Software engineer and small time DS/ML practitioner.
they’re 99% sure are AI-generated, but the current rules mean they can’t penalise them.
The issue is proving it.
That is very much not the issue. The issue is that academy spent last few hundred years to make sure papers are written in the most inhuman way possible. No human being ever talks like whitepapers are written. The "we can't distinguish if this was written by a machine or human that is really good at pretending being one" can't be a problem if it was heavily encouraged for centuries. Also fun reverse-Turing test situation.
Two things to note.
First - I feel like putting every occupation in the same pile and deciding are you for or against licensing isn't helpful? I personally don't need licensed lawnmower, but I would very much prefer licensed doctor. The cost of mistake in two occupations differs a lot and can be used for a threshold which jobs should require a license.
Second - there should be a difference between doing a thing to yourself (argument can be made even that here we shouldn't have any limits), doing things for free to your friends/relatives with their full knowledge of your skill level and experience (most of the non life-threatening things can probably be allowed here) and selling your craft for money.
llms don’t work on unseen data
Unfortunately I hear this quite often, sometimes even from people who should know better.
A lof of them confuses this with the actual thing that exist: "supervised ML models (which LLM is just a particular type of) tend to work much worse on the out-of-training distribution data". If you train your model to determine the volume of apples and oranges and melons and other round-y shapes - it will work quite well on any round-y shape, including all kind of unseen ones. But it will suck at predicting the volume of a box.
You don't need model to see every single game of chess, you just need the new situations to be within the distribution built from massive training data, and they most often are.
Real out-of-distribution example in this case would've been to only train it on chess and then ask what is the next best move in checkers (relatively easy OOD - same board, same type of game) or minecraft.
the *real* problem is the huge number of prompts clearly designed to create CSAM images
So, people with harmful and deviant from the social norm taste instead of causing problems in the real world try to isolate themselves in the digital fantasies and that is a problem...exactly how?
I mean, obviously, it's coping mechanism, not trying to fix the problem, but also our society isn't known to be very understanding to people coming out with this kind of deviations when they want to fix it.
India getting remarkably better in at least one way, as the percentage of the bottom 20% who own a vehicle went from 6% to 40% in only ten years.
Is it better though? This stats show only "who owns a vehicle" not "who is happy about the fact". It doesn't show how many people were forced to take mortgage because owning a vehicle was an only way to live. In ideal world nobody should have a need for a personal vehicle to survive, leaving it only as a luxury, not a lifeline.
The inclusion of ‘natural disaster’ shows that this simply is not a thing people are thinking about at all.
Chicxulub and Popigai impactors were both pretty natural. Actually within the listed 5 things "natural disasters" is the only category that had actual extinction events in the past. So I'm a bit confused with this comment.
Peter Thiel on his struggle to leave California
Honestly, at this point one with some self-awareness would start to suspect that the problem may not be on the cities side. Nothing wrong with the search for the better place for themself, everyone is entitled to it, but when literally nothing fits...
If the answer is yes to all of the above
Point 2 needs rephrasing.
"Does it sound exciting or boring?" "Yes"
Most Importantly Missing
Where's my "Babylon 5"? Honestly, risking to get the anger of trekkies here, but it's "DS9 but better"
Obligatory joke about how terrible our education is, that half of the scores are below median!