If even he thinks AI is dubious, you know AI is bad news.

Lol

This is a horrible idea. This will just take money away from having decent public airports and reduce the incentive to provide them. We don't need more ways for the rich to separate themselves from everyone else.

No, that is not how it works. Different jurisdictions have different copyright laws, and you have to file and win the suit for infringement separately in each jurisdiction. What the international treaties such as the Berne Convention do is give you automatic copyright in the other signatory countries. So, you publish a book in the US, you not only automatically have a US copyright on it, you also have a copyright on it in most other countries. But if you want to sue a publisher in, say, Germany, you still have to file a separate suit there.

As I recall in discovery it turned out that SCO had actually hired an expert to compare its code to Linux and he had reported that he was unable to find any overlap. The SCO claims to own Linux code were in bad faith.

This is the blandest, most watered-down way to say "lost their job" yet. Quite nauseating.

I'm not criticizing the proposal. It is obviously good for the public welfare. I'm just curious as to whether the cost will be large enough that the companies will resist, small companies perhaps go out of business, prices to consumers go up significantly, generally speaking, what the consequences may be.

Anyone know how much this will cost the companies?

By your thinking, airlines ought to be allowed to operate using experimental aircraft and stock aircraft that are not properly maintained. It's one thing for an inventor to be reckless and kill himself. It's another when you take paying customers.

There was little opportunity to prevent Stockton Rush from operating an unsafe vessel outside of a totalitarian environment we wouldn't want. However, when you start offering rides to paying customers, things change. That should and can be regulated. It is hard to hide. Furthermore, Rush fired staff who pointed out the problems. A better whistleblower system might have made their voices heard.

You don't need government approval for each trip in your car. That's a major difference between what China is requiring for drones and US driving laws.

> Meta doesn't really know how to do anything else with any skill.

They don't know how to do Facebook very well either: it's been pretty much stagnant and enshittified to death for the past 22 years, and it feels like a forum for greying people whose greying friends haven't bothered to move on either, or to get the date of the next annual meeting of the bridge club.

No.

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

one of those companies whose sole purpose seems to be annoying you by slapping their name as a watermark on a generic image you'd like to use in a meme, and force to spend 10 seconds finding somewhere else because you were never going to pay a stupid company to remove their mark on a bad picture you can find everywhere.

I wonder how those companies still exist, let alone make any money.

Anyway, the modern way to use copyrighted photos for free is to ask stable diffusion to regenerate it, because the AI companies have done all the data stealing for you and repackaged the stolen data into "models" you can use for free.

Four hours is about halfway from NJ to Barcelona. I'm not sure I see the point in turning around.