This is the reason science can't figure out that 2000 calories of Doritos and Twinkies does not equal 2000 calories of steak, salad and veggies. Money.

...this is behind that. They wanted to make sure they aren't sued into oblivion by consumers who lost money. I think this is grievous enough that their shitty TOS won't stand up in court.

So let's say I have a child that I home school on all these authors in this lawsuit. This child grows up to become an author. Will they sue my child for having trained his intelligence on their copyrighted works?

For that matter - I was trained on Star Wars, The Muppet Show, DC and Marvel Comics as well as tons of network television. Does it make my creative work derivative?

I realize this is about training AI on copyrighted work but if we pass these laws, don't you see greedy lawyers figuring out they can start suing children who grew up watching Star Wars for writing Science Fiction?

It's funny, I only somewhat share your sentiment - the best Sci Fi, in my opinion, always gets canceled rather than getting a series finale. Look at things like 'Odyssey 5' and 'FireFly' those are shows that are so good that I would still recommend them even though they are canceled.

To that point, other shows have suffered from going on too long before finishing, shows that had huge followings but weak finishes like Game of Thrones and Lost ended so poorly that it felt like the entire fandom just dropped the show, forgetting how awesome the first few seasons were.

Even shows that wrap in the 4-6 season area like Nurse Jackie felt like they went one to two seasons too long.

I actually kind of wish we didn't think in 'series' or 'seasons' and thought of TV narrative like movies where we make the entire story and then divide It into chapters. Nothing kills a great show faster than a writer's room that has run out of ideas but is told to make 10 more hours of content.

Just look at Jason's last name. He's descended from a line of Vampire Hunters.

I agree, not condoning the actions or excusing them. What I am attempting to do and I guess, failing, is pointing out that like the postal industry of the 80s and 90s giving us the euphemism 'going postal' for when one loses it, nowadays it seems IT workers are the ones. And maybe it's time to say something like 'Going IT' for all these workers who believe they are above the law and either try to make money or punish their employers through misuse of their access.

But more importantly, are we paying attention and understanding why this environment is breeding so much contempt? We know healthcare workers are under a lot of stress but I'm not seeing a huge influx of recent news reports of doctors deciding to collect as many beating hearts in one jar as possible or any other crazy behavior. So what are we doing to our IT workers to make them snap disproportionately more than other job sectors?

Was it Sharp for snapping and doing this to his employer? Or is it the employer that is the monster for pushing a stressed employee past their limit and causing them to break?

I feel like in a lot of these cases with disgruntled employees, there is a little of both at play and no one is truly innocent. After reading a story like this, I'd never want to work in IT at Ubiquiti because it pushes people to breaking. The way I see it, 'Going Postal' isn't because the Post Office hired a bunch of psychos, it's because they have shitty employment practices. Same with Ubiquiti.

Now I want to try Notion.

I wasn't singling Ellen out for any reason other than Dory was mentioned in the original article and it was the only one where I knew the voice actor off the top of my head. Wasn't trying to start a pissing contest of which voice actor is the most reprehensible as much as wondering if Amazon/Disney is doing this with the idea of paying the people who give life to those very characters.

Good point about localization. But what if I ask for Alexa to use Darth Vader's voice. Will James Earl Jones be voicing it or will it be a deepfake of JEJ? I'm pretty sure he was Darth Vader in all language localizations, as googling isn't telling me otherwise.

Here is a small list of voices I'd love to use:
Jessica Rabbit
Gozer(from the original Ghostbusters)
Also would love if I can set Alexa to talk like the adults in the Charlie Brown cartoons so everything sounds like someone trying to talk through a muted trumpet
Soundwave(from the original series of Transformers)
Majel Barret(like Star Trek computers)

...the workers. The people who brought those voices to life! It says Dory can tell me jokes, which is Ellen DeGeneres, is she actually supplying the voice or will it be some deepfake for which Ellen gets no money just the horror of hearing her likeness interact with kids all over the world?

Well, if FB rage quits legitimate news, it then means all news on FB is fake, rather than 90%.

But what gets me is that if they cave does it mean people like Alex Jones can also get paid for "news"?

Still, I think Google does serve more news than FB and they might be doing most of the paying for news.

I have had not 1 not 2 not 3, but 6 friends develop mental health problems working at Amazon. And we're not talking as drivers or warehouse workers. We're talking about people who work in their 'think tanks' and AWS for six figure salaries. People who they wanted to retain. Two of them committed suicide, both of them stating in their final communications that the workplace sucked all the joy from their lives. The other four are so badly damaged from working there that they are "wards of the state" living on disability.

I wonder if the Chinese Hacking Army has a core of actual hackers who grew up playing with foreign tech and finding zero days. Now if China gets their way, wouldn't it mean that their billions of kids will grow up with only Chinese tech to hack on and find zero days? Somehow I see this as a positive.

It's funny, when I was looking at the first sentence, I thought you were talking about the USA since we are genocidal and authoritarian unless you're white.