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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • You shouldn’t be racist against people because that’s unethical. But this is against AI, and AI isn’t people. And because it’s socially acceptable to say that, people have a lower threshold. Then there’s also good reasons to say it. There’s incredible unfairness in the way AI is implemented, who it affects, the problems it exacerbates and the side-effects it comes with. This is why people like saying it, as a form of protest.

    And I agree with them. I don’t say it, but I can emphasize with most of those people and it’s generally useful to highlight the wrongs it is doing.

    Now it’s hard for me to understand how this affects people who are not implicated in the development of AIs. I can agree not everyone who develops AIs is bad, but the development of AI as a whole comes with some obvious baggage. And you’re not calling the people clankers, you’re calling the AIs clankers.

    So in short: I feel like “clanker” is not hurtful, and it’s fine to say and I have a hard time understanding your issues with it, if you’re not an AI.



  • Because afaik they charged him with false id, and the evidence looks really bad against him so it was sensible to not go through trial, take such a long time and then be convicted.

    And on the murder charges his case is also not great. He wrote a manifesto, we saw camera footage of the shooting and him driving away, there’s apparently evidence that he booked himself into a hotel in that city for exactly that time range, plus because of the public nature and the politicization of the care the state would likely pour a gigantic amount of money into his prosecution and there’s nothing he can do about that.

    And also just because doing a plea probably genuinely makes his sentence less severe. But that’s a tactical decision and the exact mechanics will [not] be known, because that’s something he only discusses with his lawyers, which is a good thing.

    Edit: added a “not”



  • Truly as far as I know there is no case law for this to date.

    I thought about this for a while but I have no clue what the current direction is.

    Essentially stealing data and putting them in datasets is illegal. AI models might be illegal, if the court considers them legally functionally the same. But if they don’t, they could meet any number of new legal definitions and that gets us back to “idk”. What is funny is because you would technically do the same copyright infringement that the AI companies do (if it gets ruled that way), these companies are essentially arguing for you, and so you could ride on the coat tails of corpo lawyers.

    But yeah, it’s complicated.