People's attitudes about cars are so strange. LOTS of people get injured in car accidents to the point where they can't use a phone to call for help. As the OP stated, these systems are mandatory now in Europe so lots of people "give [enough of] a fuck to own [them]."

Anyway, my comment was about your reading comprehension. You excoriated the OP for "i can't see how you'd imagine someone wouldn't want to disable it" when what they said was they couldn't imagine why someone would want to buy their own after disabling the built in one.

You sound like an old dude. Highways were deathtraps back in the days of "a time when people used CBs and ham radios with autopatch for automotive emergencies." You've got your fondly remembering your life glasses on and they're interfering with your ability to read and making you say dumb stuff.

Be thankful that we're even having a discussion about systemic failure with the Flock database error.

Ladies and gentlemen, the "leaders of the free world":

"Well, China is worse (I've been told)."

Data entry mistakes happen.

Yes.

What is worrying is that it wasn't corrected the first time

As the OP said, what's worrying is that a data entry mistake, which will happen, leads to someone's life being endangered.

Probably LRO vs. Danuri

There is minuscule public (non-insider) information about medical trials.

Typically there's quite a bit. "New" drugs usually have quite a bit of published pre-clinical work, sometimes going back decades, and previous phase clinical trials must be published.

This is "gambling".

Yes. All all the justifications Kalshi came up with are bullshit. Either things that already exist in a non-gambling form (e.g. clinicaltrials.gov) or are not useful.

You're not an insider if you don't have insider information, regardless of who you work for. The OP used the term correctly, both as its commonly understood and as it's defined:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I have to congratulate you on that subject line.

Except instead of pursuing policies that would help open models at the expense of Big AI, anti-AI people pursue just the opposite - policies that can cripple open source AI but have no realistic ability to meaningfully hurt big AI. It's so short sighted.

Actually, no, what they usually do is much more insidious: fingerprinting rather than watermarking. The fingerprint isn't actually included in the audio, it's included in a database. If they want to tell if the track was generated, they just try to match the fingerprint in the database. Can't filter it out of the track like you can with a watermark.

The two mainstream options (both about half a year old now, we're due for something better) are Ace Step-1.5 and Stable Audio 3 Medium.

Ace Step has full vocals with its music. See here for examples. The downside in my opinion (judge for yourself) is that it has Suno's flaw of sounding too "clean", "mainstream" and "uncreative", except even moreso (Udio was always much better than Suno at this, albeit "less well behaved" - but Udio is out of the game now).

Stable Audio 3 doesn't do vocals, though it has other useful features, like inpainting (great for fixing glitches in recorded tracks for example). In my view, it sounds a lot better. It can also be used to create sound effects. License is a bit more restrictive, though, if you actually care about that, but generally won't affect the average user.

Both are trained on fully licensed data and both are open-weights. So even if the devs released a version that included some sort of watermarking in the future (or someone developed a fingerprinting algo for the existing versions), you could just finetune them to break that.

TL/DR, if you want open source and want to just churn out a full track: choose Ace Step 1.5.
If you want open source and want to do instrumental tracks or to supplement manual work (such as your own vocals) or do audio editing: chose Stable Audio 3.

Okay, don't try.

Isn't life kind of boring when you just make pronouncements and believe them absolutely?

So? Binocular vision requires, OMG, two cameras. The fact that Tesla doesn't think they need it everywhere isn't relevant.

Ah, you must live somewhere that has pretty wussy snowstorms.

As for how useful they are, I respectfully disagree.

Earlyish aviation had a bit a disagreement between pilots who realized it needed to be much safer to develop into a major industry and those who preferred more reliance on individual skill. The problem eventually solved itself.