"incorporates your photographic style into their painting or illustration"
Seems pretty cut and paste to me. If it has trained on my images and then uses that trained dataset to generate new images those images are in violation. Using training sets that include unlicensed copyrighted works requires attribution and licensing. TO be legal otherwise the end user/AI company would have to be able to prove in a court of law that without training on my copyrighted work it would have still generated that specific image which I can't see the users/company being able to do.
The court has already ruled that you can't own the derivative work anyways, because copyright law requires an individual artist. If I ask bob to make a picture for me, bob actually owns the copyright to start (but can assign it to me). I don't automatically get given copyright because I 'prompted' bob with what I wanted drawn (draw me a mouse). Copyright is given to the artist on the artists specific output.
If I ask an AI for a picture, there is no artist 'bob' to be assigned ownership under copyright law and therefor it's not copyrightable under existing law.
Funny how originally all these pro-AI art people were anti-copyright law but I can see them sometime soon lobbying for MORE restrictive copyright law (granting it in a larger pool or circumstances hence making more things copyrighted) so that they can overcome this.
Am I allowed to take an imagine and apply a lossy algorithm (say jpg) to it and then use it as my own for business purposes? Nope. You say learn, I say apply a lossy algo and then use the result for business purposes. Seems like clear copyright violation.
Analyzing thousands of trends, both industry/niche specific and society wide. Tracking campaigns that work by monitoring social media likes, references to past slogans, etc. Potentially dedicating thousands of years worth of brain power and analysis to the coffee shop down the street's new slogan.
Huh? The iPhone 1 was a toy and lots of people laughed at the users. Today a modern phone is a requirement to be a member of society. It is how I pay for things. It is needed for most of my interactions with friends/family. It is the diary of my life, and the repository of my good memories with its near unlimited video/image storage at a quality only dreamed of when the iPhone 1 came out. Take away a person's iPhone1 and they weren't phased much, taking away a person's iPhone 14 is a LIFE CHANGING experience today. In 10 years taking away your AI will be on the same level, you will function but at a much more frustrating level.
If you look at modern teaching getting it's root in nation formation in France/Germany where there was no 'national' language but regional dialects blending one into another it makes more sense. What if the original purpose WAS TO CREATE that 'characteristic accent'?
Fletching, creating an arrowhead (that needs to be small and perfect) goes through way more material than a hand held obsidian blade, you are not necessarily saving on labour switching to arrows, especially as you now have introduced multiple specialized skills that require hundreds of hours of practice across multiple tribal members (the opposite of this, where you go down to a few babysitters to finesse the final code).
But more relevantly the instant bows were invented you're quota of mammoths to kill a day didn't go up to that maximum possible number + 1 (because sales guys). It stayed at 1 per week or whatever. It's not efficiency, it's management's unrealistics expectations of productive output that I hear being complained about.
All well and good except for the fact that these companies have gone on the record in their earning calls to say this is just them squeezing the end consumer as much as they can. But go ahead and makeup some false justification to defend them against the truth of their own words.
Because only one class will come out of this with MORE assets that at some point will return back to their higher valuable. It's a completely facetious argument. Sure you lost your house, but think of how much the poor billionaire's paper value dropped (while the billionaires asset acquisition continued apace taking advantage of the firesale forced upon the lower classes).
Inflation, asset deflation and a financially strained middle/low class causing them to be upside down on debt = firesale on what assets they had for the top class to acquire. I believe this cycles used to be called pump and suck when directed at third world economies, get them addicted to debt then acquire their desirable assets. Crazy to see it being used now on the UK and USA middle class. We never thought the banking leopard would eat our face.
Heckling that is designed to shutdown speech is not free speech but an attempt at weaponizing the concept of free speech into a tool to shut actual free speech down.
Especially in a situation with a Q&A heckling is not a form of free speech but is just an attempt at restricting and impeding other's right to free speech.
According to this guy's testimony 60% of TikTok is foreign investor owned and those foreign investors would very much sell it off before just setting fire to their money.
