ROTMetro

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by ROTMetro 4y ago
AI is just a lossy form of storing the copyrighted work and using pieces of the copyrighted work for future output. It definitely requires licensing of the works stored (I mean 'trained on')used if used outside of 'personal u
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
"incorporates your photographic style into their painting or illustration" Seems pretty cut and paste to me. If it has trained on my images and then uses that trained dataset to generate new images those images are in violation. U
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The court has already ruled that you can't own the derivative work anyways, because copyright law requires an individual artist. If I ask bob to make a picture for me, bob actually owns the copyright to start (but can assign it to me).
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Am I allowed to take an imagine and apply a lossy algorithm (say jpg) to it and then use it as my own for business purposes? Nope. You say learn, I say apply a lossy algo and then use the result for business purposes. Seems like clear copyr
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Analyzing thousands of trends, both industry/niche specific and society wide. Tracking campaigns that work by monitoring social media likes, references to past slogans, etc. Potentially dedicating thousands of years worth of brain powe
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Huh? The iPhone 1 was a toy and lots of people laughed at the users. Today a modern phone is a requirement to be a member of society. It is how I pay for things. It is needed for most of my interactions with friends/family. It is the d
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
If you look at modern teaching getting it's root in nation formation in France/Germany where there was no 'national' language but regional dialects blending one into another it makes more sense. What if the original purp
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Fletching, creating an arrowhead (that needs to be small and perfect) goes through way more material than a hand held obsidian blade, you are not necessarily saving on labour switching to arrows, especially as you now have introduced multip
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Nope, just a human being who wants to be a human being.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
And then your senior engineer class ages out and you are left with who? You need a ladder to create that senior class in the first place.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I can think of other societies whose solution is more humane than 'drive up unemployment and make remaining workers so afraid they stop purchasing'.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
All well and good except for the fact that these companies have gone on the record in their earning calls to say this is just them squeezing the end consumer as much as they can. But go ahead and makeup some false justification to defend th
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Because only one class will come out of this with MORE assets that at some point will return back to their higher valuable. It's a completely facetious argument. Sure you lost your house, but think of how much the poor billionaire&#x27
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Inflation, asset deflation and a financially strained middle/low class causing them to be upside down on debt = firesale on what assets they had for the top class to acquire. I believe this cycles used to be called pump and suck when d
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Heckling that is designed to shutdown speech is not free speech but an attempt at weaponizing the concept of free speech into a tool to shut actual free speech down. Especially in a situation with a Q&A heckling is not a form of free sp
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I think it's more China having the ability to order a company to do something like this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tik...
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
According to this guy's testimony 60% of TikTok is foreign investor owned and those foreign investors would very much sell it off before just setting fire to their money.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Forget bankruptcy. How about we just get to the point US citizens don't have to worry about calling an ambulance? When I was a kid (I'm late 40s now) it was $200-500. Now it's low to mid 5 figures. And if you don't call
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The youth today have no agency and boomers are the problem. As king of the cop-outs myself I would love to be able to live in that sentence instead of doing something. May I suggest you read some historical literature to get a perspective o
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
For me I never understood companies, since all they seem to care about is to force wages as low as possible instead of caring about the good of their people (and a company is nothing but a grouping of people) and to take on contracts/p
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
What is the profit motive to make a robot with that capability today without the AI to drive it? None. But as soon as you have that AI suddenly the profit motive changes.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The positraction in my 1967 GTO REQUIRED whale oil to the point I was buying 'New Old Stock' in the 90s.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
I still have a bottle of 'New Old Stock' GM whale oil for the rear differential in my old GTO. GM positraction in those old muscle cars relied on the stuff.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Eggs are more expensive because of bird flu. It's funny but all the 'too much money in the system' people use examples that don't have that as a root cause. The guy with the lumber mill has no way of knowing if it was pe
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
Did the used car market ever recover from 'Cash for clunkers' taking a large portion of supply artificially off of the market?
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
The demand was driven by REQUIRED construction to meet safety measures. Instead of the attack on 'free money' he thinks he is making he is showing that his company profited from big government (IE rent seeking).
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
If the pandemic MANDATEs new isolation systems, I have to build them, whether you charge me a fair price for lumber I am now required to purchase or you choose to jack the price up. My only other option is to CLOSE MY BUSINESS. You definite
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
After an earthquake and when people have no access to tap water demand for bottled water goes up. Yet raising the price of bottled water in that situation is still considered price gouging.
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
It's dangerous because police turn EVERY interaction into a warrant check. You have to treat a guy who is possibly holding a warrant for arrest for a crime with a 20+ year sentence different than you treat Bob who you pulled over becau
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by ROTMetro 4y ago
You want to fix American policing? Stop warrant checks as part of community policing. When the people in the car the police just traffic stopped for a tail light could be facing a 20 year prison sentence the police have to treat that stop a

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