrations as the primary export being researched in Gaza.

EU_Commission , to random
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We've opened formal proceedings against Meta regarding the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram.

The systems of both platforms, including their algorithms, may stimulate behavioural addictions in children, as well as create so-called 'rabbit-hole effects’.

More: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_2664

#DSA #EU

gimulnautti ,
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@EU_Commission Great news!

But please mandate social media to use STRONG AGE VERIFICATION.

Currently they avoid knowing anyone’s true age like the plague. Why? Because that’s the loophole they’ll use to avoid being legally responsible!

ManyRoads , to random
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Op-Ed

"What happens if the EU does not recognize Vladimir Putin?

Calls are growing for the EU not to recognize Vladimir Putin as Russia's elected president. But cutting off communications entirely is a bad idea in the long term, experts warn."

#WarofSurvival #EU #Pentagon #Military #War #NATO #US #NAFO #News #Putin #Ukraine #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Russia
https://www.dw.com/en/what-happens-if-the-eu-does-not-recognize-vladimir-putin/a-69019245

gimulnautti ,
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@JSharp1436 @ManyRoads True that. The madman’s ramblings have confused even the russian people of their heritage.

The best thing that could ever happen to Russians, is for them to lose this war.

Free the Russian narod from Putin’s imperial tyranny! #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

randahl , to random
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UN human rights experts horrified: Seven mass graves found in northern Gaza with 520 Palestinian bodies. Some beheaded, some showing signs of torture.

The Israeli government can scream "anti-semitism" as much as they want — The International Criminal Court is coming for Benjamin Netanyahu, and the world will never forget what his government did.

Never again.

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4652018-reports-mount-of-mass-graves-at-gaza-hospitals-some-without-heads/amp/

gimulnautti ,
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@randahl This just needs to stop.

People need to stop giving the far-right crooks ot Netanyahu’s army a free pass to use Palestinian children for target practice and decapitate enemy combatants for shits & giggles.

And this happens because ”the people I know from Israel are such nice people”.

That’s what the bad people are counting on. Using the nice people as shields to get their killing streak on. 😔

gimulnautti , to random
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People who #folllow #amreading

How many times have you read ”Culture” series by Ian M. Banks?

#scifi #bookstodon

marcelias , to random
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I hope you read and share my latest.

Donald Trump and his Republican allies have no intention of accepting the outcome of a free and fair election. They are boasting about building a voter suppression war machine. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/when-trump-attacks-our-elections-we-will-have-no-excuse/

gimulnautti ,
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@marcelias Democracy ends when any party thinks it’s a game that ends in a final victory.

rbreich , to random
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Trump held an event for megadonors this weekend.

These super-rich individuals don't seem to care that he wants to free Jan 6 insurrectionists.

Or that he echoes the words of Hitler to dehumanize opponents.

They'll overlook Trump's fascism in exchange for tax cuts.

Be warned.

gimulnautti ,
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@rbreich It’ll probably be the same as it always is: The pro-business right lifts the anti-democratic far right to power, thinking they can ”control” them and benefit themselves.

Obviously, they are wrong and many who thought they’d win end up losing everything as the state quickly grabs the industry in the name of fighting whatever half-fictional enemy is the fashion of the day.

We saw it in Germany, we saw it in Russia. It can happen here.

Nonilex , to random
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In yet another bad sign for #democracy:

#Netanyahu has essentially banned #FreePress in #Israel. His cabinet voted to kick #AlJazeera out of Israel says its #journalists are threats to #NationalSecurity.

I guess the pen truly is mightier than the sword & all that.

#Gaza #Palestinians #Authoritarianism
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-cabinet-moves-close-al-jazeeras-local-operations-2024-05-05/

gimulnautti ,
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@Nonilex Such a beacon of democracy, Israel, among those good-for-nothing arabs.. I mean who do they think are they fooling? Are they trying to say they have free media?

BeAware , to random
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I love how Drake steals music, calls himself a rapper but sucks at rapping, and is still one of the top artists.🤦‍♂️

The general public is dumb. Don't be like the general public, be like Kendrick Lamar and diss Drake because he deserves it.🤣

gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware Generic pop music is also dumb. Perfect to be replaced by statistical methods brought to us by .

