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  • Do you want AI to exclusively be in the hands of big companies and the government?

    Do you want the future of technology locked behind pay walls and censored so that you can’t use it to do anything they don’t want you to do?

    If you think AI regulation comes in the form of making sure big companies can’t do bad things to you, you haven’t been paying attention.






  • SteamOS on Deck is only so stable because everyone has the exact same hardware,

    For the most part windows does it fine too.

    And even then there have been problems with SteamOS on Deck big enough that it made some have to re-image the OS entirely

    You’re going to see some issues when something ships hundreds of thousands of products, but the difference is when someone has a problem with the steam deck it’s going to generally be an exception.

    When someone has a problem with your custom Linux build? That’s generally the rule.

    I use Lenox all the time, so I can say this pretty confidently. A few weeks ago I tried to disable ipv6 on Ubuntu. After doing that the Wi-Fi program crashed every time I tried to make a connection and I had to go into the files and delete all of the configs.

    You’re not into just basic stuff like that all the time with any Linux build or stuff just breaks. Something like the steam deck that is so tightly controlled and managed by a third party company that is going to be way more rare in the system is going to be way more reliable.

    The OS being bug-free on valves hardware absolutely does not mean it will be on whatever you’re chucking beneath your TV.

    Not necessarily, but it’s going to be a lot more likely to with the reduced scope and the fact that you have valve, able to do real testing and validation and give you supported hardware.

    And, you’re still wrong, what you said, is that SteamOS is “more powerful”. It’s not, it’s objectively less capable than most linux distros

    At that point you’re just nitpicking and confusing what exactly I meant by power.

    When I said more powerful, I refer to the fact that the steamos is built from the ground up to be nothing but a controller based interface with absolutely no dependency on mouse or keyboard.

    More powerful in the context of being an under the TV set box, and in the fact that it’s a digital built from the ground up, supported by an actual company, it’s far more useful and capable as an under the TV set box than any other Linux alternative.

    If you’re defining power as the ability to open up a shell and do whatever the heck you want, you’re describing a trait that is entirely and fully negative when it comes to having a computer under your TV. You can’t say a big buff guy is a powerful swimmer because he can lift weights.


  • Except SteamOS is also just “a linux box running steam”

    You can basically count on this as a rule, whenever you’re saying something reductive like this, You are probably missing something really critical.

    In this case that critical thing you’re missing is ease of use and support.

    I’m not putting a Linux distro under my couch because I know that almost as a fact that computer will break in some strange way, and I will have to dig that stupid thing out from under my TV, plug it into some stupid monitor keyboard and mouse, and fix it by following a guide on Google, reinstall the operating system to whatever the hot flavor of the month that actually has developer support is, that sort of thing.

    But I would happily install steam OS, because I know I would drop steam OS on that box and it would just work for however long valve has a successful hardware line, which at this point I think is going to be a decade given the success of the steam deck.












  • It doesn’t really matter whether the original data is present in the model

    Yeah it does. One of the arguments people make is that AI models are just a form of compression, and as a result distributing the model is akin to distributing all the component parts. This fact invalidates that argument.

    This isn’t a slam dunk argument that there’s nothing wrong with what an AI does even if we grant it is transformative. It may also simply be proving that the copyright law we have fails to protect artists in the new era of AI.

    If we change the law to make it illegal it’s illegal.



  • It is illegal to use copyrighted material period outside of fair use, and this is most certainly not.

    Yeah it is. Even assuming fair use applied, fair use is largely a question of how much a work is transformed and (a billion images) -> AI model is just about the most transformative use case out there.

    And this assumes this matters when they’re literally not copying the original work (barring over fitting). It’s a public internet download. The “copy” is made by Facebook or whoever you uploaded the image to.

    The model doesn’t contain the original artwork or parts of it. Stable diffusion literally has one byte per image of training data.