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Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by jdw

jdw — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:46:36 +0000

In reply to Onion. In theory, yes. I saw an article about someone in Russia doing exactly that. Still gotta source the DRAM chips, though. And I expect it requires some very steady hands! -jdw

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by Onion

Onion — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:43:25 +0000

I came for the AI discourse but now I’m just sitting here wondering if you could theoretically solder up a batch of your own RAM.

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by milkbadger

milkbadger — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:16:52 +0000

Amen!

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by Arjay

Arjay — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:59:41 +0000

I’m just glad to know that NFSN is protecting my sites against AI abuses. Personally, I’m mostly anti-AI, although I cannot make a real evaluation since I limit my use of AI to Google Search.

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by jdw

jdw — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:24:35 +0000

In reply to Aaron. But GenAI is special and does not need to pay compensation that any other commercial use would be entitled to! Special because... reasons, I guess? Maybe they're hoping it'll eventually get good enough to generate some plausible ones. -jdw

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:55:10 +0000

As a musician, I’m concerned about GenAI being trained on art without approval from the artist and without compensation that any other commercial use of the art would be entitled to. I think LLMs have great potential but using them as overpowered autocomplete is a waste of that potential.

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by semiurgist

semiurgist — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:34:17 +0000

I’m not anti-AI so much as anti-calling-this-nonsense-AI. Generative LLMs are basically auto-complete on steroids, just a fancy probability trick (and incapable of agency and context).

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by jdw

jdw — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:47:00 +0000

In reply to Sentynel. Is it? The person whose signup reason provoked me to write it immediately ragequit, claiming it's proof that we are too pro-AI. -jdw

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by Sentynel

Sentynel — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:53:23 +0000

Eminently sensible and well put as ever.

Comment on Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI? by jdw

jdw — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:46:54 +0000

In reply to Miquel Burns. I'm pretty sure the RAM in my gaming PC is currently worth more than I paid for the whole thing. -jdw