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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • I was curious if a robots.txt equivalent exists for AI training data, and there was some solid points here:

    If I go to your writing, I read it & learn from it. Your writing influences my future writing. We’ve been okay with this as long as it’s not a blatant forgery.

    If a computer goes to your writing, it reads it & learns from it. Your writing influences its future writing. It seems we are not okay with this, even if it isn’t blatant forgery.

    [AI at the moment is] different because the company is re-using your material to create a product they are going to sell. I’m not sure if I believe that is so different than a human employee doing the same thing.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34324208

    I still think we should have the ability to opt out like we do with search engines and webcrawlers, but if the algorithm works ideally and learns but does not recycle content, is it truly any different from a factory of workers pumping out clones of popular series on Amazon? I honestly don’t know the answer to that.


  • I joined maybe 6 years ago, and there was a bit of shit talking and most posts had a troll answer hitting the most votes for some reason, but it was usually pretty good to scroll straight past and find some really insightful comments. There was a lot of good stuff around reddit, but slowly the absurb number of awards, NFT avatars, reposts, and ads every third post started to corrupt it. It was simple enough to switch to a third party app for quite a while, but the garbage slowly took over.

    Even if they hadn’t pulled 3rd party apps, it was getting pretty close a point where it wasn’t worth scrolling past the bullshit.






  • The short answer for this is that an employer probably doesn’t give a shit about you watching youtube at work, but what they (by they, their IT/security teams) do care about is your account logging in from a new geolocation, or clicking a risky link in an unusual email. If the employer logs everything that occurs (which is required by a lot of areas such as PCI DSS for electronic payment) they can track who’s account was compromised, how it happened, exactly what was done by the actor, and how far it’s spread across the network - if at all. If no logs are kept, then it may as well have never happened.

    ETA: there’s a large difference between mouse tracking mentioned by the article and logging though, the former is rather unethical and I’d hope that it’s never used in the name of security, I sure can’t think of a use.