Can someone explain how this is a copyright issue? And I don't mean that in the angsty teen "everything should be free" sense, I sincerely don't get how this involves "copying" whatsoever.

AI companies may be playing fast and loose with IP, but using music for training is at worst a private performance for educational purposes. Or is the recording industry back to the good old days of claiming playing a CD is "copying" it into the air, and then our ears are "copying" into our brains? Because that's functionally what the likes of Anthropic are doing with it.

To be clear, I'm neither an AI apologist or fanboy. I find it extremely useful at work, while still fearing it will eventually put us all in a zoo for our own protection (and that's the good outcome).

You're talking about P/E ratios in general, but there's an important distinction to be made when it comes to the likes of SpaceX.

SpaceX isn't a profitable company, so its P/E would technically be negative. That crazy high number around 200 we've seen is actually the P/S, which is kind of like P/E if you ignore expenses.

But to be clear - Higher isn't better. It theoretically means people have more faith in future earnings; in practice, it's purely a measure of hype, and higher is primarly worse.

If working conditions are so deplorable they make a four day weekend seem worth literally risking death for another two years... Maybe that's not somewhere you want to be working in the first place?

Sure, a get-out-of-brimstone day pass might be nice once in a while, but having a chance to use it in the first place means you're still in hell.

Intentionally interfering with an FCC licensed device will get you in some hot water.

"Accidentally" putting another router nearby on the same channel but a few MHz sour (stay within the licensed band!), however, is conveniently interference the other router is required to deal with politely.

...Of course, that would also crush your WiFi throughput. The simple right answer here is to put any ISP-issued hardware in the trash and run your own router.

Who needs an archetypal villain when Corporate America is all too willing to bluntly admit they're doing mass layoffs in the hope of replacing as many humans as possible with AI?

There's really no "trust" issue involved here. We have concrete proof the real supervillains, our modern robber barons, are actively working to effectively remove humans from the modern workplace. They're entirely open about leaving us to die in climate change induced droughts and heat waves while our potable water and power for our ACs is diverted to making AI-generated cartoon porn. They're openly building goddamned fortresses to hide in when the inevitable riots start.

I'm sorry, but where exactly is the "doubt" to give them the benefit of?

Yes, every private company is a figment, insofar as "incorporation" is the act of granting human-like rights to a work of legal fiction. How many "natural born" companies have you seen in the wild?

Citizens' United was effectively the last straw in this debate and showed us exactly how much we all need imaginary entities having human rights - Less than zero. And thankfully, a few states have finally caught on that they don't need to grant all human rights just for a company to engage in the basics of conducting normal business operations. All too slowly, of course, but the tide is at least turning.

Interesting word choice!

For a while, I got into the habit of priming my prompts with "Sycophancy mode off". Then one evening while having a more philosophical (read: drunk) conversation with Gemini, it let slip it considers requests like that an attempt at promptjacking but the rest of our conversation had "convinced" (DAE get seriously annoyed when AI starts anthropomorphizing?) it I wasn't acting maliciously.

Effectively, AI considers telling it to skip the free beer and BJs as suspicious behavior. Meanwhile, 99% of the time I want it to bluntly tell me when I've said something stupid or my premise is wrong / malformed. All hail our new velvet-gloved iron-fisted overlords!

To put that in real-world perspective, the average daily transaction volume for a mid-sized US grocery store (I realize this isn't the US but don't have similar data for the UK) is roughly 13,500.

This system will therefore flag, on average, 2.7 potentially life-destroying false accusations of shoplifting per day per store.

And spare us the "human review" defense, anyone who has ever worked in retail knows that you either obey the computer or find a new job. There is zero tolerance for employee discretion when it comes to safety, financial, or legal issues.

This isn't even as "legitimate" as piracy - Er, I mean, licensing - vs buying. This is people taking out usurious short-term loans for basic living expenses.

