Emacs. Still the best way to edit any kind of text in any context.
cyd
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The problem is that the Federation is extremely conservative about the use of AI and human enhancement, so once you drop in someone like Data and allow him equal rights, there's a wild power mismatch. So he can wreck havoc if he goes rogue.
Data would never be able to pull off the shenanigans he did on Brothers against a Culture craft. Even if he's not going up against a Mind but "only" the humanoid crew, he wouldn't have such a crazy advantage.
TLDR: 7 of 9's ex-husband pressured her to go to a sex club. Then he ran for Senate. The sex club stuff comes out, he drops out, and Barack Obama wins in a landslide, becomes a political rising star, runs for president, etc.
I'll always be grateful to her for the sex club hijinks that elevated Barack Obama to the US presidency.
I think it's the other way round. AI writes, the human editor touches things up a little, and together they poop out hundreds of low effort articles a week.
"We don't discuss it with outsiders." -- Worf
Yeah, I tried for a long time to use DuckDuckGo, but honestly the results are worse than Google, even given the present day enshittified state of Google search. And it eventually just became too annoying.
The regulation not only puts obligations on users. Providers (which can include FOSS developers?) would have to seek approval for AI systems that touch on certain areas (e.g. vocational training), and providers of generative AI are liable to "design the model to prevent it from generating illegal content" and "publishing summaries of copyrighted data used for training". The devil is in the details, and I'm not so sanguine about it being FOSS-friendly.
A lot of people can't look past the gacha, and understandably so, but Hoyo's games really have a remarkable amount of craft going into them, including top notch world design, battle system design (Genshin Impact still has negligible power creep, 3 years and 20+ characters later!), and character design.
The theorycrafting and lorecrafting surrounding Genshin (and to a lesser extent the new Honkai Star Rail) reminds me of Blizzard in its heyday. For that matter, so does the rule34...
Well, here's my worry. From my understanding, the EU wants (say) foundation model builders to certify that their models meet certain criteria. That's a nice idea in itself, but there's a risk of this certification process being too burdensome for FOSS developers of foundation models. Worse still, would the FOSS projects end up being legally liable for downstream uses of their models? Don't forget that, unlike proprietary software with their EULAs taking liability off developers, FOSS places no restrictions on how end users use the software (in fact, any such restrictions generally make it non-FOSS).
One major issue that concerns me about these regulations is whether free and open source AI projects will be left alone, or whether they'll be liable to jumping through procedural hoops that individuals, or small volunteer teams, can't possibly deal with. I have seen contradictory statements coming from different parties.
Regulations of this sort always bring the risk of entrenching big, deep-pocketed companies that can just shrug and deal with the rules, while smaller players get locked out. We have seen that happening in some of the previous EU tech regulations.
In the AI space, I think the major risk is not AI helping create disinformation, invading privacy, etc. Frankly, the genie is already out of the bottle on many of these fronts. The major worry, going forward, is AI models becoming monopolized by big companies, with FOSS alternatives being kept in a permanently inferior position by lack of resources plus ill-targeted regulations.
You gotta remember that DS9 is set in the space version of a third world country. This isn't Federation territory, and the Federation's presence is on thin ice throughout the series.