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Comment Re: Neither (Score 4, Interesting) 95

by Old Man Kensey (#66087146) Attached to: AI Is Coming for Car Salesmen
You can pretty much do that now if you have an account at most credit unions. Most subscribe to some form of car-buying service like TrueCar as a free member benefit, which includes pulling free history reports on the vehicles you're looking at. The listed price is guaranteed at the dealership. I bought my last three cars that way and barring some major event it's the only way I ever will again.

Comment Dumped Grok over this (Score -1) 72

Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

Comment Re: FTX customers came out ahead, didn't they? (Score 2) 58

by Old Man Kensey (#65990928) Attached to: Sam Bankman-Fried Requests New Trial in FTX Crypto Fraud Case
> They would have probably done a lot better if they had been able to hang onto their crypto. That's the crux of it. The benchmark is not "did FTX depositors get back a current-day amount of dollars numerically comparable to what they had on deposit when FTX collapsed?", because between regular inflation and changes in the price of crypto you could (in theory, at least) still be well behind "what would those crypto assets be worth had FTX not collapsed and depositors could have exited at a higher price?"

Comment Re:Is it true? (Score 3, Interesting) 106

Well, the courts have already ruled on very similar things, multiple times. If the code is machine created, even if the user is pushing buttons to tell the computer to run, the end work can not be copyrighted.

In 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia became the first court to specifically address the copyrightability of AI-generated outputs. The plaintiff challenged the Office's refusal to register an image that was described in his application as "autonomously created by a computer algorithm running on a machine." Affirming the Office's refusal, the court stated that "copyright law protects only works of human creation," and that "human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright." It found that "copyright has never stretched so far [as] . . . to protect works generated by new forms of technology operating absentany guiding human hand." Because, by his own representation, the "plaintiff played no role in using the AI to generate the work," the court held that it did not meet the human authorship requirement. The decision has been appealed.

I have not seen any appeals ruling yet on this. But I also do not expect one as this follows many other such copyright rulings in the past, such as the cases like the "monkey selfie" case, which the Copyright office issued a Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices 12/22/2014 which stated:

"only works created by a human can be copyrighted under United States law, which excludes photographs and artwork created by animals or by machines without human intervention" and that "Because copyright law is limited to 'original intellectual conceptions of the author', the [copyright] office will refuse to register a claim if it determines that a human being did not create the work. The Office will not register works produced by nature, animals, or plants."

Then there is the case of the copyright of comic book "Zarya of the Dawn", authors by artist and AI consultant, Kris Kashtanova, which the images were all created/generated through the use of Midjourney. They Copyright office provided a copyright only on the compendium of the book itself, but all the individual images generated via Midjourney are not copyrightable and are in the public domain to be free for use by anyone, as the simple operation of prompts and instructions to Midjourney was insufficient human authorship to be able to claim a human created the work.

Comment REGULATION: the world's worst thing ever (Score -1) 77

by dada21 (#65984450) Attached to: Anthropic Safety Researcher Quits, Warning 'World is in Peril'

Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

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