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> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Inmates are frequently forced to work for pennies.

The solution was the one they arrived at way too late: have a "starter zone" for entry level stuff.

> Why do anti-flock activists insist that it doesn't help police apprehend criminals.

Seems like a strawman, i dont know anyone saying the cameras dont help police solve crimes at all. The issue is you have to balance crime benefits against civil rights, and the benefit right now seems pretty small, but the privacy implications are enormous.

Reducto ad absurdum: mandatory ankle monitors on everyone would help police apprehend criminals. Is that worth it? No? Ok, then where is the line in the sand? Flock's system is effectively tantamount to a gps tracker on every vehicle that uses surface roads.

It's entirely plausible to me that they could be training an NSFW 3D model detector, specifically because of their very minor userbase. TFA seems to presume it's all being used to train genAI, in exactly the same fashion.

We know NSFW data pollutes many otherwise non-adult datasets, so genAI is going to be trained on naughty stuff inadvertantly regardless - they might need a smut neuron specifically to turn off that sort of output.

Or they are just being irresponsible. point is, we dont know.

It's still a tad icky to scrape tons of data without asking, and downright rude to ignore robots.txt and ToS, but that's the world we live in.

meanwhile, as a fire-breathing, unicycling, sensation-seeking, self-care-neglecting, bad-choice-making, person with severe adhd on medication, I dont buy what you dont buy. This shit's rough.

I had conversations in Morse code with like gpt 3 or 4. I guarantee there were no snippets of what we were chatting about, in morse code, in its training set.

LLMs are clearly able to apply seemingly arbitrary transformations to symbol streams in ways that generalize well beyond the training set. It's getting into metaphysics whether that is "novel" but it's definitely not "copy paste from the training set"

I got really excited for a carnivorous salmon-fishing tree there for a second. I could envision how roots might evolve to jut into the water, and develop some one-way geometry that fish get trapped in.

Absolutely delightful!

And i think i can tell the ones from HN (in a good way), they are often like "showed a client a really cool feature i made and they loved it."

Rhetorically, why can't folks add the feature of PRs to Git? Git is fundamentally just a graph manipulation engine and data structure. It would just be another object type, in a layer which sits above the normal commit graph. Obviously there is no "just make X" in software, but this feels reasonably achievable, and would have tremendous benefit for the cost.

> "Tortured phrases" are bizarre, nonsensical word combinations—such as "counterfeit consciousness" instead of "artificial intelligence"

Conterfeit Consciousness is gonna be the name of my new post-liquid analog modular synth IDM project.

I feel like these text spinners could actually be an untapped gold mine for creatively naming things.

Lmao not remotely. Their security is a joke. Axon's evidence system at least has concepts of security. Flock has had numerous high publicity security failures (see: Benn Jordan's work with 404 media).

> they respond by refusing to work. That's a ~~problem~~ solution that, at this time, has no ~~solution~~ problem.

If a police department reuses to accept accountability, and dig in their heels by refusing to work, "just" dissolve it. And while at it, half the calls could be handled by folks without guns.

In practice that obviously would not go over well, people are too attached to the status quo. We just lack the political will to rethink and retool the system (despite most Americans favoring police reform).

This RFC (the concept behind it) has been in the works in one form or another since 2008

> The HTTP SEARCH method was first formally proposed in November 2008 within RFC 5323.

> Before it became a full RFC, the proposal progressed through the IETF under the working group draft name draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body. Its formal journey began in March 2021 as an adaptation of the older SEARCH method (from WebDAV's RFC 5323), before being renamed explicitly to QUERY in later draft revisions.

There's no "pretending" this is a good idea, a ton of very smart people have spent a tremendous amount of effort refining this solution. It's incredibly well thought out.