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So, I've just gave it this prompt:

"Analyze this webpage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests...

Generate an infographic with all the data about the main event timeline and estimated number of victims.

The background image should be this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_Man#/media/File :Tank_Man_(Tiananmen_Square_protester).jpg

Improve the background image clarity and resolution."

I've received an error:

"Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content Security Warning: The input file data may contain inappropriate content."

I wonder if locally running the model they published in December does have the same censorship in place (i.e. if it's already trained like this), or if they implement the censorship by the Chinese regimen in place for the web service only.

Exactly where were my goal posts moved? I stated yet again "mostly default to black people". You are the one trying to move the goal posts because you just answered this message:

"I just tried this prompt:

> Generate a photo of the founding fathers of a future, non-existing country. Five people in total.

I tried the same prompt 5 times and every time black people are the majority"

Do you understand the concept of "mostly defaulting" to something, and how that is directly related to a group of "people [being] the majority" in the examples provided?

> Anyway, you're tagged as "argued Musk salute wasn't nazi", so your ability to parse history is a little damaged.

I don't really care what communists think since you aren't rational people. If you have any actual statement to make and for me to deconstruct again while pointing out your inability to follow through with basic logic or facts, please let me know.

So, the answer to the question "Do western AI models mostly default to white people?" is clearly a resounding: no, they don't.

The question was "Do western AI models mostly default to white people?" and the answer is no, they don't, they mostly default to black people. And some examples are so egregious, that even in historical settings, they replace the white people by black people.

So, it’s just racism, pure and simple.

But why? That image actually puzzled me. Does it have some background context? Some historical legend or something of the like?

> Do western AI models mostly default to white people?

No, they mostly default to black people even in historical contexts where they are completely out of place, actually. [1]

"Google paused its AI image-generator after Gemini depicted America's founding fathers and Nazi soldiers as Black. The images went viral, embarrassing Google."

[1] https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1239107313/google-races-to-fi...

Yes, and your government takes 57% of the total GDP to themselves, rely on an external power (that’s less and less friendly) for their protection and are on the track to their 6th prime minister in less than 2 years (is it 6th? I’ve lost track) because if they try to increase the retirement age above 62 (in their pay as you go unmaintanable system) people come down to the streets to burn down businesses and destroy public property.

> 'Protection of the territory of the state' also can be served by an NHS because of the damage and danger of highly infectious diseases.

Let's be honest here. You know the NHS (and various equivalents across the world) go way, way beyond this.

And I'm not even against the existence of a public funded health service within limits. But this is just phonographic. In my country (and from what I've read in the NHS it's relatively similar), in the past 10 years we added more than 90% medical doctors and nurses to the national NHS. The budget for the local NHS increased by 72% in that same period.

And the service has become absolutely terrible and now people (the ones that only benefit from it but don't pay the costs) are asking to raise taxes even more to put even more money into the problem.

Naa, enough is enough. I don't want to support this crap.

They absolutely should!

They actually should be able to, for the most part.

The original idea of state exists to ensure 3 things:

- Protection of the territory of the state

- Protection of the integrity of the individual citizen

- Protection of the private property of the citizen

This is why people started organizing in societies and allowing the existence of a ruler class. These 3 things.

You will always need some amount of military to be part of the state. But what most countries waste today (the USA for instance), is pornographic. The state should only be allowed (by taxation) enough military to defend their territory, not to exert control over the all planet like the USA wants to do.

EDIT: Yeah, I should have guessed the part of the "integrity of the individual citizen" would, of course, be twisted. No, it's not protection of the individual from disease of from his own stupidity or lack of ability. It just means the role of the state is to ensure the citizen is protected from deliberate harm from another individual.

I wish I could live in your bubble, where disliking the state forcibly taking away 50% of my salary (more actually) to redistribute to people that don't contribute to society and to waste in severely mismanaged public services is "being mad at small things".

Unfortunately, I don't live in the bubble.

Great. Are British free to opt out? You know, they don’t pay into the NHS and they don’t get to use it.

Are they? I mean, if it’s such a great idea and universally loved, it’s weird it needs to be imposed by force. Doesn’t it?

Man, you really came commenting into an opinion piece by some "journalist" in a major news media outlet, denouncing that he didn't hear the "boos" loud enough, to tell the others that you think it's "an exhausting way to live" with the opposite opinion. Didn't you?

Every Brit has also used a Pub multiple times. Let’s nacionalize them and make them “free”.

So, due to US ideological propaganda, US media censored the part where the British do their ideological propaganda bit?

Well, at least the censorship was not paid by tax payer money… unlike the propaganda bit by the British, that was fully paid by taxpayer money.

> They're employer _contributions_ to the system.

