Engineering Manager. Free software and self-hosting advocate. SALAMI skeptic. Socialist with anarchist tendencies.
In 2017, I walked from Dublin to Istanbul.
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The enforcement of copyright law is really simple.
If you were a kid who used Napster in the early 2000s to download the latest album by The Offspring or Destiny's Child, because you couldn't afford the CD, then you need to go to court! And potentially face criminal sanctions or punitive damages to the RIAA for each song you download, because you're an evil pirate! You wouldn't steal a car! Creators must be paid!
If you created educational videos on YouTube in the 2010s, and featured a video or audio clip, then even if it's fair use, and even if it's used to make a legitimate point, you're getting demonetised. That's assuming your videos don't disappear or get shadow banned or your account isn't shut entirely. Oh, and good luck finding your way through YouTube's convoluted DMCA process! All creators are equal in deserving pay, but some are more equal than others!
And if you're a corporation with a market capitalisation of US$1.5 trillion (Google/Alphabet) or US$2.3 billion (Microsoft), then you can freely use everyone's intellectual property to train your generative AI bots. Suddenly creators don't deserve to be paid a cent.
Apparently, an individual downloading a single file is like stealing a car. But a trillion-dollar corporation stealing every car is just good business.
@[email protected] @technology #technology #tech #economics #copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #capitalism #IntellectualProperty @[email protected] #law #legal #economics
And then there's this:
"It is important to keep in mind that our indicators provide a red flag, not legal proof, that a given manuscript or publication might be fake. However, it is the authors' burden of proof to demonstrate that their science can be trusted."
BULLSHIT.
It is absolutely not the authors' burden of proof to demonstrate that their science can be trusted when the criteria used to question their work are (1) their email address and (2) the lack of international collaborators.
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] here it is!
Google’s vision for the future of search shows how generative AI is all about increasing corporate power.
Instead of sending you to different websites, Google has scraped the open web to generate plagiarized answers to keep you looking at ads on Google. We need to stop being distracted by AI hype and fantasies about intelligent machines, so we can push back on the real threats before it’s too late.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/google-wants-to-take-over-the-web
#GoogleIO revealed the two weirdest features as a pair.
1. Give a short summary and Google will draft an e-mail for you based on it. You can even click "elaborate" and it will make the e-mail longer.
2. When opening an e-mail, Gmail can summarize the entire thing for you so you don't have to read all of it.
Does everyone realize how fucking bizarre this is?
Both people in the conversation want to work with directness and brevity, and Google is doing textual steganography in the middle.
@benklaasen @histoftech Happily, modern retro game dev gives us an amazing avenue to reimagine the past, one with that represents a broader range of participants, themes, and values.
I always feel it's a bit of a shame that the homebrewer's tendency is still to create an army of Metroidvanias and the like, to use nostalgia to reinscribe rather than blur the bounds of acceptable participation.
Here's the whole #Atari #BASIC program:
```
8 REM*******COLLAPSING BOXES*******
16 TRAP 200:J=0
20 GRAPHICS 7+16
30 X1=INT(RND(0)*80)
40 Y1=INT(RND(0)*50)
50 X2=X1+INT(RND(0)*80)
68 Y2=Y1+INT(RND(0)*48)
65 IF X1=X2 OR Y1=Y2 THEN 30
70 COLOR INT(RND(O)*3+1)
80 PLOT X1,Y1
90 DRAWTO X1,Y2
100 DRAWTO X2,X2
110 DRAWTO X2,Y1
120 DRAWTO X1,Y1
122 X1=X1+2:Y1=Y1+2
124 X2=X2-1:Y2=Y2-1
140 GOTO 70
200 J=J+1:TRAP 200
205 FOR K=1 TO 200:NEXT K
210 IF J<10 THEN 20
215 END
```
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