skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is more a „how did the sausage get made“ situation, rather than an „is it the same sausage that left the factory“ one.
I think the argument is somewhat more interesting if the book was pirated--both you as an individual and OpenAI as a company could be sued for that.

But I really don't see how you could prove OpenAI did that, since ChatGPT could have learned from existing summaries on Wikipedia and Goodreads.
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I mean, that's the way you state facts that your suit is based on in order to start setting the bounds of discovery. They're asserting that they have reason to believe it's true, and now with a suit, they can look for themselves to be sure.
congrats on launching OP. i have to say the sidebar is very confusing, does too much, and had no explanation of how to use them. hope you get to work on the UX a bit.

edit - just saw that you made more videos to explain those things. well put them all in one video!
I just happened upon Litestar too, looks great! Love the better governance than fastapi plus positioning closer to something in between fastapi and Django. The inclusion of CSRF in particular is really nice. Great work!
Except when you don't want the high-touch service. Good service companies recognize this and have some accommodation for the customer who knows what they want and are there to buy, not shop.

If I'm there to shop, I'll ask them to point me to what I want to try out and do so. If I'm buying clothes, for example, high-touch is great. "I like this style, but this manufacturer doesn't fit me well, do you have something similar you recommend?"

But when I needed a new Apple Watch charger on a trip, I walked into the store, said I needed one, and the only question was did I want USB-A or USB-C? A, thanks, sold. I was in and out in less time than it took my wife to find and use the restroom in the mall.

One bizarre experience I had was when I had a Genius Bar appointment to fix an inaudible handset speaker on an iPhone (apparently they have a program that runs through a wide gamut of frequencies to knock out any odd bits of dust). Yep, it worked. Then the Genius asked me if I would make a phone call (can't, it's a backup phone, no SIM) or FaceTime call (um, to whom?) to test it. It's work hours, the people I would call would be busy at work, how about I just call your phone? No, can't share that.

I said, Genius, why don't you have a generic thing that I can FaceTime and you can respond to that's part of your work identity? I don't need your personal info. Just "applestore-ZIPcode-[five-digit one-time account]@icloud.com" would work.
> Harvard continues to have a great reputation because they continually produce so many notable alumni.

You don’t need to be a good school to have notable alumni. They aren’t “producing” anything. Ive league schools use the same curriculums as the unknown university I went to, and from the lectures I’ve seen, the teaching isn’t any better either.

They just reject anybody who isn’t a well-connected, hard-working high performer, so it makes it look like they are producing notable alumni. Good material in -> good material out.

And, yeah, you can discriminate pretty heavily and still be selective within the remaining groups you aren’t discriminating against. It’s not strictly either-or.

And, who knows, maybe they knowingly discriminate against lower/middle class people and against asians because they perceive those groups will struggle more after graduation due to their disadvantages (targets of racism / lack of connections / lack of money) and will not make the school look as good?
> You are massively overestimating the effect a teacher's input has on student output

Who needs teachers, then, if they are so ineffectual? Might as well replace them with a canned video course.

BTW, every school knows who the good teachers are and who the useless ones are. They get paid exactly the same. Do you think that's a good system?

> There are teachers who are better than other teachers, but it's not generally measurable in "student outcomes".

Of course they are.

> Just like there are better programmers than other programmers, but it's not measurable in "company revenue".

Company revenue is the sum of all the contributions of its workers. A student outcome is not the sum of the other student's outcomes, and is measurable independently.

> Teachers will be incentivized to move to schools or districts with better students.

Sure. And there are only so many of those positions available.
My point is that it has finite set and limited resources, that mind resources could be used to solve the many local issues. Instead they are offshored as cheap labor.

The author is pointing fingers and those who try to solve local problems, yet he goes later to say there are tons of local problems and half the country doesn't have bank account.
Train artillery requires a base. Artillery agros biters, so they navigate to the location of the train. If the train is still there, it gets destroyed. If the train isn't there, the tracks get destroyed. And in any case, the train isn't automated: it doesn't drive out to where they are and kill them. The train artillery just makes more sense than stationary artillery: it has the same range, and it is the most effective way to transport artillery shells. Think about that for a minute: the most effective way to transport artillery shells to stationary artillery is to send it in a train artillery wagon. Why the fuck would you build stationary artillery! LOL!

Spidertrons are also not automated. They don't patrol. They don't run away when they are out of ammo, come back and reload.

Love the MIRV: like the too-short-range nukes on the spidertron, they are a great way to bomb yourself back to the stone-age. The video nicely shows how it's first missile on automatic mode blows up his own base. Brilliant.
I'm also one of these people who doesn't "get the joke". This could be a mildly interesting example of a sort that doesn't need to do any comparisons, but it's certainly not "constant time" given that it needs to loop over all the input values (twice actually).

