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I’m a software engineer early in my career. I love all things science and tech related. I’m passionate about building a free and open digital world with strong privacy protections. In my free time, you’ll find me listening to kpop and reading sci-fi
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🤦Oh, it’s the Snowden revelations all over again.
They are claiming that AI-powered mass surveillance is a good thing but mass **domestic** surveillance isn’t
We have a real problem brewing with the "Board of Peace" and it needs much more attention.
1) There is no legal entity for "Board of Peace" organized under the laws of any country, meaning it is subject to NO country's laws.
2) Trump is acting like the US is party to it as a treaty organization, but only Congress has the power to approve that.
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First: checking for punctuation errors and other typos *in my own work* in a model running on *my own laptop* has nothing - not one single, solitary thing - in common with your example.
Nothing.
Literally, nothing.
But second: I literally license my work for commercial republication and it is widely republished in commercial outlets without any payment or notice to me.
@bazkie @prinlu @FediThing @tante
I do not accept the premise that scraping for training data is unethical (leaving aside questions of overloading others' servers).
This is how every search engine works. It's how computational linguistics works. It's how the Internet Archive works.
Making transient copies of other peoples' work to perform mathematical analysis on them isn't just acceptable, it's an unalloyed good and should be encouraged:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/
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