Before drum n bass was a thing, dance halls were enamored of speed garage, eurolounge was all over, and raves were, well, raving, I had already made a couple of analog synthesizers, one intended for a guitar pedal chain, which got used by a vibraphone artist who scared the heck out of me.

I stumbled into electronica, not the disco-in-a-box crap, and started experimenting with all that. Splurging for a TB-303, my first 'purchased' instrument, I started sequencing and stuff. Adding in some filters and whatnot, I got with a soccer buddy and we gave some tapes to the DJ I was working with (lights and video), and they got mixed in to blend from, for instance, from BeeGees to Frankie. Ugly, but kept everyone dancing...

And I never thought of it as music. I had no training. Rhythms I hacked at until I got something that sounded right. Tempo was easy to fix. Making a bbd pitch corrector based on a Sony design cost me 3 months but fixed some analog stuff. But I was just making or using tools to make sounds. Music? Welllll....

And now I hear AI 'generated' music, and it's actually recognizable as music. As if disco with drum kits in a box and 66 key synths spewing orchestra hits was 'music'...

Well it was, and this AI music stuff is, pseudonyms and indecipherable identity not a new thing for bands, and all this is a controversy ginned up by 'artists' who resent competition. They act like poets... Or Boothbay Harbor painters. A pox on them.

270 sqm, about the same latitude as Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 824 mm or 32.4 inches of rain every year, average temperature 10C / 50 F.

I really doubt your take on this. We are not talking about aleatoric music, where a random generator determines which notes and which riffs are combined, and with which metronome they are played along a randomized bass line.

This is something very else. An AI does not know about chords and timing and the difference between major and minor scales. It just takes the whole body of music out there and recombines it into a new piece of music. And if the seeding material contains music from the bands which goes off sheet to convey emotionality, then AI will mimic this.

No. An AI that "knows" the entire book actually has the book stored in digital form. It does not matter if the storage is indirect. And that happens to be an unauthorized copy, because an AI is a machine and what it has stored is a copy of that data.

Obviously, that is untrue. You very likely can get an LLM to claim that you authored something with quotes of the work. Then quoting that is plagiarism.

Slavery and child labor "worked just fine" before, too.

The fact is "just fine" isn't really fine for many disabled people, and years of working remotely proved that remote work is feasible and practical.

Funny how all these remote workers worked just fine before, until the PHBs called for everyone to return to office, then somehow remote working isn't fine anymore. While at the same time, outsource to India is still fine for the same PHBs. You cannot get more blatantly double standard than this, unless all PHBs have split personality.

Isn't it obvious enough yet?

Look at East Europe to see how towns with machine-built houses look like, and let me tell you: You don't want to live in a machine-built house. And don't get started with 3D printed houses or other gimicky stuff! 3D printing works only for housing built on newly developed land, because the necessary 3D printers are so large and have to somehow be moved on site and mounted there, which makes it impossible to use for instance in hilly environments. What you call hand-built (and which in fact is 95% machine work) works also when closing an empty space between already built houses, something which is very important in cities like Vienna. And finally look at your average house and at the total cost compared with the labor cost, and you will see that labor is not the factor which makes houses expensive!

I am sure they keep going that long. Currently, we are talking about 5000 charging cycles until the battery drops below 80% capacity. At a range of 300 miles, this is äquivalent to 1.5 million miles.

Ah, sure. But who in their right mind commits commercial plagiarism? Oh, my bad, LLMs are involved. Of course, then all bets are off.

Humans with photographic memopry are for sure copyright violators as soon as they perform those memories publicly. And that is legally what this is about. LLAMA may privately hallucinate as much as it likes, but this is about ther version offered publicly.

Indeed. The fascinating thing about all these AI fanboi idiots is that they do not seem to ask AI these questions. They would get told the same thing.

The law is already in place, you are just too ignorant to know it. Humans get an exception for memorization as that does legally not count as data processing. But as soon as a human publicly performs a copyrighted work from memory, they must have a license. Look up "Happy Birthday" ...

No. If it is unintentional, you may escape punishment, but you still must stop doing it.

Completely immaterial. If you build a machine that then plagiarizes, you are plagiarizing. Seriously, why do you AI moron fanbois do not ask your fake God? ChatGPT will readily tell you that.