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I’m not aware of any international organizations simply just accepting the new name

that’s exactly the point: there are international bodies that name these things. the arrogance of all of this is astounding. the US president doesn’t get to just snap his fingers and have the world say “yes mr president” and bow down to it…

gulf of america

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the problem is not with the change: the problem is with the implementation… we have international organisations that manage things like place names, and the president of the US doesn’t have the authority to just go ahead and change an internationally agreed upon thing. in the US? perhaps… but it’s bat shit insane that globally we now see both names. it’s like trump saying everything globally has to default to fahrenheit and feet and google etc just complying without question

but also, as other commenters have mentioned: there’s no real issue with the original name; it’s just nationalism and racism that triggered the change

i think it’s still a good example, and the point stands - it kinda doesn’t really matter if he did sculpt them or not - either way, it’s the fact that he was a troll, the unknowns, the ideas that is what makes the art; not the piece itself

To suggest a machine neutral network “thinks like a human” is like suggesting a humanoid robot “runs like a human.” It’s true in an incredibly broad sense, but carries so little meaning with it.

i wasn’t meaning to suggest that it thinks like a human - simply that the processes are similar enough, and humans aren’t non-replicable… in which case there is some process behind creativity, and that process is some sort of input, processing via our neural processes, and some output. the intent was to say that AI having the possibility of creativity shouldn’t be dismissed off-hand just because it’s not human

If the AI is creative in the same way as a person, then it is a slave.

is it though? does creativity rely on being able to interpret the concept of freedom? i think creativity can be divorced from a sense of self, and thus any idea of slavery except in the sense of anthropisation from a 3rd party

but I am against selling it

why though? if the art is the inspiration and intent, then the prompt is the art and the image itself is only the expression of that inspiration and intent - all are essential parts of the piece

It’s sad to see an entire industry of workers get replaced by machines,

agree and disagree there - it’s sad that a huge amount of artists that have devoted their lives to honing their craft are now less able to make money from using their skills… on the other hand, it’s the democratisation of skills. AI art allows more people to communicate their ideas without the need for skill

It’s also a tacit admission that the machine is doing the inspiration, not the operator. The machine which is only made possible by the massive theft of intellectual property.

hard disagree on that one… the look of the image was, but the inspiration itself was derived from a prompt: the idea is the human; the expression of the idea in visual form is the computer. we have no problem saying a movie is art, and crediting much of that to the director despite the fact that they were simply giving directions

The legality of an act has no bearing on its ethics or morality.

Except their hired artist is a bastard intelligence made by theft.

you can’t on 1 hand say that legality is irrelevant and then call it when you please

or argue that a human takes inputs from their environment and produces outputs in the same way. if you say a human in an empty white room and exposed them only to copyright content and told them to paint something, they’d also entirely be basing what they paint on those works. we wouldn’t have an issue with that

what’s the difference between a human and an artificial neural net? because i disagree that there’s something special or “other” to the human brain that makes it unable to be replicated. i’m also not suggesting that these work in the same way, but we clearly haven’t defined what creativity is, and certainly haven’t written off that it could be expressed by a machine

in modern society we tend to agree that Duchamp changed the art world with his piece “Fountain” - simply a urinal signed “R. Mutt”… he didn’t sculpt it himself, he did barely anything to it. the idea is the art, not the piece itself. the idea was the debate that it sparked, the questions with no answer. if a urinal purchased from a hardware store can be art, then the idea expressed in a prompt can equally be art

and to be clear, i’m not judging any of these particular works based on their merits - i haven’t seen them, and i don’t believe any of them should be worth $250k… but also, the first piece of art created by AI: perhaps its value is not in the image itself, but the idea behind using AI and its status as “first”. the creativity wasn’t the image; the creativity and artistic intent was the process

start a business: you’re still being exploited, and now you’re an exploiter

emigrate: okay and now you’re in a different place and have ended back at the original choices

social support: which usually require ending back and the original choices

retrain: okay you retrain and now… you find yourself back at the original choices

“as a gay man…”

wait

no, women quite like us

you don’t actually need to fit the whole model in RAM at once: the 70b for example “requires” something like 120gb of VRAM, but i’m running it on my 64gb m1 mbp - it just starts to run a bit slower (still very usable; i reckon about a word per 300ms)

fun fact: australian power strips all have safety switches in them - not a fuse, and not on everything, but it covers most of the dumb things people do

and that’s the reason bluesky is worth celebrating… sure, it’s not really distributed but the fact that it’s making concessions to look like it is means it’s far more open, and bridges to the real fediverse work… the second social media network becomes a lot more attractive when you can still interact with your family on the first: this is why my parents can still be on gmail and i can make better choices for myself… they’ll eventually come around, because they can switch and not worry about where their contacts are

yup! and this is exactly why it’s good for the fediverse more widely: we have bridges, so we can slowly entice people over… with twitter etc there’s no interoperability so we have a massive network effect hump to get over

figured i’d do this in a no comment since it’s been a bit since my last, but i just downloaded and ran the 70b model on my mac and it’s slower but running fine: 15s to first word, and about half as fast generating words after that but it’s running

this matches with what i’ve experienced with other models too: very large models still run; just much much slower

i’m not sure of things when it gets up to 168b model etc, because i haven’t tried but it seems that it just can’t load the whole model at once and there’s just a lot more loading and unloading which makes it much slower

that’s true - i was running 7b and it seemed pretty much instant, so was assuming i could do much larger - turns out only 14b on a 64gb mac

i believe one of the big advancements with deepseek r1 is their method of adding the reasoning component is novel and very very efficient. i haven’t checked it out, but it could legitimately just be more efficient to run

it’s actually pretty easy to run locally as well. obviously not as easy as just downloading an app, but it’s gotten relatively straight-forward and the peace of mind is nice

check out ollama, and find an ollama UI

that’s not really how this works though… we don’t have the training data, so nobody else can recreate this from scratch exactly

*edit: adding this here because i just saw it elsewhere: https://huggingface.co/blog/open-r1

some people are averse to it because some hugely high percentage of all websites run through it - for privacy reasons, that’s not a good thing - if they enshittify, their data set could be more valuable than metas

you can do similar things for free with cloudflare, if you don’t have an aversion to using cloudflare

us-american arrogance is very present on lemmy literally everywhere.

ftfy

i mean, kinda… that’s how tools work: tools aren’t anything particularly special; they’re just the model replying in a way that the code running the model knows to ingest and perform an action with, rather than just replying to the user… so if the model for whatever reason messed that up, it could probably output tool calls

… and the “common sense” is for sure implemented with tools-like stuff