"That's not justice, that's basically a kill switch for the entire industry."

Stealing, e.g., book authors' work, mashing it up using an "LLM" algorithm, and selling it in a deliberate attempt to undercut the original, content-creating authors would seem like a 'kill switch' for human creativity and livelihoods, no? Ursula K. LeGuin was 101% right when she fought Google and the what was supposed to be her own advocate, the SFWA, on this 20 years ago and everything she predicted about the destruction of authors is coming to pass.

Well that's going to give me nightmares!

What we might call the "Financialization Generation", which held the reins from ~1975 to at least 2021, deliberately and knowingly destroyed the conditions under which the great majority of people could experience anything known as 'career success' [1]. That they are now paying researchers to bemoan that those so undermined lack "Conscientiousness" about their work environment is a bit rich.

[1] yes, we all know some successful entrepreneurs, the guy with 17 money-earning patents, and the super-hustlers who are on track to retire at 35 by dint of working seven jobs 120 hours/week. Those are far distant outliers to the mean

How would such a door even work... I mean you've got a huge heatsink on one side of the die and the PCB on the other. Such a door would have no room to open and even if you could open it -- the inside of the die isn't hollow -- there'd be nowhere to go even once the door was open.

This all sounds like scifi to me.

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I think the courts have already ruled on the ineligibility of such works for copyright protection when used as part of a dataset for AI training.

Good luck Universal, can you afford to buy the right judge?

Official statement from Universal:

"Do as we say, not as we do"

Statement ends.

But would it really be non-polluting?

In fracturing its atomic bonds, N6 will likely release most of its energy as heat and we all know that if you heat N2 and O2 enough you end up with all types of oxides including a nasty pollutant called NItric Oxide (NO). I can't see N6 simply disassembling itself neatly into 3(N2) in an oxidative environment such as the earth's atmosphere.

Is this because companies are trying to leverage as much AI as they can these days?

We're told that AI will improve everyone's life and give us all more leisure time -- but I'm getting the impression that "leisure" is equated with "unemployed" by those making the predictions. With AI taking over so many roles that often required a degree I think it will only serve to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, with no trickle-down or benefit to those who can't use it to their own advantage.

Only time will tell I guess.

I suspect the two biggest earners for Fiver were app coding and voice actors. Sadly, these are also the two categories on which AI is having the biggest impact.

Why would you hire a voice actor from Fiver when you can use AI to give you an adequately good result for much less?

Likewise app coding.

I suspect that we'll see far more "prompt engineers" offering their vibe-coding and AI-voiceover expertise on Fiver but the prices will have to fall.

I have several computers in my office but the only one running windows is the one I use for video editing. Everything else runs Linux and has done for over 15 years.

The only reason my video editing rig still runs Windows is because it's just easier than battling a bunch of limitations tied to using Davinci Resolve under Linux. If BlackMagic Design could provide identical capabilities on Linux that Windows machine would be reformatted in the blink of an eye.

To be honest, I hate having to fire up the Windows machine because I'm constantly interrupted by all manner of ridiculous things I don't want or need and I'm constantly nagged to upgrade. If I step away for more than a few minutes I can sometimes come back to find that Windows has decided to download updates or do something else without being asked to do so. With Linux I am in *full* control of my computers -- with Windows, not so much.

Right now I'm considering altering my video editing workflow so that I can finally get rid of the evil that is Windows. Hopefully this will happen sooner rather than later.

Those who still use Windows for stuff like websurfing, word processing, spreadsheets and other day-to-day tasks are suffering a self-inflicted pain. Freedom and relief is just a download away. Do it!

I demand that UK MPs declare any interests they have in VPN companies. Perhaps the real agenda here is far more personal than we might think and maybe there's many a fortune being made within the halls of power as a result of this new legislation :-)

Yep, along with the slogan "Only terrorists and CSAM pervs use VPNs".

Sadly, the UK is just one of the first-world countries using "won't someone think of the children" as an excuse for usurping free access to the internet and freedom of speech. Australia's eSafety commissioner has already set the wheels in motion for very similar legislation there and even New Zealand is now seriously considering following along.

Nothing gets a government more excited than the prospect of suppressing dissent and opposition to their narratives. Censoring and restricting access to the internet is the ultimate tool for doing this. When the government gets to dictate what constitutes "harmful material" and has the ability to suppress that information we then live in a totalitarian state.

Only those with something to hide have anything to fear from freedom of information and freedom of speech. How strange therefore, that so many Western governments are now rushing to implement these restrictions on our freedoms and our privacy.

In the UK they've even set up a special police squad to monitor social media for anyone who might be challenging the government narrative and as we've already seen, they're prepared to let violent offenders out of prison early so as to make room for those who have said "hurty words" on the internet.

The world is going to hell in a handbasket and as an old hippy from the 1970s it appalls me that so many of those who will be so badly affected by this are simply doing nothing to push back. Perhaps governments are buoyed by the way so many so passively accepted the diktats of the pandemic and they've realized that the general population has no fight in them and are simply looking for more shorts on YouTube, more Reels on Facebook and some Marvell movies.

We deserve the government we get I suppose :-(

"Trump is a liar who destroys every thing and particularly every one he comes in contact with"

Pin that in your clipboard and paste it into discussions as needed.

I've been creating YouTube videos since 2006 or so and I have a cupboard with about 20TB of archived video and project files on external USB hard drives -- most of that has been created since I switched to recording in 4K about four years ago. With the move to 6K or even 8K raw footage, 30TB is *not* a lot of storage -- although I would be nervous about committing so much data to a single drive in a non-enterprise environment. At the very least you'd want a redundant RAID setup which would mean buying multiple of these drives.

Since my storage requirements don't mandate "online" storage, just archival, I'll stick with cheap USB-connected hard drives in the meantime where any loss is limited to about 4TB maximum.

The Devil: This is where you will spend eternity winding the clock
Me: Akshually I'll be winding the frequency standard; it requires additional mechanism to keep time
The Devil:
The Devil: You know that's why you're here, right?