They all kill children and I boycott them all.

You know what actually supports Israel? Food imports. You should be boycotting American, Swiss, German and Dutch farm produce. Cut off their food and they can’t bomb.

Along with hundreds of other multinationals, Microsoft hosts its own research and development (R&D) centre in Israel,

Any company with an office in Israel? You boycott every large business? EVERY ONE? Apple, AMD, Intel, ARM? They are all in Israel. How are you even replying to this post without uses the CPU’s that you claim to boycott?

and he also played a crucial role in fostering Microsoft and OpenAI’s partnership

AI isn’t killing children. Israeli leaders are killing children. OpenAI is super charged spell checker. Have you even used it? It fixes the grammar. It helps write software. But so did autocomplete before LLM’s.

Claiming Gates isn’t heavily involved

Are you an executive at Microsoft? Because if you aren’t YOU DON’T KNOW THAT.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107724-sources-detail-growing-rift-between-sam-altman-satya.html

Saytalla seeking advice doesn’t mean Gates is making the business decisions.

And claiming Microsoft cloud services are worse than RTX’s actual bombs that kill children is a stretch.

I’m fuzzy on the timeline but wiki says the sco Linux lawsuit was 2003. Gates had already quit being CEO in 2000.

Bill Gates hasn’t been CEO of Microsoft in 25 years. He left completely in 2008.

The problem is that the theft begins by simply becoming a billionaire in the first place.

That’s why that was my first sentence!

Why did you cut your philanthropic efforts to fight climate change and disease? Why have you and your buddies fought for minimizing

The problem is that billionaires should not exist but come on. $80 billion already donated. $7 Billion more just for Africa. Hundreds of millions in malaria research.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2022/11/17/bill-gates-foundation-pledges-7-billion-to-support-africa-health-and-agriculture/

Could he do more? Sure. But attacking someone who is doing a little because he isn’t doing more doesn’t seem fair.

Years ago Elon said he was disappointed when he met Bill Gates because Gates only wanted to talk about philanthropy and climate.

I think because I warned some users a couple of times over a year ago, that he thinks I’m a sock puppet of the person/people he has banned. When he got angry about my warning the user, I didn’t engage at all. But a year later in that thread about Discovery, I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice that I replied to him.

He seems to have a lot of drama around him.

Is there a Lemmy equivalent to karma court?

Look at my history. That wasn’t the reason I was banned. Over a year ago I warned another user that I saw that mod ban an account for arguing. That post history was there and flying squid warned him to not do that sort of thing in Ten Forward. A year later I made the mistake of replying to a post that he posted to me. The post was about the writing in Discovery.

You can see my last post on tenforward that got banned. He deleted it but of course in Lemmy it’s only hidden so you can still view it.

So yeah, not only did he ban me but he lied about the reason.

Here is the proof.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14647300

I got banned from tenforward for saying the ending of Star Trek Discovery didn’t make sense. No name calling, no back and forth arguing, just my statement and a reply explaining one point of my previous post. But that reply was to a mod who didn’t like my explanation.

I messaged mods and nothing.

GPL is a license that uses copyright law as enforcement.

I thought you meant actual copying like when Linus tech tips used some Gamer’s Nexus script word for word.

Stealing script and content is a copyright violation. It could be a lawsuit but is usually ignored because of legal costs.

If gta5 was the only game sold, it wouldn’t be an energy issue!

When an AI trains on data it isn’t copying the data, the model doesn’t “contain” the training data in any meaningful sense.

I’d say it can be a problem because there have been examples of getting AIs to spit out entire copyrighted passages. Furthermore, some works can have additional restrictions on their use. I couldn’t for example train an AI on Linux source code, have it spit out the exact source code, then slap my own proprietary commercial license on it to bypass GPL.

I addressed that in my second paragraph.

In another thread someone brought it up so I did some quick math to see if it was true:

Gta5 cost $300 million. 4000 developers each with the latest GPU burning hundreds of watts per employee to create the assets. A rough estimate of 750watt pc, 4,000 developers, 8 hour a day, 300 days a year, 5 years = 36 giga watt-hours. That’s the energy to power 3.6 million homes for a year and I’m not even including the HVAC costs of the office space. For 1 game.

AI training energy use is small in comparison. ChatGPT 4 cost $80m to train.

However if I used AI more, I would still play the same amount of video games, thus increasing the total energy use.

Then that’s like writing about the evils of cars while driving a giant SUV for fun.

Do you agree with me on my other main point on reliability?

The Google AI forced on me in searches has seemed correct because every sentence has a footnote with a link to source that I usually click. The OpenAI code generation I used a year ago was brilliant. It wrote working VBScript for me which was a language I had no desire to learn. The microcontroller code for another project was also fantastic because it gave me an outline to start working with.

I thought Apple started the stopping support of Intel Mac’s a couple of years ago? If you had the newest Intel from 5 years ago, support is supposed to end this year.

make profiting AI companies pay for UBI

As I said, many companies steal content and repackage it for sale. Google did it long before AI. AI is only the most recent offender. Courts have been splitting hairs for decades over music similarities and that’s ignoring that entire genres are based on copying the work of influential artists.

There’s a huge difference between an outright Nazi like Musk and an average techbro.

These endless “AI bad” articles are annoying. It’s just click bait at this point.

Energy use: false. His example was someone using a 13 year old laptop to get a result and then extrapolating energy use from that. Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time. No one screams about the energy footprint of playing games.

AAA game development energy use ( thousands of developers all with watt burning gpus spending years creating assets) dwarfs AI model building energy use.

Copyright, yes it’s a problem and should be fixed. But stealing is part of capitalism. Google search itself is based on stealing content and then selling ads to find that content. The entire “oh we might send some clicks your way that you might be able to compensated for” is backwards.

His last reason was new and completely absurd: he doesn’t like AI because he doesn’t like Musk. Given the public hatred between OpenAI and Musk it’s bizarre. Yes Musk has his own AI. But Musk also has electric cars, and space travel. Does the author hate all EV’s too? If course not, that argument was added by the author as a troll to get engagement.