In the end, this is basically just bucket sort, only that the buckets are managed by the OS. And nobody has ever claimed that bucket sort is constant time.
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That doesn’t necessarily negate their point. What % of students attend a four year college that requires the SAT? If a student attends junior college they wouldn’t need an SAT (among other pathways to college that don’t require it).

They didn’t source their statistic so it could just be made up but I think the general point that those that achieve an EdD were above average students seems likely.
Some people have trouble rejecting help and feel awkward doing so. Of course, it is a totally normal thing to do, to reject help, and people should practice it!
The allegation is that the model was trained on a copy of the original work that was improperly obtained. The fact that it can produce a summary is being offered as evidence of that claim. You can't be sued for making a reference or whistling a song, nor you could have been sued for being in possession of a pirated copy, only making a pirated copy. Copyright law has many warts, but it's not some Kafkaesque mind prison.
Normal taxis exist and you can get them called in by your hotel or whatnot but from the few experiences of using them, they require payment in cash or alipay and some of them refuse cash becoming extremely confused why you can't alipay for the taxi.

They're also way less convenient. Try calling for a taxi when you don't even know how to recognize a taxi advertisement, never mind finding a taxi company where the staff speak English in a non-major city. In Shanghai it's not hard, but try something off the beaten path and you'll seriously struggle. In fact, outside of Shanghai I struggled to find anywhere which would accept payment with anything other than cash or Alipay/Wechat (sometimes you weren't even able to use cash).

I was in China for business reasons, I needed to get around. Jumping through hoops was the name of the game.
Is virtue based on the input or the output? Are people from lower incomes leaving and becoming senators, presidents, ceos, etc, at a higher rate than elsewhere or does that remain the domain of the legacy students who were already politically equipped at birth?

Having a brilliant son who would have previously been discriminated against by Harvard’s admission process, I’m happy to see explicit race components removed. However, should he choose to apply and go (mostly to be connected to opportunities he otherwise wouldn’t have), if he leaves with a degree and nothing more, what good is it? The one Harvard professional peer I had came from the middle class, ended up at the same FAANG as me (who is just about as unconnected as one could be), and burned out in the process. Sample size of one, but it wasn’t an inspiring story.
This is ridiculously cool, demo is slick and fast! I work pretty extensively with tiling pipelines and GeoTiffs right now as I'm building out a mass repository and platform for historical map and aerial analysis (https://pastmaps.com - still very early so don't judge it too hard please)

As part of this work, I similarly hit problems with using the raw GeoTiff files as my source and found that I was able to build some custom tiling hooks into MapLibre coupled with http range queries on the static files hosted in S3 to bypass the need for tiling. It does push the compute to the clients but I've found it's actually pretty fast even on older mobile devices.

If this MapLibre GeoTiff source support is at all of interest, I'm happy to share some basic code or even open source some of that work. Here I was thinking I was the only weird dude on the internet messing with this stuff :D
Not necessary. Do end of year testing, the same as is done today for assessing achievement levels.
While I agree with them, I've found a lot of the other responses to not be conducive to you actually understanding where you misunderstood the situation.

AI performance often decreases at a logarithmic rate. Simply put, it likely will hit a ceiling, and very hard. To give a frame of reference, think of all the places that AI/ML already facilitate elements of your life (autocompletes, facial recognition, etc). Eventually, those hit a plateau that render it unenthusing. LLMs are destined for the same. Some will disagree, because its novelty is so enthralling, but at the end of the day, LLMs learned to engage with language in a rather superficial way when compared to how we do. As such, it will never capture the magic of denotation. Its ceiling is coming, and quickly, though I expect a few more emergent properties to appear before that point.
> this quote from the complaint seems obviously false

I notice you go on to provide an argument only for why it might not be true.

Also, seeing the other post on this, I asked chatgpt-4 for a summary of “ The Ruby of Kishmoor” as well, and it provided one to me, though I had to ask twice. I don’t know anything about that book, so I can’t tell if its summary is accurate, but so much for your test.

It seems pretty naive to me to just kind of assume chatgpt must be respecting copyright, and hasn’t scanned copyrighted material without obtaining authorization. Perhaps discovery will settle it, though. Logs of what they scanned should exist. (IMO, a better argument is that this is fair use.)
In which case it ceases to be "elite".

This is the system working as intended. If you lift up masses of people, how will the class structure be preserved?
Judging by a quick glance over [0], the story indeed revolves around one Jonathan Rugg, but it looks like "manages to escape with the ruby" is completely false. Yet another hallucination I guess.

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3687/pg3687-images.html
It's not for the speed but separating parts of the same monolithic program into a microservice like structure.
They’d probably need to be hundreds of times larger.

