One thing that I find worrying is actually that, although US IT companies are objectively and clearly falling behind Chinese ones, their stock price keeps going up, I suppose moreso due to their closing ranks with Trump.

Admittedly I know next to nothing about share value trading, but shouldn't developments such as these temper investors interests in those specific companies making "AI" their next big thing? I'm afraid the bubble burst will be worse than 2008.

Wonder if AES countries are doing anything cool to honour him. Haven't heard about anything being planned.

This is a classic case of tragedy of the commons, where a common resource is harmed by the profit interests of individuals.

No, it's not. It would be if all of this content was licensed as Creative Commons and had no author rights, but as could be seen a while back with the openai shadow library thing, these corporations are actively stealing content to train their models. This is corporate theft, but the culprits are too prominent and rich to ever face any repercussions.

And it's not like it's a new thing, Google Images was based completely around the idea that, if an image is on the web, Google somehow has the right to store it in their own servers and present it to users with ads. Small youtubers had to go through years of getting their videos randomly claimed through content ID by well known and huge scam accounts, creating a whole business out of pretending to own other people's stuff. M$ Github trained copilot on repositories without any regard for it breaking copyleft (i.e. no attribution in case of replicated code).

It's standard practice to simply not ask permission before potentially algorithmically wrecking somebody's livelihood for these companies, sometimes not even informing them of afterwards (i.e. the mystical YouTube "Algorithm" that keeps changing without so much as patch notes, and the cargo cult it spawned).

For them (and for the rest of the ruling class, obviously), (intellectual) property rights exist in a hierarchical level, and so long as you are on the top everything below you is free real estate.

And the best part is that these "AI" content generation systems are still comically bad when actually put into practice, but the corporations feel the unending urge to deploy them ASAP because they'd rather have a lot of complete garbage content to be consumed, than to pay living wages. Burgers will literally employ rotting zombies if it means they can skimp on salaries and increase unemployment to drive down the rest of the wages.

Got a bit worked up there lol.

coming from some bleeding heart liberal

Did they just call us libs to our collective faces now?

So what you're saying is that, if the world sanctions the USA, it's gonna be a sad day for the Yankees? Sounds like an interesting proposition, maybe we could find out about some genocide happening in Turtle Island and use it as the basis.

In early August, deputies of the Ukraine president's 'Servant of the People' party in the national legislature ('Rada') introduced a bill that provides for the conscription of forced labor of all those who have not been conscripted to the armed forces. Formally free citizens who already cannot legally leave the country due to wartime restrictions will now also be subjected to forced labor.

This was really inevitable, yeah.

They aren't "programmed" to do something, they just produce likely text. If it somehow "learned" from portions of the data to threaten to dox people in circumstances like this, it just replicates that. The programmers themselves likely never saw that portion of the corpus with 4chan bickering, since the dataset is usually impossibly large.

Yeah, I doubt he'd do it, but it's funny seeing actual Republicans being against foreign wars and NATO for what seems like the first time in 30 years.

He usually seems to go with whatever gets the biggest reaction, so who knows, maybe he'll break away and finally start his war on Denmark over Greenland like he always wanted.

Would be great to have something similar to the reddit masstagger where we can moderate a list of known federated troll accounts. I don't mind getting harassed on the internet that much but it would help out to see at a glance if the comment is coming from a known asshole. Might even help being less on edge towards the normal people out there.

Please, do! It gets so tiring seeing all of those AI data "scientists" believing they can say whatever they want about fields they know jack about because "the p-value is low." They're the biggest reason I decided to quit.

A lot of the early history of psychiatry was explicitly about controlling "deviants" rather than actually helping them integrate. Turns out bipolar people don't need any more of those dubious meds than they actually need the financial security that Kanye West has to not go homeless due to having a crisis. I wince whenever I hear any lib propping up pop positive psychology nonsense such as "gratitude journals" for people who have way more reasons to be angry than to be grateful. But I've ran into some pretty "woke" professionals who actually fully endorsed tackling social issues and focused mostly on dealing with (self-)harmful personal behaviours. Stuff like blaming oneself for external issues or how to deal with irrational stuff like paranoid thoughts. They usually were from the CBT branch, though I've also met some trashy CBT professionals so YMMV. I guess it helps in my country that psychology is usually taught more alongside history and philosophy rather than medicine.

I also have serious issues with anything related to capitalist medicine because no one in their right mind would think that the best solution for vulnerable/disabled/sick/injured people should be to profit from them. Not only it is immoral but professionals then have to fight against their own class interests of income if they want those people to be able to leave the care eventually. Not to mention that so long as private healthcare exists, it will try its darnest to privatise or discredit public healthcare, and there should be no competition on the business of saving lives. This is why the pearl clutching over some imaginary plan from Sanders to abolish insurance in the USA actually made his campaign look even better than it was.

Edit: It's possible you have like-minded comrades even in your classes. Organisation is always the first step!

How are those cluster munitions going?