Sugars: 42 g [venti]

I’m somehow surprised it has less than a 12 oz. Mountain Dew’s 46 g, but I’d bet the 6 g of saturated fat (3/5 of a Big Mac) is doing some heavy lifting.

Literally liquid candy, which is why it doesn’t surprise me that I loved it when I tried it at age 13 but wanted to throw up when I had it again five years later. Could also just be that their coffee itself is subpar trash.

Yeah, what’s the mean brush time here?

So physicists want to assume spherical animals, and now suddenly when they can make that a reality, they don’t want it anymore.

Make up your minds, physicists!

Probably hard to from their hospital bed, but I don’t see what this feast fit for a squire has to do with that.

🎵 Three little orphans: one, two, three 🎵

🎵 Without a home or a family tree 🎵

Given this entire Raw Story article is basically “and here’s what Karem said”: here’s what Karem said in the original Salon article.

I clarified this a bit in a follow-up comment, but my first comment was simplifying for the sake of countering:

[it’s not in the public domain] because the actual human work that went into creating it was done by the owner of the AI Model and whatever they trained on.

Their claim that the copyright for AI-generated works belongs to the model creator and the authors of the training material – and is never in the public domain – is patent, easily disprovable nonsense.

Yes, I understand it’s more nuanced than what I said. No, it’s not nuanced in their favor. No, I’m not diving into that with a pathological liar (see their other comments) when it’s immaterial to my rebuttal of their bullshit claim. I guess you just didn’t read the claim I was addressing?

Oh, sorry, I said that totally wrong: I meant that I really appreciate your first comment and that it’s not worth your time to reply to their bad-faith follow-up comment.

The answer is that it’s messy and that I’m not qualified to say where the line is (nor, I think, is anyone yet). The generated parts are not copyrightable, but you can still have a valid copyright by bringing together things that aren’t individually copyrightable. For example, if I make a manga where Snow White fights Steamboat Willie, I’ve taken two public domain elements and used them to create a copyrightable work.

So it’s not like the usage of AI inherently makes a project uncopyrightable unless the entire thing or most of it was just spat out of a machine. Where’s the line on this? Nobody (definitely not me, but probably nobody) really knows.

As for courts ever finding out, how this affects trade secret policy… Dunno? I’m sure a Microsoft employee couldn’t release it publicly, because as you said, it’d probably violate an NDA. If there were some civil case, the source may come out during discovery and could maybe be analysed programmatically or by an expert. You would probably subpoena the employee(s) who wrote the software and ask them to testify. This is just spitballing, though, over something that’s probably inconsequential, because the end product is prooooobably still copyrightable.

This kind of reminds me of the blurry line we have in FOSS, where everyone retains the copyright to their individual work. But if push comes to shove, how much does there need to be for it to be copyrightable? Where does it stop being a boilerplate for loop and start being creative expression?

Just as a sanity check: the person you’re responding to is a serial troll and what I can only describe as intellectually dishonest at best or a pathological liar at worst. They make up whatever they want and will never concede that the fucking nonsense they just dreamed up five seconds ago based on nothing is wrong in the face of conclusive proof otherwise.

You shouldn’t waste your time responding to this cretin.

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You’re just making shit up. The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit has affirmed that AI-generated work is in the public domain. Put up or shut up.

Edit: Additionally, the US Copyright Office writes:

As the agency overseeing the copyright registration system, the [Copyright] Office has extensive experience in evaluating works submitted for registration that contain human authorship combined with uncopyrightable material, including material generated by or with the assistance of technology.

Seriously, I have way more sympathy for people who get tickets in places like NYC. More crowded, more chaotic, more rules. It happens.

By ticket 38, though, I’m at least 20 tickets past the point where I’ve decided I’m not competent enough and started just taking a mix of cycling and public transit.

I’ve never seen Magic Earth, but as an OSM contributor, I don’t understand why I’d use a subscription service when all the underlying data is free (as in beer and freedom) and contributed by volunteers (and likely not the app devs). One-time app purchases like OsmAnd I understand because you’re doing stuff with the data like routing, overlays, etc., and that requires development work. But a subscription seems absurd.

This sounds like a fake website that Kitboga would make up for scambaiting.

It all makes sense now. The reason Republican conventions see spikes in Grindr usage isn’t because they’re closeted gay; it’s because they think they can ask around for tips and tricks.

That’s actually another really good point: North American stroads have to be so fucking tedious for people who actually want to get something out of their cars. It’s the same shit everywhere so there’s nothing to see, you go just fast enough for your $100,000 car to be totaled if someone sneezes at you but not enough for it to be fun, you’re constantly in danger thanks to the poor design, and it’s you and a goddamn thousand people trying to get to Paunch Burger.

Imagine you had a high-end gaming PC and the only way to use it was to play cheap asset flips. I’m not saying we make roads into racetracks when the normies are gone; rather, I’m saying holy shit, the roads in well-designed urban places are so much more interesting and beautiful to drive in.

Yeah, car guys in my experience consistently think (maybe correctly) that everyone else on the road but them is a total moron. You don’t like those pesky cyclists sharing the road with you? Neither do most of us cyclists; let’s get them on separated paths. Don’t like morons who can’t drive? Make it so they don’t have to. Don’t like traffic? Take the other space-inefficient cars off the road.

I think car people recognize that just positively reinforcing micromobility and public transit can improve their experience.

I’d rather ride with an organization that doesn’t have Twitter Gold, but we take what we can get, I guess…

Maybe they’re implying Bubba wasn’t the only one…