I don't think training a model with copyrighted data is any kind of gray zone at all.

Running inference against such a model _might_ be infringing.

But I don't see the legal argument that model training would be.

Think of model training as lossy data compression. You provide an input, it produces a compressed artifact, and it can no longer reproduce the original when you uncompress it. It can produce _something_. It cannot reproduce the original.

On slashdot, we all agree that format shifting copyrighted works should be allowed and unrestricted, right?

If there is applicable case law here about how lossy a "reproduction" can be before copyright has something to say about it, that would be relevant. Do you know of any?

I think you're repeating something that feels emotionally valid but in my experience, isn't factually (or legally) accurate.

I have found AI models to be frustratingly _obedient_ of copyright.

I'll be in a situation where I ask a specific question about what a document says, and the AI repeatedly says the work is copyrighted and it can't just tell me what it says _verbatim_, but it can answer specific questions for me in its own words (while telling me to check the original).

Two examples from my life are procedural questions about what Roberts Rules of Order would require in a given situation, and, what ASD STE-100 says about how to name/word things.

The applicable US law would appear to be USC 17 Sec 106 and 107, which on one hand limits derivative works, but on the other, allows fair use for purposes of teaching, scholarship, or research.

(USC references provided by AI, btw. Which I haven't read)

I used to agree with you, and then oddly enough, about 25-30 years ago, I came across this signature on another regular slashdot posters postings:

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

(AI tells me the attribution is "The Red Lily", Anatole France, 1894)

Not disputing your points, but JPEG2000 is used pretty extensively in the remote sensing world (think overhead satellite imagery from companies like Maxar [was Worldview]). These images are often huge (think GB+), benefit well from the compression and especially the inherent res levels J2K provides. It is a common compression format in NITF formatted imagery files. A niche area to be sure, but it is used.

Yes and her main focus battling the legality of the Copyright term extension act CTEA before the ZSconunix case reared its ugly headthat fight was lost before the Supreme Court essentially scotus said the constitution gave congresss unilateral power when it came to power. So don't think any fight is over.

Your post is fascinating, but also mindboggling. The amount of code to review must be... impossible.

Ive been coding for 35 years and thought I knew it all, but now find I know nothing. Keeping up is impossible.

I enjoyed reading your experience.

watch this especially from 4'45"

https://youtu.be/OcQy1zaflbw

The entirety of Europe is rapidly and aggressively migrating from USA software. It simply CANNOT be trusted.

Once Europe does this*, the rest of the world will rapidly follow. People, organisations and governments themselves have now had it proven to them that the USA cannot be trusted, is not reliable and now (proven) that confidential information is nothing more than an open book.

* e.g. EuroOffice is being released on the 9th June - a direct competitor of Google Docs and Microsoft Office.

DST works by tricking people to wake up and get to their daily activities an hour earlier than they normally would. And it is sold as "giving" people an hour extra in the evening. They could do that without changing their clocks by just waking up at 5 instead of 6 and working 7-4 instead of 8-5, but most people don't want to wake up earlier. So we use DST to trick them into doing it.

Doing DST as a whole society also helps for people who don't have flexible hours for their daytime activities.

But i realized a while ago that the twice a year time change is the PRIMARY reason why DST even works. Because without the constant change, people would just adapt to the new timezone. Daily activities (like school and work) would shift to starting an hour later. Lunch would start being eaten from 1-2 instead of 12-1, as the new time would be when the sun is at its highest. Dinner would be 6-7 instead of 5-6, because that is closer to when the sun is setting. It would take several years, but eventually, society would shift its schedule to closer match the sun. And the way that DST "tricks" people into getting up an hour earlier would stop.

btw, your preference (and mine) for year standard time is the way most of the world works. Gray countries in that map do not do DST. It's really only US, Canada, Europe and a few other places. And I'll never understand DST in Alaska, which is already entirely in the wrong time zone.

You just know that this "rule" was passed immediately after several senators placed bets on whether or not Congress would pass a rule limiting trading on prediction markets.

Iâ(TM)ve truly thought that there were missed opportunities to develop social interactions and connections here like Reddit would go on to have (in the past golden days of that site).

Even though the note about his friends passing is personal, it touched me too. It feels like âoeone of usâ has passed.

Itâ(TM)s been 33 yearsâ¦..

It isn't about Hollywood making movies that Chinese audiences would appreciate. It's about making movies that the authoritarian Chinese government would allow to be available to Chinese audiences. There's a difference.

There's a pattern here. Today's "server" becomes tomorrow's must have home personal computer.

They should bring back the guys in the bunny suits while they're at it!

Betteridge's law of headlines says "no".

But I would have been disappointed if it had not appearedâ¦.

I think the only Premium TVs left are the business TVs that give you meaningful mechanisms to not have intrusive "Smart" features.

Is there a meaningful difference between a Sony TV that harvests data and won't let you opt-out of "smart" features, and a Wal-mart TV that harvests data and won't let you opt-out of "smart" features?

I guess I am blessed to not be an audiophile and not have flawless supervision :)

FWIW, I have:
- a 20 yo 720p dumb 42" plasma
- a 20 yo 1080P dumb 50" plasma
- a 1yo 4k Samsung 65" TheFrame TV

That last one was a splurge I wanted because the "Art Mode" is just too beautiful, and at the time, Samsung really had the only coherent offering. (I guess there are now "off brand" ArtTV attempts from HiSense and others.. i have no experience with them.)

On the ArtTV, we watch youtube or DVDs or XBox on it a little of the time, and all that stuff looks fine to me on the 65" Samsung. But the TV is otherwise displaying pretty artwork almost all of the time, and whatever Samsung has done with the screen, dimming control, bezel, etc, really does work and really is lovely. And you don't need a service or an app to get the experience - just stick a USB full of public domain masterpieces into the TV.

Even so, the Samsung ecosystem is pretty annoying. I can have it show my images in ArtMode, but i cannot have the "real" experience you'd get with a subscription - with Art XML metadata and stuff (artist, date, etc). We don't always remember what a piece is or who painted it when it comes up..

Anyway, AFAIK, the only way to get TVs that aren't enshittified spyware is a business SKU, right?