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To just have the most recent data within reasonable time frame is one thing. AI companies are like “I must have every single article within 5 minutes they get updated, or I’ll throw my pacifier out of the pram”. No regard for the considerations of the source sites.

If it had happened now, that figure might be accurate. However, this was originally exploited in 2022, so it’s probably pretty bad.

“Hi, I’m an ultra boring nerd girl. I’m on several Fediverse platforms. …No, I don’t know Nicole. Please don’t follow me. No seriously please don’t.”

I’m not very good at socialising, sorry

Wikipedia has plenty of this stuff. Great photos and diagrams to illustrate important concepts.

For example, when discussing Turtles, you need the perfect photo to discuss the Turtle Mode.

I personally think copyright should be abolished, but for that to be actually effective and fair and just, copyright must be totally abolished everywhere in the world at the same time. Either everyone has copyright or no one has.

Why? Inconsistent copyright laws would allow regions with copyright laws to exploit regions that don’t. Regions without copyright law would be sanctioned by regions with copyright (as it already happens). It’d lead to massive trade and cultural exchange problems. People on both sides couldn’t trust the copyright status either way on international contexts.

And I think the whole AI copyright debate is a microcosm of that. The law isn’t clearly established, and AI companies argue copyright should not apply, while insisting copyright actually should apply to other stuff they’re making. When the AI companies are arguing they should be able to jack copyrighted works for AI training, they’re not fighting for universal copyright abolition, they’re exploiting the unclear situation and power imbalance in their favour. This is why you can’t take small steps towards copyright abolition, it has to be all or nothing.

In Musk logic: it’s not bad when he does it. It’s bad when people start discussing it, because they might come to a disapproving conclusion.

Short summary: Elon gives Elon some Elon and congratulates Elon for being such an Elon, that big money boy he is. Money!

Maintaining paper notebooks and almanacs and a giant crazy-wall of Post-Its is very fruitful and calming.

No, the 1990s didn’t smell of sex and candy. It smelled of a banking crisis and a box of 3.5" floppies.

I’m an artist / writer and I don’t see problem with generative AI when you’re at a really early concept stage. Exploring ideas, try to get over creative blocks, that sort of stuff. Maybe the AI hallucinations and fuckups can give you ideas worth exploring.

But using them as a literal basis for artwork you work further on is a fool’s errand. It’s easier to maybe take ideas from there, but work from scratch anyway. And I do realise that even that is controversial.

Also, could be a legal quagmire. Also not happy about the copyright appropriation situation or the environmental impact.