Capricorn_Geriatric

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

No it doesn't because all mastodon data is public and does not require ToS agreement to be collected.

ToS are legalese bullshit. They mean next to nothing since most stuff if it comes to court, gets annuled.

ToS kind of does protect you, but holding tge service hostage or not (as in you can't watch one little youtube video without selling your soul to Google) doesn't make a big difference - rrasonable expectations are that users own their content (as is the case in youtube's case - youtube doesn't ponce on your videos afaik), although they do own rights to distributing it (obviously), and using sane technological measures to prevent what they don't want. In youtube's case that's watching e.g. privated videos, and in another case it can be AI scrapers.

Robots.txt is, just like a ToS, a contract. It just isn't legalese as it isn't meant to scare people, but be useful to programmers making the site and those using the scraper. They're programmers, not marketers or lawyers, of course they won't deal with legalese if they csn avoid it.

Again, law is not leagese.

A robots.txt file is a contract by use,like when you park in a charge zone - entering the zone, you accept the obigation to pay.

When you scrape a site you first check for robots.txt in all the reasonable places it should be, look for its terms, and follow them... If you don't want to riskgetting sued.

Similarily, entering a store, you are expected to pay for what you take. There is no entry machine like on a metro where you, instead if swiping a card, read the store's T&C's, but know that it's common sense security will come after you, if not the police. Yet you clicked no "I agree"? How come you don't just take what you want?

And robots.txt is a mature technology and easily a "standard". Any competent lawyer will point that out to the jury and judge, who will most likely rule appropristely. The Internet is not the Wild West anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I wanted to interject about how "ecosystem" is a word only used for locked-in stuff like Apple and Google, but y'know what?

THIS is a proper ecosystem. It is actually organic, made of independent moving parts, unlike the clockwork made by big tech, internal to each and to a large extent indivisible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

They can also get some guns easier than some beer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Or maybe it's trained on some SF. Any agents like ScubaGPT are always self-preserving in such stories.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (9 children)

ChatGPT is not sentient, it doesn't feel, it doesn't have thoughts. It has regurgitation and hallucinations.

ChatGPT isn't sentient, doesn't feel or have thoughts. It has

While I agree with what you mean, I'd just like to point out that "hallucinations" is just another embellished word like the ones you critique - were AI to have real hallucinations, it would need to think and feel. Since it doesn't, its "hallucinations" are hallucinations only to us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Press the Start button. The React Native app doesn't... React.

The ship's main computer and all its systems crash - every single fancy monitor shows the same BSoD.

Since the doors are all electronic, due to safety concerns on Earth that have gotten overlooked while making the craft, all the doors release and open.

You see the smiley faces and QR codes dissapearing as the monitors get yanked out into the void.

You soon follow.

The end./s

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I'd assume the train passes past the station either way, so it's just a matter of stopping or not.

She probably has a yearly/minthly ticket, meaning no one needs to actually be tzere at the station. The train just comes, stops and goes. Doesn't seem like too much of an added cost.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Diminishing returns has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

The child having no money is not a problem.

Children are easily influenced and gullible.

A child will pester their parents to buy what they want, potentially for weeks.

Bombarding children with some product, even if for "grown-ups" can make them like it in the future when they're grown up themselves. It is a very long-term strategy, but it does work since people tend to associate brands from their childhood with quality.

But I agree. Ads directed at kids always seemed distasteful to me, vut it was usually mixed in with "normal" TV or even YouTube ads. But now, when you can't open a video on YouTube and have it play minimized because it's "for kids", you'd expect Google'd also make the ads at least less distasteful than on TV or "grownup" YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And the 7-day free trian totally will not become a 2 year subscription which costs more to cancel than keep, and the price will not be 3x the sticker price had you just gotten to the "buy" option. We're a legit business!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Personally I'd say Statesian than Statesman, but it is the same thing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Excel probably does too.

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