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Build your own dungeons with 50+ Map Tiles! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The popularity of games like Shadowdark and DCC suggest that more-or-less traditional dungeons are very much 'still a thing'. They're not everything, but they're still a thing.

OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 222 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm fine with this. "We can't succeed without breaking the law" isn't much of an argument.

Do I think the current copyright laws around the world are fine? No, far from it.

But why do they merit an exception to the rules that will make them billions, but the rest of us can be prosecuted in severe and dramatic fashion for much less. Try letting the RIAA know you have a song you've downloaded on your PC that you didn't pay for - tell them it's for "research and training purposes", just like AI uses stuff it didn't pay for - and see what I mean by severe and dramatic.

It should not be one rule for the rich guys to get even richer and the rest of us can eat dirt.

Figure out how to fix the laws in a way that they're fair for everyone, including figuring out a way to compensate the people whose IP you've been stealing.

Until then, deal with the same legal landscape as everyone else. Boo hoo

OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Just need to get AI on that.

TIL in Australia the name of the band "AC/DC" is pronounced "Acca Dacca" in c/[email protected]

Internet Archive's digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

damn

Among other issues that's going to make it harder for them to do other stuff.

Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It has been a pretty short trip from "Don't be evil" to "The cutting edge of late stage capitalism"

'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

face, meet leopard

A.I.’s un-learning problem: Researchers say it’s virtually impossible to make an A.I. model ‘forget’ the things it learns from private user data in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Then delete and start over, or don't use data you don't have explicit permission to use. in the first place.

It's like a thief saying "well, I already fenced most of the stuff so it's too hard to give any of it back. So let's just call it quits, eh?"

Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

or bloody universal healthcare

I guess it depends on where you live. It's not true of the whole world.

College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Waiting for 100% oral exams to make a comeback.

Xi's Losing Bet on Putin Is Backfiring in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

The headline's confusing. If a losing bet is backfiring, does that mean it's now a winning bet?

Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's not the word "lighter" that's the issue, it's the word "less". If I say something weighs 80% less, ... you know how much that is. 100% less, it weighs even less -- nothing at all. 500% less (i.e. 5 times less), suddenly it weighs more?