Didn’t the courts already decide that it’s fair game to train models on any data as long as the data wasn’t obtained illegally?

That, or use a chromium fork that ignores manifest v3 and supports manifest v2.

From a quick search, it looks like the construction site is here: Meta Stanton Springs Data Center #2 https://cartes.app/?allez=Meta+Stanton+Springs+Data+Center+%25232|w1282590996|-83.67669|33.59840

It’s very close to a number of streams/creeks that feed into lakes and other water sources nearby.

With the amount of vegetation that has been removed, all it takes is a good rainy day to have a lot of that mud running off into the water supply.

The title is missing a significant keyword here: “construction”

A more accurate headline:

Meta data center construction allegedly muddies Georgia town’s drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing

This isn’t exclusive to datacenters, any sort of large construction projects should be under the microscope right now. If there are legal loopholes allowing water supplies to be contaminated, that should be addressed. Meta and any other companies responsible for this should be billed the costs for cleaning up or for funding additional water treatment solutions to make up for this.

Nothing in that comment should have been construed as trying to defend the company from trying to weasel their way out of paying their water bill.

Some important context here:

QTS told Politico the 29 million gallons were consumed during temporary construction activities, including concrete work, dust control, and site preparation. The company markets a “closed-loop” cooling system for its data centers, which recirculates the same water rather than drawing from the municipal supply.

Thanks, looks like I was wrong. I looked into the evaporative cooling. It looks like this kicks in if it’s hot outside, otherwise the cooling units operate in a “dry” mode.

Although, none of that is directly heating up a lake, it looks like the water just flows into something like an A/C unit. Are there datacenters that are piping heat directly into lakes?

THE KICKER that’s just to run the data center, think of the demand for the HVAC and ecological damage to using a lake’s water to cool equipment (water would be coming out over 100⁰F).

I keep seeing this on Lemmy, but why do so many people think that these datacenters are using water from reservoirs for “cooling”?

Datacenters use A/C for cooling, and if there’s any sort of “Liquid cooling” being used on these servers, it’s in a closed loop system.

Water isn’t being pumped out as steam or into the environment directly from datacenters, unless there’s some other method I’m missing here?

What I think is getting mixed up here is that, for many forms of generating electricity, water is needed to be heated up in some way to create steam. The steam then turns a turbine which moves some magnets to generate electricity.

Some of those powerplants are in closed loop systems with their water, some of them are not. Additionally, if the energy is coming from solar/wind/hydro then there shouldn’t be any concerns about water getting turned into steam anyway.

Technically, you can get the same answer twice from an LLM, but only when you control the full input. When a model is being run, a random seed/hash is applied to the input. If you run the model locally you could force the seed to always be the same so that you would always get the same answer for a given question.

I’m failing to see why the creative writing machine is better than a simulation set to ‘rough’.

This doesn’t sound like they are using LLMs for processing their 3D models. The way it’s described in the article sounds a lot more like some machine learning model trained on physics simulations for aerodynamics.

Misleading title. This isn’t an “AI Company”. As far as I can tell, it’s some scammer that used AI Tools to create similar music and then copyright strike the original artist to steal their revenue.

The major issue here is how YouTube handles these claims. From the article:

YouTube’s dispute process places enormous trust in whoever files the claim, with little built-in protection for independent artists who lack legal resources.

This isn’t something new and was already being done before AI tools were available.

I mean there might be a way, but it’s not easy.

The laziest and worst method is to use ChatGPT and have it “pretend to be some character” with a system prompt.

If you want something really good, you would need to train the model from scratch based only on knowledge that one particular character would learn from their world up until that point. However this is going to be a ton of work just for one character.

For a middle ground you could probably cheat a little and start with a model that’s close to the knowledge base you would want most characters to have. Then you would use something like a LoRA, or RAG on top of it for each individual character.

For instance, if you wanted to make a game in a Victorian Era setting, you could start with this model that’s only trained on text from the 1800’s: https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

To make it better you would have multiple base models that are trained on various backgrounds that NPCs could have (Farmers vs Merchants vs Soldiers vs Nobility, etc).

Even then, this would not work well for certain games. For example, if you’re trying to tell a specific story, you don’t want a character that will go off script or give away some information that spoils an intended plot twist.

For the Futo Keyboard, I installed the “FUTO Voice Input” app.
Then in the Futo Keyboard app I have the “Voice Input” set to Disabled/Use voice input provided by external app.

It works really well for me at least.

Yeah, these AI tools definitely aren’t a complete replacement for the real thing. And I agree with you on the conversations. The voice acting in this can’t compare to actors who actually have the skill to convey emotion and depth to their characters.

The way I see it, these tools allow low budget/indie filmmakers to quickly test out ideas to see if they like it before going all in on making the whole thing.

A 1 hour long video…

Might be interesting, but looking up his name (Keonne Rodriguez) for a Wikipedia article gave me what I wanted to know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keonne_Rodriguez

I’ll just paste the current summary here for anyone, but the full article is short and worth a read:

Keonne Rodriguez is an American software developer and co-founder of Samourai Wallet, a Bitcoin wallet designed to enhance transaction privacy for Bitcoin users. In 2024, Rodriguez and fellow co-founder William Lonergan Hill were arrested and later plead guilty to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business for creating the software for the application. His prosecution drew criticism from privacy advocates and civil liberties groups, who argued that the case threatened financial privacy, open source development, and the principle of code as speech.

Thanks, I missed that detail. It’s probably because of the “no class action” clause that this is a “mass arbitration”.

Unfortunately that usually means that Google is paying a specific company to decide on the outcome of the case. in this case it looks like American Arbitration Association has a contract with Google.

They’re supposed to be fair for both sides, but it’s been shown that they almost always rule in favor of the company that has pre-selected them.

If anyone is in this situation, they will likely have a much better chance by convincing a judge to allow a different 3rd party to arbitrate the case.

Can you clarify what you mean?

This movement is all about giving consumers more power and reforming section 1201 of the DMCA.

Louis Rossmann is big on consumer rights and the freedom to repair movement.

Did you mean to reply to someone else?

Following up on this. I sent an email out to the team and got a response already.

To summarize, they would rather the solution work through updates for security fixes, but they were willing to compromise if automatic updates were disabled with the option for users to manually update somehow:

Yeah, one of the main points of this project is to help them reform Sec 1201 of the DMCA.

As far as for how to do it, I’m not sure if you would have to come up with something that would work even through an official Samsung update. From what I can tell, it would be enough to have it work with Home Assistant instead while blocking future updates. It’s definitely worth a question to the bounty team to get clarification on that point though.

There is a class action “mass arbitration” against Google for this: https://www.classaction.org/nest-thermostat-support-arbitration

Additionally, the Fulu Foundation has a bounty reward out for anyone who is able to get these working with something like Home Assistant.

The pot is currently at $12,856.00 https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/nest-learning-thermostat-gen-1-2

In the U.S., since doing so would circumvent measures put in place on these devices, publishing how to do this would go against sec. 1201 of the DMCA. This has a risk of a maximum sentence of 3-5 years in a Federal Prison. You can still privately show the Fulu Foundation how it is done, and they will be able to use this information to help their case in their attempt to reform this law.

If you live in the U.S., you can also help by letting your representatives know about this. Here’s an ActionNetwork page that Fulu set up so that you can easily do so: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/right-to-repair-reform-section-1201-of-the-dmca