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Comment by neuroelectron

6 days ago

It doesn't matter, people will still use it as source and now it's boosted by OpenAI and Google. Even Ghislaine Maxwell being a powermod didn't kill it. It's a key information warfare weapon and it's heavily promoted up and defended.

https://archive.ph/qpfED

The upcoming lawsuits around “we demand you remove [training data ruled to be libelous or IP infringing] from the model weights” are going to be fascinating.

TIL that there's a conspiracy theory that Ghislaine Maxwell is the same person as power mod MaxwellHill.

Seems like a pretty incoherent conspiracy theory. What a weird thing to believe.

  • Did the mod stop when she went to prison?

    • Yes, the mod stopped posting publicly around the time she went to prison. That seems to have been the catalyst for the conspiracy theory.

      But it was actually a couple days apart; he stopped posting before she went to prison. And he actually posted to some private subs, and was involved in some DMs, after he stopped posting publicly and after she went to prison.

      There's really very little evidence other than a vague coincidence of when he left Reddit and when she went to prison, and the name.

      And, like, if she were posting anonymously, why would she use that name?

      It's basically just completely incoherent. Like many conspiracy theories, they take a lot of other random data points, and if you sift through and cherry pick enough data points you can find others that taken out of context look like coincidences. But that's just because you're cherry picking between two large distributions of data.

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