It’d be a lot easier to stop pretending people from other schools can’t be just as good, or even autodidacts from no school.

Of course that undermines the price premium these places charge.
In this case I don't think it is. There are legal questions that simply have to be asked and discussed before proceeding mass adoption of generative models.

Lawsuits like this are tests to evaluate the current state of affairs and to force legislation into dealing with the greater issue of AI in context of copyright, IP, and fair use. It would only be "in the way" if it would actually stop or hinder anything, which a lawsuit on its own isn't.
429... Hilarious.
We do ours every weekend. Fresh bedsheets are their own kind of luxury. It sounds like our household is rare. Or obsessive, since the article doesn't even mention such regularity.
> Schools filled with the top test takers would be quite dull.

Just like sports teams with the best players?

In Europe there's a bunch of universities with the top test takers, and there's no reason to call them dull places.
Why does it make you cynical? If you can bring up the poor (especially the poorest) to make them middle class, their incremental tax rate at that point is still much less than 100%. They're still far better off.

Am I supposed to be bothered that the government gets more money when they succeed at doing this? No, I will not be bothered by that. I only wish they could have 10 times the success that they have had. If that gives them 10 times the extra money, that's fine. I'll take that state of affairs, gladly.
I absolutely abhor using a dead person's image or material for new material. I don't want to hear an AI Beethoven or read an AI Hemingway.

Actors are the same. Those are not the real artists, just what some corporate shill thought those actors would do. If you enjoy that, understand that it's not different at all from watching an animated movie.
Can ChatGPT Pass the Blade Runner’s Voight-Kampff Test? (2022)
> The complaint lays out in steps why the plaintiffs believe the datasets have illicit origins — in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.” Bibliotik and the other “shadow libraries” listed, says the lawsuit, are “flagrantly illegal.”

This is the makers of AI explicitly saying that they did use copyrighted works from a book piracy website. If you downloaded a book from that website, you would be sued and found guilty of infringement. If you downloaded all of them, you would be liable for many billions of dollars in damages.

But companies like Google and Facebook get to play by different rules. Kill one person and you're a murderer, kill a million and to ask you about it is a "gotcha question" that you can react to with outrage.
They have it I think https://repology.org/repository/nix_unstable
The ai is not a person. The ai is not a person. The ai is not a person
Do we have any indication whether it’s going to be responsive and fast enough for AR in sports?

Maybe it’s a solution looking for a problem, but the best use of AR has always seemed to be for activities that require full attention. Flying a plane, driving a car, riding a bike, etc.
Macroquads can also nicely build cross-platform. For Web, Android, Windows, Linux and from what I understand there also work being done for iOS.

I personally like it and use it because it clicks with how I think, so there isn't much extra additional learning to be done.
Yes, I was hoping that kvm with qemu works by now. If kvm support is not enabled, it is not likely that firecracker would work either..
ah the PR is on ongoing https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/pull/4118
This does at least correctly name the main character, but I think it's otherwise hallucinated.

The plot of the story is that Jonathan Rugg is a Quaker who works as a clerk in Philadelphia. His boss sends him on a trip to Jamaica (credit for mentioning the Caribbean!). After arriving, he meets a woman who asks him to guard for her an ivory ball, and says that there are three men after her who want to steal it. By coincidence, he runs into the first man, they talk, he shows him the ball, and the man pulls a knife. In the struggle, the man is accidentally stabbed. Another man arrives, and sees the scene. Jonathan tries to explain, and shows him the orb. The man pulls a gun, and in the struggle is accidentally shot. A third man arrives, same story, they go down to the dock to dispose of the bodies and the man tries to steal the orb. In the struggle he is killed by when a plank of the dock collapses. Jonathan returns to the woman and says he has to return the orb to her because it's brought too much trouble. She says the men who died were the three after her, and reveals that the orb is actually a container, holding the ruby. She offers to give him the ruby and to marry him. He refuses, saying that he is already engaged back in Philadelphia, and doesn't want anything more to do with the ruby. He returns to Philadelphia and gets married, swearing off any more adventures.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Howard_Pyle%27s_Book_of_Pirat...
Your comment made me think about the book Track Changes. It's about the advent of word processors for creative writers. Apparently Isaac Asimov was an early adopter of the computer. Had one sent to his office and there were computer boxes all around the room while it was getting set up. He was fascinated by it and used it often. But he used it for short pieces like letters or short stories and used his typewriter for long pieces of fiction. I guess that's a good example of "deeply familiar" tools.
Capitalism has been tried more times than communism and has failed to reward productive people more times.

