Professional stuff!

It’s never been easier not to be a Sony customer, they don’t really do anything unique these days. Heck, I bought an old professional CRT monitor recently and opted for JVC one out of spite.

I feel this is Americans being completely misguided as to their own interests, mostly due to shortsightedness, insider dealing and other forms of corruption.

One of the pillars of American imperialism is intellectual property law enforcement (can’t joint WTO unless you agree to TRIPS). If we now say that IP law doesn’t apply if you compress IP via LLM then creative work becomes unprofitable and US doesn’t have media to export. Trump and company might be deluded enough to think they can replace it with LLM output but would their Supreme Court agree? That US media made half of the world look at everything through American perspective, which gave them immeasurable advantage akin to cultural victory in Civilisation games.

I don’t think that’s the end of the story because US media still have their own lobbyists. It’s a clusterfuck but at least it’s „interesting” to observe.

Modern TV is a computer that runs apps with network access. The reason for this is streaming video over the Internet which is rather popular. If an app can send and receive data over the Internet it can be exploited to act as a residential proxy for a larger botnet. If that app doesn’t utilise native libraries / APIs to do that it might be hard to detect by the platform owner.

For removing malware from their app store? o_O

Consumers are lazy and big tech exploits it by creating just enough friction to keep them in semi-walled gardens. Enabling installing of an app that’s labeled as „file might be harmful” by enabling installation of „unknown apps” won’t stop my grandma from installing malware but it stops many from even bothering with alternative app stores.

Fixed, thanks.

Belief that artists should be paid for their work is now conservative and not simply the opposite of neoliberalism XD

Sorry, couldn’t help myself, I’ll stop now, just forgot to set ignore before.

Original source with samples at The Atlantic

No paywall

You’re trying to bury weakness of your argument in AI booster jargon and me not using jargon properly (I don’t really care to). Sorry, that’s about as far as I care to continue.

Maybe I sometimes skip ahead too much. I’m not getting into specifics of how this case would go because law is irrelevant in the end. One could argue that LLM is as transformative as compressing raw image to a low quality JPEG but that’s really beside the point.

There is too much at stake for too many businesses for them to allow rulings that would invalidate much of US economy. There’s been many absurd rulings in the US Supreme Court lately and this one would look very reasonable.

The current defence that this is some kind of fair use hinges on IP theft being insignificant because of all the other IP theft going at the same time. Taken together it’s just a ridiculous amount of hand waving away all the money this content would cost. It’s a big tech model of „break stuff, ask permission later”. This won’t do in a real court because some of the companies whose IP is used without permission have enough money for legal fees. Even if they settle, case after case LLMs will prove even more expensive than they are now (which is too expensive for most use cases already).

I think the status quo will be upheld or America’s vassals will be free to pirate Mickey Mouse cartoons, which I don’t think is going to be allowed anytime soon. Can’t have your cake and eat it. AI bubble will burst but the mouse seems to be nearly immortal.

Us thinking that current IP laws are broken doesn’t change what they currently are. Blacked has no obligation to allow their content to be processed by Meta into a for profit service. Those IP laws are not changing anytime soon, their mandatory recognition is a core component of US control over its vassals. I very much doubt „fair use” defence will stand, it’s just stalling for the bubble to get bigger in the meantime.

Anthropic has also filed IPO paperwork and wants to go public soon. Losing customers over an unpopular billing change right before a listing would hurt its valuation.

Investors don’t want line to go down, even if it’s a line of projected losses. Capitalism at it’s finest.

You don’t buy things these days, you license them. All your games on Steam? Not yours. iTunes music? Could be taken at any moment. No reason porn would be special. These are the rules that apply to us and I don’t see a reason why Meta would be exempt from them.

Why don’t you buy some porn from Blacked.com, rent it out for money and see what happens. It’s legal after all because of first sale doctrine lol.

This is with all the free compute they’re getting from Microsoft, who are MUCH deeper in the hole on their LLM business profitability.

When you buy a video tape you also agree to a license that says you can’t use it in your video rental store. Most things licensed today will describe permissible use and prohibit other uses. No matter how much AI jargon is thrown at the issue, this is the current legal system.

Blacked.com is allowed not sell cake to that gay couple. They’re also allowed not license their porn to Meta.

Archive.org is a genuine public benefit organisation similar to a library and in some places recognised as such. Meta is making money out of this, they have to pay up same as everyone else.

It’s abuse because they thought they could outsource human decision making to a biased lotto machine and someone showed them that it doesn’t work, therefore all their projected profits related to not having to pay people are in shambles.