IIRC all US government projects HAVE to be CC0 if released to the public. I think the idea is it was created with public money so there shouldn't be any restrictions on how the public can use it.

Virgin islands: Apart of the US 🤢

Republic of CHAD: Banned from the US 💪

You can’t put toothpaste back in the tube. The only question going forward is how AI will be developed and who will control it.

Fair enough, but even if the model is open source, you still have no control or knowledge of how it was developed or what biases it might have baked in. AI is by definition a black box, even to the people who made it, it can't even be decompiled like a normal program.

It’s funny that you’d bring up the drug analogy because you’re advocating a war on drugs here.

I mean, China has the death penalty for drug distribution, which is supported by the majority of Chinese citizens. They do seem more tolerant of drug users compared to the US (I've never done drugs in China nor the US so I wouldn't know), so clearly the decision to have zero tolerance for distributors is a very intentional action by the Communist party. As far as I know, no socialist country has ever been tolerant to even the distribution of cannabis, let alone hard drugs, and they have made it pretty clear that they never will.

Personally, I have absolutely no problem with that if the model is itself open and publicly owned. I’m a communist, I don’t support copyrights and IP laws in principle. The ethical objection to AI training on copyrighted material holds superficial validity, but only within capitalism’s warped logic. Intellectual property laws exist to concentrate ownership and profit in the hands of corporations, not to protect individual artists.

I never thought of it in terms of copyright infringement, but in terms of reaping the labour of proletarians while giving them nothing in return. I'm admittedly far less experienced of a communist than you, but I see AI as the ultimate means of removing workers from their means of production because it's scraping all of humanity's intellectual labour without consent, to create a product that is inferior to humans in every way except for how much you have to pay it, and it's only getting the hype it's getting because the bourgeoisie see it as a replacement for the very humans it exploited.

For the record, I give absolutely no shits about pirating movies or "stealing" content from any of the big companies, but I personally hold the hobby work of a single person in higher regard. It's especially unfair to the smallest content creators because they are most likely making literally nothing from their work since the vast majority of personal projects are uploaded for free on the public internet. It's therefore unjust (at least to me) to appropriate their free work into something whose literal purpose is to get companies out of paying people for content. Imagine working your whole life on open source projects only for no company to want to hire you because they're using AI trained on your open source work to do what they would have paid you to do. Imagine writing novels your whole life and putting them online for free, only for no publisher to want to pay for your work because they have a million AI monkeys trained on your writing typing out random slop and essentially brute forcing a best seller. Open source models won't prevent this from happening, in fact it will only make it easier.

AI sounds great in an already communist society, but in a capitalist one, it seems to me like it would be deadly to the working class, because capitalists have made it clear that they intend to use it to eliminate human workers.

Again, I don't know nearly as much about communism as you so most of this is probably wrong, but I am expressing my opinions as is because I want you to examine them and call me out where I'm wrong.

I mean, that's a pretty believable claim. Most open source developers don't even think their project will be noticed by a lot of people, let alone be used for military purposes. At worst you can accuse him of being ignorant of the realities of how his software will be used but I honestly don't think he was outright lying and secretly wanted his software to be used in weapons or something.

"Don't compete with us in this supposed free market"

Silence? Lucky, my lamp has coil whine from the LED driver.

This is why Israel plays the antisemitism card.

"Am I being evil by exterminating an entire ethnic group? No, literally the vast majority of the population of Earth is antisemitic which is why I must exterminate said ethnic group."

It's genius really, the more people there are against what they're doing, the more justified they think they are in doing it.

It's also why countries like Germany, the US, Canada, etc are parroting that narrative. It's a convenient way to bypass free speech laws to censor the majority opinion while still pretending the West is special because it supposedly has free speech. If there were only a minority that are against Israel in those countries, they wouldn't care enough to spend nearly as much resources suppressing it as they have.

('b' + 'a' + + 'a' + 'a').toLowerCase()

Returns "banana"

0/10, none of the window frames are melting into each other. Literally uninhabitable.

Literally any lifestyle can become a cult. The presence of vegan cults is because veganism is more popular than ever so evil people exploit that to form cults. There are fitness cults too, does that mean everyone who works out is a cult member?

I don't trust any of those SSDs not to have backdoors, it's not even a hypothetical, we know that hardware encryption on SSDs have been broken in the past. In fact, I wouldn't even be surprised if the manufacturer is just storing all the keys they bake into the SSDs, why wouldn't they from a business perspective? At least with software encryption you can audit the code and the keys are actually generated randomly on a computer you own.

Also, if your SSD hardware fails, it could become impossible to decrypt any recovered data because the encryption keys are likely stored in the processor with no way of getting them out (and no manufacturer who is secretly storing the keys is going to blow their cover by helping you recover your data). With software encryption, you can back up your encryption keys and will be able to actually decrypt the raw data you read from the drive.

Seems like the website itself is not hosted in Russia but it has Russian embeds. So it would be trivial to block them if you cared, whether with your adblock, firewall or PiHole (you can even set it up to block *.ru domains if you want).

Like others have mentioned, I don't think this is any worse than the usual Google Analytics and Facebook/Twitter share embeds. In fact if you live in the US (or just the West in general), those companies can probably do way more to fuck your life up than Russian companies.