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Like, I am not pro-#GenAI in #art in the slightest, but I am upset that we all seem to collectively have done a 180 and now we're supposed to celebrate intellectual property enforcement, DRM and closed, paid, inaccessible art.

I still think art is a collective product of society and should not be guarded with intellectual property and copyright laws. That doesn't mean artists shouldn't be paid - it means that artists should be paid AND not hide art behind an inaccessible repressive law-wall.

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@carl

Time we moved from just trying to block them or ask them nicely (eg robots.txt) to honeypotting them. There are scripts out there that will send bots that ignore robots.txt to an endless web of junk generated pages full of garbage, linking to ever more endless pages of generated garbage. Most don't even use LLM's, and will poison the LLM training data.

When they see their product being damaged, LLM builders will stop quicksmart.

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" I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore. "

Horrifying. As Voltaire said, "if they can make you believe absurdities, they can make you commit atrocities"

Ruining people's ability to judge truth from fiction will help Gilead tolerate the Concentration Camps

#GenAI#Fascism#AI

🍇 Grap/Graph/Graphics.. GPU 📊

04:38am on a Friday means it's time to upgrade my local rack's LLMs 💓

♥ Gemma2 -> Gemma3 (1,4,12,27b)
♥ Llama3.2 -> Llama3.3 (70b)
♥ Phi3 -> Phi4 (14b)
♥ DeepSeek-R1 (1.5, 7, 8, 14b, 32b, 70b)

Also some SysD/journald puke to clean up via new automation calls (have they no regard for garbage collection? no they do not).