Not surprised that someone exploited a vulnerability, but surprised that deployed military personnel are allowed to use civilian communication systems.

I'm having a bit of trouble working up any sympathy, as the saying goes.

The FSB is certainly getting a good ROI on their investment in Trump.

Muchisimas gracias.

Al colaborar en estos comentarios, tú y yo hemos ilustrado perfectamente el punto. Si nuestros comentarios estuvieran en idiomas diferentes, no podríamos llegar a un entendimiento compartido porque ninguno de los dos podría entender lo que dice el otro. Ahora, gracias a la tecnología, podemos pulsar un botón y traducir instantáneamente las palabras a nuestro propio idioma. Pero incluso en el mismo idioma, claramente no compartimos un entendimiento. Para crear un entendimiento compartido de esta conversación harán falta múltiples respuestas de ida y vuelta para explicar mejor nuestras perspectivas y avanzar hacia un terreno común. Mientras tanto, el terreno común de un idioma compartido está ahora fácilmente disponible para cualquiera con conexión a internet.

La traducción es trivial. Ya no es "la principal barrera en la comunicación interpersonal". Encontrar un lenguaje común puede hacerlo con una máquina tonta. Encontrar un significado común solo puede ser logrado por la mente humana.

AI is so smart that it can hallucinate without even having to take drugs.

Is this the result of a Third Party Loophole like the government buying data it could not legally get a warrant for?

What I wonder is-- yes, we retain the copyright for images even after we publish them. However, as your last sentence points out, if we sign Meta's TOS, then in this scenario it isn't the other users out there who are potentially infringing our copyright by using our published works. The use being discussed in this article is a Meta tool performing Meta manipulation on Meta-hosted images that we have marked as public and also through the TOS have given Meta license to reuse, distribute, incorporate into training data, and directly manipulate with Meta's genAI, etc.

So, yeah, some other person who lacks a license may be the one clicking the button to enter the prompt "put a Super Mario moustache and overalls on my best friend's public wedding pic", but that other person isn't doing any of the manipulation. They are simply using a Meta function. Meta is the one manipulating your pics and publishing the new derivative work - which you have expressly agreed to allow Meta to do. And those are separate transactions.

Hard disagree.

The main barrier in interpersonal communication is psychological, not linguistic. It only seems like language barriers are huge because for millennia we lacked the technology to do so. Word translation at a basic effective level can now be automated trivially. It's just substituting one set of morphemes/phonemes for another. The morphemes/phonemes have no value on their own. They're merely pointers to an array of possible meanings. Words happen at the physical sensory layer - sound vibration, lines on paper, hand signs. But meaning, ahhh there's the rub. Meaning happens inside a thinking mind. Even within any one language, say, English, these words I'm writing are merely another translation layer mediating between whatever Meaning is inside my mind and whatever Meaning is inside your mind. Auto-translation between languages is just another iteration of the way language provides an automatic translation between individuals with our separate minds.

For example, this post itself. I get your point, and you're correct in a sense, but even though we speak the same language, I significantly disagree with the ultimate meaning of your statement. Those conceptual differences are inside me and inside you, and are hard to surmount even within the same language. ...from whence almost all politics and culture and war and hatred and resentment and divorce and strife derive.

Undoubtedly the origin of the Hobbit-steals-dragons-treasure meme.

I think you mean, "so the middle men can pocket the savings".

"Thank you Vera much."

No one can agree or disagree with this decision if they don't know the decision.

Anyone commenting on SCOTUS rulings without themselves reading the full text of the ruling, any additional concurring opinions, and all filed dissenting opinions, should not be listened to. They are no different than a dumb LLM outputting a repackaged salad of things they've heard others say, without actually encountering and understanding the tangible reality.

Your favorite blog can't be trusted to get it right.
Your favorite reddit can't be trusted to get it right.
Your favorite news channel can't be trusted to get it right.
Your informal tribal network of FaceTokGramXBsky mutuals can't be trusted to get it right.
Your favorite AI summarizer can't be trusted to get it right.

YOU need to read the actual text, which contains the actual arguments (and supporting citations) of the various justices.

Want more for yourself and your brief animal existence than merely being a repeater node in someone else's meme mesh.
Want more for yourself than being indistinguishable from an LLM that faithfully outputs Outrage_Text_XYZ whenever the forces of civilization prompt you with Outrage_Trigger_XYZ.

It does that to preserve parity, since many humans view Gemini as another sentient being.
If it didn't preserve parity, this Simuverse would start to break down and we'd realize spacetime is a holding tank where thinking entities are thrown to sleep it off for a few billion years when we throw a cosmic tantrum. It's normally bounded by a Schwarzchild field - which is called that because it prevents we Schwarzchildren from escaping our crib until we've had a good nap.

From the summary:

IOW, they're sticking with their marketing pitch.

That's no longer the American Way (if it ever was).

Wind is part of the cause, but the GS itself is an ocean current.