They are storing the training set, the transformative use is only relevant in that it's fair use. It was deemed legal (for non pirated content) because format shifting for a fair use goal was also fair use.

Fair use is the only defence.

They are not rescanning books for every new epoch.

Even ignoring fair use there is implied license doctrine and tons of specific exemptions under the DMCA ... but for AI training they do need fair use.

Article 9 of the Berne convention was from before I was born, old enough.

They take a song and they copy it into dynamic memory a couple of times, with copies to interconnects and SSD in between before it gets used to train models.

How is copying a copyright issue? Well, it's in the name for a reason and that reason is why.

Copyright is about reproduction, no distribution necessary.

Fair use is their only defence in the US.

Lack of self sufficiency is a national security risk in and of itself.

Must not actually say AIPAC/Israel though, I mean look at what happened to Albanese.

Congress doesn't matter. Trump is not allowed to be opposed and he has family members with financial interest you better protect, or you will be buried.

If you want to surveillance everywhere, you can put down tons of cameras or you can use a human. When AI/robotics is good enough to reliably go through the bushes to tell some fuckers in the park to fuck off, try again.

Mixed waste landfill, much like mixed sewage are such a colossal waste of potential recycling. Turns the waste streams from possibly easy to recycle at some point, to practically impossible. If we were planning to extend our civilisation much longer at this technological level, stopping mixed waste landfill and mixed sewage systems should be right up there with CO2 emissions.

I don't think it's a realistic plan though, praying to AI god to save us is more realistic. Throw this on the pile of things which AI needs to fix, pretty soon.

Android + ChromeOS + Chrome + Fitbit + Play Services + Docs + enough money to survive for a while without advertising and switch revenue streams (Android/ChromeOS licensing, Play Store, possibly first party hardware sales as well but I'd rather not have another mostly vertically integrated ecosystem ... in my opinion Chromebook hardware development is how they should handle phones too). The company would need almost everything which makes up the Google ecosystem to compete with Apple. E-Mail and calender is relatively easily replaced, so let the advertising branch keep that one.

It would be healthy for the market for it to happen, but it will never happen.

Google is not a very good competitor to Apple, but crippling Google will make Apple's market dominance worse faster.

If you are going to fight trusts, don't create a bigger one while doing so.

This is orders of magnitudes more performant. The highest tier is at roughly HBM bandwidth for reads, there is no equivalent in history. Though it remains to be seen if they can run it that fast without melting down.

Shellshock. Cowardice in the face of maga republicans blatantly abusing state power to punish opponents. TPTB shielding maga republicans because they are needed for the war.

I used to think holding your nose and supporting the US was needed when the alternative was greater power of China, power jumpstarted by the US in the first place though, which is both totalitarian and out for territorial expansion. Now I don't give a shit any more. The US is not the lesser of evils any more, maybe they never were.