Forget bankruptcy. How about we just get to the point US citizens don't have to worry about calling an ambulance? When I was a kid (I'm late 40s now) it was $200-500. Now it's low to mid 5 figures. And if you don't call your insurance and get approval within the window they refuse to pay it. Guess what? When I am in need of an ambulance I'm probably indisposed to calling my insurance company (if I have one) and navigating their approval system for the hour it takes.
The youth today have no agency and boomers are the problem. As king of the cop-outs myself I would love to be able to live in that sentence instead of doing something. May I suggest you read some historical literature to get a perspective on this magical world that must exist or somehow existed in order for you to live a happy life? Do you think minorities had it better in the 70s? People with mental health issues? You know pre 1950 young people lived in those big hotels in cities and had shared bathrooms down the hall, etc that are now treated as one step above homeless housing, right? If the youth today were willing to live like they affordability would match historical norms. I lived with my mom as long as I could to save until I had a girlfriend with a good income to share an place (and I was a software developer in the bay area in the 90s at the time). My boomer parents borrowed the money from their parents to put down on their house. I don't know what magical world is denied my kids but they sure seem to think it existed.
For me I never understood companies, since all they seem to care about is to force wages as low as possible instead of caring about the good of their people (and a company is nothing but a grouping of people) and to take on contracts/projects/commitments they can't meet out of greed.
When given a choice, people prefer not to be overworked due to poor management/scheduling/greed. When given a choice, people prefer to have stability in employment. This is demonstrated by the fact that when they have collective power these are two of the common items they negotiate for. Unions are created to promote their members interests. There, now you understand unions :) They represent the interest of their members not the companies interests and not letting workers pay the price for poor management/scheduling/overcommitments (I think this is where you are getting confused).
Unions don't care to 'force companies' anything, They care to represent THEIR members priorities. What you are promoting are a company's priorities which the company already looks out for and would be a strange thing for unions to form to then also promote.
What is the profit motive to make a robot with that capability today without the AI to drive it? None. But as soon as you have that AI suddenly the profit motive changes.
I still have a bottle of 'New Old Stock' GM whale oil for the rear differential in my old GTO. GM positraction in those old muscle cars relied on the stuff.
Eggs are more expensive because of bird flu. It's funny but all the 'too much money in the system' people use examples that don't have that as a root cause. The guy with the lumber mill has no way of knowing if it was people with free money building additions, or, as in my area, EVERY business required to put in safety measures to stay open during covid most often made quickly with lumber from home depot that they have to buy no matter the price if they want the government to allow them to stay open. People claim it's too much free money when in fact they are getting windfalls from being basically 'rent seekers' while screaming they promote free market.
The demand was driven by REQUIRED construction to meet safety measures. Instead of the attack on 'free money' he thinks he is making he is showing that his company profited from big government (IE rent seeking).
If the pandemic MANDATEs new isolation systems, I have to build them, whether you charge me a fair price for lumber I am now required to purchase or you choose to jack the price up. My only other option is to CLOSE MY BUSINESS. You definitely price gauged, your company acted shady and is not a responsible member of society. Flat out. Period. You took advantage of government mandated demand that was in response to keeping people safe in order for you to make more $$$. Your business is a profiter at others expense.
After an earthquake and when people have no access to tap water demand for bottled water goes up. Yet raising the price of bottled water in that situation is still considered price gouging.
It's dangerous because police turn EVERY interaction into a warrant check. You have to treat a guy who is possibly holding a warrant for arrest for a crime with a 20+ year sentence different than you treat Bob who you pulled over because his stereo was too loud or his window tint to dark and that is all the stop is going to be about. Making community policing community policing not warrant enforcement and you just changed the ENTIRE dynamic and get back to actual community policing.
You want to fix American policing? Stop warrant checks as part of community policing. When the people in the car the police just traffic stopped for a tail light could be facing a 20 year prison sentence the police have to treat that stop and have a wariness towards the vehicle's occupants way different from if it was, say, just a traffic stop for a tail light. Escalating every community interaction by making it warrant enforcement you change the entire risk equation. A guy getting a tail light ticket is different then a guy about to get a warrant enforced for an accused crime with a 20 year sentence. You want to even further reduce the escalation of the interactions? Stop with the 20 year (which is basically life if you are realistic about it, no one getting out after 20 years is getting their life back) sentences.