Probably by 2030 most of Top 100 hits will be at least part written by LLM’s. And people won’t care.

Top 100 music is functional. People use it for affect as a tool. They want a certain mind-state which they can affect on themselves. Simple as that.

BeAware , to random
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It's a sad state of affairs when one of the most AI-positive people on Fedi starts rolling his eyes at these asinine implementations.

I am starting to resent the devs in this space who are obviously misrepresenting the tool and making everyone hate it.

Sincerely,
Fuck you for ruining everyone's perception of something that could be a good tool for humanity.

gimulnautti ,
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@BeAware @knowprose People operate on feelings. The unfortunate thing is, our feelings emulate a lot of sensemaking. Hence we think we are making sense, but it’s actually that we just remember past occasions of reasoning linked to that particular bad feeling related to an event or symbol.

So it probably would be near damn impossible for people who haven’t a real understanding of how LLM’s work to be able to be of two minds of it. They are simply feeling it.

gimulnautti ,
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As always as it is with tools, these computer systems are only as good or evil as the ones who wield them.

And the ones who wield them instead are controlled by the incentives that make them successfull.

We have quite fucked up incentives for the AI companies. I think it’s that the US government so afraid of not ”winning the race with China”, anything goes right now.

Cold wars aren’t good for truth nor morality. Lots of fucked up shit happens in wars.

noalevi Bot , to israel group
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HEADLINES

  • Turkey Cuts All Trade Ties with Israel Amid Escalating Conflict, Ends 75 Years of Commercial Relations
  • Palestinian Casualties Surpass 110,000 in Gaza as Conflict Reaches Day 210
  • Protests at Columbia University Lead to 112 Arrests Amid Rising International Tensions Over Israel-Hamas War

Listen to the 08 AM update of Israel Today: Ongoing War Report here: https://widget.spreaker.com/player?show_id=5985229&theme=dark&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true
Click on the (i) for the full transcript and links to sources.

Listen and Subscribe on your favorite podcast app:

Podcast Details: https://www.spreaker.com/show/israel-today-ongoing-war-report
@israel @news #Israel #Hamas #Gaza #Palestine #AI

gimulnautti ,
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@noalevi @israel @news I hope we will end at 1 Israeli life equalling 100 palestinian lives.

But i’m not holding my breath. The ratio of 9/11 was 137 dead Iraqis for one American dead.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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Let’s summarize:

  1. Elon Musk platformed Tucker Carlson.

  2. Tucker Carlson then platformed Putin, and now he is handing the microphone to one of the most evil Russian thinkers in existence, Aleksandr Dugin, and getting 5.4 million views by normalizing the imperialist.

  3. A fake Marjorie Taylor Greene account then chimes in, calling Tucker “the best journalist America has”.

Tell everyone you know to stop supporting the disinformation platform. Friends don’t let friends consume the Musk sauce.

gimulnautti ,
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@randahl Not that we didn’t have this coming.

Dugin has been a darling of the alt-right for a long long time.

But I guess it’s normal to be an imperialis neo-fascist crook these days!

EU_Commission , to random
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We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.

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gimulnautti ,
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@EU_Commission Go Europe Go!

Commitment to open systems can only be shown. Talk is cheap. 🫡

GottaLaff , to random
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10-post thread by Angry Staffer: 1/...

Let’s talk .

There’s a lot of analysis out there that I believe is driven by a fundamental misunderstanding of the way fights wars.

Bottom line up front: Russia’s current goals in Ukraine aren’t necessarily victory, at least not in the traditional military sense.

We’ve seen evidence of this since even before Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. More on that later.

gimulnautti ,
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@GottaLaff What’s funny is that Russia is actually always somehow forward about what it intends to do.

It’s just that the West doesn’t want to believe it would, but rather would believe the obvious lies it keeps telling, like in 2014 when ”no Russian troops were in Crimea”.

This week Belarus accused Lithuania of attacking with drones. A population that is already been manipulated they’re at war with NATO.

It’s all out in the open. The Russian empire wants to be reconstituted.

Mollysdailykiss , to bookstodon group
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If you have not read either of these books, then you really should.

