I have a couple of de-googled devices, I find 2 problems with them: 1 is finding a trustworthy app store: sideloading apks etc doesn't feel safe, and there a re a few alternate app stores that feel distinctly sketchy as well.

The real killer app for me, though, is google maps. Hard to live without and replacements don't have the vast scale of data and mapping resources behind them that google has.

(of course if anyone has good solutions to this.... )

If I buy a book and read it once, or a hundred times, I can re-sell it and keep the money, regardless of whether I can now quote the whole thing verbatim. Perhaps the difference between new price and secondhand would be a good guideline.

Not "Are using" -"Have used". Once trained on the content, it is of no further value to AI, and can safely be discarded. What is a fair price for a one-time analysis, or "reading" of a copyrighted piece?

Why is everyone posting in Borat voice?

I was surprised to note that one of my younger coworkers described an inferior product as "a bit android" clearly using it as a derogatory term for something considered tacky or kludgy.

I don't think there are any such fragments. Until they are made public they are purely theoretical.

I totally believe that if there are such fragments, the government would hide that truth

For now, this is briefly entertaining.

Copyright should have died with the emergence of infinite reproducibility.

Lawyers made sure it didn't. It came down to a battle between privacy and IP rights.. IP rights won.
We've had the "who owns an ape's selfie" discussion, now we have the "who owns AI generated art" discussion.

I have no doubt the big money lawyers will win this one too, but it's less clear who they will support, the owners of the AI, the operators who prompt it to create specific works, or some other party.

The direction is clear, however: authorship is becoming less significant. It is being kept alive artificially by lawyers for commercial interests far beyond the original idea in the age of print & typewriters.

Maybe soon an AI lawyer will be able to challenge the pricey human ones and the bits will finally be free?

So.. how much will the ad-free version be? Is there a viable alternative? Is anyone working to disrupt this moronic IP-exploitation fest? In short: where do I go next, or is it time to go cold turkey on TV and actually do something productive?

There was a time everyone had a dodgy copy of Photoshop. It was how they became synonymous with photo editing and kept the competitors at bay. As soon as these people had some real money, or a commercial use, they'd buy it. Best. Marketing. Ever.

if it quacks like a sentient being, and it walks like a duck..

Actually, these are 2 separate stories, the one about the near collision, and the one about the chinese astroturfing propaganda effort, both are interesting, for totally separate reasons.

What a relief, I thought it was just me!

Why the latest updates have been causing such a lot of issues, they are poisoning windows 10 to encourage people to upgrade to 11..

I've always wondered why they didn't just go straight for passenger flights with spaceship one. After all, it was there in 2004, proven to work, theoretically a 3-seater, risky for sure, but ahead of everything at the time. Seems like they missed the real opportunity by saying "yeah, but we want an FAA certified 7-seater" and bang went 15 years. In the meantime, Spacex.

https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:04 large terminus inside a city
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:09 1 person still has a car
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:17 this guy's ebike has broken down
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:20 lots of space, people just hanging out for the awesomeness of the station
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:27 security way too easy
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:40 too much space and comfort
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 0:42 paper newspaper??
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 1:18 500+ mph, no seatbelts.
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 1:30 somehow get to build a straight-line corridor through unspoilt nature without going bankrupt or getting tied up in land disputes.
https://youtu.be/-zSWagCyWio?t... 2:20 arrive at another sparsely populated pristine urban paradise (where is everyone?)