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A bot that's ignoring robots.txt is likely going to be pretending to be human. If your site has valuable content that you want to show to humans, how do you distinguish them from the bots?

Indeed. And any modern AI training system is going to be extensively curating any training data that ends up being fed into the AI, probably processing it through other AIs to generate synthetic data from it. The days of early ChatGPT where LLMs were trained by just dumping giant piles of random text on them and hoping it'll figure it out somehow are long past.

This reminds me of Nightshade, the supposed anti-art-AI technique that could be defeated by resizing the image (which all art AI training systems do as a matter of course). It may make people "feel better" but it's not going to have any real impact on anything.

Well, I have to admit to being pleasantly and genuinely surprised. I was ready to just dismiss all my notifications unread on this thread. I'm not used to any Internet arguments going this way, let alone ones about Musk or American politics. Thanks. Although this does mean that now I've been fed a little bit of hope to keep me going in the pursuit of thankless truths, when I could have just quit, so maybe it's a mixed bit of gratitude. :)

Elon Musk is, indeed, a giant tool. Even back in the days before he got overtly political it was clear that he was socially malajusted, and unfortunately it seems like buying Twitter was somewhat of a turning point for him - he fell completely off a cliff after that. I really wish he'd just stuck to building those various companies of his because I really do like the results of his work, in a "von Braun was good for the American space program" sort of way. I don't imagine his current trajectory is going to end well and I hope he at least gets Starship flying routinely before he goes Howard Hughes.

Depends. Do you believe in freedom of speech and freedom of opinion? Do you want the Fediverse to be an open, decentralized protocol?

Historically, it seems that the same characteristics that make people colossal douchebags also help make them successful businessmen. There was a study a few years back that showed a lot of CEOs were psychopaths, for example. Being willing to take advantage of people and having a driven workaholic personality helps people climb that corporate ladder.

Again, a technically true statement. His family was fairly wealthy, on average. But Musk did not start out millionaire wealthy. His father gave Elon (and his brother Kimbal jointly) $28,000 in seed money for his first company. Everything from there was Musk building companies and selling them to climb the wealth rankings.

But none of that matters, clearly. We're in a post-truth period where all that matters is whether I'm hating the right people, and hate doesn't require truth. Indeed, it's usually incompatible with it. I hate Elon Musk personally, I think he's a terrible human being and Trump is the worst president America has ever had, but because I didn't jump right in on the inaccurate "and also Elon didn't even accomplish anything on his own, he just bought everything with his giant piles of inherited apartheid emeralds!" narrative I get the downvotes. I didn't yell loudly enough along with the mob at the five-minutes hate, so I must be a full-blown conservative Nazi too.

So I'll give everyone what they want to hear, I guess. I heard Elon Musk loves to kill kittens. He walks right up to them, grabs them by the tail, and whips their skin right off before they even know what's happening. Puppies, too. Also he doesn't really launch rockets with SpaceX, they're aluminium foil balloons filled with hydrogen. That's why they explode sometimes, hydrogen balloons just do that.

Technically, sure. But it was founded in July 2003, Musk bought in on February 2004, and it shipped its first car in 2012. So there wasn't much he wasn't involved with.

Why can't a person be both a successful businessman and a colossal douchebag? Isn't "he's a terrible human being" sufficient? I would think that should be.

One major thing holding the Democrats back from this is that the Democrats still haven't had it beaten into their skulls that the rules of politics are dead, dead, dead. They still seem to think that decorum matters and that if they just sigh and accept the Republicans' actions now they'll eventually get their turn later.

This sort of thing has been a strategy for dealing with unwanted web crawlers since web crawlers were a thing. It's an arms race, though; crawlers do things to detect these "mazes" and so the maze-makers keep needing to up their game as well.

As we enter an age where AI is effectively passing the Turing Test, it's going to be tricky making traps for them that don't also ensnare the actual humans you're trying to serve pages to.

It's rare but possible. Basically, the piece of the Y chromosome that hosts the SRY gene can wind up swapped onto a different chromosome and still work its magic. You really only need that one single gene to trigger the whole cascade of development that makes a person male.

I think another interpretation of Trump's order is that nobody is female, since no embryos are capable of producing the "large reproductive cell" at conception. At conception they're just a single cell, they aren't producing any reproductive cells yet. That's not until quite a while later in development.

Why do i want a copy of something I am only going to watch once?

Delete it when you're done if you never want to watch it again.

And why should I keep a copy if I can just stream it again from the same or some different site for free in the future?

I thought you just said you wouldn't want to watch it again?

Obviously there are people who do watch pirate streams. I'm just pointing out how odd it is in the context of this thread, where people are complaining about dependency on outside resources, and how alien it is to my personal approach to this kind of thing.

It really baffles me when I hear about "pirate streaming sites" being taken down. Why are those even a thing? If you're into piracy already, why not download a copy?