https://youtu.be/o3F_kC-yplA

If you paid someone to study a million books and write a novel in the style of some other author you have not violated any law. The same is true if you hire an artist to copy another artist’s style. So why is it illegal if an AI does it? Why is it wrong?

I think this is intentionally missing the point.

LLMs don’t actually think, or produce original ideas. If the human artist produces a work that too closely resembles a copyrighted work, then they will be subject to those laws. LLMs are not capable of producing new works, by definition they are 100% derivative. But their methods in doing so intentionally obfuscate attribution and allow anyone to flood a space with works that require actual humans to identify the copyright violations.

However, if I use a copier to copy a book then start selling or giving away those copies that’s my problem: I would’ve violated copyright law. However, is it Xerox’s problem? Did they do anything wrong by making a device that can copy books?

This is false equivalence

LLMs do not wholesale reproduce an original work in it’s original form, they make it easy to mass produce a slightly altered form without any way to identify the original attribution.

Search engines work because they can download and store everyone’s copyrighted works without permission. If you take away that ability, we’d all lose the ability to search the Internet.

No they don’t. They index the content of the page and score its relevance and reliability, and still provide the end user with the actual original information

For 1 they actually addressed that: The system then translates the speech and maintains the expressive qualities and volume of each speaker’s voice while running on a device, such mobile devices with an Apple M2 chip like laptops and Apple Vision Pro. (The team avoided using cloud computing because of the privacy concerns with voice cloning.) Finally, when speakers move their heads, the system continues to track the direction and qualities of their voices as they change.

I found a page about how to run the activity and I think it’s a pretty nice idea for a younger or multi-level troop: https://www.scouts.org.uk/activities/chippy-hike/

Girl scouts (and girl guides) often have patches to commemorate a fun event. The ones they earn for work go on the front of their vest and have specific criteria for earning them, but are usually more generic in appearance or don’t have details about it on the patch.

This type of patch is likely for the youngest age group (4-5) and is meant to be more of a fun patch. I would also guess that the troop is in more of an urban area so there’s not much in the way of a very local, small kid friendly hike.

As much as I appreciate a good “well actually”, neither of the two mutants featured in the comic got their powers in utero.

X-Men don’t get their powers until puberty

You are all awesome

600 Mbps/20 Mbps $50/mo American

30 years ago you would have checked the manual or read the documentation, not much different just a little faster these days

Yes

I think it maxes at $200

The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.

Yeah this doesn’t really belong here. notheonion is meant for things that sound like they should be satire, but are actually real

This is something I think gets left out, but understandably so when there are so many issues with landlords.

But, as a property owner, you’ve got all the liability and are responsible for repairs and ensuring that the property is livable and usable. I think there’s a level of compensation you can be earning from your time, but I think that having extremely high rent PLUS the ROI of your property increasing in value over time is double dipping. When you consider that your money is invested in property and you’re getting value that way, it IS leeching IMO if someone else is doing all the upkeep and paying a premium for that.

Looking at the OP that way shows that those people are just exploiting others. But I do think there is such a thing as ethical landlording. But I think generally we’re not there.

Used it, looks a little like the room and tea cups from here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Trump_Meets_with_the_Prime_Minister_of_the_Netherlands_(48317650976).jpg

Which is does note as the cabinet room

Ugh I don’t want to be that guy but this looks maybe AI generated? I can’t find a source with reverse image look up either. Does anyone know if this is legit?

I had forgotten! Relive the magic: https://youtu.be/3vLMa5tq1tE