alt Hacker NewsBuilding a tool that tries (and probably fails) to remove the watermark (due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win) is tacitly accepting the barcode. The hacker ethos should be, first and foremost, to run open source models locally without relying on a corporation.
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akersten • yesterday at 11:06 PM
> [fighting against the system] is tacitly accepting the barcode.
I don't really see it. I think it's important to win on both fronts.
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photios • today at 4:57 AM
> No use messing with Google's watermark, fellas. Go do something else that's 100x harder instead.
> works for Google
Gee, I wonder why...
brookst • today at 5:05 AM
This is the “instead of using seatbelts, we should invest in trains” argument.
huflungdung • today at 1:15 AM
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>due to the arms race that large corporate machines will win
Much like how the entirety of Hollywood, book publishers, academic publishers, and game developers have won against piracy despite being some of the largest corps on earth and dedicating untold billions to the issue over the past 30 years?