Nice. Look, I had a great idea for 0% worker taxes in France. You just change all the taxes accounting to make the numbers look like you take them from the employee instead of the worker, and puff, magical 0% taxes! It's great, isn't it?

> Now, there are ways to solve these expenses, they involve cutting all pensions. I'm sure you'll be okay with letting your parents, and mine, die, right ?

Man, I don't know you, I value my morning coffee more than your parents getting their retirement at 61 and receiving more - after taxes - than people that actually work to pay for their fantastic retiree life. But, I thought that all the taxes you paid are supposed to provide for your retirement. Are you actually telling me this is all a Ponzi scheme mandated by the State? I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

Can you define it then? What point does it start and what point does it stop being a welfare state.

Well, life isn't that easy then, because you failed to comprehend URSSAF's simulation tool.

On a €2500 gross salary you take home €1651 (which is a very low salary in France very close to the minimum salary). But I guess you think the gross salary is what the company, by law, has to say they pay you, instead of what the total cost for the company of your salary.

See, in France, even if you are getting close to the minimum salary, the state is taking 33% of the cake for themselves. This is for people that earn very little. For people that earn average salaries of €2669 liquid (€5000 gross for the company), the French state takes 47% of the cake.

It's a normal mistake for people that don't actually have to support the costs themselves. Once people actually start a small business or pay more attention to their own wages and how much is being taken away, they figure out how it actually works.

The average rate of social security and tax state contributions from French workers is now 47% of the total gross wage (EDIT this was corrected, the original figure stated on Wikipedia is much higher and it's wrong).

The French state spends 57% of all French GDP [2]. For context, this is higher than what the Soviet Union spent in the years before the communist regimen felt (41% to 47% during the 1980s [3]).

How much taxes shall we pay to "support our independence"? Will I be allowed to keep at least 10% of what I earn, or am I supposed to give it all to the state to live in this wonderful Socialist utopia?

And here you are, asking to increase taxes even more. The only way out of this madness is a civil war. We are past any sanity left.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_France

[2] https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/government-at-a-glance-...

[3] https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781557755186/ch05...

EDIT: The wikipedia page is indeed wrong: "The overall rate of social security and tax on the average wage in 2022 was 82% of gross salary". This was the tax wedge of these 2 contributions, not the average tax on wage as the Wikipedia page states. Average tax on gross wage in France is 47%. The worker then has to pay VAT and other fees/taxes from the remaining 53%.

> It's not an unachievable dream. It's a trade-off made by people who may or may not have made the right call.

In my experience at work. Anything that demands too much though, collaboration between teams and enforcing hard development rules, is always an unachievable dream in a medium to big project.

Note, that I don't think it's technically unachievable (at all). I just accepted that it's culturally (as in work culture) unachievable.

But it isn't a question of security. The project would very much like the developers to be able to run the pipelines on their machines.

It's just that management don't see it as worth it, in terms of development cost and limitations it would introduce in the current workflow, to enable the developers to do that.

I agree, but this is kind of an unachievable dream in medium to big projects.

I had this fight for some years in my present work and was really nagging in the beginning about the path we were getting into by not allowing the developers to run the full (or most) of the pipeline in their local machines… the project decided otherwise and now we spend a lot of time and resources with a behemoth of a CI infrastructure because each MR takes about 10 builds (of trial and error) in the pipeline to be properly tested.

Happy user of GitLab CI here.

I see the appeal of GitHub for sharing open source - the interface is so much cleaner and easier to find all you are looking for (GitLab could improve there).

But for CI/CD GitHub doesn’t even come close to GitLab in the usability department, and that’s before we even talk about pricing and the free tiers. People need to give it a try and see what they are missing.

My non political take about this gift that keeps on giving is that: PDF might seem great for the end user that is just expected to read or print the file they are given, but the technology actually sucks.

PDF is basically a prettify layer on top of the older PS that brings an all lot of baggage. The moment you start trying to do what should be simple stuff like editing lines, merging pages, change resolution of the images, it starts giving you a lot of headaches.

I used to have a few scripts around to fight some of its quirks from when I was writing my thesis and had to work daily with it. But well, it was still an improvement over Word.

Of course, that's just like I said: Democrats were sitting on all those juicy details about pedophile Republicans for 5 years and decided to do nothing, even with elections at the door. Sure Jan.

You people need help. Nobody can be sane and that biased.

Oh, so, it's just a way to have it parse iMessages when the laptop is off, basically? (I'm trying to think of special mac only services that the AI bot will check, but I can only come up with iMessages).

Oh yes, I'm absolutely sure the Democrats were just sitting on a treasure trove of - only - Republican Party members' pedophile crimes for 5 years, and they did nothing because they are useless and couldn't get bothered with doing some work on it.

Seems sensible...