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Comment Re:Where's the payout for coders? (Score 1) 95

It's not just up to them, it's up to copyright law.
And why do you think you speak for all book authors over all time?

People like you think libraries should be shut down, fair use removed, and no one allowed to resell a book they read.
Literally the logical conclusion to your post.

Comment Re: Dictionaries Mysteriously Not Sued (Score 1) 95

Yes, it does in America. Please read US copyright code. fair use is a things. I can give you a used book for free, and you can read it and give it to someone else for free and so on. No copyright violation. Yu can access works for free through Libraries.
Copyright expires.

Comment Re:Dictionaries Mysteriously Not Sued (Score 1) 95

"f downloading massive torrents of pirated copies of books and processing them."
Downloading isn't piracy, please read copyright code.

" to generate new content, "
What a misleading phrase.

" much of which non-factual in nature,"
It's called Fiction. Your library has a whole section.

"and often very arguably explicitly creatively derivative."
Not really.. or no more then people who write.

prompt: "Make a story like sleeping beauty" ... 2 seconds later we have "The Moonlit Princess" and we'll just self-publish that on Amazon... boom I'm an author!

Make a story based on open content. that's bad.. why?

" just self-publish that on Amazon"
And that's bad, why?

"boom I'm an author!"
correct. and? also, you are the author of a work that can't be copyrighted.

"You seriously telling me this is NOT copyright infringement? "
It is not. Not be any definition is the infringement. It's a different telling. You are letting your hate of AI suppress your critical thinking.

"the prose above is a pretty blatant Disney ripoff."
No, it isn't. but guess what? people write is style similar all the time. It's not copyright infringement.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 95

" LLMs are doing everything that humans do, "
I don't think people say that' however when it comes to speech patterns, AI are like humans because its based on Zipf's law. Which shows people speak in a very predictable manner.

"LLMs need real thought,"
define "real thought" in a meaningful way. In fact, write a book to be celebrated as the first person to do that. In the mean time, stow your Scotsman.

" It's not because we're force-fed them in order to regurgitate them later. "
Well, we are as children. IF your parent give a damn, you are read books as a child.

No AI regurgitates a work. There is no example of AI repeating any work outside of fair use.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 95

"it's not the same way a human reads a novel."
its like a mother reading to a child, so the statement stands. Plus, it's not A novel.

" a human doesn't "train" on a novel, "
we absolutely do.

"implies learning to duplicate its structure"
Which is what children do.

"The only humans "training" on a novel and proceeding to write their own are what we call cut and dried plagiarists"
lol, no. Every thing you write is based on everything you read and learned. All humans.

Sitting in a librasy and writes a book bu cutting a word from all the other books is not copyright infringement, nor is it plagiarism. Plagiarism is an academic thing, not a legal thing. Just so you know.

Comment So we need to pay to read? (Score 1) 95

How is reading copyright infringement? It's no different then what AI is doing.
Also, copyright is about disturbing works. There is no record of any AI distributing works beyond fair use.

If I write a book by cutting the words out of a library full of books, it's not copyright infringement. Same with AI.

Bunch of people don't understand AI. these same writer probably rally against libraries.

Comment Much of mainstream media isn't bad. (Score 1) 77

""Americans no longer trust the legacy national media to report the news fairly or accurately,""

      More accurately, many Americans have replaced imperfect professional journalism with memes, influencers, partisan websites, and internet echo chambers.
The sensible response to media bias is not to declare that every news organization is equally untrustworthy. It is to learn how to evaluate sources: Does it distinguish reporting from opinion? Does it correct errors? Does it cite evidence? Does its work follow established journalistic standards, such as the SPJ Code of Ethics?

Convincing people that all mainstream media is equally corrupt may be one of the Republican Party’s most successful achievements. Once people accept that premise, factual reporting can be dismissed as partisan whenever it becomes inconvenient. Attacking fact-checkers is part of the same strategy: discredit anyone capable of demonstrating that a claim is false.
      Every news organization has some degree of bias. That does not mean every organization is equally biased, equally accurate, or equally ethical. Saying “all media is biased” and concluding that Fox News and CNN are simply mirror images of one another is like saying every vehicle has blind spots, so a bicycle and an eighteen-wheeler are equally dangerous.

  Media bias exists on a spectrum. Accuracy, sourcing, transparency, and adherence to journalistic standards matter at least as much as whether an outlet leans left or right.

This media-bias chart is a useful starting point:
https://library.skagit.edu/med...

      I wish we cold get popular influencers who teach how tor rate media. Which is ironic, becasue people like their bias and often refuse to evaluate it, they won't watch or educate them selves on how to spot there own bias and media bias, and if people where like that,, we wouldn't need popular influencers to teach how to rate media.
      I personally prefer a numerical scale, with 50 representing the political center, but perhaps that reflects the system I originally learned.

Here is a good chart for this. Skews and center is 'fine' I prefer a 1-100 scale, were 50 is center, but I'm sure that's my bias because I learned it with the method.

https://library.skagit.edu/med...

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