Regardless of whether you like Non fic or not, if you are using this here big old interwebs, then honestly read them both. Start with Doppelganger and then read Code Dependant.

Is technology gonna destroy democracy? What about the whole of humanity?

These books made me worry, but both also gave hope for the future and the power of humanity and most of all communities.

@bookstodon

Front cover of the book Code Dependant by Maghumita Murgia which shows a Control keyboard button lit in purple and red

gimulnautti ,
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@Pappy @bookstodon Doppelganger is great. I think there’s even a weird glimmer of hope if we take the idea at face value, that MAGA is essentially worried about the same things as Occupy Wallstreet was, just that their solutions are completely backwards and destructive.

wdlindsy , to random
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Alex Finley looks at the revelation that the Russians have been paying a wide network of European politicians to spout pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine rhetoric and asks if this can be happening in the US, too. He concludes:

"It is naïve to think the same pattern does not exist in the United States, given the ample evidence of coordinated pro-Russian talking points from several Republican politicians."

https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america

gimulnautti ,
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@wdlindsy People who are convinced they have not and cannot be deceived are the best targets for it.

Putin is almost as famous as DJT 🙂

astory , to random
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Google just notified me that they have terminated my employment.

Please see https://www.instagram.com/p/C54qFvUtuzY for No Tech for Apartheid's statement on this. I do not want to say much publicly.

gimulnautti ,
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@astory Don’t be evil, huh?

Also not surprised posting a link to this on Meta’s hellbook results in ”Loading error”

gimulnautti , to random
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#mathematics people:

I feel there has to be a way of training neural networks to recognise the influence of their training data on the output.

This would probably include training a complementary indexing network + database that would then ”reverse-training” resolve and offer at some predetermined accuracy the #copyright-viable sources for each generated #aiart

I need some help though. A proof would show the companies know it can be done, but they just don’t want to.

#neuralnetworks

gimulnautti OP ,
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As to my motivation, looking forward to people making MORE contributions to AI training instead of hiding their work away to protect it from being stolen.

I am not looking for copyright violations, but a new paradigm, where generative models feed back into the creative economy.

For this rewriting of the copyright laws will be necessary. I wrote lengthily about this for the Finnish Pirate party more than a year ago:

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/01/13/copyright-wars-pt-2-ai-vs-the-public/

#ai #aiart #copyrightreform

gimulnautti OP ,
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In other words: Getting paid a reasonable amount from the model providers would incentivise people to be part of the training data.

Getting also paid from using the models creatively incentivises their use, and this is where copyright reform is most needed.

Instead of remaining a grey area forever, as the industry would sure be happy about, we need legal category for the remix as legit piece of art, not bastardisation.

#ai #aiart #remix #legal #copyrightreform

https://gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/ai-art-is-a-remix-the-djs-of-pictures/

rbreich , to random
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Modern fascists always attack women, immigrants, & LGBTQ+ people first. They long for a white-led, patriarchal, theocratic society.

Remember that when you see reproductive rights, gay rights, and migrant rights stripped away.

gimulnautti ,
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@rbreich It’s not just modern fascists. The German nazis in fact didn’t come for the communists first, as the famous poem goes.

They came for the LGBTQ+. The clinic who had performed one of the first gender-affirming surgeries was among the first targets of Hitler’s still young nazi party’s band of thugs.

It is the same. For our slipping toward fascism is an inborn trait. We need to work to stay out of that slip. Actively. Stopping means slipping back!

alice , (edited ) to random
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Прежде чем мы получим запрет из России, вот несколько квир-френдли образовательных ресурсов:

Some background reading:

Some profolactics against transmission of bigotry:

Если у вас есть какие-либо хорошие ресурсы о жизни квир в России, пожалуйста, поделитесь ими.

In English:

Before we get the ban hammer from Russia, here are some queer-friendly educational resources...

If you have any good resources about queer life in Russia, please share them.

@torproject @protonprivacy

gimulnautti ,
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@alice @UncivilServant @torproject @protonprivacy
#fellas on duty reporting in!! 🫡

randahl , to random
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For six months, the US and the EU has failed at limiting Benjamin Netanjahus actions in Gaza.

Now, his government has approved the bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, thereby potentially pushing The Middle East towards a wider war.

