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Comment Re:I haven't read the opinion (Score 1) 71

Wait so you think Google has the entire internet sitting on their servers?

No, they have the text of all of the pages they have ever indexed sitting on their servers. It's not verbatim copies of pages, but it is literally copies of all of the text. Search engines absolutely contain an actual copy of the meaningful content of web pages. There is a not-very-good argument to be made that LLMs effectively do the same thing, except the difference is that Google absolutely has the capacity to reproduce all of the relevant content from the original works. We know this because they used to give us access to this content in the form of "cached pages". Now they don't, and they stopped when they started doing their own LLM which is 100%, absolutely, positively trained on that data that they will no longer let us see.

Comment Re:I haven't read the opinion (Score 1) 71

if you're summary is correct the judge is just plain wrong. If you store the details of a book into your model congratulations you have made a copy of the book as per our copyright law

The details of a book aren't stored in the model. If they were, you could reproduce the book wholesale. You can't do that even with external tools which analyze the model, let alone the model running as designed; QED the details of the book aren't stored in the model. Only a statistical analysis is stored. This is also not a derivative work, because derivative works are characterized by recognizably reproduced elements — actual copies, which further have not been manipulated to the point of unrecognizability.

Comment Re: Lifespan of cars in the future (Score 1) 22

If cars from the 90s lasted 25 years the roads would be full of them.

There are still many of them on the road, and your analysis is missing critical components. For example, all cars need maintenance sometimes. A car "lasting" is predicated upon it receiving that maintenance. If a car doesn't get basic maintenance when it gets old because someone makes a decision that they should buy a newer vehicle even though they will lose money on the decision because they want new and shiny and/or don't know shit about shit, then a perfectly workable vehicle goes to the crusher when it could be restored to service with minor repairs and the TCO would be far lower than buying new.

There are still shitloads of 90s Hondas and Subarus. I see tons of them every day. Not so many Nissans, but that's because people crashed all the 240SXs (often turning them into drift cars first) and the Sentras weren't as nice as a Civic at the time. You can't go outside without tripping over a 90s Civic.

Comment Re: They're going to charge for AI (Score 1) 165

The cost of implementation decreasing is irrelevant unless the cost of training falls far enough to be generally affordable, AND training corpii become freely available.

Yes, right now there are freely available models, but they don't have the same performance that the larger hosted models do.

Comment Re:Safe to inhale? (Score 2) 76

Asbestos is dangerous to your lungs because the individual fibers are long and sharp and stabby and your mucus lining cannot clear them.

Any persistent irritant in the lungs is a potential carcinogen. Soot is dangerous for this reason, and the soot that's smallest (PM2.5) is smaller than cilia so it typically persists longer, which is why it's most dangerous.

The mechanism doesn't have to be identical to asbestos for it to be carcinogenic.

Comment Re:Well some places have infrastructure for that (Score 1) 21

It is very important to see that remote cooling is what this datacenter needs. Hence, for publicity reason claiming it is an "offering" is the opposite of what actually happens: cooling paid for via clean water or other media.

Remote cooling is what this datacenter needs, and remote heating is what other facilities need. It's only the opposite of what actually happens if there are no consumers for that heat energy. Got a citation that shows that this is the case?

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