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A content owner has a right to relief if their copyright has been violated. That's all copyright is supposed to represent, not some ability to go extrajudicial "facts? damn the facts!" vigilante, which is more what the DMCA takedown system represents. This is an absurd fallacy. The cat's out...

I want to underscore this by pointing out: Content is never disabled for less than 10 days. Notifications have no true duty of proof nor any practical liability for false takedowns. It's a horrific system that lets various parties who at least claim to be rightsholders engage in extrajudicial...

I mean, when you're presumably guilty of something like driving while high on hydrocodone, coming up with an alternative narrative for what happened--even one that veers into reckless driving territory--probably feels like a smart way to deflect from that? Especially if you're now experiencing...

I am also not a lawyer but I try to pay a lot of attention to this area of law, as I do things it directly affects. So the short answer is because good faith belief that a license you are using covers the technology doesn't actually prevent patent infringement liability, IF infringement were to...

Kids [under whatever legal definition, usually for this type of law it's ~13] aren't "supposed" to have unsupervised accounts because they legally are NOT a "person who can enter legal agreements by themselves" if they are not legally emancipated, in that sense of "are not a person". So the...

Let's be honest: at that level it's closer to a "charitable donation" tax write off; even as a settlement, their accountants probably can juggle it until it MAKES them more money than it costs them, even. I'm sure it's not even an appreciable percentage of their marketing budget** for a single...

This is definitely true for the tech industry and other big businesses doing overseas manufacturing and importing to sell in the US market. Some prices by large companies definitely went up more than what those companies were being charged in tariffs. For small, consumer facing businesses like...

Let's be real: it's not like you've actually been reading anyway. I didn't write that post for you, honestly. I'm well past the point of expecting you to either read, understand, or engage in any kind of good faith. For what it's worth, though, I didn't say the statement was in the article. I...

It's funny, you pretty blatantly won't even take the time to read, but you'll ask someone to take the time to dig back up and re-post something she's already quoted and linked at least twice, and was linked to in the primary article links too. Is this MEANT to be "tell me you're just a troll...

"If you don't [do this thing for me], I'm going to let you die" There doesn't need to be a study to provide medical care. Tying necessary care to participation in a study is both coercive and lacks free consent. The WHO is offering to provide it, even. Acknowledge you (a) understand this and...

"If you don't agree to participate in this study you don't get necessary, already scientifically proven to be life saving healthcare... [but even if you do participate you might not get the necessary healthcare we're providing some participants, and we won't be taking any other measures to help...

Because they're not learning in any meaningful sense? LLMS don't understand. It's not learning, it's just MASSIVE statistical copying via tokenization and statistical mapping.

LLMs are great at generating a lot of content that mimes things they've been trained on. But by their very nature there's nothing holding them to specific rubrics much less consistency (short of getting into logical controlling agents, and processing text for related tasks is notoriously...

Do you even know what the Belmont report is? "So you're 100% cool with coercive exploitation (failing free and informed consent) of vulnerable people for no real scientific purpose, with ABYSMALLY WRONG human research designs, and have no concerns over where that leads... and have no knowledge...

Except the rocks were people, and by dropping them you were injuring or killing them. But sure, let's make comparisons that make no sense, and use them as a basis for claiming that's what people mean? Great job. Studies that exploit people with less resources and without benefiting all...

It's human to err, as in, accidentally. Obviously no one's perfect. But no one accidentally generates quotes from an LLM. It might be a mistake of judgement, and possibly even understandable as a "poor judgement while sick" (and let's not get started on the culture of working while sick), but...

It's funny how you can't articulate what it is you don't understand about the multiple clear answers given. And it's interesting how so many of the people going "we don't understand, why isn't this ethical!?" can't even seem to figure out how to work a hyperlink, like this one from the article...

Honestly I'd rather they used repairable assemblies that allowed for easy re-upholstery (e.g. things like effectively friction tacked/clamped by how it assembles) instead of only factory part replacements. Then fabric would be PERFECT and even readily CUSTOMIZABLE. But instead it's all glued...

lol no it's not: certainly not in general at least. If you want to claim that about very specific leather products you can try, but you'll have to back it up. The vast majority of leather produced is from cow hide, and there's more cow hide produced by the meat industry than there is demand...

"This 1 little trick that ELITIST SCIENTISTS ARE KEEPING TO THEMSELVES TO SCREW YOU OVER... I mean, don't want you to know, could let you live forever! [now pay us 500 dollars because nothing in life is free, but trust us we're on your side]" It's 100% a right wing conspiracy trope. It somehow...