Who exactly? At present I'm wholly unaware of anybody on the FB board who I'd call a Nazi.

I'm genuinely asking by the way, that isn't meant to be some kind of rebuttal.

However, I would again note the fact that any current board members were likely not on the board when many Facebook users joined, (and the lock-in they experience keeps them there) and even if they were, what kind of person is ever aware of individual corporate board members?

Extrapolating that back out to your Nazi bar analogy, that would be like if you went into a bar, the people in there were your friends and family, the workers at the front were normal people, but the person who owned the LLC behind the bar was a Nazi. In that case, to "be astonished at the fascist rhetoric of the Nazi bar" isn't exactly unexpected!

Comparing Facebook to a Nazi bar is ridiculous.

Facebook, just like all social media companies, has continually used the overton window as its standard for acceptable content. When political leanings shift, the way the company polices content on its platform, chooses what topics to boost or bury, and decides what topics to promote as part of its corporate culture changes.

It is by its very nature the thing that maximizes the political acceptableness of content for advertisers to appear next to. Most people joined Facebook when the political climate was nowhere near as right-wing as it is now, so it's not like they walked in, saw a sign that said "We're Nazis" and went "okay, this is fine."

The fact they're changing their hateful conduct policy now is what's turning them into the Nazi bar, they weren't always that way. (and yes, I'm aware Facebook and Zuck did tons of horrible shit in the past, but as a platform it wasn't anywhere near the level of terrible it will be now, nor did it have anywhere near Nazi levels of political leanings)

And not to mention how the network effect kind of changes this from "Nazi Bar" to "Nazi City" because it has a much more difficult process to escape due to it quite literally holding you and all your friends, family, photos, and videos hostage. There's less of a choice when it comes to leaving platforms that ensnare you with network effects than there is to simply leave a bar.

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Finally a good use of AI that doesn't overpromise functionality it can't actually provide. Just a system for rewriting page text as tags. This is a feature I'll legitimately use.

I think that given that context, the idea they used it as a base image and generated the rest on top of it does actually seem quite likely. Especially if they'd used a tool like ControlNet, that would explain how the text was still as consistent as it is, albeit not perfect.

I suppose it sort of looks like that, but it also looks like it could have been an image that was smoothed/upscaled by an "AI" algorithm, but not generated by it directly.

I've upscaled a lot of images before, and the slight font blurring, crinkle lines becoming smoother, translucency of the fingernail looking off, etc all looks to me more like upscaling or smoothing than it does a complete generation.

I'm not ruling it out completely, but generally, this length and quality of text isn't something an AI model can consistently do. It will deteriorate very quickly if you try and have a GenAI model output this much text.

Doesn't look like that to me, it just looks like someone quickly drew it up in that general style.

It's what drives most billionaire mentalities: elite projection.

They think that what they want must be what everyone wants. They believe that what's best for them is best for everyone as long as they believe it to be morally okay for their own interests.

For a billionaire that regularly isolates himself from not just society, but also his own company's employees, having fake profiles where computers do the communication instead of a human, go along and agree with whatever you say, remain eternally unoffensive, and exist solely to increase engagement doesn't seem like a bad idea, since it seems almost like what he'd want for himself.

As Cory Doctorow put it, "An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it."

If OpenAI wants a pass, then just like how piracy services make content freely open and available, they should make their models open.

Give me the weights, publish your datasets, slap on a permissive license.

If you're not willing to contribute back to society with what you used from it, then you shouldn't exist within society until you do so.

For those who don't care to read the full article:

This basically just confines any cookies generated on a page, to just that page.

So, instead of a cookie from, say, Facebook, being stored on site A, then requested for tracking purposes on site B, each individual site would be sent its own separate Facebook cookie, that only gets used on that site, preventing it from tracking you anywhere outside of the specific site you got it from in the first place.

The "platform economy" is just another term for digital landlords.

Fuck 'em.

Adblockers are the largest consumer boycott in history.

Google isn't just disabling an extension, they're attacking a boycott comprised of 200,000,000+ people, all around the globe, standing up to forced manipulation of our beliefs and habits by profit-hungry corporations.