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[–] donuts@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Learn about the states and call them by their state name like we do in the US: (washingtonians, oregonians, californians, and so on.)

Internationally people love making fun of Americans for knowing little about geography, but it's always a bit surprising to find out how little people in other countries know about US geography considering many of our states are bigger (size-wise) than many entire countries.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good, fuck those guys.

I'm not against people having trucks or modifying them for performance or off-roading or whatever, but people who modify their truck for no other reason than to pollute more are nothing but fucking assholes.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 59 points 2 years ago

Well fuck. I can't wait to try to explain this to my 65 year old parents who basically only watch British tv via VPN...

[–] donuts@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Machine learning, making just about everything progressively worse.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

lmao, the GOP is a perpetual circus.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I feel a little bit underwhelmed about Raspberry Pi 5 compared to the Orange Pi 4.

Would it have killed them to throw an nvme m.2 connector on the underside?

[–] donuts@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Good luck, have fun, and tell ChatGPT I said "hello".

[–] donuts@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It means that writers will be back to negotiate (possibly for significantly better terms) in 2026 should AI become a big money maker. By then it'll have been too late and AI will have killed the industry.

Nobody wants to watch AI generated movies or listen to AI generated music.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Man, everything around AI is just cynical and gross.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

This is good news for my wallet I guess, although it makes me wonder what's up with that "Sephiroth" APU that showed up in the Linux Kernel. I'm so happy with my current Steam Deck that I don't really need another iteration on it right away anyway.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Funny, but I don't think there's a very strong argument that training AI is fair use, especially when you consider how it intersects with the standard four factors that generally determine whether a use of copyrighted work is fair or not.

Specifically stuff like:

courts tend to give greater protection to creative works; consequently, fair use applies more broadly to nonfiction, rather than fiction. Courts are usually more protective of art, music, poetry, feature films, and other creative works than they might be of nonfiction works.

Courts have ruled that even uses of small amounts may be excessive if they take the “heart of the work.” ... Photographs and artwork often generate controversies, because a user usually needs the full image, or the full “amount,” and this may not be a fair use.

(Keep in mind that many popular AI models have been trained on vast amounts of entire artworks, large sections of text, etc.)

Effect on the market is perhaps more complicated than the other three factors. Fundamentally, this factor means that if you could have realistically purchased or licensed the copyrighted work, that fact weighs against a finding of fair use. To evaluate this factor, you may need to make a simple investigation of the market to determine if the work is reasonably available for purchase or licensing. A work may be reasonably available if you are using a large portion of a book that is for sale at a typical market price. “Effect” is also closely linked to “purpose.” If your purpose is research or scholarship, market effect may be difficult to prove. If your purpose is commercial, then adverse market effect may be easier to prove.

To me, this factor is by far the strongest argument against AI being considered fair use.

The fact is that today's generative AI is being widely used for commercial purposes and stands to have a dramatic effect on the market for the same types of work that they are using to train their data models--work that they could realistically have been licensing, and probably should be.

Ask any artist, writer, musician, or other creator whether they think it's "fair" to use their work to generate commercial products without any form of credit, consent or compensation, and the vast majority will tell you it isn't. I'm curious what "strong argument" that AI training is fair use is, because I'm just not seeing it.

[–] donuts@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Definitely doesn't seem like a smart thing to think, let alone say...

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