I am tired of my information making companies lots of money instead of me.(privacy issues aside) Shame you can't copyright yourself at birth.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2024
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Everything you make is already copyrighted by default. Copyright is limited in what it lets you do, however. AI training likely isn't restricted by it.
Maybe patent yourself would work better...hmmm
That sounds messy. Do we need any primer, or patent thinner? How many brushes do we need?
Well, nothing is free. If you aren't paying with money, you are paying with data or time, which may or may not be more valuable to you than money.
Even paying for apps and services does not stop the collecting and selling of your data.
I know, but not paying to begin with created the incentive to have such an infrastructure to spy on people, even if these people decide to pay. And I am not saying it's users' fault.
Well, nothing is free.
False. Friendship, family, sunshine, peace, etc. Free for now at least.
You've listed some kinda vague concepts, family and friendship may be free, but their help and attention costs money and time. As for sunshine, that costs energy, atoms are fused into other atoms to produce the light, so while we aren't paying it, it is getting "spent". Peace is furthest away from free, just look at how much the wars to restore peace cost
And they will probably use the energy equivalent to a small nation to do the training. LLMs are great.
Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy. Google is 100% carbon free. It's not as bad as you think it is.
Google promised to be carbon free by 2030.... Just as other have done and never even moved an inch towards that goal
The point is exactly to get gullible people like you to think it's all good until 2030 when some responsible people will battle to out that Google did nothing in reality to get there... Then they'll promise it again for 2050
Sorry I was a little wrong. Apparently 100% of Googles annual electricity consumption is matched with renewable energy that is supplied back to the grid. So basically, at night when there is no sun they use power from the grid and during the day they compensate it with excess renewable energy production.
It's not 100% carbon neutral. But it doesn't sound that bad either. There is worse things than that.
Sorry I was a little wrong. Apparently 100% of Googles annual electricity consumption is matched with renewable energy that is supplied back to the grid
Not even... what they do is "pay" someone for renewable energy (not the energy they consume, nor do they produce energy on solar panels or anything renewable to go back into the grid)
This is their own statement: "In 2022 – for the sixth consecutive year – Google matched 100 percent of its global annual electricity consumption with purchases of renewable energy" (source)[https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/cleanenergy/]
And even that is not true since their actual report says that in 2021 they barely made it to 66%
Globally, 66% of the electricity use at Google data centers was matched with carbon- free energy on an hourly basis, 5% higher in 2019 but 1% lower in 2020. We expected this fluctuation: in 2020, we brought a large number of CFE projects online, leading to a large jump in our 2020 CFE % and thus a high baseline for calculating changes between 2020 and 2021 (source)[https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/2021-carbon-free-energy-data-centers.pdf]
So, in a nutshell... they are throwing some money at it and pretending they are not polluting anymore.
It’s not 100% carbon neutral.
Google declared itself carbon neutral (whatever they think that means) back in 2007
There is worse things than that.
this is literally the lowest bar to clear
Purchasing and producing renewable energy is the same thing. If you purchase it, somebody else is producing it for you.
But they are not even using said energy themselves.... that is like throwing my garbage right on the street but paying someone in India to pick some garbage over there (for at lot less)... if you are my neighbour, would you think it's fine?
I don't need google "producing" clean energy... I want them CONSUMING clean energy... as it is, they are pollution just as much as ever (more every year) but they pretend to be clean by throwing money at it... at the end of the day, the planet keeps getting polluted and the climate nicely on its way to cooking us alive
90% of the time they are "carbon free" through carbon offsets, which are generally a huge amount of bs.
the post is talking about Meta though
Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy
You’re the product.
"Feels a bit like an invasion of privacy" as opposed to what that you already do on these platforms???
I hate that the headline is putting it as a foregone conclusion.
Instead of something along the lines of: Will the government allow this massive theft of intellectual property of average Australians?
Ah shit, that's the year I joined.
Australia? Most used word : cunt
That surely won't result in an alarming use rate of words like n****r and f****t. Hell, that's the window of the hit YouTube video entitled "N****rF****t" starring... A member of the defuct comedy group (Derrick Comedy) that made the film, Donald Glover.
Bizarre how fast the changes we've seen have happened. The video was purposefully 'edgy,' but still.
Classic lolz
This is the best summary I could come up with:
If you're among the majority of Australians with Facebook or Instagram accounts, your social activity on those platforms is about to start training Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) tools – and if you live in Australia, you can't say no.
When that policy comes into effect, Meta will start taking user data from as far back as 2007 and use it to train and improve their AI tools.
Dr Joanne Gray, a lecturer in digital cultures at the University of Sydney, explains: "The precedent in the US suggests that these companies are doing it under fair use, a US exemption that allows you to do some copying and create something new.
Speaking of legal cases, advocacy group NOYB (none of your business) has launched 11 complaints against Meta in the EU in relation to this new policy.
They've now added a "Made by AI" label, requiring users to have all realistic appearing AI-generated content carry it.
Cara incorporates a project called Glaze, "a system designed to protect human artists by disrupting style mimicry in the training of generative AI models".
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Glad I got rid of these two a week or so ago. Man fb is a brain-eating amoeba
Creepy as F.