I was talking more about whether the existence of an image AI, regardless of the images it generates, breaks copyright law because of how it was trained on copyrighted images

as someone who never really experienced the old internet, all I hear are the positive sides and I feel like the guy in xkcd 239

Unions would probably work, as long as you get some people the company doesn’t want to replace in there too

Maybe also federal regulations, although would probably just slow it because models are being made all around the world, including places like Russia and China that the US and EU don’t have legal influence over

Also, it might be just me, but it feels like generative AI progress has really slowed, it almost feels like we’re approaching the point where we’ve squeezed the most out of the hardware we have and now we just have to wait for the hardware to get better

Well, current law is not written with AI in mind, so what current law says about the legality of AI doesn’t reflect its morality or how we should regulate it in the future

The fact that I can go on eBay and get an actually usable laptop for $40

Like, I was playing around with freecad on it a couple days ago. It just works. The fact that I can get a fully functional personal computer for cheaper than 8 hamburgers is crazy.

Yea, without an archive the internet is probably the least permanent form of media we’ve invented so far

Would still end with him getting arrested/impeached though, I guess he could do it as a self-sacrifice thing and leave Harris to run

I think it’s supposed to be congress’s responsibility to do that, but I guess there’s enough conservatives there to prevent that.

Edit: you would need at least 1/3 of senate republicans to agree to impeach a justice

He can still probably get impeached, if it’s something congress doesn’t like

Roosevelt needed the support of congress for that, which Biden doesn’t have. Unless you want him to order assassins or a military coup, I don’t think there’s anything he can do.

Because the president doesn’t have official powers to reform the court

Tons of the reasons given for why congress can do things don’t really make sense, like civil rights amendments were defended with the reasoning that congress can regulate interstate commerce, and segregation affects interstate commerce. IMO that doesn’t make sense, but everyone goes along with it because these regulations are obviously good. If we had a good constitution, we wouldn’t need to make these weird excuses to do things that are clearly necessary for the public wellbeing, but unfortunately we don’t, so we have to make do and have any decision we make be randomly struck down by the courts when they decide they don’t like it anymore.

I haven’t used ondsel myself but can’t you configure modernui to look similar?

I think if you install enough plugins you can get that similar experience from freecad

Chromebooks are insanely locked down at schools. I got one on eBay for $40, installed linux, and now it can play Minecraft Java at 60 fps so that’s something.

yea, IDK how it works as I’ve never had a computer back then, but the quoted reply makes it sound like getting a sound card would take load off of the CPU.

Not in the same way, as you aren’t using the integrated gpu at all if you get an external one. I guess if you’re talking about shared ram this makes sense though.

I’m using a cheap one of those from amazon for my headphones on my laptop because the audio jack suddenly stopped recognizing when headphones were plugged in. (although I still get a dmesg error log when I stick a q-tip in to the jack? If anyone knows how to debug this, please tell me)

I wouldn’t say ‘only’. There were a lot of downvoted things that were just controversial.

Often there are multiple ways to interpret a poster’s intentions, and if you see a heavily downvoted comment you will automatically assume the worst.