IN America, Downloading is pirating, distribution is. Read the code.
There is no example of any AI repeating an entire work beyond fair use.

" go ahead and help themselves without finding out what was appropriate under current legal structure?"
do you do that every time you read a web page? a book?

"it's not the same way a human reads a novel."
its like a mother reading to a child, so the statement stands. Plus, it's not A novel.

" a human doesn't "train" on a novel, "
we absolutely do.

"implies learning to duplicate its structure"
Which is what children do.

"The only humans "training" on a novel and proceeding to write their own are what we call cut and dried plagiarists"
lol, no. Every thing you write is based on everything you read and learned. All humans.

Sitting in a librasy and writes a book bu cutting a word from all the other books is not copyright infringement, nor is it plagiarism. Plagiarism is an academic thing, not a legal thing. Just so you know.

They didn't take anything.

" In an ideal world they'd be forced to remove it from their data "
You do not understand AI.

If you write a book, do you get permission from every author you have read in the past? why not? you book is built upon everything you learned, so clearly they own a piece, right?

How is reading copyright infringement? It's no different then what AI is doing.
Also, copyright is about disturbing works. There is no record of any AI distributing works beyond fair use.

If I write a book by cutting the words out of a library full of books, it's not copyright infringement. Same with AI.

Bunch of people don't understand AI. these same writer probably rally against libraries.

""Americans no longer trust the legacy national media to report the news fairly or accurately,""

      More accurately, many Americans have replaced imperfect professional journalism with memes, influencers, partisan websites, and internet echo chambers.
The sensible response to media bias is not to declare that every news organization is equally untrustworthy. It is to learn how to evaluate sources: Does it distinguish reporting from opinion? Does it correct errors? Does it cite evidence? Does its work follow established journalistic standards, such as the SPJ Code of Ethics?

Convincing people that all mainstream media is equally corrupt may be one of the Republican Party’s most successful achievements. Once people accept that premise, factual reporting can be dismissed as partisan whenever it becomes inconvenient. Attacking fact-checkers is part of the same strategy: discredit anyone capable of demonstrating that a claim is false.
      Every news organization has some degree of bias. That does not mean every organization is equally biased, equally accurate, or equally ethical. Saying “all media is biased” and concluding that Fox News and CNN are simply mirror images of one another is like saying every vehicle has blind spots, so a bicycle and an eighteen-wheeler are equally dangerous.

  Media bias exists on a spectrum. Accuracy, sourcing, transparency, and adherence to journalistic standards matter at least as much as whether an outlet leans left or right.

This media-bias chart is a useful starting point:
https://library.skagit.edu/med...

      I wish we cold get popular influencers who teach how tor rate media. Which is ironic, becasue people like their bias and often refuse to evaluate it, they won't watch or educate them selves on how to spot there own bias and media bias, and if people where like that,, we wouldn't need popular influencers to teach how to rate media.
      I personally prefer a numerical scale, with 50 representing the political center, but perhaps that reflects the system I originally learned.

Here is a good chart for this. Skews and center is 'fine' I prefer a 1-100 scale, were 50 is center, but I'm sure that's my bias because I learned it with the method.

https://library.skagit.edu/med...

Every song written by humans was created with the influence of every song they ever listened to. No different than AI.

IF everyone you meet us dysfunctional, then Occom's razor implies it's a you problem.

"her expecting me to read her mind and magically know how to please her in every way, (a very long list), was always a factor.
"
oh, so by dating you mean watched 80's comedians all day . got it.

"the world by and large wants there to be marriage and family."
I like that you speak you nonsense for the entire globe.

IT's a simple issue. The internet has lead to people spending all most all there free time at home, usually failing into echo chambers and never learning good social skills.
As people gain wealth, we don't need kids to survive as much. This is a good thing.

". They are legal minefields and financial minefields."
lol.

Not by chances. over 10,000 year ago humans started domesticating them. Part of the was human moving to an agriculture society.
They were useful tools for dealing with rodents.

AI is nothing like nicotine.

Users have only been asking for this since Vista...

It's a trade off: you get abundant free energy to run the server, with extreme constraints on cooling because your server is running in the most perfect Thermos bottle ever.

Others are taking the opposite tack: undersea data centers for abundant free cooling at the expense of having to get the power down to your servers.

If had to bet on which one is more practial, I'd go with undersea servers. Build them off the coast of Chile, run cables out from batery-backed solar plants in the Atacama desert.

That "someone" was Maureen O'Gara. She was trying to find PJ's identity, probably to discredit her.

I think it may be evidence that Amazon has a shitty corporate culture that squeezes every penny it can out its employees.

Corruption can happen anywhere, but it's more likely to happen in totalitarian cultures where people feel like the system is rigged anyway. That's why countries like Russia and China have corruption problems. But I suspect the same feelings of me vs. the system occur in a capitalist enterprise like Amazon where employees are governed by dystopian, rigid, computerized metrics.

Having actually RTFA for once... I was looking at where Mark was noting his first email address.

I remember those days -- pre internet, so you had to give the route (...!ucbvax!ucscb).
We also had write (and for see as you type, "rite") on our PDP-11/70, and for the life of me, I couldn't understand why I'd use email instead of write. It took a while before I realized the value of asynchronous communication.

But yes, those were the days.

For those who are too young and missed it, or those who remember it and want to see it in all its glory: https://www.flickr.com/photos/...