But we can’t afford to pay. I don’t think open models like the one in the OP article would be developed and released for free to the public if there was a complex process of paying billions of dollars to rightsholders in order to do so. That sort of model would favor a monopoly of centralized services run only by the biggest companies.
I use FreeTube, but this doesn’t seem like a “youtube piracy” solution because it is streaming the content directly from youtube, which can ultimately prevent access; I already am blocked from watching certain videos that require you to be logged in to watch.
The problem is basically, if there is a specific youtube video you want to watch, but youtube insists that you must provide ID to see it, right now I don’t think there’s actually a lot of recourse for that because there are too many such videos for anyone else to actually host them or offer torrents or anything.
I’m assuming that mandatory ID checks would make yt-dlp not work
How do you even do that?
but the kinds of people who grape others generally don’t feel shame
I think this is probably not true.
the primary tool society uses to respond to grape, assault, prison, ostracizing or murder is, so like, so what is there less shame?
Those tools aren’t equally available to everyone, they are expressions of power, which some people have access to more than others.
and there’s a well-defined mission in each zone
It’s been a long time but I remember there being missions with scripted events and objectives and stuff, but then also areas where the main thing to do was simply travel through it to get to other places. My favorite moment from the game was when I worked out that you could skip a portion of the normal progression by getting to a higher level area early to buy more powerful equipment, but actually getting there was a real challenge due to being underleveled and the difficulty of getting past enemies without killing them. I got a group to make the attempt (which took some explaining and persuasion because it wasn’t the normal next thing to do) and we spent hours on it and got to the last leg of the journey, but ultimately had to give up because our death penalties were stacked too high to get through that last bit. I was able to make it on a later attempt with a different group using character loadouts more specialized for the task.
Something I think GW1 did really well was doing various things like this to build up a sense of location and meaningful travel, which does a lot of work to compensate for the gameplay itself happening in isolated instances and making the world of the game feel expansive and epic.
Emote only chat
Ass pennies guy in shambles
Reddit recently got rid of their direct message system entirely in favor of their new ‘chat’ system, which overall sucks, but one advantage is you now don’t see messages by default and have the option to ‘ignore’ message requests instead of seeing their content. As for manual moderation, doubt that will ever happen since Reddit is a corporation that isn’t going to want to pay people for that kind of thing.
I don’t watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.
Wasn’t my choice to end it, but working out did help, the physical discomfort dulls the emotional pain. Although I did it at home rather than going to a gym. Years later I’m still more in shape than I was before that episode.
What about a way to donate (held in reserve for that purpose?) money after the fact for specific commits, and then have a way to indicate which things you’d be most likely to donate to going forward if they are completed? This would mean less reliable payments since there wouldn’t be a guarantee any given contribution would result in a payout, but there wouldn’t be any disincentive to work on things and there would be a general idea of what donators want. Plus doing it that way would eliminate the need for a manual escrow process.
I got food stamps benefits in the past, that reapplication process was incredibly stressful because something always goes wrong due to bureaucratic fuckups I had no control over, and then I would have to wait on hold on the phone for six hours on a weekday to fix it. Obviously these people know this and want it to be even worse for everyone on the program, fuck them. They know there’s tons of people who qualify who don’t bother because of how confusing and shitty the application is.
Maybe a little, but I think it fits pretty well, if you look at this from a “fuck copyright” angle. It’s easy to see the problems with what Disney is doing here and in general.
I bet they also hope to ultimately corral all fanart into spaces they directly control.
Even if they are trying to hack me it’s only polite. Plus on the very remote chance they somehow find this and care they would have slightly more info about me.
Tried setting this up, caught a few already
Barring civilians from using encryption and software deemed dangerous is a new level imo. These are the tools we have to fight this stuff, maintaining those rights is a big deal.
At least vote in the primaries
I don’t think this is entirely true; yeah, large foundational models have training costs that are beyond the reach of individuals, but plenty can be done that is not, or can be done by a relatively small organization. I can’t find a direct price estimate for Apertus, and it looks like they used their own hardware, but it’s mentioned they used ten million gpu hours, and GH200 gpus; I found a source online claiming a rental cost of $1.50 per hour for that hardware, so I think the cost of training this could be loosely estimated to be something around 20 million dollars.
That is a lot of money if you are one person, but it’s an order of magnitude smaller than the settlements of billions of dollars being paid so far by the biggest AI companies for their hasty unauthorized use of copyrighted materials. It’s easy to see how copyright and legal costs could potentially be the bottleneck here preventing smaller actors from participating.
How would that even work though? Yes, copyright currently favors the wealthy, but that’s because the whole concept of applying property rights to ideas inherently favors the wealthy. I can’t imagine how it could be the opposite even in theory, but in practice, it seems clear that any legislation codifying limitations on use and compensation for AI training will be drafted by lobbyists of large corporate rightsholders, at the obvious expense of everyone with an interest in free public ownership and use of AI technology.