GftNC
So much is happening in the world, and with (as Tina Brown called him) a berserk brontosaurus in the White House, the topics of possible interest seem endless. The Florida election after which Mar-a-Lago and Trump are now represented by a Democrat? The insider betting on the timing of US military (and PR) actions? The incomprehensible (/s) fact that the state most benefitting from the current situation is Putin’s Russia?
Open Thread, as I mentioned
A while back I signed up to be notified when the county started its process to hire election judges for the primaries. The notice arrived yesterday so I applied. Part of the online process was a voluntary “computer skills” test. One of the first questions was to generate a password that was at least 15 characters and contained at least one each of lower and upper case letters, numbers, and special characters. Several questions later they asked, “What was the password you generated earlier?” Lots of interesting quirks they might be testing for there :^)
‘market-friendly liberals and market-suspicious progressives”
In the interest of more or less re-framing this, I’d invite folks to consider the difference between free markets and capitalism.
We generally conflate them but I’m not sure that is accurate.
To take it a step further, perhaps consider the difference between policies that enable capital formation, versus capitalism as an “ism”.
In the interest of more or less re-framing this, I’d invite folks to consider the difference between free markets and capitalism.
I point out from time to time that we have an extensive system of IP monopolies.
Otherwise known as patents — from the original meaning of the term “make patent” meaning “to make public.”
The whole point of the patent system is to encourage innovation by granting inventors a legally enforceable temporary monopoly in exchange for disclosing how they do something. How long “temporary” ought to last is subject to debate. But the aim is “long enough to turn a profit, but not so long as to discourage further innovation.” (Copyright has a similar goal, although the duration of a copyright has long since passed all reason. The caustic reference to the various extensions as The Mickey Mouse Protection Act tells you what drove that.)
The alternative is a lot of “trade secrets.” Those create monopolies as well, which sometimes outlast patents. We still see those, of course. But nowhere near to the extent of in pre-patent times.
From Grok. Grok seems less concerned about copyright infringements than other AIs.
CharlesWT – Grok seems less concerned about copyright infringements than other AIs.
Since every last one of these LLMs is built upon stolen IP we can as well say that Grok’s designers are just more brazen about it than the rest.
In this case, Grok created the image without a hitch, whereas two versions of Google AI Studio created images and then refused to share them.