FuglyDuck

This is incorrect. Generative image models don’t contain databases of artwork. If they did, they would be the most amazing fucking compression technology, ever. … snip… The training is mostly a linear process. So the images never really get loaded into an database, they just get read along with their metadata into a GPU where it performs some Machine Learning stuff to generate some arrays of floating point values. Those values ultimately will end up in the model file.

Where does it get read from? a database, right? yeah. that’s called a database. It may not be a large massive repository of art to rival the Vatican’s secret collection, but it is a database of digital art.

as for it being complex… yeah. that’s why I kept it simple and glossed over all the complex stuff that’s not really, you know. relevant to the question of who owns it.

the people that own it.

Keep in mind what we’re calling “AI” isn’t artificial general intelligence (C.F. Kryten, Data or R2D2). the most visible AI is a Learned Language Model- basically a predictive algorithm that goes through it’s training material and says “99% of the time, when someone says ‘69’, people respond ‘nice’, therefore, when people say ‘69’ I should respond with ‘nice’.”

Or, with AI image gen, it knows that when some one asks it for an image of a hand holding a pencil, it looks at all the artwork in it’s training database and says, “this collection of pixels is probably what they want”.

But the models don’t know why 69 is nice, nor what a hand is. It just spits out the proper response based on statistical probability.

The thing is that the ‘proper’ response can be weighted by giving priority to certain responses- or rejecting certain responses- based on whatever motives the owner has. Take Grok as an example, and it’s blatant framing of Musk as the Greatest Man who Ever Lived™, but whoever weighted those responses failed to consider what happens when you ask if Musk is the best nazis or whatevers. You’ll notice those responses suddenly changed after people started figuring out how to game the prompts to get them.

AI chatbots are the mouthpiece of whoever owns it… and it gives a level of sophistication that we’ve never seen before in the billionaire’s attempts to manipulate us.

Same.

Same.

And the plant might be tacky and dusty, but it doesn’t smell, and say awful things.

Less useful than those plastic plants, even.

Asimov only said the first part. I added the bit about stupidity.

(At least I think I did. It’s been awhile since I read his works.)

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. And for those who are both stupid and incompetent… it’s usually the first refuge, too.

(Oh this is going to end wonderfully.)

(By wonderfully, I’m going to assume the national statistics will hold and more of them will be shot by their own rifles.)

“conspicuous gap”?

You mean the part where it’s literally part of the constitution?

only after public pressure got his sentencing to be reviewed and he proved to be a liability, yes.

Before that happened, though, he was quietly given a plea deal that basically saw him leaving Club Fed for work while basically just sleeping there. for a child predator as vile as he was… well. it was far from uncomfortable. he plead out to a relatively minor crime in exchange for immunity form prosecution for federal crimes, as well.

once it entered widestream public consciousness, that definitely changed and people like, uh, trump, needed him dead.

Didn’t have to be, though, now did it?

Just the ones in the right place at the right time. You don’t need to have an entire organization on board to control and minimize the risks. That is why, for example, Epstein targeted as many politicians as he has. He wasn’t catering to their every whim because it was profitable, it was protection.

Not just politicians, either. Leaders in agencies, the people in the right places at the right time. So that when it finally came to it, he got that sweetheart deal where he basically just used Club Fed as a hotel. And you’ll notice that Maxwell is getting the same treatment?

well democrats and giant black boxes.

Mostly black boxes.

How long do you think the epstein shit has been going on? it’s taken decades to get this far.

This corruption has most certainly gone on for as long as I’ve been alive.

Which policies has he enacted in CA which mirror or support trickle down? All I ever hear is how he’s not progressive enough, but when I look at his record I see a LOT of progressive action

Because locking up homeless people is a) totally effective policy making and b) totally progressive.

more directly, to the economy, his buddy-buddy relationship with the techbros is… obvious.

• 25 million to help fund a microchip design facility,
• 85 million on generative ai
• downsizing a deal with google to protect local-to-ca newsrooms

while when faced with a ballooning deficit, instead cut healthcare, education, and enviromental programs.

Further, He dropped the ball on his promises and only signed a small handful of progressive goals. for example, allowing striking union members to collect unemployment benefits. The most common excuse was “oh we can’t necessarily afford that, and employers can’t either.”

Remember: Tweets are not policy… and all this fun shit trolling trump probably isn’t even him tweeting it. (most likely, he’s only scarcely aware of it at all.)

It’s pretty funny watching the left split and splinter this far out, because of all the purity testing. No one will ever be progressive enough, pure enough. And if somehow they were perfect enough to appease the left wing, there’d be 0 chance of getting red votes.

The next Dem who gets elected will do so using some centrist attitudes including towards social issues which we’re losing on badly. Might be time to get wise to that.

The last november election day, every democratic candidate that won, won on progressive platforms. Specifically, platforms that Newsom has a shitty record on. Your argument cuts both ways.

Also, how did all those red votes Harris got work out for her? She’s an awesome president- Oh. wait. that’s right SHE FUCKING LOST.

Do you see how that argument is holding us back? Centrists do not win elections. Alienating your actual base loses elections.

What, and keep the oligarchs from buying a yacht to ferry them from the yacht their helicopter can land on and their main yacht?

Newsom isn’t exactly a paragon of progressive virtues and certainly would continue to benefit from trickle-down policies.

It’s not hard to imagine that he actually likes Reagan’s policies here, never mind that his corporate donors gave him his marching orders.

I dunno, but I’d probably be dropping tips about creepy old men demanding to see girl’s genitalia outside women’s restrooms.

I’ll make sure to give them his description.

Sure, but I’m pretty sure the playbook goes back to the dawn of civilization.

It’s pretty unoriginal. They’re following the Nazis playbook.

And I’m pretty sure the Nazis were following someone else’s playbook, I just can’t be bothered to go look at the list of historical assholes

Dude doesn’t know how to apologize.

no. no it did not.

also the “victim” being a broken-dick fuckwit didn’t really help either.