Why “public” is being discussed
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With your narrow definition of the problem and reduction of communication down to pure utilitarian exchange of information between two parties that are willing to put in the eff…
by entech · Sep 26, 2026
That's true legally, but the government's public statements did initially very explicitly present this as a ban on any dealing. "Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Securi…
by kalkin · Sep 26, 2026
That file wasn’t shared publicly. It was in a README in a HuggingFace internal dataset that HuggingFace was using for training. It was visible externally because the OpenAI agen…
by superfrank · Sep 26, 2026
I think you are dramatically underestimating the terrorism concern. From public news reports we know almost 400 Flock cameras have been destroyed in acts of widespread grassroot…
by fwlr · Sep 26, 2026
This is political. Everything is political at this scale. * How much money did Anthropic and its associates donate to the Biden campaign and associated entities? * How much mone…
by metalspot · Sep 26, 2026
Sure. Enforced by mandatory daily confessions to the 'Televisor', running AI according to the party lines rules. If some treshold is reached, escalate to a personal cup of tea i…
by LargoLasskhyfv · Sep 26, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "public" over time.
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In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the Öffentlichkeit or public sphere. Read more on Wikipedia