Countries shouldn't aim to be competitive. They should aim to be more self-sufficient from the global economic system, so they can have decent lifestyles without increasing their population.
Or, more concisely: Countries should aim to be poor.
I am rooting for Disney to win and set a precedent that training an AI on copyrighted content without permission from the copyright holder of that content is illegal. Bring down the whole "generative AI" house of cards (since basically all these AIs are trained on content without permission)
Not sure the right-wing nutballs behind this really understand that, since their proposal actually enforces it.
To be fair to the nutballs, their proposal will actually slow it down as compared to not limiting immigration. That is, from their nutball perspective the proposal is an improvement, just not a total solution. For a total solution, they need to go full right-wing nutball and also ban women from working so they'll stay home and have proper Swiss babies.
from my overpriced Disney+ subscription was user-generated "AI" slop.
The article says a selection. Presumably terms will let them cherrypick videos they like, so it will probably be not slop, but whatever generations they deem high quality. Likely involving extra work by the end user, since actor voices aren't included for the characters.
Earth and are paying 1 billion to give it away. Make it make sense.
In short.. they are Not giving it away; they are expanding monetization into an area they'd not get money from before. They are earning billions in license fees for allowing limited use for limited time.
First AI came for the artists And I did not speak out Because I was not an artist
AI has not come for the artists. Artists are still necessary to create quality work.
There is simply a technical improvement, and you may have to learn new AI-based tools now required for the trade of creating animations.
More importantly: They set a business precedent for media companies that it is appropriate to demand licensing and expect generative AI companies have to pay for creating images resembling any of their characters/trained on their characters - even in a short video or internet meme context.
What they have licensed for now they can de-license in a few years, when Disney releases their own generative AI service.
Unlike iOS, Android is already open by design
That's not an argument they will be able to make once they block sideloading.
Except that they aren't blocking sideloading. With the planned changes you can still install apps via:
1. Other app stores. The apps will have to be signed by a registered developer account.
2. By one-click installation from a web site. The apps will have to be signed by a registered developer account.
3. By ADB. No registered developer account required.
And for the cases that require a registered developer account, that account can be anonymous and free as long as the number of installs is small.
Heaven forbid, you might have to show them your Slashdot account!
That would be fun, actually. I'd have to give them slashdot and substack. They'd have no idea what either of them are.
Well, it would be fun until they denied me entry.
A Twitter-branded Mastodon instance
It'd have to support full-text search by default. Mastodon, last I checked, was still in practice stuck with tags-only search that fails unless both the poster and searcher manage to correctly #GuessTheHashtag. I've read that Mastodon added in version 4.2.0, but I've never got it to work because it's not the default: the posting user has to deliberately seek out how to opt into full-text search before sending posts, and the administrator of the searcher's instance has to spend a lot more money for a much larger VPS with the RAM for Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
Americans are reaping what Trump has sown, but as usual, he's engaging in denial.
FTFY
This is a gaslighting that he'll probably largely get away with, since most Americans -- especially his voter base -- have little contact with tourism or people from other countries.
His ongoing attempts to gaslight them over grocery prices, though, that one's going to be tougher. I'm surprised he's trying that. I mean, he's dumb, sure, and insulated from truth, but surely someone around him is smart enough and clueful enough to tell him that it would be better to sell it as a period of unfortunate but necessary pain on the way to long-lasting economic revival and stability. His base would eat that up, but even his diehard supporters are having a hard time reconciling "grocery prices are down!" with their own grocery bills, and he just keeps repeating it. He can cherry-pick specific item prices or gush about the lower-price of a (conveniently scaled-back) Thanksgiving dinner basket all he wants but people who actually buy groceries (such an old-timey word! <eyeroll/>) can see the truth during every weekly trip to the store.
There are some efforts to automate vulnerability tracking, like incorporating SBOM tools into QA process, but largely this is still done manually. Which means that AI's throughput will simply overwhelm all existing manual system until everyone catches up on automation. I expect we will see 100-long exploit chains of trivial vulnerabilities, I expect we will see AI getting integrated with fuzzing, I expect we will see longstanding low-level protocols exploited in novel ways.
AI sucks for bug hunting producing mostly noise. I "expect" people to get tired of this nonsense. Automated fuzzers like syzbot have yielded way better results.
What I would be curious to know is why the 'build god-machine' goal isn't being treated as the obvious winner just because you can have the god machine make facebook more addictive and better at serving ads.
You can't bet a company on ideas like that. There is absolutely zero assurance that we can even build an intelligent machine using classical computing techniques, and even less assurance that any of the basic AI techniques we are using can achieve it. It would actually be remarkable if we happened to stumble upon the design of an intelligent machine, given we have so little idea how our brains actual achieve this, and it would be ludicrously serendipitous if we were also able to stumble upon a super intelligence that can exponentially improve itself at the same time.
It would be like suggesting that cave men might have stumbled upon a working nuclear fusion reactor by smacking enough rocks together. We even understand the principles behind fusion and we're struggling to build one. But hey ho, we will just create a super intelligence even though we have no idea how intelligence works in our brains.
The people pushing this angle are delusional. Yes, it is entirely likely we can create better and better agents that appear to be intelligence and can perform useful tasks. But this super intelligence thing is dumb. If you wanted billions to setup a research lab to try to define intelligence and study the human brain, then that would make sense, but these people are saying they'll be able to time travel using anti-gravity thrusters before they can even speak some basic words.
My bet is that these superstar hires Zuckerberg has found are very intelligent grifters who will milk the situation for all the personal wealth they can. Those in actual revenue generating roles can probably see this, and that probably explains the rift.
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