My Pixel 9a doesn't really have a power button. Holding the top button brings up the AI assistant. You have to press and hold the top power and the volume up buttons, then, touch the option to power down or restart.

I don't think training a model with copyrighted data is any kind of gray zone at all.

Running inference against such a model _might_ be infringing.

But I don't see the legal argument that model training would be.

Think of model training as lossy data compression. You provide an input, it produces a compressed artifact, and it can no longer reproduce the original when you uncompress it. It can produce _something_. It cannot reproduce the original.

On slashdot, we all agree that format shifting copyrighted works should be allowed and unrestricted, right?

If there is applicable case law here about how lossy a "reproduction" can be before copyright has something to say about it, that would be relevant. Do you know of any?

I think you're repeating something that feels emotionally valid but in my experience, isn't factually (or legally) accurate.

I have found AI models to be frustratingly _obedient_ of copyright.

I'll be in a situation where I ask a specific question about what a document says, and the AI repeatedly says the work is copyrighted and it can't just tell me what it says _verbatim_, but it can answer specific questions for me in its own words (while telling me to check the original).

Two examples from my life are procedural questions about what Roberts Rules of Order would require in a given situation, and, what ASD STE-100 says about how to name/word things.

The applicable US law would appear to be USC 17 Sec 106 and 107, which on one hand limits derivative works, but on the other, allows fair use for purposes of teaching, scholarship, or research.

(USC references provided by AI, btw. Which I haven't read)

It's an Astroturf campaign designed to benefit fossil fuel companies. The same companies that donated heavily to Trump's last Presidential campaign.

"You all are wealthy enough, that you should raise $1 billion to return me to the White House," -- Trump to oil companies.

Note that the CAISO data does not show solar generation happening behind the meter -- rooftop solar. It only shows the net flows of electricity by a property with solar and other sources (battery).

I used to agree with you, and then oddly enough, about 25-30 years ago, I came across this signature on another regular slashdot posters postings:

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

(AI tells me the attribution is "The Red Lily", Anatole France, 1894)

If there are no junior bankers in the pipeline, what happens when the senior bankers retire? Or is the plan to replace them with AI too?

Pocket Casts was unimproved around the time it was acquired. The UI was simple and effective.

I recently had to limit battery usage to foreground only because it was using a stupid amount of the battery charge.

I have a Windows 11 laptop that I use occasionally. My daily driver runs Linux.

I'll keep the Windows 11 laptop turned off for a few days for any fallout to occur and bad patches to be pulled.

https://www.plugshare.com/loca...

Perhaps the username "sri" is Stanley Kpenkan

It's a Chargepoint charger, and the pricing is clear. Thinking that the display was a mistake was in fact a huge mistake.

It's not an EVGo charger. It's a Chargepoint charger that the car owner accessed via a roaming agreement in the EVGo app. This is made clear in TFA.

But I wonder if the dealership is received some kind of credit for having a "public" charger, while discouraging the public from actually using it via the outrageous pricing.

> As soon as he had insider information, it becomes criminal. Somehow this person does not strike me as very smart.

Are you a lawyer with expertise in laws about training and gambling? It might be criminal. It might not be. It probably depends on the exact wording of the laws.

Somehow, a person who makes such pronouncements without the relevant expertise and knowledge is not so smart.

Contracts. The user agreement must have a clause allowing these fines.

Let me quote your post back to you:

âoeOnly wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.â
â Linus Torvalds

I can't help wondering what Gabe's real opinion on this leak might be. There is probably a lot of stuff in the leak that Valve cannot legally publish.