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Obviously the amounts of data needed to train that kind AI is egregious, but hospitals/universities participated in studies for this. This was all done within an "ethical/legal" bound framework

I'm not defending AI here, generative AI IS a huge problem for so many reasons and needs to be regulated

AI was used to identify things like cancer on MRI scans, map genomes, fold proteins, and many other more "Noble" AI use cases. One could argue those examples are not only ethical, but even maybe benefit humanity?

But, what happens when your AI is "technically" better/faster than your radiologist?

Nowadays AI means a ton of stuff, Generative AI is just 1 of those areas. But you can use AI for things that have nothing to do with a generated output. For example pattern matching/recognition, machine learning, and recall mechanisms. It's used in medicine, biology, etc. For very useful cases

Now, even if you did manage to make an "Ethically sourced" AI, would its use be ethical? This is where the needle gets moved again.

Using it on your company's phone tree, podcast, etc. - Maybe

Legally sell your voice, which can absolutely take jobs away from people in voice acting - Less sure

Because they did that, all that stolen work/human existence is now permanently embedded in their LLMs. It is therefore impossible to use their "data" ethically.

But you can use their transformers (GPT-4, etc), all they do is interpret the data you give them, from a technical standpoint at least

It will then generate whatever you ask based on your clips. Newer models require less data to generate something coherent, but still a TON in many cases. Doing it like that, you have not taken anything anyone didn't consent to, which is the huge problem with the larger companies: they just stole it

Yes there are absolutely ways to make it ethical, it just requires more work

You can, right now, download and setup local LLM/GPT models and instances at home. You can then record your own voice clips, and feed to your LLM. You then tell your GPT to only take training data from your local instance

GitHub - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI: Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

With the news that MS is forcing Copilot on all Windows now (we always knew they would), have some forced removal

github.com/zoicware/Rem...

You may have been logged in with a temporary profile, check your C:\Users folder to see if your own user folder exists, and a temp one. If you can browse you own user folder and it looks like your stuff is in it, you can probably fix it by changing a few registry keys to revert back

That's so French it's hilarious!

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

Imagine sleeping peacefully and waking up a toasted pretzel 🥨

Why does a bed need to be connected to the internet? And WHY DOES IT HAVE NO OFFLINE MODE???

www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

Huh, so the birbs won against the forks. I still think the birbs winning it all would be hilarious in the current political context

I spent some of the weekend flying drones and we chased around this moving gate on an RC truck. That was so much fun! I'd do this again anytime!

I don't watch baseball

But wouldn't it be hilarious if somehow the BlowJobs won America's pastime in the current political context?

Yeah I'm down! I'll reach out on discord

Rhari's headed to Europe for a couple of weeks, I'll have some time to myself, not super sure what to do hehe. Maybe I'll game or something. Wouldn't mind seeing friends and being social if any of you wanna see a wolf!

I'm tired of watching what should be "good" people hiding behind and even weaponizing religion or its scriptures to justify being shitty to others and causing them harm. Going to church doesn't magically absolve you from the hate you display. Karma always comes back to balance things out in the end

Fursuit picture of a hug

Happy fursuit Friday from me and @rhari.bsky.social Kobold!

I don't remember who took the picture but it was at VF2024.

It would be easier if people understood that the internet is a place made by adults for adults and with services that cater to them.

Adults are the ones with money and responsibilities. Educate your kids about the internet the same way you do alcohol, smoking, sex, etc. to foster healthy habits

I'm really sorry to hear that, big hugs and take all the time you need to process

May the sales be with you!

Exactly, they want both sides without having to do any effort for it. My parents took away my gameboy, my PSP, my iPod and didn't hesitate to pull the wifi cord before they went out.

It's not difficult, but the parents don't want to deal with a Crying child

This sudden and seemingly global wave of censorship is going to fail. I'm sick and tired of the using "Oh but the Children!" excuse to justify anything.

Start by policing your children at home. Limit their screen times and accesses. This is what happens when parents outsource parenting to an iPad.

The most awesome thing happened today. Went out to fly my drone at the park in front of my house, I brought a few batteries so I was there for a while, and right as I was packing up, someone walked up to me and we struck up a conversation about drones as he also flew them, so maybe a new friend?

They should just build a wall about it, since they wanted to do that anyways :P

From Bluey: This is what happens when you're not happy with what you've got.

You could essentially apply that to so many current events.

When it's gone or taken away, you'll miss it dearly.

Nothing is perfect and grass isn't greener on the other side

Can we stop being shitty to each other? Life is so much nicer and enjoyable when it's filled with kindness and love

So with all of the authoritarian shit happening in the US, how long do you think it will take for Furry cons to become illegal there?

So I left France at 10am on the 12th and I'm getting into Vancouver at 4pm on the 12th, wait what? Timezones are weird that way :P

Gotta love French humour

Boarding in Toulouse (Home of Airbus, where they build planes) and we're about to board a Boeing 787 Max 8

"Guess we'll die", "oh well, it was nice knowing you" :P