I've spent more than 30 years of my life writing science fiction, all of which has apparently been hoovered up for AI training. I won't see a cent of any settlements or class actions as I don't live in the US, and to be honest I don't care about any of that.

I haven't written a word of fiction for five years, and I don't know if I'll ever bother again. I meet people every day who are excited about publishing 'their' novel which they 'wrote' using AI, with an AI-generated cover. Then they ask my advice on how to get it into bookstores and onto bestseller lists because they know I've done both.

My answer should be: toss that AI crap and do the hard work yourself, but I just tell them I hope their book does well.

In every printed book there's a legal notice that it's illegal to store the book in any electronic retrieval system (ie scan it). That's been around since computers were just a theory.

Also netflix, spotify, etc

I remember summer hose bans in the UK back in the seventies. Water shortages there are nothing new.

Probably dropped off a desk ornament with TWO 22k gold bars glued to the bottom.

These media companies don't realise that their own days are limited. When Joe Bloggs can use AI to create a whole TV show from a prompt, why would he pay Netflix to show him a whole TV show created from a prompt?
Publishers planning on using AI to write books 'in the style of' will also be short lived for the same reason.

Nice little media server, but it's the first and last Mac I will ever buy.

I drive a 1998 Impreza WRX which I bought new. It has 170,000km on the clock (105k miles) and drives like a new car even though it's 27 years old. 15 years is nothing if you look after a vehicle and don't drive it like you stole it.

I gave up my fiction writing career about 4 years ago since everyone I met seemed to be so excited they could now 'write a book' using AI. Screw it, I thought. You want to pump out that crap, you can read that crap.

I agree, it's hilariously bad at this task. Each time I've given it specific details it ignores the parameters. E.g. I gave it a date range of 1970-1975 and it suggested works from 2005. Or it makes up titles and assigns them to authors who don't even write in the genre.

Until it can admit that it doesn't know or doesn't have the data to generate an accurate response, it's no use to me.

Australian consumer protection laws override anything companies try to stick in their EULAs. I'm sure other countries like Denmark can figure out how to do the same.

I call solar power 'remote nuclear fusion'.

Around my area, after about 6pm there are big buses running every 30 mins until after midnight which have 0-1 passengers on board. It'd be cheaper to send one of these new vehicles straight to the stop where someone might actually be waiting and drop them at their house.

A) use ad blocker and noscript - the latter only allowing domains I whitelist
B) ignore all sites that insist I turn the ad blocker off

Yes, it can be inconvenient at times, but ads have proven to be unsafe again and again.

Yep, good luck scrolling a website, downloading a PDF instruction manual, and zooming in on a section to see the wiring diagram - something I had to do yesterday on my phone. Even that was so painful compared to the PC screen that I went and used my desktop instead.

Plus people buy these phones with gigantic screens so they can play casual games on them. I'd love to see someone directing their army in Boom Beach or building a fort in some other game.