Not to be a downer if you’re anti-AI, but you should know a functional, small, 1B parameter model only needs ~85GB of data if the training data set is high quality (the four-year old chinchilla paper set out the 20 to 1 optimization rule for ai training, so it may require even less today).

That’s basically nothing. If a language has over ~130,000 books or an equivalent amount of writing (1,500 books is about a gig in plain ascii), a functional text-based ai model could be built that uses it.

My understanding is there are next to zero languages in existence today that do not have this amount of quality text. Certainly, spoken languages that have no written word are not accessible like this, but most endangered languages with few speakers that have a historical written word could in theory have ai models built that effectively communicate in those languages.

To give you an idea of what this means for less-written languages and a website revolving around them, look at worldcat (which does NOT have anywhere near most of the written text available entirely online for each language listed, it’s JUST a resource for libraries): https://www.oclc.org/en/worldcat/inside-worldcat.html

But this gets even harder for a theoretical website used to avoid an LLM that can read it, because this is all assuming creating an ai model for language from scratch. That is not necessary today because of transfer learning.

Major LLM models with over 100 diverse major languages can be fined-tuned on an insignificant amount of data (even 1GB could work in theory) and produce results like those of a 1B parameter model trained solely on one language. This is because the multi-lingual models developed cross-cultural vector-based understandings of Grammer.

In truth, the only remaining major barriers for any language not understood by fine-tuning an ai model today are both (1) digitization and (2) character recognition. Digitization will vanish as an issue for basically every written language that has a unique script within the next ten years. Character recognition (and more specifically, the economic viability of building the character recognition) will be the only remaining issue.

Ironically, in creating such a website, you will be creating more data for a future potential ai model to use in training. Especially if whatever you write makes the language of greater economic importance.

I love that you’re providing genuine answers to questions in this thread, it’s always needed because the questions are often genuine, but coming from a place of very well-justified anguish or anger.

Something something “the ambiguity of language, curses” 😭

It’s all good my friend

It’s a shower thought, ain’t that deep.

Also, being a selfish prick is nothing to be proud of.

Tell me you didn’t read past the title without telling me 😭😭😭

Tell me you didn’t read past the title without telling me 😭😭😭

You’re following rules no one else does and only wanting to try if it’s guaranteed to succeed.

That’s categorically an opposite of what “that said, it’s still worth going after the guy criminally. He deserves prison and the AG should give it a shot” means, right?

I said try even if it’s not guaranteed. My contribution to our conversation was opining on the likelihood of success.

Throw his ass in jail for murder with no bail

I’d love this, and think it’s unlikely.

He can beat the charges, but he’ll never get the months/years of his life back while awaiting trial

Make it so in the back of every ICE agent’s head there’s a constant reminder: “There could be consequences”.

Regardless of how we accomplish it, nothing gets fixed till that thought is always in their minds.

Yes to all of this!

I’m hopeful that a civil lawsuit would succeed, but I think the officer will escape criminal liability because federal courts get to determine scope of duty/egregiousness of conduct before state courts can touch federal officers.

That said, it’s still worth going after the guy criminally. He deserves prison and the AG should give it a shot.

You don’t have to support Maduro (I sure as fuck don’t) to know that the Trump administration is definitely in the wrong to play world police, invade Venezuela, and kidnap a foreign leader. Originally they claimed operations in Venezuela were in defense of democracy, and now some vague accusation about drugs are supposed to explain why all of this is necessary. Both excuses are complete bullshit, but it’s especially hypocritical (although not surprising in the least) for Trump to threaten to cancel U.S. midterms days after kidnapping Maduro and pretending to be protecting the U.S. or some kind of global defender of free speech and the democratic process.

Yeah most of that is right I think. I’d caveat that the attack was more about the naked imperialism in Trump’s publicly articulated “Donroe Doctrine” than drugs or oil specifically.

I don’t really think the Chevron stuff Trump did is odd. Chevron has a longer history operating in Venezuela than any of the other companies. Bad, certainly. I have no love for Trump or Chevron. but not odd.

I kinda miss Chevron deference. As an aside, it is ironic that the namesake for a legal theory providing more administrative authority to the federal government was a private oil company, instead of, like, “administrative deference.”

I wrote this in a different thread, but there’s something vaguely slimy about framing Chevron as the first beneficiary of Trump’s actions when it has been operating for profit in Venezuela for decades with the agreement of Venezuelas government under Maduro. Neither of them are really pro-Palestine if the line being drawn is anti-Chevron.

Obviously Palestinians deserve way better than the hand dealt to them, no question there.

Edit; and to spell out why this felt kinda slimy to me at first: if:

(1) Chevron was operating in Venezuela with Maduro in charge for years without any real issue with Maduro,

(2) Chevron supports Israel, and

(3) the fight is against those enabling Chevron,

it follows that fighting for Maduro is not directly fighting for Palestine.

Fighting for Maduro would qualify as fighting US imperialism for sure, and therein lies that pesky question about the utility of fighting for someone who had every opportunity to shutdown the imperialist problem (Chevron) on his own by virtue of his political power, and did not.

I fall on the side that it’s fine after thinking it through, but I’m also someone who thinks Democrats are broadly good even if they mostly make for small victories for left-liberal ideologies. Ymmv.

Even from a dictatorship standpoint, Trump manages to be stuck in the early 20th century. Coal and oil are no longer the most important national security resources, the former since 2010, the latter since 2020.

Just look at Ukraine. Drone warfare is the name of the game, and it is extremely electric tech stack: renewable energy, batteries, and smart device components.

Terrible headline, it’s honestly kind of impressive that the chronological order of just two events could be screwed up in a single sentence fragment meant to convey information in an entertaining way.

Just wait until you discover I can have multiple and even contradictory reasons for doing any single action. It’s really gonna blow you away

Yeah but France is my favorite South American country

Now there’s a guy who missed his nominative determinism calling, he would have been much better at that job too.

I see through this charade! He just wants to have closer relations with the French!

😂😂😂

Doubly crazy when you consider that (1) none of the other mainstream AI services make it so easy to create and distribute CSAM content - all it takes on X is an @ symbol while every other ai service requires an actual prompt injection attack, and (2) a ton of well-meaning people still use X, despite the simultaneous Nazi (and apparently Pedophile) bar problem.

Calling it an “immigration operation” is a fascinating example of doublespeak? DHS wants deportations not immigrations.

Although, the world would be a lot happier and sillier place if the DHS underlings took that language at face value and brought in an extra 2000 immigrants.

It can make sense in other ways too imo.