If this were true (which is nearly impossible since you said “all”), stuff like Anubis wouldn’t exist since you could just toss up a crowd-sourced robots.txt and be done with it.

Tbf I think stuff like frame generation is useful, mostly because game companies often don’t optimize their games well. Of course, they’ll prob optimize them even more poorly now because people will be able to use frame generation.

This issue is largely manifesting through AI scraping right now. Additionally, many intentionally ignore robots.txt. Currently, LLM scrapers are basically just bad actors on the internet. Courts have also ruled in favor of a number of AI companies when sued in the US, so it’s unlikely anything will change. Effectively, if you don’t like the status quo, stuff like this is one of your few options.

This isn’t even mentioning of course whether we actually want these companies to improve their models before resolving the problems of energy consumption and potential displacement of human workers.

Corporations want the existing copyright system for their own products but simultaneously want to freely scrape data from everyone else.

The comments for stuff like this on Yahoo, Fox, etc. are always completely disturbed.

And? Are you saying most people are gonna keep voting for the status quo in such a situation just to stick it to the US? Is it somehow justified if a ruling government rigs elections or something similar simply because they are in opposition to the US government? You realize the world isn’t just black and white, right?

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No, the conditions are just not the same. Chavez was actually popular, whereas Maduro’s rule has been marked by civil unrest for a number of reasons, but one of the main is the absurd inflation rate. Some of these problems were inherited and just got way worse when he took power, but he hasn’t fixed them, so that he keeps winning elections is more than a little suspicious.

The Chinese constitution for example was change by Deng Xiaoping, guy right before Xi and then changed back by Xi. Not much of a ‘constitution’.

? I can’t tell if you’re saying that Deng Xiaoping was the guy in charge right before Xi (which is just wrong since he died like 30 years ago), or if it was changed by him and the guy before Xi (in which case you could have just named him…), but either way, I’m not sure how this supports your point. Really, all it does is make China’s laws sound arbitrary. In any case, the fact Xi did have to remove the term limits added to the constitution in the 80s is the point.

The point is that you’re taking an arbitrary condition which applies to Russia and China and doesn’t apply to Ukraine. But similar arguments of Zelensky staying in power usin martial law can be made. Zelensky is extremely unpopular in Ukraine currently and would almost certainly lose elections if they were held.

I feel like this is a pointless argument, but using the existing constitution and laws to declare martial law while in a war on your own soil is very different from arbitrarily changing the constitution of your country to allow you to rule forever. If the war ends and he remains in power, then it will be a different story.

I don’t care enough about this discussion, so no. I’m just pointing out that the article is basically useless since it’s from the election that was the least likely to be influenced and was also quite a while ago.

Pretty sure the point is they had to change them to be allowed to continue ruling, whereas Zelenksyy just used the existing laws and constitution as-is.

Given that it’s allowed by their constitution, you can’t really say it’s illegitimate. You may not like it, but it’s perfectly in line with Ukraine’s laws.

Also, if there’s ever a time to declare martial law, it’s when your country is actively being invaded.

This article is over a decade old. That was his first election. There have been several elections since, and he’s had the ability to rule by decree for basically a decade now.

From what I understand, the Ukrainian constitution does not allow (national) elections under martial law. It also doesn’t allow amending the constitution under martial law either IIRC, so basically Zelenskyy is president until martial law ends.

I mean, they say earlier that music is actually well-preserved, but it’s disproportionately popular music. If the goal is then to preserve everything, I’d expect them to go for stuff that isn’t likely to be in some random audiophile’s collection or whatever then.

1. Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.

• We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
• For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
• For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

Perhaps I’m reading this wrong, but is this not a little backwards? Since unpopular music is poorly preserved, shouldn’t the focus be on getting the least popular music first?

Dunno if the polls are fully reliable, but this doesn’t surprise me since the few views I’ve heard her express have been pretty shit.

first public speech since becoming chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency two months ago.

It took two months just to repeat what was already known lol

Shock.

Anyway, the article only specifically mentions MTG and Mace as feeling like they aren’t taken seriously. I think it’d be stranger if they both were taken seriously since they’re fucking clowns.

You’re triggering my PTSD from the weekly cross-team meetings I’m forced to attend.

That all these major companies insist on using AI for these completely worthless features that actively make their products worse I think shows that not even they (the companies involved in AI development) know what to do with AI. Like, it really doesn’t matter that this was an “experiment” supposedly. It should have been obvious to anyone with a brain that this was a bad idea, but they did it anyway.