Speitan has not responded to the BBC’s request for comment. The Telegraph reported that when it asked her if she remained friends with Pham, she replied: “Yes, it’s still the case.”

She was reported as saying she believed Pham had been “targeted” by “the system”.

Wild thing to say when he pleaded guilty.

True, true, mustn’t pigeonhole them. You’ve almost got to respect the effort it takes to make godless Calvinism from first principles.

I hate living in the timeline where the options of Harry Potter sex cultists matter.

That’s a very uncharitable view of a mod locking down a heated discussion because they don’t want to deal with it anymore. There’s also KDE devs in that thread who are anti-AI, so I don’t know why you’re concluding they’ve ‘made up their mind’.

Debit cards normally.

What do you mean?

The problem with this is that in the UK and now Australia, to view ‘Adult’ games you need to verify your age with a credit card. Something that isn’t common to have in either country. And in Germany the game is completely delisted.

There’s not even any tiddies! They’re all (according to the dev) covered by scenery. But you can have sex with a bear in BG3 and that’s not adult content

Staffordshire Police also said it would ban the use of face coverings at a protest in Tamworth on Saturday, where Britain First is planning a so-called March for Remigration.

So you can match through town calling for ethnic cleansing and that’s peaceful protest, but a nan holding a sign is terrorism?

Here’s a Bluesky thread by another trans Green party memeber that I think is worth considering.

This is straight up misinformation, btw. There is no evidence that the Jewish Greens were involved with stalling the vote on this motion, David Miller (an actual antisemite) doesn’t provide any evidence. Their actual position on the motion is mixed.

Provenance has never been something you can guarantee with code in an open contribution model (which is not the only way of governing an open source project). For all you know the code could be copy and pasted from a proprietary codebase, or be the product of third party who’s work is being plagiarised by the submitter. A software project is ultimately a community and is build on trust and faith that people are acting in good faith. The kind of person who would deliberately (and gleefully as I’ve seen in some social media posts) go into a community and violate its stated values and standards, no matter how arbitrary and illegitimate they feel those are, has bigger character flaws to worry about than their reliance on stochastic parrots to write code.

‘No AI’ rules are ultimately about fostering certain community values and norms than guaranteeing no LLM code makes it in.

AI code bans may be impossible to enforce in the first place

I hate this attitude that if a rule or standard can’t be enforced perfectly, we shouldn’t strive for it. We can’t (reasonably) run an OS free of proprietary software, does that mean the free software movement should just give up?

Likewise, it’s possible that it may be able to generate AI child porn without any actual child porn in its training dataset, but if it knows what children look like and what nudity looks like, then it could figure out what nude children look like.

This is true and it’s what happened to OpenAI, there’s a section in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI about it. Remember, these companies (under) paid Kenyan workers and gave them PTSD to make sure CSAM and other undesirable content wasn’t in their training set.

A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

Lol, they added ‘Grok is this true’ to the entire platform, just dead on arrival.

Of course you run NetBSD 🙄.

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Lol, when did I disagree with your reasoning? At most we disagree on the meaning of ‘local model’. Have a nice rest of your night, sister.

I bet you don’t own or like an absolute gob of them but it doesn’t change their usefulness

I was commenting based on my experience with this stuff, it was a lot of work to set up and the results I got were bad. I never even contended that it could be useful (but I’m reading selectively), I said you that you need decent hardware for it to be useable. I have an RX 6800 XT and 32GB of RAM and it was really slow, even with recommended models.

Jfc why even comment if you’re gonna be so dumb and selective with your reading?

I tried to engage in good faith, and you proceeded to call me an idiot, sorry I reacted poorly to you being rude. You get what you put in.

Just because you don’t understand a tool or how to properly use it does not mean someone else doesn’t.

You brought up the Kimi model up in a conversation about local models being viable, something that requires 8 Nvidia GB300s as a prerequisite. And I’m sorry I don’t follow you’re little hobby close enough for you, I did try it and it sucked.

If you want something useable you need a decent amount of RAM/VRAM and a modern GPU, things that aren’t exactly accessible these days. That Kimi model is apparently half a terabyte in size and requires 100s of GB of VRAM, so I don’t know why you’re saying it’s a ‘local’ model.