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Technically, they are predicting the next token. To do that properly they may need to predict the next idea, but thats just a means to an end (the end being the next token).

Maybe pushing Piefed instead of lemmy would be the way to go. Piefed has a more beginner friendly UI and makes it easier to find new communities

Whats the XZ thing? Im out of the loop

This is why they’re infiltrating open source projects

Are they infiltrating open source projects too now?

Thanks for all the hard work you put in for making a create social network (Piefed) and helping grow the fediverse 🫡 I appreciate it. Keep fighting the good fight

What’s wrong with Nvidia? Genuine question

Deflect is also a good alternative. It’s based in Montreal, Quebec. It’s what a lot of Canadian instances in the fediverse are moving too (see here).

I don’t know anything about accounting, but at first blush it seems like tax evasion and so forth would be easier to detect because the government can look at their bank activity and perform random audits, and so on. In contrast I don’t really know what tools we’d use to catch people lying about their training data

Elon Musk’s xAI has lost its bid for a preliminary injunction that would have temporarily blocked California from enforcing a law that requires AI firms to publicly share information about their training data.

How do you actually enforce this? What’s stopping these companies from just lying about what training data they use?

It wasn’t a particularly funny joke

Well I, for one, thought it was funny

And a lot of it is clearly AI generated

Yeah. I bought my kaptop second hand. When it still had windows on it, it was basically usuable because jt was so laggy. I installed linux and, badda bing badda boom, works like a charm. Its been my main computer for a fee years now

Nice that doesn’t sound too hard

That’s an interesting idea. I think this would be most successful in a city that prides itself on being high-tech. Maybe somewhere in Japan or somewhere in Silicon Valley or something.

I’m kind of a noob here, so forgive me if this is a silly question, but: what kind of hardware would I need to self-host a server? I’m guessing a raspberry-pi wouldn’t cut it. So would I need to rent server space?

Well Godspeed to you. Whatever you end up doing I wish your local virtual community the best, be it on Reddit or the fediverse or wherever

You should give it a shot and ask OP if you have any questions. If you were to set it up, you’d be one of the first, and I’m sure OP would be happy to help you get his/her brain child up and running.

However, it probably will take some local organizing to get it to fire in each area. Getting a critical mass for these is tough by just having randomly distributed global internet users join.

Maybe one strategy here is to promote it at universities? That’s how Facebook got a critical mass before opening it up to the general public. People would join if other people from their school are on it, and its much easier to achieve critical mass at a university than a city at large.

You could start with the compsci students, who might appreciate it for the merits of the ActivityPub protocol. From there, you could branch out to other departments. Hopefully this will create enough activity to make it an attractive place to join for the city at large.

Once you get enough people on there, you could reach out to local politicians (eg city councillors) and ask them to join. If they join then hopefully they promote their account at least once on their mainstream normie social media like X, which will hopefully attract a few users from there.

Hanging flyers around the city with a QR code is another option. I know in my city people do that to promote a local Discord for cyclists. That Discord is very active.

Asking for a call out on local email newsletters is also a helpful possibility. I know a separate urbanists Discord group in my city that has got a fair amount of users from their email mailing list, which they’ve picked up just from a signup form on their local website as far as I’m aware.

Promotion on your local FB group or subreddit is also a very viable option.

If you live in a small community, then you can’t beat word of mouth.

Anyway, there are strategies! I have hope. Let’s make this a thing.

This makes sense once you consider that the top models all have basically the same training data (i.e. everything ever posted on the internet).

Except in practice the Snowden leaks show us that democratic governments don’t always have our best interests at heart when it comes to this domain