The moon has a left wing bias to these folks, because if it's not a very narrow and unintelligent subset of American culture, then it's woke or left wing bias or something like that.

Why the fuck shouldn't you be able to sell a book for more than five years. Authors do that AND continue to write.

If you're looking at it as if they will be forced to make money somewhere else and you'll have more creative works because lazy writers will now be forced to write more and more to make enough money from writing? That most definitely will not work out. When do authors stop writing, for fuck sake man, you didn't think that through all the way did you.

Holy fuck people complain about sequelitis NOW, eeeeezzzuz... In no possible fucking way does your plan increase creative output. That's all you'd get is increasingly more derivative slop, more and faster.

True. And without question thats the space coffee inhabits.

I care about my coffee. I buy good beans and I drink two cups each morning. I may have a third in the afternoon on occasion. It is a baseline "quality of life" staple for me - a ritual that pleases me greatly.

I will not give it up if I'm told it's unhealthy, and I won't ramp up my intake if I'm told it's medicine.

It's pure pleasure. So I don't give a damn what your studies say. I'm not interested. I will consume it as I see fit, and health informs exactly none of the decision.

Yah I mean eventually I was going to ask a remote server about every little problem on my computer so it might as well just take a full copy without my knowledge, fuck it yolo, hahahaha. Why would just the chat transcript on my screen that is obviously sent to the server be the boundary, copy everything else too, same diff.

My point is we have lots of utilities that use remote servers to do work, and it's generally understood that the inputs sent to the server are now on someone else's computer. An AI model is no different than how "itranslate.exe --spanish lemonade stand.txt" might work. There's no excuse for copying everything else to some server along with the actual request, that's malware plain and simple. There may be a fine line between that and say you working on *.txt without thinking it through all the way, but that is a very solid fucking line.

JFC, it's even worse, it's like running itranslate.exe in interactive mode and then having it send all your files out because you asked how to say hello in Spanish. Imagine hearing dickheads on /. say well... the translation services are online so ... the fuck you say?!?!

I would say we can chew bubblegum and walk at the same time, but that is definitely not even a technical problem in need of a technical solution.

Dude... how do you compare reading a published book without paying for it to copying the contents of your computer to a server without your knowledge? The problem isn't if a model was trained on your tax records it's that it copied them all without any indication and they're all available to some random grok engineers if they weren't already thanks fucking DOGE.

One IS a copyright question whether you like it or not, the other is straight up malware. Due to the nature of how these things work we know anything in the chat session is on their server already just like anything you paste into a Google prompt is. The checkbox to help them train their model is a pinky promise and we all know it but we know what we're sharing and what we're not. Just because it's in a git repo doesn't mean it's public or ever will be.

The same author who's published books were read and used without his permission (the horror) just had his unpublished works and private notes copied and uploaded to grok because he was smart enough to track things in a git repo and used the tool for a creative brainstorming session. Whatever, same thing right, lol.

I have a mixed view of unions. I think they're best used to protect the individual, but if abused this is a mixed bag as well. Workers are a diverse, clunky mess of individuals good and bad, and so are the protective mechanisms.

However, I think that companies should be able to shutter departments, entities, and roles pretty much at will provided they compensate those affected within reason. Obviously this gets complicated if a company seems like they're closing a section specifically because they are unionized, or choose to become so.

But here? I think if they're negotiating for additional compensation for a period of time they should be negotiating within, that's reasonable. But if they're trying to block the closure, that's questionable.

All of the traditional game house structures are under stress. The traditional model has evolved into an astronomically expensive mess. It needs a complete reset, and that never goes easily for those participating in the current state.

My guess is Microsoft will cut them a check and move on. That's probably best for everybody.

Please look up what 3rd world means.

Data centers need to pay for their own energy increase, be closed cooling systems, and not allow withing 5 miles of a residential area, and residence can't be built within 5 miles of a data center.

A contagion tube that slower and vastly more inconvenient. Plus a bigger polluter.
People pushing for everyone to get on the bus have no clue about buses.

It's just a matter of time. You aren't going to ae a car that receives less then 1 percent of sales. For example.

OH no, did the EV boogie man make an EV model of a car you like? tell, is this EV boogie man in the room with you right now?
Electric mustang concept is fine. There implementation was poor.

wow. Did no take like for sexist douches to post.

" Standards made your mind more limber and aware. "
lol, no.