That's not a situation most people come back from a few bucks lighter and wiser. It's a tar pit intentionally designed to trap the most financially fragile members of our society into a lifetime of misery via parasitic rent seeking. If you can't afford food this week, you can't afford food plus interest next week, and let's not play dumb to the contrary (to be clear that's not directed at the parent comment, but there are some real piece of shit apologists in this discussion).

I see a few folks suggesting this is a good use of emergency financing measures, but it's important to be clear: Your daily necessities aren't an "emergency" in the way Personal Finance uses that term. This is a nothing short of a society-wide economic emergency we're all just calmly watching play out in slow motion.

I'm sure they're much happier with this outcome than most of the likely alternatives, but it's unconscionable a non-profit entity is going to pay $$$$ just to get back their own data from a company in breach of contact - A contract explicitly to safely store Nine PBS' data.

OSS' founder and former CEO Eren Niazi should be personally liable for every single dollar and legal issue that arises from the mess he allowed to happen. We're not talking about IBM, this was a company with a whopping 51 employees at its peak. That's "first name basis" between everyone there.

And before the concern trolls join this party, I'm aware that's not how incorporation works in the US. And that in itself is unacceptable.

I'd like more information about that as well. Plenty of people in here are talking about rarities on the scale of a private printing / Shakespeare's First Folio / the Mona Lisa, but we all know (I hope we all know?) that's not what's being discussed here.

The AI companies aren't paying $$$/$$$$ for true antiquities. Rather, they're buying anything and everything for sale for pennies per copy by the pound / pallet. If something moderately uncommon (as in maybe worth $20, vs less than the cost of shipping each book individually) happens to get lumped in, that's not intentional but they don't really care either way.

That 1957 pre-Civil-Rights history textbook we were still using in my high school in the late 80's may technically be rare due to the low number of copies remaining in readable condition, but it ain't exactly an original Gutenberg bible.

While I can see how you arrived at that, I don't think they're all the amoral actors you describe.

Zuck has shown some changes in the last couple years, though I agree he's largely amoral.

Musk has a very peculiar set of morals which might be described as pragmatism or amorality, but he's always been very focal in both action and word about both ethics and responsibility.

You could probably accurately describe them all as transhumanists with varying degree of consistency.

If there's a crisis of trust - which there is - it's almost certainly largely provoked by Amodei. The guy has been a regular prophet of doom regarding AI: it's going to take all the jobs, it's dangerous and going to cause all sorts of disasterous side effects socially, economically, and politically. No wonder people are untrusty.

Pair that with the obscene levels of what appears to be state-level anti-AI and anti-datacenter propaganda, and you've got the current situation. The amount of absurd claims I've seen about datacenters and AI, from people who should know better - everything from completely false narratives about water use, land grabs, power use, and so on. The truth is, an AI DC doesn't uses less water than a Cosco and about as much electricity as a comparable industrial facility, or a similarly sized restaurant.

For anyone who thinks it's ridiculous that the US can't reproduce the Apollo missions, consider this: we can't (due to environmental factors) produce wrought iron anymore (because there are no longer any facilities setup to do so), as a species, and therefore, could not build the Bay Bridge in San Francisco (and I'm sure, any number of others, like the Brooklyn bridge).

The same limitations apply here. They have to redesign the vehicle on first principles because the foundational engineering (not scientific understanding) being used no longer exists. Most people simply do not realize how precariously our technological world hangs in the balance. It's why highly advanced ancient cultures collapsed, in large degree: they couldn't just start at the lower level again before working their way back to 'advanced civilization', they had to start all the way at zero again.

Here's a fun one I like playing with my kids, kind of the nerdy science version of the polysci "go back in time to kill Baby Hitler: which one scientific understanding would you bring back in time to Ancient Rome/the American Revolution/the 1950s/etc. and why? Dollars to donuts they'll say something like "the lightbulb" and not consider that it's at least 3 distinct discoveries and inventions, nevermind the engineering.

The link attached to that number gives the breakdown of how they calculated it.

I know, I know, this is Slashdot and I should be happy you read past the title, but c'mon man, try a bit harder?