Notices by sofia ☮️🏴 (sofia@chaos.social), page 3

@lain nope, too expensive…

@lain nope, lol. but seeing this demo i wonder if you can even do the experiment how i'd dercribed 🤔.

so as you might know, Google's Gemini model got released but not in the EU 👮 (and i think UK). but there is something i'd like to see tried:

make it write a SVG of something, render it to PNG, give it the render and say "this is what it looks like, improve on it" (no additional feedback). it would be nice to see some iterative improvement.

i tried this on the PaLM-2-based Bard, but everything i did on this thing was a disappointment. it started as unrecognizable nonsense and somehow got worse.

@lain i think part of it is because "warm light" is associated with many the thermal radiations on earth. things need to be hotter than the suns surface for to release blueish thermal radiation. and those things also release plenty of red and infrared light.

the blueish things we do typically encounter aren't that color because of thermal radiation, but because of partial reflection, rayleigh-scattering and (chemo-, electro-, photo-) luminescence.

(in case you were actually asking 😅.)

dieser mut!
diese kraft!
sie ist nie
abgeschlafft!
(das ist die, die alles schafft 😎!)

i just spent the first 4 hours of my day watching the latest @Hbomberguy video about #plagiarism, it's good and you should obviously watch it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

anyway, here's what's wrong with it:

first, plagiarism is not stealing, it's fraud. thoughts aren't property, and culture would cease the moment we would take that notion too seriously. he even acknowledges that creative endeavors often start highly derivative. arguably still understating the role of imitation in creativity.

also he tries to shoehorn permission of the creator into his notion of "stealing"/plagiarism, but that's an entrely different issue. i doubt hboy asked James Somerton for permission (just a hunch, lol), because obviously he shoudn't have to. and what if James actually got permission from the people he plagiarized? he'd still be lying to his audience and contribute to queer erasure.

i don't think you should need permission the create derivative works. i do like to be notified when others use my (public domain) works, but i don't see how this could be a right.

one objection i could imagine is artists who want to be anonymous. should you credit them? i think so, credit them as anonymous artists. obviously you shoudn't doxx them, but claiming/implying you made it yourself is still fraudulent.

i suspect part of the reason he brings in permission, is to support the "generative AI is plagiarism" narrative, which i think is largely bunk. but that doesn't mean it can't be used plagiarize. the "create image in style of XYZ" feature is a good example: if you do that, you are very explicitely basing the result on a specific persons work, and i think that calls for credit (obviously you shoudn't claim that they _made_ it, but that it's generated to be in their style, just be frickin honest…).

@elosha yeah, that sucks.

i think what would help there would be community-run annotation services with browser extensions, where people can add the original work to any website via the address.

i imagine it would work somewhat like sponsorblock. i guess it will only work on platforms where posts have some sort of ID/address but i think that's true for most content farms and the like…

image recognition a'la CLIP also seems like it would also be pretty handy detecting image plagiarism.

@lain

@lain wow, i can't even imagine the depths of stupid. but i'll be very happy to have never experienced it 😇.

@lain da hat er was eigenes!

@march ökomonik ist eine wissenschaft über die gesellschaft also über "soziales".

von staatlicher seite wird blos gern "die wirtschaft" als fremdartiges wesen das irgendwelche "opfer" fordert. gewöhnlich sind das einfach die interessen staatsnaher bosse…

rate my streaming setup.

@lain 𝔽

@lain okay, but phone "numbers" aren't actual numbers 🧐.

dear #UI people, and particularly people who make toolkits and widgets:

every number input field should be able to do basic arithmetic. i don't wanna pull out a calculator app that, and it's not like entering operators those fields could possibly mean anything else…

@scy "das passion."

virtue signaling is a gateway drug to virtue development.