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Copyright duration and rules are ripe for a complete overhaul, but it is worth noting that the so-called “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” really just put the US in line with the other countries in the Berne Convention, which the US had dragged its feet on signing onto for decades. Once the US agreed to respecting international rules for IP, offering a shorter copyright duration than Europe was an obvious disadvantage.

Lots of people arguing about the practicality of this, or whether it can be done without invading privacy or slippery-sloping into mass surveillance.

The thing is: Even if it could be done perfectly — giving instant leeway when emergencies occur, being perfectly private forever, with perfectly accurate sensors — I still don’t think we’d want it.

That’s because laws are not just mechanical things. They are social things. When we put up a speed limit sign, it’s not just to configure a number in the driver’s mind. It’s to remind them to think about how they’re interacting with the community around them.

De-emphasizing that responsibility runs counter to this social purpose, which I think we intuitively understand at some level even if we reflexively bring out other claims in order to object to the policy.

There are plenty of rules your car has to comply with in order to use public roads.

“Our study will shed light on whether investments and partnerships pursued by dominant companies risk distorting innovation and undermining fair competition,”

I don’t think you need a study to see that they do. It’s part of their sales pitch. Forbes, Business Insider, and all of those insufferable biz hype mills won’t shut up about it.

Not to defend the muskrat, but they’ve said they’re focusing on things like spinal injuries and ALS at first, so he definitely won’t be first in line.

From that standpoint, I get it. If I was paralyzed, I’m not sure what kinds of crazy gambles I’d make to get my body back.

Now, the Elon fanboys that just wanna dive headfirst into the upcoming dystopia… I don’t get that, and I think sci-fi done fucked up by making cyberpunk dystopias look cool.

You don’t even need to ID who is sending it, just that the content itself can provide some grounding in an authentic source.

Like if a picture can say that it derives from an original photo captured by a camera signed with Canon’s credentials, and was changed in Photoshop in these specific ways and signed by Adobe…

There is a group working on exactly this. It’s called C2PA.

Looks like that would work. Sucks to have to use an extra bit of machinery to restore a feature that they intentionally broke though. It’s like they view their customers as the enemy.

For me, it’s the DRM that’s killing streaming. If I can’t put it on Discord so my wife and I can watch it while hanging out online, I’ll just pick something else or find another way to watch it.

Roger Stone already alleged that an audio clip was AI-generated.

The clip said:

It’s time to do it. Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message. Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with. I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore.

AI safety is not a slippery slope argument. It's a serious area of academic research. Check out some Robert Miles videos or something.

As the interview says, the head-in-the-sand-style rebuttal is akin to early climate change denial.

Black Mirror was a documentary.

Bigger drones, or just more drones.