I think the test of copyright infringement is or should be simple. Is the code the same as mine. That should be the same whether the code was written by an LLM, by some code monkeys or by a human.
If people are insisting that the test should
Be whether code went into the LLM sausage machine, then they are not worried about copyright infringement.
Google is not selling stories written by others. They, and the other companies in AI, are creating AI tools that learn from existing materials and are allowing users to create new works using them.
I am not sure I am happy with the extension of copyrights to any use of the material. I am also not happy with the idea that the author of a work has to authorise every different type of use of their material. A copyright should, in my opinion, be about who is allowed to make copies of a work and then sell it, or license it, to others. I think it is a (primarily American) mistake to give authors the rights to decide how licensees are allowed to use the works licensed to them. I do not think this should be a principle of copyright.
Donâ(TM)t get me wrong, I think authors need some protection. But I think what we are now seeing is greed masquerading as principle.
I am sure that folks here would be unhappy if Microsoft started insisting that Xbox games were for private use and any esports (e.g. Forza) required a separate license.
"Pepe" should be "people". Clearly!
Pepe are using these tools to write and create for people. Is a lot of it crap? Absolutely! But there are just tools and in the hands of genuinely talented people they can be amazing means of self expression, while not so talented people might only be capable of producing very derivative work that is of no interest to actual audiences.
AI might also be very useful to weed out non-original stories as part of the evaluation for contests like this.
Seriously, is the point of storytelling to tell good stories or to write them without AI.
Maybe AI means a Dan Brown can now write more engaging prose, while providing his readers with original stories. Maybe this is a win-win situation.
I think the only qualification for a writing award should be whether the stories are original and / or good.
However, UKâ(TM)s GDP growth has been in line with the EU. Doing better than Germany and about the same as France.
The UK has many problems and Brexit is not the main one in my opinion. Itâ(TM)s a convenient scapegoat for a political class that is essentially Europhile. (All the main parties supported staying in the EU during the referendum.) The UKâ(TM)s problems are not caused by being in or out of the EU. They are fundamentally because there is a political class that does not have the wherewithal to come up with solutions to the challenges faced in the 21st century. There challenges are the rise of China (and India too), America, ageing populations etc. These manifest in de-industrialisation, high house prices, high migration etc. If in the EU, they will just point to the EU and say their hands are tied. If outside the EU they will say it is because they are not in the EU.
Our politicians (of all stripes) are not up to the job, and that will unfortunately result in their more opportunistic peers proposing simple sounding solutions (such as either Brexit or rejoining) that donâ(TM)t solve our problems but always conveniently, whatever happens, gives them a scapegoat for their failures.
From what I can tell, this was patched months ago. Why is it a big splashy deal starting yesterday?
Maybe Meta should include a wireless command that automatically shuts down the recording. Then anyone who does not wish to be recorded surreptitiously can have their device send this command to nearby Meta ray bans.
And anyone with Meta ray bans will have to ask for permission to record, and specifically ask people to turn off their blocking signals.
Appleâ(TM)s Lightning connector has some limitations, chief among which is that there is a maximum wattage they could safely pass through a connector that had naked contact points.
That connector was never going to be good enough for the range that USB-C is used for.
Perhaps, the solution is to begin to require that any code that is submitted is accompanied by comprehensive documentation and tests to demonstrate its appropriateness otherwise it will be ignored / sent to
Open source does need to embrace AI coding otherwise it will become irrelevant
Airbus's fly-by-wire system meant that the position of the throttle lever indicated a falsehood as to the throttle setting.
They aren't creating the vulnerabilities, they're finding them and creating exploits.
Fuck you and that Ribbon.
I'm sorry. This is a topic that makes me nerd-rage.
LK
How in the fuck does using 15% of the screen for a ribbon provide a compact interface when the menu bar is the competition?
LK
IN MY OPINION anyone interested in improving himself should not rule out becoming pure energy. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
