Headline should have been: pornsites have no spunk. Screw the government, and just plug the whole country. Though we’ll no longer have easy access various VPNs will still allow us to reach around with IP protection, just like consuming BBC service without a license. Cum on.

“hallucination refers to the generation of plausible-sounding but factually incorrect or nonsensical information”

Is an output an hallucination when the training data involved in the output included factually incorrect data? Suppose my input is “is the would flat” and then an LLM, allegedly, accurately generates a flat-eather’s writings saying it is.

Artificial neural networks are simple versions of the neurons arranged in a brain. It’s a useful solution when you know what the output should be but you don’t know what algorithm would produce it from a desired input. To claim “AI” is learning the same way as complex human brains seems a bit farfetched. If you want to say human brains are ultimately just an algorithm then fine, but look at the outputs between the two.

AI art may not look like duplication but it often looks like derived-work which could trigger copyright infringement (to my non-artist eyes). AI code on the other hand looks much closer to duplication to me and it doesn’t seem right they can use other’s code to produce code while ignoring the license because the algorithm had “learned like a human”. Many software licenses are there to protect users, rather than monopolize, and get totally ignored for profit.

“Innovative” these days seems to means new ways to fuck-over users, rather than the past where it meant products got better and/or cheaper.

KOS is “kill on sight”, a video game term.

If you’re using the minimum amount, in a transformative way that doesn’t compete with the original copyrighted source, then it’s still fair use even if it’s commercial. (This is not saying that’s what LLM are doing)

That’s right. I even corrected that typo before I posted, or so I had thought.

Just noticed KOSA starts with KOS. Was that international intentional, like DOGE?

We agree, I said “if they can’t”.

There’s so many reasons trying to force companies to implement age verification is a bad idea, and “to protect the children” is a nonsense excuse. That said, it’s kinda scary if a government can’t regulate business behaviour when interacting with their citizens (who are inside the country).

2. Open source has high immunity to devs making changes at the expense of the user for their benefit because anti-features can be removed. Recommending another proprietary alternative here would be like saying they aught to leave an abusive partner but then recommend someone with the same red flags.