There are certainly some governments around the world that have considered requiring age verification for chatbots. Not sure any such laws are already in effect.
I don’t even want to express an opinion whether I find that worse or less bad than doing so for social media.
Do LLMs do that? That sounds more like dictionary use without thinking.
I remember not long ago seeing an image of handwritten homework where the student answered “as a large language model …”.
I certainly hope so. I hope eventually federated discussion groups become the default way for the general public to communicate about any topic that interests them.
But with how governments around the world are going after the Internet, especially the parts of it that aren’t profitable… I just hope some good parts of it survive at all. :(
The question is confusing, what exactly do you mean by “directly from online”? Just click a button in a web browser and it will install the entire distro? If so, pretty sure the answer is no; if you imagine something else, please clarify.
Because there’s no good reason to do that that justifies the cost and effort.
Hard forks are generally fairly rare, e.g. you could ask the same about the Linux kernel…
which is however not a fork, either hard or soft, of anything
When western governments don’t give a fuck about human rights anymore, they have no standing to criticize China over it.
I would expand this idea further… since all governments occasionally violate human rights, they shouldn’t be very much in the business of calling out human rights violations by other governments. That should mainly be the role of citizens or private organizations, not governments.
The etymology is that a “datum” (the plural of which is data) is something that is “given”.
So data is information that has been given.
In computers, data (information) is stored in bits (zeroes and ones). Eight bits are a byte, a billion bytes are a gigabyte, so the plan you describe allows you to download (or transmit overall?) 2*8*1000000000 = 16000000000 ones or zeroes that are used to encode data for computers (which they will decode into text, images, videos, whatever).
It’s the same for me honestly. Reading fiction isn’t enjoyable for me most of the time, though reading nonfiction (ie learning about the world) absolutely is.
I remember this being somewhat different in my childhood, and my hypothesis is that the fact we got somewhat uninteresting fiction reading assignments in school killed my interest in it.
It’s not screens vs books because I have tried reading fiction on my phone or tablet too, no difference.
It is a computer. Computer is a very general term.
Maybe not in English? Plenty of people are named Groß in the German speaking world.
I fail to see the relevance because both AI companies and other Internet users certainly sometimes (arguably) infringe copyrights held by rich people and sometimes those held by poor people.
People don’t like that generative AI is based on stolen content.
Long before AI, people on the Internet were fairly likely to dislike copyright and correctly insist that copying is not theft.
How the times have changed.
Probably just ask it for the seahorse emoji or something idk
IRC prank from the 2000s: if you type /quit playing games with my heart you’ll hear a cool pop song.
2020s: if you type quit into Google it will understand this as an AI prompt.
It just has more of the web in its index than competitors do, so there are good practical reasons on occasion.
In many cases it’s both.
Most western legal systems work in this way: there are two separate domains of law: criminal law and civil law. Explained in a very simplified way:
Criminal law is about people having done wrong things to society as a whole. Prosecuting crimes is the job of the state (prosecutor) and not (usually) of the victim. People who do things that are defined as crimes may be imprisoned, or they may be fined (forced to pay money to the state). There are also crimes that do not directly have victims, but you can still be fined or imprisoned for committing them. Most offenses against traffic law are like that, e.g. who is the victim of someone driving too fast…?
Civil law is about how people treat each other. More specifically, tort law is about people doing wrong things to each other. If a person has harmed another person (even if it wasn’t a criminal offense, which may have higher standards of proof or intention), the victim can sue the offender in a civil court in order to collect damages. But that requires the victim taking action; neither you nor the state can usually take civil action against someone who didn’t harm you, only someone else.
In some legal systems it’s possible that those things can be combined to some extent, for example someone convicted of a crime may also be ordered to pay damages to the victim at the same time. In others they are completely separate.
The entire history of KDE has clearly been carefully planned to lead to the point where the version number is the same as the latest entry on the funny numbers list.