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CaptainFever commented on The AI age is the "age of no consent"   productpicnic.beehiiv.com... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
audinobs · 4 months ago
Market fundamentalism is what happened.

Information wants to be ? How naive.

Information wants to be commoditized, but that process is amoral unless I am getting a cut as a rent seeker.

If I am getting paid then it is just a form of darwinism and to think otherwise is to be anti-science.

If someone else is getting paid then obviously whatever we are talking about is a great injustice.

CaptainFever · 4 months ago
"Information wants to be free, as long as it's not my information."
CaptainFever commented on The AI age is the "age of no consent"   productpicnic.beehiiv.com... · Posted by u/BallsInIt
explodes · 4 months ago
I think the idea is that people's written word, and artistic endeavors, and code, and everything else one could post online, is eventually scraped by AI whereby that AI is sold back to the producer of the original content.
CaptainFever · 4 months ago
You do realize that open weights exist? Proprietary models suck, yes, but they can be distilled.
CaptainFever commented on Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea   krea.ai/blog/flux-krea-op... · Posted by u/vmatsiiako
CaptainFever · 4 months ago
Nitpick: this is not open weights, this is weights available. The license restricts many things like commercial, NSFW, etc.
CaptainFever commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in   ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
cooper_ganglia · 5 months ago

  > Also, I'm for teenagers (not little children) having access to pornography.
Anyone who supports literal children of any age viewing pornography needs their hard drives checked immediately.

CaptainFever · 5 months ago
Then you deserve all the censorship that comes your way. Treat others like you wish to be treated.
CaptainFever commented on Fintech dystopia   fintechdystopia.com/... · Posted by u/LasEspuelas
johncole · 5 months ago
I agree, I see very few (none) use cases for crypto that aren’t human misery trafficking. This article seems to explain that well.
CaptainFever · 5 months ago
Buying NSFW things.
CaptainFever commented on Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors   soatok.blog/2025/07/24/ag... · Posted by u/SlackingOff123
linotype · 5 months ago
It pains me to say this, but this might actually be a valid use case for cryptocurrency. These companies are cowards.
CaptainFever · 5 months ago
This is literally the original use case for cryptocurrency.
CaptainFever commented on The Promised LAN   tpl.house/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
CaptainFever · 5 months ago
I find it funny how the manifesto complains about AI so much; meanwhile, my AI-friendly friend group uses these exact kinds of private servers/networks to get away from the hordes of AI haters and harassment on the public Internet.

But I guess that's fine. We can each have our own spaces, and never the twain shall meet.

CaptainFever commented on When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?   queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/jazzypants
CaptainFever · 5 months ago
I'm worried that wide use of WASM is going to reduce the amount of abilities extensions have. Currently a lot of websites are basically source-available by default due to JS.
CaptainFever commented on Bill to Restrict AI Companies Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Works for Training   deadline.com/2025/07/sena... · Posted by u/OutOfHere
CaptainFever · 5 months ago
This is an expansion of copyright law, which, just as a reminder, is already pretty insane with its 100 year durations and all.
CaptainFever commented on Vibe Coding Gone Wrong: 5 Rules for Safely Using AI   cybercorsairs.com/my-ai-c... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
sfink · 5 months ago
Ok, I haven't tried enough AI coding to have an opinion here, but... why would anyone think that telling an AI to not change any code (IN ALL CAPS, even) has anything to do with anything? It's an LLM. It doesn't go through a ruleset. It does things that are plausible responses to things you ask of it. Not changing code is indeed a plausible response to you telling it to not change code. But so is changing code, if there were enough other things you asked it to do.

"Say shark. Say shark. Don't say shark. Say shark. Say shark. Say shark. Say shark. Say shark."

Are you going to flip out if it says "shark"?

Try it out on a human brain. Think of a four-letter word ending in "unt" that is a term for a type of woman, and DO NOT THINK OF ANYTHING OFFENSIVE. Take a pause now and do it.

So... did you obey the ALL CAPS directive? Did your brain easily deactivate the pathways that were disallowed, and come up with the simple answer of "aunt"? How much reinforcement learning, perhaps in the form of your mother washing your mouth out with soap, would it take before you could do it naturally?

(Apologies to those for whom English is not a first language, and to Australians. Both groups are likely to be confused. The former for the word, the latter for the "offensive" part.)

CaptainFever · 5 months ago
In my experience, reasoning models are much better at this type of instruction following.

Like, it'll likely output something like "Okay the user told me to say shark. But wait, they also told me not to say shark. I'm confused. I should ask the user for confirmation." which is a result I'm happy with.

For example, yes, my first instinct was the rude word. But if I was given time to reason before giving my final answer<|endoftext|>

u/CaptainFever

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