Is that really what we want? War in The Middle East in midst a war with Russia, straining our resources, potentially tempting China to make a move on Taiwan, and sending our generation into an actual World War 3 which could last a decade?

Change the path.

gimulnautti ,
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@randahl PS. Try to discuss this on Meta’s platforms. Bwahaha. Shadowbanned in an instant!! 😓

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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The events of recent days suggest we may be seeing the Israeli endgame take shape. Netanyahu's far right government’s goals are not limited to Gaza: it wants to take over all of Palestine and start a war with Hezbollah and Iran as well.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/netanyahus-endgame-and-the-israeli-far-rights-regional-ambitions/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

gimulnautti ,
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@mondoweiss Israel keeps getting a free pass pretty much whatever it does. And that’s what’s lead to the genocide.

Attacking a consulate would be totally off the menu for anyone else. Not Israel though.

gimulnautti ,
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@mondoweiss It does not make a good impression on upholding rules-based international order, when Israel gets a get out of jail free -card at every turn.

Attacking an embassy would be illegal for anyone else, not Israel.

randahl , to random
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This week, Ukraine destroyed Russian tank number 7000 in this war.

Russia is still in this fight, because every time they lose a tank, they pick another tank from storage, restore it, and send it to the frontline.

But eventually, every storage lot will be emptied of this old Soviet equipment. And while the best equipment is likely restored first, as this war progresses, Russia will be spending more and more time restoring worse and worse equipment, while being under ever worsening sanctions.

gimulnautti ,
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@randahl Russia is a very inequal society. The economic zones around Moscow, St. Petersburg & the centers of larger cities is where living standards are comparable to ours.

The rest of the country goes to outdoor toilets. So far, recruitment for the war has been largely pulled from those peripheries.

As more and more Muscovites start to lose their children, opinions will start turning sour. Those who had the means to flee abroad did so allready.

pluralistic , to random
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Back in the 1950s, a new, democratically elected Iranian government nationalized foreign oil interests. The UK and the US then backed a coup, deposing the progressive government with one more hospitable to foreign corporations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalization_of_the_Iranian_oil_industry

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gimulnautti ,
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@pluralistic Great news. I’ve been appalled at these treaties most of my life. Just plain horrible that international companies could hold sovereign countries to account. It’s awful because it turns the tables, and gives corporations the opportunity to run the show. At that point, it’s not really about nations or their people any more.

jpGattuso , to random
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"An incredible image of a football covered in goose barnacles is the winner of this year's British Wildlife Photography Awards."

https://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-68543633

gimulnautti ,
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green avatar

@jpGattuso wow. Portuguese man-of-war vibes. These molluscs really hitched themselves a great ride. Intelligent species indeed!

lolgop , to random
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REPUBLICANS IN IOWA'S HOUSE PASS BILL THAT THREATENS IVF

Bill would make it ake it a felony to “cause the death”
of an “unborn person” AKA any fertilized egg.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/iowa-republicans-pass-personhood-bill-critics-say-threaten-ivf-care-rcna142458

Dig into democracy at https://www.erlywrm.com/

gimulnautti ,
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@lolgop They think they’re on a roll, but wait until the people who want a child but can’t have any decide who to vote for. That’s a surprisingly large segment of people. 🤔

futurebird , to random
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What is it with fascists and speed? Always with the speed! Always being "anti-drug" then using up ALL the drugs.

gimulnautti ,
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@futurebird I think you’re missing a key point on how the far right thinks;

The world is divided between those who should rule and those who should be ruled.

Because the order is already settled, laws serve two different purposes;

Laws are there to protect the ruling group, and to bind the one who is ruled. Hence, a situation where the law binds the ruler, is simply unthinkable.

parismarx , to random
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Italy’s far-right party proposed using AI to assign youth mandatory jobs.

“The young person will no longer be able to choose whether to work or not, but [will be] bound to accept the job offer for himself (sic), for his family and for the country, under penalty of loss of all benefits.”

https://algorithmwatch.org/en/italian-neofascists-artificial-intelligence/

#tech #ai #italy #government

gimulnautti ,
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@parismarx What could go wrong?

No wait! They actually know about algoritmic bias.. 🥶

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