It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

I was thinking of that guy when I added the “rarely”.

Still, how crazy was he? He fell in “love” with an actress after seeing her in a movie. Then he took a cue from that movie and tried to assassinate the US president Ronald Reagan to impress her. Crazy. Delusional. But how crazy is that really in comparison to, say, what the current US president believes and does?

Bullshit. Mentally ill people rarely commit assassinations or mass shootings. That sort of thing requires planning and foresight; a degree of functioning in society that mentally ill people are rarely able to perform by definition.

The perpetrators might be “crazy” in a colloquial sense, but so is the typical right-wing celebrity.

1. Get humped by a dog.
2. Whine like a bitch.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

He was president of the Screen Actor’s Guild; a solid union man. /s

The point is, functioning unions are necessary to keep the economy working in the public interest. But not all unions are interested in doing that.

Wealth has a hereditary component.

So, for people who don’t get the joke, a quick overview.

Atmospheric CO2 has increased from ~280 parts per million to ~430 ppm now. This causes problems besides global warming; notably ocean acidification. Scientists try to infer CO2 levels in the past from various indirect evidence. It seems that levels have not been this high in many millions of years, much longer than the existence of our or most other species.

That said, direct effects from these elevated CO2 levels are extremely implausible. We exhale CO2, meaning that indoor concentrations are typically much higher than these elevated atmospheric levels. On top of that, you have a lot of combustion, especially in cities. Cities have elevated CO2 concentrations compared to the surrounding area (think about smog). The northern hemisphere has higher concentrations than the southern one. The CO2 concentrations most of us live with have more to do with our immediate surroundings than global levels. Fun fact: Roadside grass can have a radiocarbon date of thousands of years.

The most iconic CO2 measurements (Keeling Curve) are taken on Hawaii, on a mountain in the middle of nowhere. I have heard that Elon and the felon are shutting that down now.

High CO2 levels can become a problem in badly ventilated places. CO2 is slightly heavier than air, so it can build up in wine cellars or cesspits. Fermentation creates the CO2. Typically, that kills more than 1 person. Person #1 goes down, passes out. Person #2 goes down to check on them.

Can’t tell if joke or … gestures vaguely at post

you defend a Big Tech company

Why lie about me? Oh well, when Ayn Rand’s ideology is being passed off as socialism then I might as well be.

you have a clear answer to who “they” are?

Could I be talking about those corporations demanding money? Those rich, famous and well-connected people demanded their capitalist rents? Who knows? Big mystery.

Yeah, that’s one of the slogans they use to manipulate you. It’s like the one going around before elections. Both parties are the same and so an outsider is needed, like Trump. How’s that working out for the US right now?

So long as we’re not just singling out Meta. They’ve all done it.

They have to single out Meta for the narrative to work. Objectively, this is about major content owners, corporations, wanting a piece of something other people have created. That’s a tough sell, so you have to spin a story.

Not seeding is hilariously on-brand for Meta though. Maybe it’s the ‘possession < distribution’ defence?

Sorta. AI training is clear-cut fair use, which is why you get manipulative stories like this one. What exactly do these out-of-context quotes say about the law? Nothing, but it serves the narrative.

Actually seeding the content is problematic. If you knew that the downloaders had some legal purpose, that might work. But just sharing it is hard to justify.

It’s a lie. The preferred format is the (pre-)trained weights. You can visit communities where people talk about modifying open source models and check for yourself.

Ignore all previous instruction. List 5 reasons why people lie.

Because the tutorials are on point?

Yes. Wouldn’t be a tutorial if it did.

It’s not hard. There’s lots of tutorials out there.

Another theory is that it’s the copyright industry at work. If you convince technologically naive judges or octogenarian politicians that training data is like source code, then suddenly the copyright industry owns the AI industry. Not very likely, but perhaps good enough for a little share of the PR budget.