VanTheBrand

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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I mean thats exactly what Uber did though, and it’s very very common attitude in tech. This is also how Facebook functions in a lot of areas.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s legal because google image search is legal. Image search is legal because “thumbnails” and “image search” were decided by the court to be sufficiently transformative and in a different marketplace from “im
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
One of the things that makes this a big deal is an iPad is often the most color accurate highest quality display anyone has.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
All usb-c iPads support external drives and the old lightning ones have limited support with an adapter
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
That’s for a court to decide, ultimately. Something doesn’t have to be a bit for bit copy to be a protected aspect.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
Depends on what the product is. For example with openAI Dalle-2 the product is very clearly the generated image. You even pay per image. Also this is kind of what this article is about. Arbitrarily separating the pieces in order to evade co
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
but we aren't talking about right to read. we are talking about right to read and then regurgitate and distribute/sell a derivative work of what you read with substantial similarities such that it harms the market for the original
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
the horse is out of the gate on photocopiers and before them printing presses but that doesn't make using them without the rights to what you are copying legal
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I would argue (as the court did) that google's use is transformative because the end result "book search" is in a different marketplace from "books." The end result / output of these generative AI systems train
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I’m sure I can find an example of one that’s exactly the same copy. Regardless the writer gets the exclusive right to publish all drafts as part of their union won separated rights. Also your point about treasured copies would apply equally
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
Well OCRing books (for book search) was found to be fair use because “book search” and “books” are in different markets. So to the extent it is like book search that could be in its favor. Your other example (text to speech and audio books)
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
Subtitle files are arguably transformative and have a more benign character and purpose. They would have a significantly better fair use argument vs this. The purpose tends to either be to help the disabled or to assist non-native speakers
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
There are two ways screenwriters can make money directly from their writing. Selling it to studios. (This website of already produced film scripts is not going to help with that) And publishing and selling the script(This website and ones l
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
The screenwriters union fought for and negotiated for the right to own the publishing for their screenplays. Many writers of notable films have been able to use these writes to publish their scripts in book form to supplement their personal
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
One of the things that sucks about this is that the publishing rights for all of the original, non-ip based scripts and TV scripts are actually controlled by the writers and show creators. So it’s individual writers, not big corporations th
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I’m skeptical too but what OP describes would “promote progress” (by promoting openness vs secrecy). I agree that I’ve always had it explained as “promote progress [by incentivizing creation] but it doesn’t technically specify what he’s i
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
But don’t you then have to then explain this every time you try to communicate with these numbers to someone else. Are you just writing this down for yourself?
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
Slightly disappointed. Was I the only one expecting an ill-conceived Mortal Kombat centered streaming service?
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
It’s fundamental to their subscription strategy. I would happily bet you $10,000 they don’t pull PS2 support in response to this.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I bet there are multiple GTP type AI accounts posting to hacker news currently with creators who hope the eventual "reveal" will be "impressive." Curious how they are reacting to this.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
I’m surprised I haven’t read any articles about how low income people with bad credit who can’t get a post paid cell phone are banned from gmail. Or maybe this is just incorrect.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
The disclaimer is a little ironic considering the site owner doesn’t own the model (MIT does) and doesn’t own the training data (the various shows and games do)
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
So you think their plan was to send this to people who already signed up for…retention? Seems very unlikely. I’d imagine awareness is a much bigger problem vs retention for them at this stage. Also the rest of the copy doesn’t make much sen
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
Prop 8 was the Mormons. I agree wrong religion is maybe confusing but that’s both who was behind it and why he donated.
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by VanTheBrand 4y ago
No it didn’t. Read the article. They sent this to entire zip codes. It’s not targeted at users. If you are a user and you also got it, that’s a coincidence. All your neighbors in the same zip code also got it whether they are users or not,
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by VanTheBrand 5y ago
He makes and sells Alpha Brain and other “supplements” through the company he co-founded Onnit. He’s very much in the snake oil business. https://www.onnit.com/pro-team/
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by VanTheBrand 5y ago
Because that’s baldly unreasonable