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moontear commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla   manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr
saint_yossarian · a month ago
You'd think so, but you also need to set browser.ml.chat.menu to false to remove a context menu item.
moontear · a month ago
Looking at https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/browser/components... it is a bit weird, that there isn't a general check for browser.ml.enabled true/false.
moontear commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
llbbdd · a month ago
This keeps coming up, and I am not a lawyer, but as far as I can tell none of that matters. I can pay someone to draw Mickey Mouse for me and hang it up in my house. If I invite people to visit my Mickey Mouse House and charge them for the privilege, I'm in violation. Maybe the artist I paid to draw the mouse is also in some smaller violation but it all comes back to distribution and impact. I don't think it devalues Mickey Mouse in any way if I have a slot machine that spits out pictures of Mickey Mouse. If it does devalue it, maybe it doesn't have much value to begin with.

Reproduction (again, IANAL) seems to consist of a lot more than "I made it", it consists of how you use it and whether that usage constitutes infringement.

EDIT: To add, genuine question, what does "asking" come down to? I can ask Photoshop to draw Mickey Mouse through a series of clever Mickey-Mouse-shaped brush strokes. I can ask Microsoft Word to reproduce lyrics by typing them in. At what gradient between those actions and text prompting am I (or OpenAI, or Adobe) committing copyright infringement?

moontear · a month ago
Now I get where you are coming from (also not a lawyer):

- You asking the painter to create a Mickey Mouse painting: not illegal. You still are asking for a derivative work without permission, but if used privately you're good (this is different per jurisdiction) - The artist creating the painting of a derivative work is acting illegally - they are selling you the picture and hence this is a commercial act and trademark infringement - Displaying the bought Mickey Mouse image publicly is likely infringement, but worse is if you would charge admission to show the picture, that would definitely be illegal - If you were to hide the image in your basement and look at it privately, it would most likely not be illegal (private use - but see first point since this is different per jurisdiction)

Comparing violations doesn't really make sense (the artist creating it vs. you displaying it) - the act of creating the image for money is illegal. If it were the artist creating the image for him/herself - that would be fine.

Now getting back to the LLM and your question which also the court answered (jurisdiction: Germany). The courts opinion is that the AI recreating these lyrics by itself is illegal (think about the artist creating the image for you for money).

Personally I would think the key part and similarity is the payment. You pay for using OpenAI. You pay for it creating those lyrics/texts. In my head I can create a similar reasoning to your Mickey Mouse example. If we'd take open source LLMs and THEY would create perfect lyrics, I think the court would have a much harder case to make. Who would you be suing and for what kind of money? It would all be open source and nobody is paying anyone anything to recreate the lyrics. It would be and is very hard to prove that the LLMs were trained on copyrighted material - in the lyrics example, they may have ingested illegal lyrics-sharing sites, but they may also just have ingested Twitter or Reddit where people talk about the lyrics - how could any LLM know that these contents were illegal or not to be ingested.

moontear commented on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla   manualdousuario.net/en/mo... · Posted by u/rpgbr
moontear · a month ago
Go to about:config and set browser.ml.enabled to false and throw in browser.ml.chat.enabled (false) for good measure. Done.
moontear commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
mleroy · a month ago
A key takeaway from this ruling is that "the systems contain copies of the original works." Does this mean that offering any open-weight model capable of reproducing copyrighted text snippets or lyrics will be prohibited? That would be a big setback for AI development in the EU.
moontear · a month ago
That's what the lawsuit of the New York Times is about - OpenAI reproducing complete texts of NYT articles without paying for the reproduction of said articles. This is not an EU issue, but a general unsolved legal grey zone for the whole AI market.
moontear commented on OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules   reuters.com/world/german-... · Posted by u/aiz0Houp
llbbdd · a month ago
This is largely how it works for nearly all coprightable work. I can draw Mickey Mouse but legally I'm not doing anything wrong until I try to sell it. It certainly doesn't put Crayola or Adobe at legal risk for me to do so.
moontear · a month ago
But you are not the one drawing Mickey Mouse in this scenario, are you? You are instructing the AI company to draw something or more close to the original post you are prompting to generate lyrics for song X.

Your prompt may be asking something for illegal (i.e. reproducing the lyrics), but the one reproducing the lyrics is the AI company, not you yourself.

In your example you are asking Adobe to draw Mickey Mouse and Adobe happily draws a perfect rendition of Mickey Mouse for you and you have to pay Adobe for that image.

moontear commented on Tailscale Peer Relays   tailscale.com/blog/peer-r... · Posted by u/seemaze
MarleTangible · 2 months ago
> It allows customers to make just one firewall exception for connections only coming from their tailnet.

You'll need to open a single UDP port on your firewall, so it's your public facing IP address. You don't need an entire VM somewhere, just a single port.

Regarding the speed question. You'd use the derp when it's not possible to make a peer to peer connection, which limits your speed to derp server's speed and load. Which the peer relay, you can practically use the entire bandwidth you have between your devices.

moontear · 2 months ago
> for connections coming from their tailnet

So instead of whitelisting all ports from IP range 100.64.0.0/10 I would just whitelist e.g. UDP port 12345 coming from IP range 100.64.0.0/10 to my public IP? Or just open up UDP 12345 completely?

moontear commented on Tailscale Peer Relays   tailscale.com/blog/peer-r... · Posted by u/seemaze
moontear · 2 months ago
One thing I didn’t understand: it uses an UDP port of my choice. What IP is it using? Everything via the tailnet or do I need to open this port to the internet?

If only available via Tailscale/tailnet - how is connectivity better since if two devices can connect to each other via Tailscale we are already on the direct connection route instead of a relay / derp connection?!

moontear commented on uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store   apps.apple.com/in/app/ubl... · Posted by u/mumber_typhoon
ornornor · 2 months ago
In all these years I haven’t found a better solution than DNS blocking with NextDNS on iOS. The only place I get ads is YT (but for that I have an Albanian VPN)
moontear · 2 months ago
How does the Albanian VPN help? No ad revenue in Albania?
moontear commented on The RSS feed reader landscape   lighthouseapp.io/blog/fee... · Posted by u/domysee
askl · 2 months ago
I was wondering why Tiny Tiny RSS was missing as that's what I've been using for the last 10+ years. At the bottom of the article there's the explanation:

> On October 3rd the maintainer announced that he's going to stop working on it, and will remove all infrastructure on November 1st. Forks of the project with other maintainers may pop up, but at the moment it's too soon to tell what the future of Tiny Tiny RSS will be.

moontear · 2 months ago
The person who forked it (https://github.com/tt-rss/tt-rss) was very active on the original Tiny Tiny RSS development side as well as on the forums. I have a good feeling that this fork will work out just fine.
moontear commented on Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)   windscribe.com/blog/the-v... · Posted by u/walterbell
schiffern · 2 months ago
Anyone got this as a regular single image infographic or (better yet) a text-only bulleted outline?
moontear · 2 months ago
There is an export button. Maybe it does what you want.

Don't use the embed link from above, use this one: https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

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