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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it isnt, because the judge dismissed that part of the suit, saying that people have complete right to digitise and train on works they have a legitimate copy have. So those damages are for making the unauthorised copy, per book.

  And it is not STEALING as you put it, it is making an unauthorised copy, no one loses anything from a copy being made, if I steal your phone you no longer have that phone. I do find it sad how many people have drunk the capitalist IP maximalist stance and have somehow convinced themselves that advocating for Disney and the publishing cartel being allowed to dictate how people use works they have is somehow sticking up for the little guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You think that 150,000 dollars, or roughly 180 weeks of full time pretax wages at 15$ an hour, is a reasonable fine for making a copy of one book which doe no material harm to the copyright holder?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem isnt anthropic get to use that defense, its that others dont. The fact the the world is in a place where people can be fined 5+ years of a western European average salary for making a copy of one (1) book that does not materially effect the copyright holder in any way is insane and it is good to point that out no matter who does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Civil cases of copyright infringment are not theft, no matter what the MPIA have trained you to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gosh, its a good thing openAI and google dont thing for theUS government isnt it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lime bikes dumped in canals and rivers 'posing pollution risk'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There absolutely is, people break the disabling mechanism. I’ve had two go past me today with the obvious clack-clack-clack-clack of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, a short query to a typical sized LLM takes about 1Wh of energy, there lots of variance on how big the model you are using and how long the input and outputs are but thats the correct order of magnitude. 1Wh is the amount of energy consumed by a 1kW electric kettle in 3.6 seconds or a 2kW hairdryer in 1.8 seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  HK has literally never been independent, it went from being a Qing fishing village to a British concession, to a British overseas territory and then to a PRC special autonomous region.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, if another 100k Australians had come out and then kept protesting day in day out for months they would have got the aus government to back down and not support the war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

  I’m not a huge fan of Ed Zitron generally, he leans towards histrionic too much for my tastes, but he makes a compelling case here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that I torrent without a VPN and it had nothing on there, and it also got my location wrong by over 500km, I dont think I’m too worried.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are grid connection delays of 8 to 10 years for lots of renewable energy projects, as the grid wasnt designed to have many small inputs, so its not like there arent issues there too, and thats before you start getting into reliability issues once the percentage of non-dispatachable energy gets higher.

  In general both need to be invested in heavily, and structural reforms done, if we have a chance of actually meeting climate goals. Thankfully that seems to be the plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Social Media Brings Out the Worst in Us⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that in 100 years time people will look back at the current age of social media with the same kind of horry as we get looking back at doctors recommending ciggarettes for weight loss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we’re not doing anything that the Tories mismanaged over the past 15 years the list of things to do is going to be very short.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really a fair comparison, Canada wasn’t a fully independent country in 1939, they were still a dominion of the British empire with foreign policy set from London (though otherwise self ruling).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he’s speaking to a British newspaper about British policies. I’m assuming the second part as I don’t subscribe to the times so cant read the article, but there is currently plans in place in the UK to introduce an opt-out framework for people to remove permission for training on their work, with pushback from big names that want to charge rent on their old works, so I assume that is the subject…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Meta exec says asking for artist permission will kill AI industry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bit you’re missing is that the choice isnt between killing AI and killing the music industry, its between killing AI in the UK or pissing off IP holders somewhat. Do you think china give a fuck who’s IP they use in training models, or that they will stop if the UK passes a law making artists default out of using their work as training data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont think his point is ‘These amazing games are what you get if you give devs tine’ but rather ‘you can only get these games from giving devs time’. Its no guaruntee by any means, but you are never going to get greatness from suits focus grouping decission and crunching out a game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a godsend when you have to use Windows for whatever reason and you can have a functional OS to do things with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI headphones translate multiple speakers at once, cloning their voices in 3D sound⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you dont play video games or stream HD video, given that they use more electricity for less social benefit than this would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Minister accused of being too close to big tech after rise in meetings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m struggling to understand what the criticism is here, minster for technology meets with tech companies too much?

  Information published by the government shows that from July 2024 until December 2024 – the most recent period for which there is data – Kyle held meetings with people representing or advocating for technology companies 28 times.

  Google, Amazon and Microsoft were present at five of those meetings, the data shows, while Meta attended four.

  So the big tech companies were present at ~1 in 6 of the meetings with tech companies.

  In August Kyle met all four of those companies, and others from the industry, to discuss AI regulation.

  This year he has met AI companies several times, according to documents obtained under freedom of information rules by the website tech.eu. Those meetings include three with the US AI company Anthropic, as well as a two-day flurry of meetings in February during which he saw executives from OpenAI, the chip designer Arm, Google DeepMind, ElevenLabs and Synthesia.

  Maybe I’m being naive somehow but that all reads as minister for X meets influential people in X to discuss X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So despite me giving my opinion that that style of posting seems (to me) to be condesending you decided to apply that same style of message, which i just said I thought was invasive, to me?

  I get you think you are being nice but trying to force unearned intimacy comes off as creepy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And unless your are Stephan King or the like exactly how are you going to get the publishing cartel (I think they re consolidated downs to 3-4 publishers now) to change their contract to not include this? Their response will almost certainly be either “that’s non-negotiable” or “ok then you get half as much money”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this is a culture clash thing, but FWIW, to me your post comes across as incredibly condesending asking a total stranger about their mental helth and implying its bad like you were their close friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as you can hold a computer manufacturer responsible for buggy software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont disagree with that, but you said “probably just as fascist as republicans” which is obviously not true as, again, only one party is using paramilitary violence to target unwanted groups and political opponents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong the democratic party is shit, but I don’t recall paramilitary thugs dragging people off the streets and disappearing them under Biden or Obama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy seems to have an LLM issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesnt make any sense, even if people were training specifically on lemmy that has nothing to do with using them to make posts to lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I did my undergrad the core modules had upwards of 400 people in them, never had a single multiple choice test in my entire degree. Thats a choice not a neccessity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He could see AI being used more immediately to address certain “low-hanging fruit,” such as checking for application completeness. “Something as trivial as that could expedite the return of feedback to the submitters based on things that need to be addressed to make the application complete,” he says. More sophisticated uses would need to be developed, tested, and proved out.

  Oh no, the dystopian horror…