WoodScientist
@WoodScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
I mean, I am literally working on a PhD in wood science.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 1 week ago:
Ooops. Posted that the wrong place!
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
Little known fact; heavy timber buildings will often perform better in fire than steel buildings like this.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
You can see them on the upper levels. On the bottom level, you can see the shear tabs, mounted on the girders that additional beams will frame into.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
Specifically a girder is a beam that other beams frame into. Gravity load typically goes slab->beam->girder->columns->foundation. At least that’s what I teach in my steel design classes.
- Comment on beams 1 week ago:
Partially correct. Those are beams, girders, and columns.
- Comment on 2982: Water Filtration 1 week ago:
I assume you’re some sort of serial killer. 😁
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 1 week ago:
It really depends on how much they’ve invested in building AI chips.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 1 week ago:
I think they’re going to be bankrupt within 5 years. They have way too much invested in this bubble.
- Comment on Crossover we've been waiting for.. 1 week ago:
I’ll be…out here…where there are witnesses!
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 1 week ago:
I don’t buy that. I think it’s fraud. Yeah, the victims of the fraud are not nice people, but the law is supposed to protect all, not just the nice people. This isn’t “gaming the system,” it’s fraud. Uploading the AI-generated songs is fine. The problem was the fake listeners. That’s where the real fraud is.
My city has a modest bus service they contract out to a private company to operate. At the front of the buses, there are scanners that count the number of people that enter the bus. These passenger counts are then baked in to what the company is paid for their services to operate the city’s bus system.
In theory, the contractor company could park a bus somewhere, set up a conga line of people, and just have thousands of phantom passengers board a bus, and then try to bill the city based on these inflated statistics. If they did that, I would absolutely hope they would be charged with fraud.
The law isn’t stupid. There’s a reason laws are enforced by judges, not algorithms. What this person did was little different than hacking a bank account and just stealing money from it. Yes, you could say, “they didn’t do anything wrong, they’re just gaming the system!” You could just as well call guessing someone’s password and stealing their money “gaming the system.” After all, is there anything on the bank’s login page that explicitly tells you not to enter someone else’s account and transfer their money to yours? No judge in a million years would buy that.
This was effectively just a hack. This guy had to create thousands of phantom people to pretend to listen to songs. He was clearly not making any good-faith attempt at making music and was just trying to exploit a weakness in their system design to extract money from them that he didn’t earn. The law thankfully doesn’t work on a standard of “well, they never told me I couldn’t.” Cases like this take into consideration the totality of the circumstances and weigh whether it is fraud or not. And this? This wasn’t some clever technicality a legit artist used to boost their earnings. This was unambiguous fraud.
I really don’t see how this is any different from pretending to be someone else to access their bank info, conning someone out of money by pretending to be a person in need, deep-faking someone’s voice to get their relatives to send money to you, or a hundred other scams involving fake identities. Yes, the victim in this case is a villain themselves, but that doesn’t make it any less a crime.