arborelia @arborelia@computerfairi.es
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
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@braid @wikimediafoundation i facilitated a couple of those art+feminism wiki edit a thons a few years ago and men were overly criticizing pages we made, saying these notable women were not notable, threatening to remove their pages despite all the awards these artists and architects had won, even before the workshops were over. it was so discouraging that i don't do it anymore.
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Wait, it's even worse. The dataset is based on @swheritage's archive, containing way more than just GitHub (e.g. @Codeberg is archived, too).
I assumed they were somewhat neutral, but they're praising the LLM usage of this unlicensed code:
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2024/02/28/responsible-ai-with-starcoder2/
Also, they're refusing to remove deadnames, even outright ignoring GDPR demands for it:
https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5169338-the-software-heritag
I can only conclude that they're a bad actor and should be considered harmful by the #OpenSource community.
The Software Heritage Archive wants to deadname me forever: part 3.
https://cohost.org/arborelia/post/5169338-the-software-heritag
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sometimes the Steam Community pages are good
[from the Steam community page for alpha centauri uploaded by someone whose steam name won’t render in my client]
@ao @Natanox @jaredwhite @outie @swheritage their dataset also _doesn’t_ follow licenses. they just took stuff with no license. They openly say this.
On the AI model side, asking users to obey licenses for them (so they don’t have to) sure is a gambit.
@ao @Natanox @jaredwhite @outie @swheritage disregard the extra word from phone keyboard
@ao @Natanox @jaredwhite @outie @swheritage theatre Open source isn’t public domain. open source licenses only count if you follow their terms, which an AI doesn’t.
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oh hey just as a PSA, any code any of y'all may have on github might have been scraped by @swheritage, a self-proclaimed "preservation" org which
- just hoovered up vast amounts of data without asking or telling anyone
- insists on deadnaming trans people forever for "integrity" reasons
- used it to build an LLM training data set
https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2 to check and for opt-out instructions
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Every time I boot to a flash drive I'm reminded of Jersey Jack's pinball update process
You flash the new software to a flash drive, open up the coin door, put t' plug int' 'ole and wait a bit until it's done.
And then you IMMEDIATELY TAKE THAT FLASH DRIVE AWAY AND WIPE IT CLEAN right then and there before you do anything else
Because if you leave it lying around, and someone (MAYBE FUTURE-YOU) goes "Huh what's on this" and plugs it in, and then forgets to unplug it between reboots, it will format your hard drive and turn your computer into The Hobbit Pinball *completely automatically and without any input from you whatsoever*
I erased those 18 minutes on Nixon’s tapes. there was some funny stuff in there but it’s gone. Sorry
can you believe I got them to call it the “Diet of Worms”
every time a transphobe tells me I can’t change history I will change it twice
@beaufils@mastodon.social @swheritage @internetarchive
not you, internet archive, you’re cool. the asshole who thinks “you can’t change history” when it comes to trans name changes just mentioned you here, sadly.
@beaufils@mastodon.social @swheritage @internetarchive You missed trans rights, asshole.
@oreolek lol we're coming up on the 1 year anniversary of them not getting around to opt-out requests
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To the best of our knowledge, all files contained in the dataset are licensed with one of the permissive licenses (see list in Licensing information) or no license.
Emphasis mine.
What the cinnamon toast fuck?
@ryanc @swheritage Also, no language model is capable of obeying an attribution clause, which is in almost every license.
@ryanc @swheritage I'm already seeing in their list of opt-out GitHub issues that they've included some people's code that is "all rights reserved", and some people's GPL code.
@swheritage To find out if they have appropriated your code, you can check "Am I in The Stack?": https://huggingface.co/datasets/bigcode/the-stack-v2
However, _do not believe their supposed opt-out_. I mean, sure, submit an opt-out if you want, but I know how they operate -- they'll just keep doing whatever they want and never process any takedowns unless the law makes them.
Hey, in case their transphobia wasn't enough for you, @swheritage is yoinking all the code on GitHub -- regardless of license -- to train a generative AI that plagiarizes code.
No matter how many times they say "ethical", it isn't.
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I like games that you can play again and they're different the next time: such as randomizers, roguelikes, and gender expression! Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/arborelia
also at: https://cohost.org/arborelia
Joined Jan 2020
