Floon

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[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boost is my favorite. Clean UI and attractive icon.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You just described letting developers dictate which OS you use...

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

One, let's accept that there is a public domain, and cribbing freely from the public domain is A-OK. I can reproduce Michaelangelo all I want, and it's all good. AI can crib from that all it wants.

AI can't invent. People can invent: i can have a wholly new idea that no one has ever had. AI does nothing but recombine other existing ideas. It must have seed data, and it won't create anything for which it has no initial input: feed it photographs only, and it can't create a pencil drawing image. Feed it only black and white images, and it can't create color images.

People do not require cribbing from sources. Give a toddler supplies, and they will create. So, we have established that there is a fundamental difference between the creation process. One is dependent on previous work, and one is not.

Now, with influences, you can ask, is your new creation dependent on the previous creation directly? If it is so utterly dependent on the prior work, such that your work could not possibly exist without that specific prior art, you might get sued. It will get debated and society's best approximation of a collective rational mind will determine if you copied or if you created something new that was merely inspired by prior art.

AI can only create by the direct existence of prior art. It fakes invention. Its work has to come from somewhere else.

People have shown how dependent it is on its sources with prompts that say things like, "portrait of a patriotic soldier superhero" and it comes back with a goddamned portrait of Chris Evans. The prompt did not include his name, or Captain or America, and it comes back with an MCU movie poster. AI does not create. People create.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (9 children)

You don't get to both ignore intellectual property rights of others, and enforce them for yourself. Fuck these guys.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Other Shoe: the first recipient was Mitch McConnell, and his episodes lately have been during firmware updates.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Using Facebook on a mobile browser is horrible: the scrolling snaps all over the place. They're awful, which is why i won't have any Meta software on my phone.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

I would chalk most of that up to relative nascence, and mostly volunteer labor. I would expect things to improve. In the meantime, I'm fine with my lemmy and mastodon instances, and don't feel a lack of much.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Whatever the authors leanings are, they make a good point. Lemmy has followed Karl Popper's maxim "Tolerant societies must be intolerant of intolerance." It's just that simple.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just because they can take control of the domain doesn't mean they somehow have access to the data any servers that used the domain have. Those servers were, i feel confident, not in Afghanistan. Domains are just redirects, so the Taliban have nothing on any of the users.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Working just fine for me...

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder if Firefox users are more likely to spoof their user agent setting? Probably not.

I'll still use it. Compared to every other browser, it is the least disastrous regarding privacy.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Honestly, i don't get why more folks aren't enthusiastic about EVs. I got a used Bolt, and i love it. Much easier and cheaper maintenance, fewer moving parts to wear out, no gas prices drama.... never buying an ICE vehicle again.

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