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Comment · 21 hours ago
Well yeah... in a time before audio recordings and films, bards and poets were the entertainment superstars. Today it's singers and actors, and we still give them millions for their output.
Comment · 21 hours ago
A “fiction” implemented as environment variables, which the ffmpeg process would inherit, so there's nothing stopping ffmpeg from “indulging the fiction”. Depending on how frequently users expect this behavior to work, I might even call it a bug in ffmpeg (or whatever file handling library it relies on) that isn't even all that hard to fix.
Comment · 22 hours ago
I notice that the first iteration of a drawing is usually by far the only good one. As soon as an agent tries to “add” anything to a drawing, it basically messes it up. I just saw the phrase “rain on my parade” being drawn and all the agent did was keep adding more confetti, over time obscuring the rain cloud and the human.
Comment · 1 day ago
> One person commits a violent crime against another and you aren't holding them entirely accountable for their actions

Incorrect. Nowhere did I say or imply that.

> your looking to who they may have listened to and what they may have heard such that some blame belongs there.

That is correct.

You seem to think there's a fixed amount of total blame X and if we assign even the tiniest amount of blame to one person, then the main perpetrator must get less blame than they otherwise would. Nothing I said implies that.

> Notably you didn't engage with my analogy at all.

That's because it's not an analogy, it's a strawman.

> Would how would you legally distinguish the two scenarios?

One of them is wearing certain clothes, the other is intentionally inciting hatred and violence. If you can't make that distinction, I don't know what to tell you.

Comment · 3 days ago
> Who defines what a "hate speech" is?

Who defines what is murder and what is self-defence? You already know the answer to this. The legislature.

Your first link is about police misconduct, not what the laws are or should be. Your second quote does not contain any of the relevant posts and just spews random unverifiable claims.

Comment · 3 days ago
Nobody is talking about shirking any blame off. Maybe this is our disconnect. You think there must be one singular person to blame entirely. That if someone is held accountable for a consequence of their action, then no one else can. That is not how the real world works.
Comment · 3 days ago
I don't disagree with you that Discord is the best option for voice chat now, but there was a godsend before it and that was Skype. It didn't have the equivalent of Discord “servers” but it finally solved the voice chat problem that was previously plagued with technical issues, instability and incompatibility. Discord became the godsend when Skype decided to speedrun enshittification.
Comment · 3 days ago
In the choice between being allowed to carry a gun (and having people with guns all around me) versus being offered free healthcare (and having healthier people all around me) I know not just which one I'd choose, but also which one I'd call more free.
Comment · 3 days ago
That is a very American perspective, which I like to think many people in the civilized world find irresponsible. (In the literal sense. You don't want to take responsibility for the consequences of your actions.)
Comment · 3 days ago
It is a common misconception, partly intentionally perpetuated by the UK right-wing press, that people are arrested and jailed for making jokes or otherwise casually chatting on social media. If you dig deeper you'll generally find that people jailed for Twitter or Facebook posts went vastly beyond “telling a joke” or “saying something inappropriate”. The UK quite meaningfully prosecutes hate speech, death threats and similar felonies, and I for one don't want to live in a place that condones or even actively protects it. Downplaying it as “a joke about immigrants” plays right into the hands of the xenophobic right.
Comment · 4 days ago
Has anyone ever tracked down SolidGoldMagikarp and interviewed them? It's such a uniquely bizarre claim to fame.
Comment · 4 days ago
How is it a strawman if I've seen plenty Marvel movies and report on my experiences?
Comment · 7 days ago
I know that you copied this from the article, but isn't this part of the prompt wrong?

> another instance of the same model should have a reasonable chance of recovering the secret after inspecting the SVG;

The whole premise is that the decoder model can't see the SVG; it can only see a rendered PNG of it. I wonder if changing this part of the prompt changes the results significantly.

Comment · 7 days ago
That watermarking is not something the LLM chooses to add, neither through training nor in response to any prompt. This article is about the choices LLMs make when explicitly told to hide messages.
Comment · 11 days ago
Ah, now I see what you mean by distraction. I wholeheartedly agree with you.

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