And yet, Firefox for Android has no way to delete old bookmarks from bookmark search result list. It took them something like four years to add this feature, just recently, for history search results. Maybe Firefox will have the same for bookmark search in 2030.

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)

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)

Maybe they are trying to develop more ecotourism in the African nations.. only my guess

Well, remember how every Unix app, server, and utility in the 80s and 90s was written in C? Because there was only one refrigerator-sized departmental server with a only few megabytes of memory and two dozen users connected through serial lines, and writing in C was the only way to squeeze out every bit of performance out of it. There was a disk usage quota system allowing each user only a few megabytes of storage. The developer mentality today is that the resources are infinite and they can write code in the least efficient programming languages, and download frameworks the size of a Walmart when they need only a pocket knife.

A Yes, I recall that I had on of those I-131 travel documents fior a while. Glad I don't have to deal with this BS anymore and handed in my Green Card many years ago.

Your faith in the corrupt Roberts supreme court may be misplaced. Time will tell.

Saving publishers? You gotta be kidding. The priority should be helping Ukrainian citizens survive at all. Books can be printed later. This country already lost roughly half of its population to emigration because of war. Those who remain in Ukraine are preparing to survive another winter without central heating or electricity.

RF control drones are nowhere near dead. Even DJI Mavics are still used daily for recon missions, nothing beats their combination of price to video quality.

This is a love tap, fists will be thrown later. One thing can and should be done, we need to start adding aerosols into the atmosphere, the higher the better. Adding Na compounds to jet fuels would introduce just enough aerosols in order to start reflecting a tiny amount more of solar radiation than what makes it to the surface of the planet. 1-2% reflection is all we need to start reducing the temperatures. Of-course we will have to keep doing it until we figure out a more permanent solution.

This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.

Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.

Least important material? You weren't a STEM major, were you? I wanna see how physics/chemistry/math 101 is going to be the least important material.

One problem with the smartphones in USA is that the Chinese were chased out, so there is significantly less competition now. Huawei devices were as good as Nexus/Pixel but left a decade ago. So we have been stuck with just Apple/Samsung/Pixel.

Another problem with the US market is that most customers don't pay for their smartphones upfront. Instead, they are used to hook up with expensive cellular plan contracts and end up getting their phones for "free" or half price. So nobody is actually shopping for phones with a good price and value.