Ummm... This is what bothers you?

Let's assume Anthropic is a business. It's even likely they would be happy to pay a fair licensing fee based on profits. It certainly would be easier. But, they will probably be hit with lawsuit after lawsuit so to survive, they need to pay as little as possible per suit.

Now, there are the lawyers. They might find a group of tens of thousands of people to represent. Since they established the group, there is no leader or clear representative for the group, so the lawyers choose one themselves. They each decide they want to make at least $1 million from the suit. That means two lawyers need to settle for about $7-8 million. So they sue for billions. Eventually, the lawyers talk to anthropic lawyers and say "this is your chance. For only $8 million, you can set a precedent. My clients will claim that this was a win for them, you'll end up paying each claimant about $32 and you'll gain legal rights to unlimited use of their stuff. Best of all, other lawyers hoping for a big win will know $32 is what to target."

So, Anthropic writes the settlement, the lawyers each get their million and the artists receive a mail worded to land in spam. The payout company pays about 25% of the claimants and after 2 year of holding the rest in escrow, the lawyer and payout company split the difference.

But, ok... Yeh... Anthropic is the evil one here

This is of course about money.

What exactly? Is the issue that he committed a crime, search for how to do it outside of porn mode, wrote it in java, didn't add time bombs, put his name on it, didn't obfuscate, or something else I missed?

Yep, protect the workers by restricting the tools they use.

Harm the workers because they can't compete against peers with better tools elsewhere

This is true for most careers. The world population grew 800% in 100 years. We also went from believing in the ether to designing photonic semiconductors in 130 years. We have more lawyers than legal needs, more mechanics than cars to fix, programmers than projects...

The fact is, we have saturated nearly every market. We just have way more people than we need.

But we need top people.

I would rather hire an experienced engineer and give them 10 AI subscriptions rather than 25 coders.

H1B is great for getting talent. While I have had very little luck doing business with Indian workers, Chinese, Polish and Lithuanian workers have been amazing. Sadly, I believe I lack the cultural understanding of Indian needed to communicate effectively with them. I need to work with people who treat me as their equal but I have not found a meaningful way to convey this to my Indian peers.

Americans can be very good. It depends. The top 10% are pretty good. After that, I'd prefer to look for the top 10% from elsewhere. Americans somehow bring politics to work. Neither politics or religion belong in the workplace. Even American atheists can't just be atheist, they have to be Atheist.

Also, Americans always have to compete. They think everything is a game or a war. Even when it comes to sales. Everyone compares themselves to others. Like if I want to buy your product, to learn about it, I have to study your competitor because you never tell me why your product is good. You just tell me why it's better than theirs.

I am pretty happy the US is excluding itself from the world market. It's much quieter and mature. When Trump drove the dollar up and we could no longer afford to buy American, we learned how to do without American products. Trump and Biden may ruined American, but thanks to them, we're all learning how to live better by working together rather than through America.

I honestly don't see the problem.

The US has about 300 million consumers. Sure, they spend tons of money on imports, but the market is so diluted that it probably shouldn't account for more than 5-10% of sales for most companies.

Additionally, there just aren't enough workers in the US to bother trying to setup shop there.

Just ship the product, charge the American consumer the tax and move on.

Why does anyone care about the tariffs except the consumers?

1) TSMC has no competition
2) The only people effected are the Americans. TSMC will just continue operations as normal. Companies using their service will just have to pay more
3) US companies can freely charge more to customers, normalize the inflated prices, optimize their supply chain and leave the prices high for Americans

Is Trump trying to make Taiwan decide that China taking over doesn't seem so bad compared to the US who now simply wants to steal Taiwan's security and IP.

I may be telling my father that I may be forced to forfeit my US citizenship out of fear of persecution. He's getting older and I hoped to keep it at least until he passed away. I have to forfeit it eventually due to my pension but imagine traveling to the US and being stopped and persecuted because I like everyone regardless of geography. The only people I like less are people who bully me and try to force me to like someone else less

Consider that dubbing can use the actual actor's voice?

