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Maybe they should consider rebranding, then. The word comes from Tolkein's Lord of the Rings series - the palantir were telepathic communication devices which were often used to deceive others by showing selective truths and lies of omission.

These are philosophically interesting demands.

Many schools of thought believe that it is impossible to prove the absence of something. Personally, I would like some firm proof that there are no pixies living in my garden, but all I can say is that I've never seen one.

The century will end in about 77.15 years, at which point most of us reading this will be dead.

A bit more than 'a few'.

If a court determines that their behavior is illegal, this argument sounds a lot like: "Let us break the law, because someone else is doing much worse."

If it is necessary to reform how we handle copyright and IP licensing to remain competitive, we should find ways to do that.

The law should apply equally to everyone, whether they are competing with Chinese companies or not.

Does it sound elitist to say that maybe a small barrier to entry could make for better quality social networks? Especially if the tradeoff was giving users more creative control over their spaces?

I guess you wouldn't get billions in ad revenue that way, but your expenses could be miniscule, and isn't it possible that a rapacious profit motive is part of the core problem with Meta, Twitter, & co?

Or are there really too few people in the world who could figure out how to log into a <$5/mo cloud VM?

It is, however, Saturday afternoon in California.

"Yes, Elon, the full self verifying feature was finished before your deadline."

Is it really too much to ask for people to host their own content on a cheap VPS?

Wouldn't that neatly solve the content moderation problem? You register your server on an index or two, and you choose what your server will publish and accept. Each user would be responsible for finding a hosting provider who doesn't have a problem with what you post, and problematic content reports would go right to the hosting providers. The indexers could basically be DNS for usernames.

The AWS free tier would cover 99% of people, and between VNC and web UIs, you wouldn't necessarily need them to ever touch a shell. Plus, requiring a reasonably consistent public IP address would help to cut down on bulk spam.

It's easier to get good results by generating 2-8 images for each prompt, picking the best result, using that as the starting point for a new run.

Tweak the parameters of how close the new image should be to the old one and the prompts, tweak the prompts to address problem areas in the image, generate another 2-8. Rinse and repeat until you have something decent.

I doubt that the really impressive SD images are coming from submitting a prompt once and taking that output. It's better than past open-source efforts like the mini dall-es, but it also still has a way to go before it can reliably produce good results on its own.

AI art on products is an interesting idea, but personally I would use a more fully-featued SD web UI to generate the image locally.

Maybe he can convince Tesla to buy some ad spots. The deal would have great synergy, since Tesla's share price is also on the line.

Can you get a static IP address from a mobile carrier?

Also, you'd need a backup server to render the "I am hiking or driving through a tunnel" error pages.

I've been playing the Fallout games lately, and the eyebots are kind of cute. See, there's another step on the road to doxxing.

It would be a return to the norm. Parents used to warn teenagers not to give out any personal information online. Using someone's real name in a public online setting was considered gauche.

Maybe a generation or two of dredging up digital sins will get us there.