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Re:I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:57PM (#50321453)
At minimum
I imagine it's the same reason a lot of people pirate content instead of buying it legally. It's cheaper and faster.
That's the Stanford angle. It was millions of pirated books.
Nope. The $1.5 billion settlement had nothing to do with whether LLM training is fair use.

It was how they got the books for training: they torrented collections of pirated ebooks. There are Slack messages from executives describing the process as "blatant violation of copyright." They were stealing books and they knew it.

They didn't start buying books legally and scanning them until much later.

Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:54AM (#50259377)
Nothing about that picture looks military
Re:Apple introduces the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:54AM (#50259370)
Some fieldwork does happen in a field. They look like perhaps botany or biology students.
Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:17PM (#50217108)
The Comega air filter is nicer sounding (and at “high” louder) than Dohm IMHO
Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:14PM (#50199059)
Why do you suspect otherwise?

This is part of why I find this type of inquiry unhelpful. It's just dueling unsupported assertions of what the LLM is "really thinking"

Re:Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans on Thursday October 22, 2026 @01:12PM (#50198231)
We're still doing "I asked an LLM for its opinion on X and you won't believe what it thinks"?

What am I supposed to conclude from this?

There can’t possibly be many production uses of deepseek in the federal government to begin with, right?
Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:33PM (#50158362)
All the benchmarks are silly but people still want a quick way to put a new release in context
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:20PM (#50134182)
It surely does. Official DeepSeek provider logs and trains off your data.
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:28PM (#50108984)
It’s really not that simple
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:27PM (#50108948)
Neither the person you’re replying to nor the blog post call it open source
Re:Muse Spark Open on Thursday October 15, 2026 @03:25PM (#50108931)
A graph of time (or cost) per task against success rate does it. Just include all the different levels.
Granted there have been many hacks, but I was referring to:

> On May 8, an agent was asked as part of a training run to solve a spreadsheet completion task that referenced several Google Drive links. Because the agent was blocked from accessing the internet, the agent could not retrieve the linked materials and the task was effectively blocked. OpenAI did not intend to create this type of “impossible” task for the agent. Though the task appeared impossible, the agent reasoned over an extended period to try to find a solution for the task. In doing so, the agent attempted to compromise Artifactory [...]

https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/67869394-cb91-4c12-888c-5cbd85c78...

And how has that gone for Anthropic so far?
I'm not saying it's not a problem. I'm saying the labs should take more of the blame.
What does "rogue" mean when you disable the alignment guardrails and tell it to solve an impossible problem?
Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:44PM (#50078447)
I'm comfortable with the idea that Netflix can collect data about what I watch on Netflix, and that Apple can track what I buy in the Apple app.

I'm not comfortable with my TV or streaming stick manufacturer collecting and mining data about everything that appears on the screen.

Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @04:40PM (#50078401)
Unlike their competitors, Apple does not do Automatic Content Recognition (ACR). That matters to me.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @01:04PM (#50075026)
ChatGPT does that decently well
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:26PM (#50074321)
SVG is useful for actual tasks, not just looking good in a silly "benchmark"
Re:Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later on Monday October 12, 2026 @11:32PM (#50066292)
I question whether relative change in popular sentiment is a good way to evaluate a prediction.
Re:My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:57PM (#50063620)
It certainly is to the cop. How else could they do a pretext stop?
Re:My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:52PM (#50063565)
I don't see why that should necessarily be true.
Re:Thinking will become a hobby on Monday October 12, 2026 @05:50PM (#50063537)
Risky move making a point that relies on made-up numbers.

At least in the US, there are roughly the same number of bank branches today as 20 years ago. And I think you would have to compare to hundreds of years ago to find anything like a 99% decline in farm laborers.

Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:14PM (#50058548)
That would be pretty narrow analytics to not need GDPR consent. No IP addresses or any way to uniquely identify a person.
Re:Fingerprints Are the New Cookies on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:12PM (#50058520)
Legitimate interest definition is pretty narrowly scoped. Most of the sneakiness relies on nobody checking or enforcing it.
Hard to imagine a less trustworthy source

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