Laws included in trade deals protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes and stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.
Repealing anticircumvention laws would allow the world’s small tech companies to make — and export — tools that “jailbreak” tractors, printers, insulin pumps, cars, consoles, and phones. We could end the perverse system in which a euro, dollar, or peso spent on a locally made app goes on a round trip through Cupertino, California, and comes back 30 percent lighter.
Domestic firms could export jailbreaking tools for printers to support third-party ink cartridge sellers — breaking the grip of the printer-ink cartel, which has driven prices higher than $10,000 a gallon, making ink the most expensive fluid a civilian can buy without a permit.
Great quote about the non-scarcity of ideas. Comparable to Thomas Jefferson's quote about candles.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
...platforms [like YouTube] need to understand that it is in their own interest to make it easy for visitors to become true fans using established sites like Patreon and the new ones that are being launched. Making it hard to do that in a misguided attempt to maximise the time that people spend on sites like YouTube and TikTok will ultimately harm the creators they depend on. Whether they are called true fans, core fans or superfans, they are vital for the future of creativity, not least in a world beyond copyright.
Summarising several "scientific" studies where:
[they] reduce a human task into an oversimplified game that, at its core, involves producing some plausible-looking text, only to conclude that LLMs can, in fact, generate some plausible text. They have committed one of science's cardinal sins: They designed an experiment specifically to validate their preexisting belief.
The pandemic showed us that undermining the public's trust in science can cost human lives, but the harm here goes further. These so-called studies are purposefully, almost explicitly designed to reach the result that workers are dispensable.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it seems to come up in my life weekly:
- NASA images are not in the public domain;
- They are generally free to use for most non-commercial, educational, & informational purposes without permission, but acknowledgement of NASA is needed (which true PD would not require);
- For commercial use, no endorsement by NASA can be implied;
- Images featuring people, e.g. astronauts, need explicit permission for commercial use.
...The present findings suggest that the current state of AI language models demonstrate higher creative potential than human respondents.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53303-w
article about this paper:
https://mobinetai.com/ai-more-creative-than-99-people/