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Re: last boost (mathstodon.xyz/@j_bertolotti/1…), about the researchers who trained a model trying to use only public-domain and openly licensed data, here's the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209 and here's the HuggingFace for the comma-v0.1-2t model: huggingface.co/common-pile (For anyone itching to play with it, no, it's not on Ollama, at least not yet; it's brand new.)
Large language models (LLMs) are typically trained on enormous quantities of unlicensed text, a practice that has led to scrutiny due to possible intellectual property infringement and ethical concerns.arXiv.org
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-y…
It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material
It's just a pain in the ass.Will Shanklin (Engadget)
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"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could — it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
engadget.com/ai/it-turns-out-y…
It's just a pain in the ass.Will Shanklin (Engadget)
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@stargazer @shanecelis It is the worst idea, except for all the others.
Good AI is more beneficial for humanity than bad AI, and giving authors *some* money is better than giving them no money, as we do now.
Just to iterate on your idea (I still believe we can do better), we can force social networks to act as intermediaries between end users and AI bros. If the AI bros love subscription capitalism so much, let them subscribe to, say, Meta to scrape Facebook, with Meta being obligated to distribute the fee obtained between users on the platform.
...with an option to opt-out from scraping.
The world where I can sell my kidney but can't sell my personal data is kinda weird.
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Jeff Geerling got the brunt of YouTube wrath when he showed people how to host their own media {media that they legally own, which means that they either have the originals, or have paid for whatever digital version they have} with the power of Open Source tools
Jeff explicitly made sure that he never ever told people how to circumvent subscriptions or worse. Nothing that could harm YouTube bottomline was ever discussed in this video.
Yet for reasons obvious to Open Source people like me YouTube gave him his second strike.
3rd Strike and you're gone. This is how Google / this is how Alphabet is treating their Golden Geeze.
Creators like Jeff are very valuable both to the people who follow them and to YouTube. However Google seems to be at Super odds with Open Source, needing it to run their data centers but hating it because they have to share the code again that they've worked upon.
Google is a paradoxical Company which is being controlled by Alphabet, a schizophrenic Entity drunk on power Ads and control
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WANTED: Intel Architecture Labs 1990’s CD-ROM’s. They appear to have maybe been monthly. They contained a mirror of Intel’s ‘download.intel.com’ ftp server, specifically the /ial/ subdirectory which is not in the 2014 backup of the site on archive.org.
Lots and lots of white papers and design guideline documents in there. Especially looking for ones from the late 1990’s (1998-ish onward) if they exist. I’ve seen references in mailing lists to them that lead me to believe they do.
Example gem: intel trying to cover its ass after the FDIV bug, and have some more FDIV
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Spending the majority of your time strategizing how to stay on someone's good side is not normal.Chuffed
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Trump’s extremist agenda is falling apart and people are furious about his plan to gut Medicaid and SNAP just to fund another billionaire tax giveaway.
So Trump is reaching for the same cruel playbook he used in 2017: Stoking fear and scapegoating immigrants with a new Muslim Ban.
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I said "trying to use" because, as noted on the model page, license laundering and inaccurate metadata are risks. It says the paper discusses these things.
The model page also says this is a base model that has not undergone any form of alignment. I gather this means that it hasn't been post-trained for instruction following like the well-known LLMs. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong about that.
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