Why in the world would studios use the voice of the old voice actor for dubbing when they can just use the real actors?

Of course for animation, why waste money on voice actors at all?

If an artist uses a song writer, has plastic surgery, uses musical instruments... They should all have to disclose this.

Velvet Sundown is no different than when a studio assembles a group of four boys, pays songwriters, dance choreographers, makeup artists, musicians, etc...

An artist sat down, used AI as an instrument and made music.

I get much better results than you. As a substitute university computer science lecturer, I also get much better results from my students than other lecturers. I'll share my secret.

Expect your subordinates to misinterpret you unless you provide enough details to that it's impossible to provide any result except what you were expecting.

I receive exceptionally good results most every time. It takes extra work to get started, but as with anything you get out what you put in.

I wonder why Slashdot isn't publicizing that. She showed up at the airport, followed directions, boarded the plane, and flew... High up in the air. So high they had to use a plane with a pressurized cabin.

The flight was extra impressive because she's a girl. And it's always more impressive so we can say that "to all the little girls of the world, when you grow up, you can accomplish great things and let the world ignore everything else except that you're a girl. So, it's best to only do easy things like flying on a BO rocket rather than studying hard and working hard because the press doesn't reward hard work. They hype that you're impressive for being a girl".

Is it because she straight and white? Would Slashdot publicize her accomplishment if she was a different skin color or maybe a new and unexplainable sexual orientation?

Wait!!!

Great idea for Bezos. Space hookup trips. There are lots of things that are illegal on earth. He can facilitate those things by bringing rich people to space.

I was thinking precisely this.
Rewriting code in a new language might give better static code analysis, but, it doesn't make it safe.
I have a lot of application code I can translate to Rust, but unless I completely rearchitect all of it, it would be terrible Rust code.

I did however just revisit Rust. I wrote a simple CNC milling code generator. I explicitly told it how I want it structured. Copilot handled it nicely. I could maybe see myself vibe coding a useful tool with it. But I HATE abbreviations like pub, fn, and mut. And f64 feels like single letter naming. The language might be structurally elegant, but it's awkward and tacky... Like as if you're hoping to take with "James Robert Paddington II" and the phone gets answer by "Jim Bob Jr." Or "J.R. Jr.. Junior Junior... Get it?".

So Rust is kind of a language Jeff Foxworthy could make a standup routine out of.

Wouldn't China footing the bill for R&D and proving the tech viable potentially be a major benefit to everyone else?

Companies like Huawei can quickly, reliably and affordably deploy renewables across any country who wants to benefit from China's taking the lead. You should see their data center tech. Trade restrictions forced Huawei to innovate amazingly for power and cooling. They're like, if we need 10 Chinese GPUs to math one NVidia GPU, we'll have to invent data center tech to support it. The have end to end tech solutions from diverting divers to solar and battery and waste heat recycling and carbon capture.

The UK could never do this. The british government sabotages every major project as soon as they find how to line their wallets from it.

Do you believe that anyone exists who is a better fit for the job?

They would
1) Need to control inflation so people can shop
2) Cause inflation so mortgages become more affordable over time which results in equity and retirement funds
3) Strengthen investor faith in American credit so investors will continue to buy bonds and feed the economy. This is done by increasing the interest rate.
4) Lower the interest rate to reduce burdens on the people
5) Strengthen the dollar so the US can avoid issuing too many treasury bonds during trade deficits
6) Weaken the dollar so American inflation remains low while exporting exports remain affordable enough to attract customers.
7) Able to work with the major branches of the US government where generally everyone is hostile because he has to screw voters of both parties daily to keep the economy afloat.
8) Able to work with reserve representatives in 200 countries to maintain the balance of the economies. This includes Russia and even Iran.

But, would I be correct that you know someone ... Maybe even yourself who would be a better fit for the job?