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

Oh, don’t retract it. It is a bad way to indicate the solution since it requires the Foyer and to have finished the grid message accurately. IMO anything that can be foiled by RNG is a bad way to do it.

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

Oh, I know that one. Infuriating

But an article about how guns are used and that they exist is not the same as selling them. I can see the argument that you should not even report on them because it makes them more popular, but at least in the US, guns are pretty permeated through society

A. No, this is an article talking about the tool.

B. Cops are public figures. Name and badge number are public information. Hence why the first sentence in the article states it uses public records. It does not give their address and phone number. It is not doxxing

I’m right there with ya on Blue Prince. The late game seems more like tricks than actual puzzles. That being said, it also makes it so I feel less bad about looking things up.

Oh for sure that too. Also that was a great video.

On the other hand, browsing ev charging forums reveals one melted socket after another

Often this is due to using portable chargers that someone is frequently plugging/unplugging in a socket designed for appliances that stay plugged in. You can’t cheap out on the 14-50 socket and sadly people often do

I have a 2080 and have been running Pop_OS as my only OS for about 6 months now. It has been incredibly solid. I have also heard Bazzite is good, but have only tried it on an old MacBook with dual GPUs. It did not do great there, but I think that is an issue with the laptop, not bazzite

This isn’t dirty laundry, this is current events. This event happened last week.

If you are referring to the game, the article calls out the US and UK, but the game description itself just says western, which probably means several locations. But even if it is just the US and UK, who cares? The US and UK have a fuckton of dirty laundry that is still being aired out, and this South African dev has the right to address concerns with those two countries that have had direct harm to their culture