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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The language model isn’t teaching anything it is changing the wording of something and spitting it back out. And in some cases, not changing the wording at all, just spitting the information back out, without paying the copyright source.

  You could honestly say the same about most “teaching” that a student without a real comprehension of the subject does for another student. But ultimately, that’s beside the point. Because changing the wording, structure, and presentation is all that is necessary to avoid copyright violation. You cannot copyright the information. Only a specific expression of it.

  There’s no special exception for AI here. That’s how copyright works for you, me, the student, and the AI. And if you’re hoping that copyright is going to save you from the outcomes you’re worried about, it won’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If I understand correctly they are ruling you can by a book once, and redistribute the information to as many people you want without consequences. Aka 1 student should be able to buy a textbook and redistribute it to all other students for free. (Yet the rules only work for companies apparently, as the students would still be committing a crime)

  A student can absolutely buy a text book and then teach the other students the information in it for free. That’s not redistribution. Redistribution would mean making copies of the book to hand out. That’s illegal for people and companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like a lot of people misunderstand copyright so let’s be clear: the answer is yes. You can absolutely digitize your books. You can rip your movies and store them on a home server and run them through compression algorithms.

  Copyright exists to prevent others from redistributing your work so as long as you’re doing all of that for personal use, the copyright owner has no say over what you do with it.

  You even have some degree of latitude to create and distribute works from those with a violation only occurring when you distribute something pretty damn close to a copy of the original. Some examples: create a word cloud of a book, analyze the tone of news article to help you trade stocks, produce an image containing the most prominent color in every frame of a movie, or create a search index of the words found on all websites on the internet.

  You can absolutely do the same kinds of things an AI does with a work as a human.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, famously, they’re waves and particles. The double slit which way experiment will only set off the detector in one slit, as if it was a particle. Yet, without a detector it will interfere with itself as if it were a wave that passed through both slits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. But the thing that’s interesting about the double slit experiment though is that it works on only a single photon. It’s as if all the traffic was created by a single car. So classically you might not think that the single car should care if the freight truck is heading down a different lane than the car but I’m QM it does, because the car is in a superposition of occupying several lanes.

  I’m probably driving the analogy straight into the ground of course

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Observer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you trying to see exactly? There’s this video done with polarizers: youtu.be/unCXuRXpEhs Of course, it’s not an instant on/off but having an instant on/off doesn’t really change anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to accurately measure the location of something requires energy. The more precise the measurement, the more energy is required. The amount of energy required get the precision below the Planck length would literally create a black hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's just a Planck bro⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not American enough. I need it in football fields.