You can convert to ASCII, a token, an encrypted seed or hash, and still bring it back to its original meaning, intent, and punctuation.

Theft is theft is theft is theft.

Permission is permission is permission is permission.

It's someone else's. Their ownership wasn't protected. It is not derivative.

I'm stunned that all of the people that use Google's apps, use their mail, surf Google streams, aren't up in arms that 100% of their life content there is inside their training data.

The provenance of training data is protected conceptually, and not subject to fair use unless you consider AI derivative or a performance. In the proven cases-- it's totally NOT THAT. It's verbatim regurgitation.

Every "content producer" alive whose work could be sucked into the vacuum of a training model has been similarly ripped off.

The basis of OpenAI -- and other models -- has "dirty hands", the result of wholesale content digestion.

There are few countries that still require it, certainly not the US.

But there are those that care. Empirical statements speak of hubris and privilege, and when not factual, are boorish.

No, you and others you know don't care.

Thousands of others use it every day in the US, if for habit and grins.

You have a good policy and habit.

What I see as the problem is unpredictable circumstances. Take for example black ice, animals at night. vehicles of any kind losing control.

No amount of GPUs fed by LIDAR can recover in the way humans do. When cars have additional federated communications, inter-vehicle, the communications will have to be monitored, too, increasing complexity. Will someone/thing jam them? Will inter-vehicle communications be mandated? What's the format?

In an accident, what can be proven at a reasonable cost? What are the forensics? Will a vehicle refuse to travel if passengers are unbuckled from their seat belts?

What of the privacy implications inherent when you tap your credit device? Can you just go to the store? Will there be surge pricing?

There are many real and practical questions that should be answered first-- not after costly litigation all the way to the highest courts of the land.

tl;dr: autonomous vehicles aren't ready, aren't trained, and will prove to be a nightmare, only making the lawyers rich.

Where trained on the spew of the Internet, it's not surprising that serious boundaries have to be applied.

But the principle is well-known. Garbage-in, Garbage-out.

They have you.

Millions unlike you have to watch prices carefully. They don't make a living wage-- or even less. They may be on fixed incomes, disabled, students. And those millions have to sweat every penny.

Costco is a reasonable choice. You have to justify the spend to join and sustain it. Again, millions can't do that.

A basic rule is that every penny you put in their pocket is one less in yours. For many, that's stunningly important in this age.

You don't know that, and that's not how it's formularized. The C-store is what makes the biggest part of the revenue, not the fuel.

Predictability relieves stress. Rando-numbers create stress. The adventurous may enjoy the adrenaline or Type A response, but most do not.

Contrarily, gas prices should be the same across an entire state. Gotta hike a price? Pay a gains tax like everyone else. Smooth out fuel prices. Don't let the oil companies game you and stress your life.

Food prices at Wendy's? Same answer. The fast food that was killing you will now add stress to your life. Most will just swallow it. Others will pass it by, preferring a predictable, non-provoked existence.

People wonder why greed capitalism has a bad name, and I shake my head. Go ahead, genuflect to the surge-pricers.

CNBC is your friend.....

if you make money on churning portfolios for those that want to buy lottery tickets.

OTOH, if you wanted to do a quick check on markets, it's not so bad. Acting on that info? This is up to the strategies of the reader. Those treating the markets like a gambler rather than an investor will get their fix of pseudo/amateur day trader bits and pieces.

If you're listening to Cramer for whatever reasons, you're doing it wrong unless you consistently bet against him, which is still another gambit. Cramer is a profit center for brokers based on the fees he creates.

There may soon be that sulfurous scent of an SEC investigation wafting in your nearest Lyft.

You just KNOW Taylor Swift was involved!

(ducks)

But even Ubuntu is trying to join the tracking generation of OS vendors by forcing users to signup for Ubuntu Pro. Their updates have to come from the Mothership.

The choices are once again becoming narrower and narrower.

Wow-- elites! I am humbled, and I genuflect in yours and their honors.

I will delete you from my humble PyTorch training!

Your humble servant.

They don't want you to use Edge because it's somehow superior, it's because they monetize your use of it. There can be no other compelling reason beyond ego to incessantly attempt to make their users convert from $browser to Edge as the default.

Telemetry sales are huge, and Microsoft is no different than Google or Apple in wanting their share of it-- especially if they can hook you into using Bing, the most misused cherry on earth.