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Comment What percentage of AI tool usage is allowed then? (Score 5, Interesting) 59

Since AI will be used as a tools in art, tools are allowed and copyright is retained. But whats the agreed amount to retain copyright under USCO?

AI generation will be filling in gaps, offering suggestions, fine tuning, filling in effects, etc. Media will handily adopt it to speed up processes.

Maybe it's the amount of prompts given vs the ai generation. If you describe the scene, the characters, the look and feel, and the dialog, but AI generates the images? Thats just giving a book a visual to your story.

I have favorite sci-fi authors, in the future I could see AI generating movies based off the books, maybe starting as Anime until the technology can generate a full movie, or at least a graphic novel to start. That should probably retain copyright.

I'm also expecting AI to be implemented in music, offer suggestions, make modifications, until it can fully generate music. The cross over from tool usage to humanless music generation is where copyright most likely should end.

Submission + - New York City Bill to Ban Reuse of Lithium Ion Batteries, Right-to-Repair Advoca (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The bill is part of an attempt to curb the mysterious but dangerous rise in electric mobility device fires, but there’s little evidence repurposed batteries are the problem.

In an attempt to do something about the horrific increase in battery fires from two-wheeled electric devices this year, the New York City Council has proposed a slate of legislation that would have the unintended consequence of hamstringing the right-to-repair industry for electronic devices, experts and advocates warn.

One bill in particular is causing angst within the right-to-repair industry because it would ban the sale of all used lithium-ion batteries that have been assembled or reconditioned from cells removed from other batteries for any type of electronic device, not just two-wheeled vehicles.

“Ugh,” said Gay Gordon-Byrne, executive director of The Repair Association, when asked about the bill via email. “I think you see the danger of banning trade in used or refurbished products which happen to include batteries.”

The right-to-repair movement is based on the idea that once you buy something you have the right to fix it yourself. For consumer electronics specifically, the right to repair and repurpose devices is a key component of a more sustainable and environmentally-friendly ecosystem.

Comment Re:Fools respond (Score 5, Informative) 106

Believing vaccine risks outweigh their benefits probably mean you have consumed a lot of misinformation about both the risks and the benefits.

Vaccine risk is extremely low. Any death which occurs within 3 months of the vaccine is counted by VAERS, regardless of the cause. That number is currently 17,392, which gives a worst possible case of 0.0027% of all people who received the vaccine. But every death even if not possibly related is counted in that total. Actual investigation of side effects has found incidents of Myocarditis, TTS, GBS are extremely rare (measured in parts per million), and usually even the serious cases are rarely fatal if treated.

Source:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronaviru...

Benefits are substantial. It's been well established that the vaccines greatly reduce severity of the disease and change of death, especially if boosted within last several months. That's a huge benefit.

Source:
https://www.scientificamerican...

Anti-vax misinformation tries to say the vaccine has no benefit because you can still get COVID. Plenty of studies show recent vaccination does reduce the odds, so there probably is some benefit (only needs to be tiny to outweigh the extremely low risk) but the benefit of less severe disease when you do get it is a huge benefit.

What is dangerous is misinformation! The results are clear. Before vaccines, the densely populated states suffered badly and the more rural areas were much less affected. Now the situation is largely reversed, where populations more inclined to accept vaccination have lower per-capita death, and those following right-wing misinformation mostly have higher death rates despite having a natural advantage of less dense population to spread the virus.

Sources:
https://www.statista.com/stati...
https://www.texastribune.org/2...
https://www.nbcnews.com/health...
https://www.pewresearch.org/po...

You said you'd be willing to hear out any plausible explanation. I'm afraid the only plausible explanation is you're terribly misinformed about the risks and benefits. If you really are willing to hear (seems unlikely) just read a few of those sources for truthful information about the vaccine risks and benefits and the real world results of the misinformation you're probably consuming.

Comment Re:Voting strategy from Scott Adams (Score 1) 138

The right to abortion is a downstream right of bodily autonomy, granted by the constitution under the word "liberty". It's right there in the preamble, not even an amendment. You don't have to get deep into the document to find it.

You have a right, as a citizen, to do what you want with your body, so long as it doesn't violate the rights of another citizen. The unborn are not citizens. They're not even people, as they have no long term memory capability or ability of rational thought.

It's pretty clear. It's the same reason you can't be forced to donate a kidney even though you have two, even to save the life of the President.

I guess I'm just real confused as to why you think it's not covered by the constitution. Do you really believe the only rights granted by the constitution are those specifically named? Because, oh buddy, you'd have a real bad time if that were truly the case.

Comment Re:Utter bullshit (Score 4, Informative) 125

Integrated circuits were co-invented in the late 1950s by Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor. While it could be argued modern electronics would still exist as they do today without Kilby, it is a fact the process of fabricating multiple transistors was co-invented in Texas and California.

While Sunnyvale "silicon valley" in California gets the most attention, a pretty substantial number of ICs are also designed in Austin "silicon hills" in Texas with good portion of the US-based IC fabs in located Dallas. Many of those chips (especially Texas Instruments) are "analog" types which have fairly mundane functions like controlling the special signals to pixels on displays and localized power supplies like the ones which convert your PC's 12 volt power to much lower voltage and higher current in close proximity to power hungry chips like CPUs & GPUs.

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