It's 2023. The absurd idea that, for example, the billionaires pushing the Metaverse or burning Twitter to the ground got there by being productive, is thoroughly disproven. Stop pushing this motivated ideology.
Sure, but at least they are being run for public good. Stolen artifacts sitting in someone's private collection don't do any good to the public OR the native Americans who originally "owned" the land.

We're so far from transferring authority to tribes that the meaningful alternative to public ownership is private ownership, which is worse.
Lack of foot traffic was their choice. Apple stores were far more picky about COVID than the local norm. You had to show an appointment or a "ready for pickup" email to be allowed into the store. And that was early 2021, when I was fully vaccinated (and had the card to prove it).
If the rights holders know that you downloaded the torrent they can sue you - but the fact that you produced that summary is weak evidence for that claim.

Producing the summary is absolutely not an infringing act. Downloading the torrent might be.
Thanks Andrew. Still struggling a bit with the business/marketing side of things but the idea appears popular and the work itself is fun and fulfilling.

Thanks again for your support.
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Not even gemstones are that stupidly processed.
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> you must have legally purchased a copy, or been given it by someone who did so (for example, if you received it as a gift).

I am also NAL, but can I imagine it goes further than that. Just purchasing a copy doesn't let you create and sell (directly as content or indirectly via a service like a chatbot) derivative works that are substantially similar in style and voice to the original work.

For example, an LLM 's response to the request:

"Write a short story about a comical trip to the nail salon in the style of Sarah Silverman"

... IMO doesn't constitute fair use, because the intellectual property of the artist is their style even more than the content they produce. Their style, built from their lived human experience, is what generates their copyrighted content. Even more than the content, the artist's style should be protected. The fact that a technology exists that can convincingly mimic their style doesn't change that.

One might then ask, well what about artists mimicking each others work? Well, any artist with a shred of integrity will credit their major influences.

We should hold machines (and their creators) to an even tougher standard than we hold people when it comes to mimicry. A real person can be inspired and moved by another person's artistic work such that they mimic it. Inspiration means nothing to a machine.
> What if it turns out that OpenAI bought a copy of every book ingested be ChatGPT?

well, let's see the receipts then, they will surely have no problem winning in that case.
This is very interesting - thank you for sharing your knowledge. Any other related rererences - the tech that enables this sort of tracking?
Your local time. It is when your sky is (theoretically) at its darkest, reflective cloud cover notwithstanding, and your area is facing into the particle's path.
Are we all reading the same complaint?

They say:

> in a Meta paper detailing LLaMA, the company points to sources for its training datasets, one of which is called ThePile, which was assembled by a company called EleutherAI. ThePile, the complaint points out, was described in an EleutherAI paper as being put together from “a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker.”

Does that stack up?

The Meta Paper - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.13971.pdf - says:

> We include two book corpora in our training dataset: the Gutenberg Project, which contains books that are in the public domain, and the Books3 section of ThePile (Gao et al., 2020)

The Pile Paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.00027 - says it was trained (in part) on "Books3" which it describes as:

> Books3 is a dataset of books derived from a copy of the contents of the Bibliotik private tracker made available by Shawn Presser (Presser, 2020).

Shawn Presser's link is at https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1320282149329784833 and he describes Book3 as

> Presenting "books3", aka "all of bibliotik" - 196,640 books - in plain .txt

I don't have the time and space to download the 37GB file. But if Silverman's book is in there... isn't this a slam dunk case?

Meta's LLaMA is - as they seem to admit - trained on pirated books.
high school and public libraries have ton of _absolutely_free_ materials for SAT prep, this is really lame excuse.

it is not the lack of money that is holding the kids, it is lack of willpower to push yourself to top 10%/1%/0.1%.

It is hard work and not every kid can do it, considering all the leisure alternatives they got

Money==High SAT is silly meme that only lazy parents perpetuate. If money could give high SAT then there would be no need in Legacy Admissions in the first place! (Why need legacy backdoor, if you can hire tutor to get top 0.1% score?)
> Is my brain just by the act of existing continually infringes on copyright? Can I be sued because I made a reference to a movie I pirated or because I whistle a song I never bought?

I think it would fall under fair use. But you can imagine what the world can become with microphones and cameras everywhere, which can already run music and speech recognition by themselves, in seconds. What a time to be alive!
> Grading your own work is not going to lead to healthy outcomes.

Sigh. Why do people keep bringing this up? Of course you'd need an assessment test that is not under the control of the teacher. Nobody sets up an incentive program where the person being incentivized evaluates himself.

Come on. Give me a reasonable riposte.
>> Talent agencies will negotiate training rights fees in bulk for popular content creators

AFAICT there is no legal recognition of "training rights" or anything similar. First sale right is a thing, but even textbooks don't get extra rights for their training or educational value.