User:Phidao

Morality

AI Usage

My study on AI has crossed my study on copyright infringement. A question I once asked Gemini is whether I should police websites like Etsy on whether store owners have licenses to sell products with IP references (the thought came across some time after buying a 3D printed Nintendo Switch cartridge holder in the form of a Kirby). Her answer is simple, it's impossible to know. There's no registry available listing out a person's acquired licenses. The information is private between copyrighter holder and the person acquiring the license. Plus, a lot of users of copyrighted content are hoping that their use falls under the "fair use" clause of the law. So, a person shouldn't need to worry about whether a seller has the license to sell. Instead, let the copyright holders defend their own IP--if you're incline and have the contact information of the copyright holders, send them a link to the copyright infringement. If the product exists, you can only trust that it is allowed to be there. That is not always true, but the responsibility needs to be on the system, not the individual.

A public AI like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok must be trained by a specific license with the copyright holder. The individual user can only trust that the license was acquired. This extends to all text and image training.

In personal image generation, I tend to stay away from realistic models. AI has enabled some realistic and uncanny deepfakes of well known celebrities. Even if the the model is not a real person, I do feel like I'm invading the right to privacy. The majority of AI generated images by me would be in the of anime or an AI augmented image of myself.

Thoughts

AI

There's a lot of concern about AI taking over jobs. It's true that the barrier to entry for a lot of profession is getting smaller. I've been able to pick up a lot of new projects quickly with the assistance of AI. But we will always need workers, people that can learn quickly or even specialize on a task. AI is a mean of training an unskilled worker into a skilled on. If the hat you're wearing is no longer useful, you can wear a new hat.

AI can teach you how to do something, but it can't do things for you. At least not yet. It provides a wealth of information, but because AI can hallucinate and only operates on written information publicly available and is not actually going through the process of trial and error to know what works or not in execution. A human needs to be above the AI to integrate suggestions made by AI. As well as to provide push back if a suggestion is invalid, dangerous, or wrong.

Calories

I want to start recording calory information in its own page, but will start here.

• Nature's Bakery Fig Bar: 200 Calories

Copyrights

This is a big topic. I do want to do a big dive on it eventually. I heard lately the music industry is suing AI companies for training on song lyrics. Kind of assume that is public because they're so easy to get. Apparently, it's infringement if you post the entire or even partial lyrics. The legitimate website that posts lyrics get licenses for whatever they post. Eventually, I want to go through those sites, find my favorites and link back to them.

"Job Security"

The term peeves me. I feel like every time it is used, it is a joke. I recently saw a YouTube skit where there was a lead developer and no one else knew how to manage the code base. That's terrible; it's no way to operate. In a real scenario, a developer that writes code unmanageable by others will struggle in the future to manage their own code. It's not a philosophy to live by. Also no one wants to be force to do the same task because no one else can do it. We should strive to create something that others an maintain. Developers can then start fresh and dive into something new and interesting instead of being tied down.

Overload

When faced with an overwhelming amount of things to do. The only thing you can do is make a list, decide what you're doing now and make it a priority to do it.

Recordings

I've been starting to record myself reading books to my children. I'm planning on slicing them into sound bites that I can use in future videos. That's not a high priority project though. Till then, just going to build up on recordings. Google Recorder is the associated app. You can access it on the web on your desktop or as an app on your mobile device. You can duplicate and slice audio recordings directly on the app.

X

I have accepted X as its own entity instead of having to include "formally known as Twitter". I hesitated and resisted but I think the addition of Grok and xAI allowed me to accept that X is no longer Twitter and that X is its own thing.

Goals

• I realize that recognition is necessary to have value. I'm hoping to get a following of people that will come to me for advice and projects.

Hobbies

• Photography: I've been taking more pictures lately. It's real and personal, counter to AI generated content. It's also something I can call my own.
• Icons: This is my near goal, I want to start creating an array of icons that I can use and share with people.
• Games: Alan Wake 2 is a recent one I got, I just need to find time to play it.

External Links

• Organization Board (Trello)