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Comment Re:Foolishness. (Score 1) 19

This is not about that. This is about every student having a personal tutor, specifically designed for educational purposes. Khan academy on steroids.

Will every student use it to actually learn things? No. Will it be far more productive than unsuccessfully trying to ban these tools. Yes.

The genie is out of the bottle, people. Adapt or die.

Comment Re:"Respecting copyright" != "Ethically" (Score 1) 95

True, but "Gandalf vs Predator" doesn't fall under Fair Use. Copyright does not just protect the work but also the ideas in it. Personally I think that's going too far. Does that mean that others can profit off your creativity? Yes... and it's been like that since the dawn of time. That's how culture has always worked.

Comment Re:"Respecting copyright" != "Ethically" (Score 2) 95

I’ve no illusions about which side the AI companies are on. But what I’m afraid of is that the issue of AI training will be misused by “Big Content” (for lack of a better word) to further restrict fair use, and to raise the barrier to entry for new commercial content creators. That’s what they have always done.

Personally I am not a fan of copyright allowing creators to retain control over the use of their work, whether they are commercial creators, or creators releasing under a license like the GPL. Especially the point on derivative works and moral rights: I think that copyright should be limited to just that: the right to copy or forbid it. The author controls when and how his work may be copied, so that he can derive an income from selling copies if he so desires, but for no other purpose. But derivative works should be allowed if the derivative is enough of an original work in its own right, inspired by the original rather than copying large parts of it verbatim. Anyone wants to write “Harry Potter and the Temple of Doom” or film “Gandalf vs Predator”, fine by me. Where that leaves AI, I’m not sure. The results from AI prompts sometimes seem to be inspired original works, at other times with recognisable snippets from someone else’s work.

Comment Re:Can we just bomb the Kremlin already? (Score 1) 73

damn well her leaked call indicated the US' heavy involvement

"Global superpower has preference in foreign nations politics" does not indicate "heavy involvement", whatever vague bullshit that means.

The person she talked about the US preferring didn't even win! What are we even talking about?

"No evidence" still looking strong.

Comment Re:Why not use a food bank? (Score 1) 135

I 100% agree SNAP should be expanded and simplified. We are positively obsessed with means testing. I just don't like this idea of relying on food banks aka charity, good as their intentions are it masks systemic problems as described our system is insufficient yet overcomplicated.

Comment Re:Seems reasonable (Score 2) 72

We've found that there is substantial societal benefit to having police communications public. This is an established fact.

Is it?
Can you elaborate?

I can see the requirement of the communications having to be recorded for legal purposes, but I can't think of a case for them having to be made public 'live'.

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