The competition between jurisdictions I spoke of will push each country's politics (and courts, especially in countries without the separation of powers) toward not being left behind on the money and military power that lightly-regulated AI can bring. Copyright holders will be expendable, especially now it's less risky to anger a weakened MSM.

I think, on balance, copyright protects the little guy more than the big guy. Without it I can see even more concentration of power in shameless marketing conglomerates.

Courts and legislators will soon decide whether AI training is fair use because it's like a human learning, or is not fair use because it often regurgitates close variants of specific training data, and, unlike humans (but like publications), can be replicated. Both damage the viability of its data sources, so I agree that the latter is closer to the truth. But competition between jurisdictions will pressure accommodation.

No original research, but summarising the research of others has been a business model long before Reader's Digest and Slashdot. At least Slashdot links.

User comments are now a profit-centre, because AI companies will buy the freely-donated writing.

YouTube does have the thumb down, but it's used less since they hid its counter. Plus there's no clarity on whether it reduces algorithmic ranking, or whether that's just based on views, where clickbait is king.

X's pay-to-win approach (buy Premium or shout into the void) is coming back to bite them.

A counter to the buggy and hard to maintain problems with AI code is that it allows entrepreneurs to quickly bootstrap their business with a good-enough solution, then use the revenue or investment that it attracts to hire humans to redo the code properly. So freelancer sites can profit from this second wave. But they do lose all the business writing software that commercially fails.

Are humans going to fight back by reducing their source-available code, putting it behind bot-proof walls, or poisoning the well by sprinkling in some incorrect code?

Rare earths also make drone electric motors much more efficient. Plus there's China's dominance in lithium batteries. So China could really hurt Ukraine by shutting off their supply of drone motors and batteries. They might threaten this if they look like getting hit with sanctions for buying Russian oil. So they may escape these sanctions while India still gets hit.

One each of course, unless you believe consciousness is a quantum entanglement from when the blastocyst split.

I agree with all that (but can't up-vote you).

And how did Slashdot respond? Stagnation. I guess their poorly-received and reversed UI overhaul, and a smugness from being the first with a voting system, led them to believe that their system is perfect and should not be experimented with.

I see no good reason that the consciousness gap of a deep sleep and the same before revival as a simulation has to feel different.

That's why I don't buy the argument that cryogenics is a con because neurons get too damaged to ever work again. Just scan and simulate.

So the wealthy don't need scientists to get a move on. But they do risk being revived into a "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" dystopia.

Ironic that Google may be killed by a Google-developed technology (fast LLM).

What's in a name?