I’m the one that reported that comment. You were being unnecessarily rude, and have been to other people on here

Welp, I regrettably checked this out. Much like other folks have said, this is just a platform for hate speech and conspiracy theorists. Do not recommend

So the likes of The Quartering, Babylon Bee, and JP Sears on the front page don’t bother you?

Edit: Whoops, I somehow missed Stephan fucking Molyneux

ESL means “English as a Second Language,” so no need to get snarky. LLM means “large language model”. I was complaining generally, not at you, but with other comments you made I am now less sure

100% agree, and now it is so hard to tell if the spelling oddities are an ESL thing or an LLM thing

Oh for sure, back when all he said was “here all of Tesla’s patents. Feel free to use them” I also fell for it. I honestly don’t think his views were any different, he just kept his mouth shut

I think at one point he was a software engineer. I don’t he has been that for a long time, though. This is also probably not true any longer, but he did have a knack for spotting up and coming companies and buying them.

The Cybertruck is definitely the epitome of Musk’s current “skills”

I think it is more nuanced than that. He has had a variable amount of involvement in multiple companies throughout the years, and noting when something is or is not his fault is not a bad thing.

Like I said before, he has been pretty heavily involved in Tesla since he bought the company. He notably makes a lot of decisions. SpaceX, on the other hand, is notably run by Gwynne Shotwell for a majority of decisions. He has made some design decisions, but he is pretty checked out on the day to day.

I don’t think he was never a good engineer, but I think he has not done it in so long, that he has lost those skills. Also, if the alleged amount of ketamine he does is even kind of accurate, that does not help make good decisions. He also has almost nobody he will listen to. We can see all that reflected in the decline of good ideas coming out of Tesla (again, the company he is most involved in).

Not sure what you mean. He’s always been pretty involved in Tesla designs.

Oh, copyright is for sure fucked, but until we have UBI it is about all we have to potentially protect small artists

That is true, and they may have been doing to cover their asses, but I would bet they did the destructive method because it was faster or cheaper (or both). We will probably never know the minutia of that decision though

I would hazard a guess that the eBook did not exist for the physical books they bought. Still, that doesn’t excuse their actions, nor the bigger issues with training LLMs

Totally fair.

Paper is a natural resource, and this literally just wasted a fuck ton. There are non-destructive scanning methods.

The books were destroyed because duplicating a work without permission is illegal

It is not illegal if you don’t distribute, which the judge ruled meant this was fair use. They destroyed the books as part of the digitizing project because it is likely faster and cheaper than non-destructive methods.

but destroying the original means that there is only one copy in the end still.

That is not how this works at all. As long as you aren’t distributing, you are well within your rights to make copies of a book you purchase.

people got really upset with them throwing away books that had multiple reprintings and were in awful condition.

That is not what is going on here, though. They bought millions of dollars of new books in order to train AI and used destructive scanning instead of non-destructive methods. It is a huge waste of resources. They could have used a non-destructive method then donated the books. But like everything involved in current AI, they chose the most wasteful method

I’m kinda confused by this question. There are a lot of meat alternatives out there (black beans, saitan, tempeh). There are extant burgers made from most of them

lol, true. That is a rounding error though

It is only “hit” if you mean hit by a police car or bullet. There is zero accountability

Still very US centric, but guns are incredibly easy to get here. I live in a “progressive” state and I don’t even have to take a single class to get one, or get a concealed carry permit