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Telecoms have a stranglehold here, our cell phone and internet prices are some of the highest in the world (if not THE highest).
They also own some news and media companies which only makes it harder to bring about change
Yep, BC and Quebec are both hydro
https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/biggest-sources-of-electricity-by-state-and-province/
This seems accurate, but I haven't verified
I got confused seeing my university's YouTube channel open up, thought I clicked on a recording for one of my classes lol
If anyone else is from UBC, we're over at [email protected]
I moved all my FOSS apps to a separate tab on my phone to watch my collection grow lol
Privacy specifically:
- Firefox browsers (with Brave as backup, although I think on mobile Brave is better for privacy until Firefox upgrades something?)
- URLCheck to deal with trackers in links, which is probably the biggest threat to privacy that we don't think about enough
- Shelter - to quarantine away apps I need but don't trust
Although technically all my FOSS apps are good for privacy (ex. organic maps, antennapod, feeder, simple gallery + rest of those, signal, mullvad vpn). I'll need time to list those though
Garbage answer:
Garbage collection and general management. It's nice that we don't dump our waste outside our homes anymore.
AI keeps getting cited as the next big thing that will shape the world. I think this is an appropriate time to use the legal system to make sure those changes happen in a way that won't screw everything up.
The progress will happen whether we like it or not, taking a moment to clarify rules is a good thing
The wording of the title is a bit weird, which makes me notice how legal cases are usually worded like "weaker party succeeds/fails to change the status quo". The artists lost against the companies in this case?
Anyways, important bits here:
Orrick spends the rest of his ruling explaining why he found the artists’ complaint defective, which includes various issues, but the big one being that two of the artists — McKernan and Ortiz, did not actually file copyrights on their art with the U.S. Copyright Office.
Also, Anderson copyrighted only 16 of the hundreds of works cited in the artists’ complaint. The artists had asserted that some of their images were included in the Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) open source database of billions of images created by computer scientist/machine learning (ML) researcher Christoph Schuhmann and collaborators, which all three AI art generator programs used to train.
And then
Even if that clarity is provided and even if plaintiffs narrow their allegations to limit them to Output Images that draw upon Training Images based upon copyrighted images, I am not convinced that copyright claims based a derivative theory can survive absent ‘substantial similarity’ type allegations. The cases plaintiffs rely on appear to recognize that the alleged infringer’s derivative work must still bear some similarity to the original work or contain the protected elements of the original work.
Which eh, I'm not sure I agree with. This is a new aspect of technology that isn't properly covered by existing copyright laws. Our current laws were developed to address a state of the world that no longer exists, and using those old definitions (which I think covered issues around parodies and derivative work) doesn't make sense in this case.
This isn't some individual artist drawing something similar to someone else. This is an AI that can take in all work in existence and produce new content from that without providing any compensation. This judge seems to be saying that's an ok thing to do
Huh that's my bad, it popped up at the top of my RSS feed so I assumed it was recent. Something might be borked with it
Taking it down now
And sometimes missing "features" are a good thing. Like when you see people complaining about annoying ads on monitors / system apps, etc. in the US but not elsewhere
I saw it more as testifying about why they did what they did
Ultimately the message is still 'we had to use Google to survive, they have that much control over the space'