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We can, protect artists (nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu)
 

Remember how we were told that genAI learns "just like humans", and how the law can't say about fair use, and I guess now all art is owned by big tech companies?

Well, of course it's not true. Exploiting a few of the ways in which genAI --is not-- like human learners, artists can filter their digital art in such a way that if a genAI tool consumes it, it actively reduces the quality of the model, undoing generalization and bleading into neighboring concepts.

Can an AI tool be used to undo this obfuscation? Yes. At scale, however, doing so requires increasing compute costs more and more. This also looks like an improvable method, not a dead end -- adversarial input design is a growing field of machine learning with more and more techniques becoming highly available. Imagine this as sort of "cryptography for semantics" in the sense that it presents asymetrical work on AI consumers (while leaving the human eye much less effected).

Now we just need labor laws to catch up.

Wouldn't it be funny if not only does generative AI not lead to a boring dystopia, but the proliferation and expansion of this and similar techniques to protect human meaning eventually put a lot of grifters out of business?

We must have faith in the dark times. Share this with your artist friends far and wide!

boy those ETFs were the juice bitcoin really needed eh in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

My sister in law asked me, recently, "I heard Bitcoin is legal now? Is it a good time to buy?" "Nope."

Amy and David answer your questions on crypto! (Part 1) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So basically a much much much less awesome Cassette Beasts?

comedy gold: blockchain dev's wallet emptied in "job interview" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Move fast and break th- oh there goes my wealth.

Over twice market rate for a Toronto DevOps job, how to find the catch? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All the reasons mentioned are true, and also I think there could be a more insidious one.

Back in the day, walmarts were really good at showing up in small towns, reducing their prices to a massive loss (unsustainable), drive out the small town's other retail options, then jack prices back up the moment they become dominant and control the market.

I understand Canada isn't a small town, but the field of DevOps/Infrastructure engineers with relevant skills that would work in an office in Torronto? Leverage your fictional pile of investment from tether to temporarily take losses on labor to squeeze the market, then dump / downgrade the value of labor as soon as conditions are more favorable.

This is in many ways way the major tech companies do all the time: overhire cynically not because the extra hands have meaningful projects, but precisely because they don't want upstart competitors from any of the talent.

esto no puede ser tan estúpido, debes estar explicandolo mal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Is there a secondary market for existing El Salvadorian ~~victims~~ citizens to sell or exchange theirs for a buyer's fiat slum hole citizenship in return? A true investment in making the world a better place.

Fraudsters steal more than $25 million in "AI-powered" crypto ponzi in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The irony is that moment that there is actually a governmental "Federal Crypto Reserve" agency is the moment you know that civilization has already collapsed and you better have been hoarding potatoes.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Checking the pulse on bitcoin, my sister in law asked me the other day, "Hey Bitcoin is going up, should I buy?" "Nope."