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New comment by ori_b in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

ori_b — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:21:03 +0000

First, prove you're not an AI, and then we can discuss whether being able to generate AI output indistinguishable from human output can cause harm.

New comment by ori_b in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

ori_b — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:41:05 +0000

Yeah, exactly, they're right, we're successfully making shit worse. Yay us.

New comment by ori_b in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

ori_b — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:36:34 +0000

We get it. AI slop is getting good enough to replace photography. This isn't good for humans, and makes the world a worse place.

The fact that the suck machine works isn't something to be proud of.

New comment by ori_b in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

ori_b — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:44:31 +0000

No. I think AI companies consume the result of intellectual work that should typically be paid for. If someone doesn't believe intellectual work should be paid for so that others can benefit, I invite them to lead the way.

New comment by ori_b in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

ori_b — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:47:35 +0000

That would be my preference, but if people really want to have free as in beer access to information, we can have that conversation. After these companies give people money for the commons that they're strip mining.

New comment by ori_b in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

ori_b — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:44:15 +0000

If you believe information deserves to be free, and if most of your earnings were from information that wasn't given away for free -- well, if you want people to give up their ill gotten gains, maybe you can start by setting an example.

So, mind sending me your bank account information? I'll promise to make good use of it.

New comment by ori_b in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

ori_b — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:41:11 +0000

Yes, the Anthropic settlement is far too small to distribute fairly. It seems like you think this makes the action that lead to this settlement justified?

New comment by ori_b in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

ori_b — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:28:26 +0000

Let's have that conversation after the people strip mining the livelihoods of creators cough up for UBI.

New comment by ori_b in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

ori_b — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:51:44 +0000

Good question. How many people that you know are in all three groups?

New comment by ori_b in "Chatto is now open source"

ori_b — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:58:30 +0000

You mean human office workers, no?

If you want a modicum more job security, get hired to deliver packages for Amazon.

New comment by ori_b in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

ori_b — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:56:31 +0000

But we're all in on making it that way!

New comment by ori_b in "Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse"

ori_b — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:55:28 +0000

There's a reason that among Americans, telekinesis and creationism are more mainstream positions than sloptimism.

About 14% of Americans think AI is moving us towards a better world. About 17% are creationists. About 26% believe in Telekinesis.

New comment by ori_b in "I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)"

ori_b — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:18:37 +0000

It sounds like it didn't appeal to at least one atheist. Truth in advertising.

New comment by ori_b in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

ori_b — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:35:32 +0000

But it isn't.

New comment by ori_b in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

ori_b — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:10:40 +0000

Why does liking something different from you imply there's a war?

New comment by ori_b in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

ori_b — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:40:32 +0000

Do what? What is not happening today that you think would happen if people were given the right to repair?

You pretty clearly said everyone is currently bypassing this, otherwise companies would not be putting in larger engines. Is that wrong?

New comment by ori_b in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

ori_b — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:33:40 +0000

I don't understand what you're trying to say. Is this prevented today or not by the denial of the right to repair?

It sounds like you are saying everyone is doing it today, so denying the right to repair doesn't affect the situation.

New comment by ori_b in "Chatto is now open source"

ori_b — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:57:02 +0000

You're right, the usage in the USA is bigger.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67704

Across all cases, servers alone accounted for an estimated 7% of commercial sector electricity consumption in 2025. Data center server electricity use grows to 22%–33% of commercial building electricity use by 2050 across our cases.

Distributing that outside of special purpose, optimized data centers isn't going to bring that number down.

> Apterus even respects opt-out notices in their collection of the dataset they distribute.

Yeah. Uh. That's the bare minimum.

New comment by ori_b in "Chatto is now open source"

ori_b — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:41:53 +0000

Exactly. As long as they benefit in the short term, who cares about the damage done? Who knows, maybe you'll end up making enough money to avoid any future consequences, too. Good luck with that.

New comment by ori_b in "Chatto is now open source"

ori_b — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:25:29 +0000

I'm not aware of any advanced models with full training data available, let alone available with paid licenses for the training data.

The process of training and using them is also not likely to be any better than commercial models. 23% of Ireland's power is going to data centers, spreading that among less efficient hardware in less efficient setups is unlikely to be better, unless the models are so bad nobody uses them.

And I'm also not aware of anyone working on these models trying to reduce the social damage they are going to do.